Less reflection off your shiny apple computer screens if the room is dark.
Perhaps they should try looking out at the field of play instead.
Hypen, i partly agree on the low-confidence fall-back position. I also reckon there’s a fair element of slack-arsedness with few players prepared to work overtime to make movement and space and no coaching plan to encourage it. A player has the ball – somewhere within 20 m of the painted 50 number on the grass in defense – and looking up sees nothing but 30-35 players spread evenly between the centre circle and the boundary and the Freo blokes, at the most, do a slow walk toward said boundary line.
It’s not the weight of numbers that is going to win the ball in this situation. It is one of four things: 1. Nathan Fyfe, 2. a contested grab, 3. chance in the pin ball ricochet if it comes to ground, 4. a well played ball-up or throw-in stoppage. Given the current players on the park, it’s a pretty low percentage play right now. And a flow-on problem will continue to be, if the ball is won, streaming forward to a fully open forward line – fully open because there are no forwards in it.
Lyon keeps talking about working the spread, but without MacPharlin, they’re just words. Who’s stepping up to the concept?
