Round 3 - Collingwood vs North Ballarat at Victoria Park

[MagpieBat]

^ Well, I wouldn't quite go THAT far, Culprit. Its still early days...

But you are right about the talls. A foward line with, say, Mitch Hahn and Matt Boland in it will be more reliable in taking contested marks than it would with Witts and Ceglar/Wood/Shae Mac in it as the key targets.

The bonus with the VFL is that teams can play a 23rd player in games - effectively meaning 5 on the bench. When you have a 5 man interchange, you can, I think, be a bit more flexible when playing an extra tall who can ruck. Leave one on the ground to ruck and another on the bench who can rotate off just to ruck all over the ground.

Eg: Wood on, Ceglar off.

This is if we go on the premise that Wood and Ceglar are our primary and secondary ruck duo (which so far we have).

Of course, to make this setup work, you need to surround your forward talls with crumbing smalls, which we did not do on Saturday. Wellingham not playing would have hurt, as it meant we did not even have a B-Grade midfield section (no offence to Ricky Ferraro, who I think was damn near BoG for us). Josh Thomas being out injured hurt as well (but then again, we're so used to him not being out there)...

Nathan Brown injured? That ice-pack was just a precautionary measure, wasn't it? He should be right for Saturday.

[Fire Up]

i reckon we played 1 too many talls. which is ahrd to do because they are on the list. wood, ceglar, witts, mac.

with shae mac, tarks is playing him all over the ground, i dont think he knows where shae is best played. at 1 stage he was on wing, then next forward then ruck, then back. just put him in 1 spot and let him learn how to play the role

[Culprit]

^ Well, I wouldn't quite go THAT far, Culprit. Its still early days...

But you are right about the talls. A foward line with, say, Mitch Hahn and Matt Boland in it will be more reliable in taking contested marks than it would with Witts and Ceglar/Wood/Shae Mac in it as the key targets.

The bonus with the VFL is that teams can play a 23rd player in games - effectively meaning 5 on the bench. When you have a 5 man interchange, you can, I think, be a bit more flexible when playing an extra tall who can ruck. Leave one on the ground to ruck and another on the bench who can rotate off just to ruck all over the ground.

Eg: Wood on, Ceglar off.

This is if we go on the premise that Wood and Ceglar are our primary and secondary ruck duo (which so far we have).

Of course, to make this setup work, you need to surround your forward talls with crumbing smalls, which we did not do on Saturday. Wellingham not playing would have hurt, as it meant we did not even have a B-Grade midfield section (no offence to Ricky Ferraro, who I think was damn near BoG for us). Josh Thomas being out injured hurt as well (but then again, we're so used to him not being out there)...

Nathan Brown injured? That ice-pack was just a precautionary measure, wasn't it? He should be right for Saturday.

In a precarious position trying to get game time into AFL players. It is early days, not happy with what has transpired so far. I don't know what they were thinking with the setup and they need to be slapped around over it. Easy saying that when you are not in the hot seat, trouble is I know I could do better lol