When I'm up here at work I enjoy the quiet relaxation that comes with free Foxtel in the room and the opportunity to put the feet up after a hard day's toil single handedly propping up the nation's economy to catch the accumulated wisdom of shows like SkyNews and The Footy Channel...
which may lead the more enlightened among you to draw some solid conclusions about the occasional need to vent that may be present in my posts...
so, anyway last night I caught a segment where Football Analyst David King suggested some areas where teams could try some options to counter the apparent dominance of Hawthorn. He took pains though, to his credit, to point out there is 7 weeks to go and suggested there are 'two seasons' left this year.. the finals and the build up. For those challenged by that concept, it means that while the Hawks look good now, anything could happen and there's a lot of time left for other contenders to try stuff and come good.
So... his ideas for Freo...
MacPharlin forward to help Pav.
Sandilands foward, to play, not resting.
Fyfe forward to CHF/HF flank
Test the mids to stand up without Fyfe adding C Pearce and Mzungu as replacements,
and Stephen Hill as HBF to set play up.
They all like Griff and to their credit, remembered him playing a sensational patch before injury.
Naturally, I lost sleep over this last night and turned here in my need for answers, for clarity and to admit that tonight, I may not leave the heater of high accidentally and expect to sleep a lot better. If that works, I might not start a stupid thread tomorrow morning. In the meantime though, here we are.
This whole suggestion, by the way, was aimed at how minor improvements could be made to challenge Hawthorn's speed of play and constant desire to go forward with the ball, not back.
In other words, find new ways to play like Freo played at the start of the season.
