For those of us who can only see it on TV, can you please jot down a few points that explain what we were doing differently in terms of:
- preventing or beating the flood
- moving the ball more effectively
- reducing the ability of the doggies to exit defence and move the ball the way they want to
- our overall structure and positioning of individual players
- anything else that showed how Beveridge was out-coached.
Ive got to be honest celeb,
I struggled to understand the game last night. I was kind of just feeling the pure joy of marlion and dusty and the intellectual fell away.
But ill give it a crack in hindsight.
- we came to play from the bounce. True tiger mania pressure was there. Perhaps its that simple?
- bevo went the full buckley in the first but it vanished as soon as i saw it. It just dissolved. 30 blokes in our 50 and then they were gone. It was like the game was an etch-a-sketch in dimmas hands and he just swiped it clean? Dunno? Magic?
- its very noticeable how some players spread. Kmacs work rate is astounding. If you rule a diagonal line between where 50m line meets boundary line, kmac just 75% sprints that line all night, making a sort of half triangle game?? Again its a kind of magic.
- i think jake aarts is unimaginably important. Not sure why but he clears out of toms way and hits his contests in perfect time. He seems to be running on a traintrack thats obliquely perpendicular to toms
- dusty in untouchable beast mode makes us unstoppable - thats one of the simplest things in this universe
- marlion pickett is like if rudolf nureohoff and a non verbal conor mcgregor had a black child and they were appointed dustys body guard. This is superb chemistry that i hope someone makes a book that gets made into a documentary.
- i truly believe that dogs mids were intimidated by marlion dusty and cotch and bevo couldnt allay their fear.
Thats all i got. More like reciting a poem than reading from a textbook.
But it was that kind of game.