This is my take on it...may be complete rubbish but anyway: The ground has a roof = no wind and no rain. Perfect conditions to execute clean disposal and take contested marks. Pretty football. Dogs and now North out skilled us. Richmond are no good at pretty football because we don’t have many skilled disposers of the footy. We much prefer a scrappy game, toe pokes, knock ons and pressure and messy football with endurance (Lambert, Ellis, Houli, MacIntosh, Broad, Prestia...etc) being more important than silk (maybe Edwards, sometimes Martin). This game style suits the MCG in winter and at night. 2017 was build on tackle pressure not silky clean disposal. Funnily enough the newbies (Stack and Baker especially) are showing the established players up with their skilled disposal. No more indoor football games must be our request regarding future fixtures.
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Why are we so poor at Docklands?
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Re the previous post, you have really raised some interesting and pertinent points imo. Could be a lot of merit in your points. The other thing against us is that unfortunately Footscray and NM have been real bogey teams for the RFC for the last several years.
DavidSSS said:
Down back we had Garth, Astbury, Grimes and Broad. all 192cm plus. you could argue we would be better with a 198cm defender in Garth's place, but not many have them.
We also had Soldo, Balta and Lynch. Looking at TOG for those 3 we should have had 2 tall forwards for about half the game.
structure wise we matched up well with North. We just sucked on the night.
We rely on speed. There is less room to use it on smaller grounds.
We are weak overhead, especially in defence. Our defenders are closing speed defenders, not wrestling defenders. As a general rule, most teams don’t like to kick the ball on their forwards’ heads, but they are learning to make an exception when they play us.
We play better in the rain and wet conditions because it negates the strength of high marking forwards and defenders. They shut the roof there.
I suggest we play for a very wet July, August and September. We will light it up on a wet MCG.
We are weak overhead, especially in defence. Our defenders are closing speed defenders, not wrestling defenders. As a general rule, most teams don’t like to kick the ball on their forwards’ heads, but they are learning to make an exception when they play us.
We play better in the rain and wet conditions because it negates the strength of high marking forwards and defenders. They shut the roof there.
I suggest we play for a very wet July, August and September. We will light it up on a wet MCG.
Also, we get spooked any time we have to play in front of a crowd that is less than 30,000. When our guys see too much empty space in the stands they start to wonder if it was worth getting out of bed that morning.
What is happening here? Where are all the people? If you are playing at a North Melbourne home game, can anyone hear you scream?
What is happening here? Where are all the people? If you are playing at a North Melbourne home game, can anyone hear you scream?
jb03 said:
We were.
Until the Prelim, we lost four games and they were all interstate.
Before this year, our last loss there was *that* game against the Aints in 2017.
I subscribe to this. The small forward setup is less effective on a ground where marking is easier.One-eyed Tiger said:
TOT70 said:
I think there's merit in this. For a team used to playing in front of 70-80k people on a ground charged with atmosphere; to be under a roof in a sterile environment must affect the psyche. I know from a supporters perspective, I can't get as excited at Docklands as I do at the MCG.
Conversely, what's North and the Dogs record like at the 'G?
