It’s leysy’s view that since Cogs has come back into our setup we are exposing ourselves around the clearances.
We are smashing teams in clearance numbers but are not turning these into goals.
Conversely our opponent is torching us when they break from a stoppage.
Sure there’s more to it, but for example we have had 6 more clearances over the past fortnight but have scored only 6 goals to 14 direct from stoppages in this time. 8 goals difference in two games is a hell of a lot.
Leysy’s reasons -
1) Quality of clearances – Jackson, Tuck & Cogs are all average by foot. You can carry the odd “clearance” specialist who is mediocre by foot so that he can feed the runners. But we have three that are spending the vast majority of the game on the ball. Not for leysy. You can add Foley into this kicking category, however he does add a different element to the setup as he can spread from a stoppage.
2) Run & Spread – When the opposition does break they are killing us by foot. They have the speed to run off our slow trio & create QUALITY clearances. Port for example who are setup too much the other way i.e soft, outside had Burgoyne, Pearce & Boak winning the clearances against us. We couldn’t go with them. Conversely we are unable to break free by foot so our “wins” from stoppages are typically a Tuck Light tower killer, a Cogs floater or an indiscriminate Jackson handball or kick to someone under as much pressure. There are too many of the same “type” to have the necessary skilled runners there to support them.
Doubt it will ever happen because clubs are so risk-free at trade time. But an exchange of any one of them to someone like Port for a long kicking (which we don’t have near enough of) outside mid like Pearce would be a win for both parties.
We desperately need the Chimp, Lids & more to be our prime midfielders to get us a better balance ILO. We will also need to make some hard decisions to our midfield setup which should see at least one of the Tuck, Cogs & Jackson spending a lot less time there. Also remember Thomson & Hislop are similar players we traded for last season that will be trying to push through.
Be Interesting to see how the new coach see’s things & what decisions he makes becuase ILO some tough one's will need to be made.
One thing leysy’s confident on, we’ll go nowhere with the nucleus we’ve got.
We are smashing teams in clearance numbers but are not turning these into goals.
Conversely our opponent is torching us when they break from a stoppage.
Sure there’s more to it, but for example we have had 6 more clearances over the past fortnight but have scored only 6 goals to 14 direct from stoppages in this time. 8 goals difference in two games is a hell of a lot.
Leysy’s reasons -
1) Quality of clearances – Jackson, Tuck & Cogs are all average by foot. You can carry the odd “clearance” specialist who is mediocre by foot so that he can feed the runners. But we have three that are spending the vast majority of the game on the ball. Not for leysy. You can add Foley into this kicking category, however he does add a different element to the setup as he can spread from a stoppage.
2) Run & Spread – When the opposition does break they are killing us by foot. They have the speed to run off our slow trio & create QUALITY clearances. Port for example who are setup too much the other way i.e soft, outside had Burgoyne, Pearce & Boak winning the clearances against us. We couldn’t go with them. Conversely we are unable to break free by foot so our “wins” from stoppages are typically a Tuck Light tower killer, a Cogs floater or an indiscriminate Jackson handball or kick to someone under as much pressure. There are too many of the same “type” to have the necessary skilled runners there to support them.
Doubt it will ever happen because clubs are so risk-free at trade time. But an exchange of any one of them to someone like Port for a long kicking (which we don’t have near enough of) outside mid like Pearce would be a win for both parties.
We desperately need the Chimp, Lids & more to be our prime midfielders to get us a better balance ILO. We will also need to make some hard decisions to our midfield setup which should see at least one of the Tuck, Cogs & Jackson spending a lot less time there. Also remember Thomson & Hislop are similar players we traded for last season that will be trying to push through.
Be Interesting to see how the new coach see’s things & what decisions he makes becuase ILO some tough one's will need to be made.
One thing leysy’s confident on, we’ll go nowhere with the nucleus we’ve got.
