GAME DAY - Tiges v Dogs

[mad_tiggy911]

Coaches on notice. Need some new ideas.

 

[WildStyle]

Dimma was pretty testy in the post game.

 

[Tenacious Tiges]

I went today
From ground level
Umpires pay the opposition everything. I counted 4 frees 4 goals
We are horrible by foot marginally Better by hand.
Nakas is cooked.
Baker had a shocker. Cost us 2 goals and then cost us with his decision making all game.
Ralphsmith was good.
Cumberland will go back to the 2's. When he needed to rush he just fked up badly.
Lynch gets rapped.
Dusty no different.
Hopper is as fit as me.
Prestia is only a 6 week vacation.
Balta and Big V were both average.
You’re not winning many games with that skill level.

I was there too and I’ve got to agree Zips

 

[tigers80]

Some great comments.
felt like pre 2017 again.

 

[ToraToraTora]

Dimma was pretty testy in the post game.

Was he what. Seething.

 

[silvertiger]

This is where we lost it. Forgot how to play wet footy and kick the ball first. It's upside down!

 

[WildStyle]

I think we're hand balling to try to get it into open space and get into the corridor so we've got an easier kick going forward , rather than just kicking to contests all the time. But we're falling down on the kicking part.

 

[Jason King]

Some great comments.
felt like pre 2017 again.

Here's hoping that's a good omen. Today was *smile* in the Milo tin.

 

[mrposhman]

Coaches on notice. Need some new ideas.

I don't think this is on the coaches. They shouldn't have to tell the boys in the wet to kick the damn football. We moved the ball so poorly in the 1st that put us behind the 8 ball by 5 goals at quarter time. Not good enough. We then fell into the same trap at the start of the 3rd, dumb handballing to players under pressure, instead of kicking long to a contest and then crumbing the ball on the ground. Its wet weather footy, its pretty simple, but the players constantly decided to handball. They didn't in the 2nd. Don't think thats the coaching, its decision making.

 

[22nd Man]

2 telegraphed kicks to forward 50 picked off

This did my head in all day. Our kicker looks surprised when someone like Daniels read their intentions and chops off the pass.

 

[dimmauchump]

Yep agree wasn't his best game, too many mistakes, yet still had 21 disposals (6th), 11 contested (3rd), 6 tackles (5th), 10 score involvements (equal 1st) and 2 goal assists (equal 1st). Hard to imagine what his game will look like when he puts everything together.

Wouldn't be surprised if he is dropped next week

 

[Scoop]

Smashed at clearance. And Footskills were deplorable at times. Right decisions poor kicking in back half.

Senior players, not the young blokes. That simple.

 

[caesar]

Yes he was average As were many others Cumbo still managed to get 21 disposals 7marks 6 tackles kicked 1.2

The last kick that he didn't manage to get over the top to Lynch Cumberland punched the ground several times so I think he knows he is capable of much better, same where he centered and turned over the ball in defence. It is always preferable if you can learn from your mistakes in a win unfortunately he has learnt the lesson the hard way.

 

[tiger76]

Is it possible that, as a consequence of the stand rule, Dimma has gone down the path of turning us into a fast ball movement football team?

When the conditions suit, as they did in the 2nd qtr, we looked awesome.

Where wet weather football once played into our hands when we played chaos style, it may now be that wet conditions just don’t suit our new style of play. A few poor turnovers when trying to move the ball quickly point to this.

I don’t think all is lost just yet, we may just be unlucky that 2 of our first 4 games have been played in poor conditions at a time of year you wouldn’t normally expect them.

If indeed it is a new game style we are trying to implement it will take a bit of time to fine tune. I remain positive about our team and what they can achieve this year.

Yeah some of the speed of play and inboard options that they were trying to take just weren’t the right option, and came across as forced.

Whether it was inexperience or part of the game plan, it led to turn overs or broken bits of play during key moments which on balance was the game.

They just needed to be a little bit smarter with the ball in key moments.

 

[mrposhman]

I think we're hand balling to try to get it into open space and get into the corridor so we've got an easier kick going forward , rather than just kicking to contests all the time. But we're falling down on the kicking part.

We are, but some of our decisions were horrible. 1st quarter Prestia takes a mark around the base of the centre square, looks up and immediately hands it to Bolton who has a man on him immediately. Why didn't Prestia look and kick it long.

2nd quarter, we are streaming forward by hand from our defensive half, we are moving the ball to the right, Baker gets it with Sonsie the next chain, doesn't give it, and then checks back inside and caught HTB. 1 more handball and Sonsie would have been kicking inside 50.

Just 2 examples, but both poor decisions made under relatively low pressure.

 

[dimmauchump]

I don't think this is on the coaches. They shouldn't have to tell the boys in the wet to kick the damn football. We moved the ball so poorly in the 1st that put us behind the 8 ball by 5 goals at quarter time. Not good enough. We then fell into the same trap at the start of the 3rd, dumb handballing to players under pressure, instead of kicking long to a contest and then crumbing the ball on the ground. Its wet weather footy, its pretty simple, but the players constantly decided to handball. They didn't in the 2nd. Don't think thats the coaching, its decision making.

The issue is we just dont have the presence outside our fwd 50 to provide a contest. Players look up and see nothing so look for the handball. What a Mckay would do to this team. Someone who will provide an option and take the mark more often than not

 

[Merveille]

The last kick that he didn't manage to get over the top to Lynch Cumberland punched the ground several times so I think he knows he is capable of much better, same where he centered and turned over the ball in defence. It is always preferable if you can learn from your mistakes in a win unfortunately he has learnt the lesson the hard way.

They messing with his instincts and his head those coaches. He is thinking now thanks to Dimma

 

[mrposhman]

The issue is we just dont have the presence outside our fwd 50 to provide a contest. Players look up and see nothing so look for the handball. What a Mckay would do to this team. Someone who will provide an option and take the mark more often than not

Mate no offence, but there were plenty of options in most cases. They chose not to take them. Similar when they took those inboard kicks. They were the wrong options at the time to take them, and they had options down the line most of the time.

You are assuming we aren't making the right moves off the ball, which we are doing ok with but we are making poor decisions.

 

[mrposhman]

The last kick that he didn't manage to get over the top to Lynch Cumberland punched the ground several times so I think he knows he is capable of much better, same where he centered and turned over the ball in defence. It is always preferable if you can learn from your mistakes in a win unfortunately he has learnt the lesson the hard way.

The last kick he slipped a bit that may have kept the ball a bit lower than he was meaning to kick it. If he'd got it over Lynch was alone inside 50.

 

[jamo]

I was there and it was a crap game, This team has definitely lost its hunger, work rate and lacks connection, the decisions time and again to handball under pressure, kick it across defensive 50 instead of going forward, playing dry footy in the wet , trying to pick it up when all they needed to do was boot it off the ground, they got smashed by the umpires as always, but at the end of the day, they played 1 qtr of good footy and the rest of it was just witches hats.