No, I dont mean that Tommy Walsh shouldnt even turn up.
I am going to push this as my barrow. I have mentioned it before and I will say it again.
Earlier this week I advocated the tactic of keeping the FF close to the goal square during the press. My thoughts were that it would either pull the defender out of the press and open it up a bit more, or force the defender to leave their opponent unmarked close to goals. I thought that the resting ruck would be a good option, however I would amend that and say it should be someone who is a little more mobile (Morton?).
The reason I bring this up again is because I had to take some AFL noobs to a game so I took them to the tigers/saints game last night. What a great game! Both teams were attacking and it continually flowed. I ended up thinking that I wish we played an attacking game like the tigers. Anyway, what caught my eye was that in the last quarter Jumping Jack pulled back out of the press and hovered around 30m out of goals. Just as I had said, his opponent was sucked up the ground into the press and on TWO occasions in the last quarter, the tigers kicked it long to Riewaldt who was 30m clear of any opponent so that he just strolled (literally) into the goal square and put it into the 2nd tier.
Now, when I mentioned this earlier, I was told on here that the game has changed from this, but last night it showed me that it hasnt. Could we do this?
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