Just got back from the game! The greatest pity is we had a chance to boost membership tonight in front of a healthy largely pro tiger crowd and we played terribly!
Negatives
Nahas= gone
Houli= a couple of scared efforts tonight ( short steps, not backing into packs but acting like he got called out)
Martin's first half imo
Gus's dropped marks
Looked like little boys
Clearances especially from the centre, i lost count of the times we tapped it straight to Mitchell
Where did the centre corridor go?
Positives
Cotchin
Martins second half
Lids went off but the damage didnt appear to escalate too much
I thought Rance did a reasonable job on Roughy
Ok I was there too and thought we were terrible. Agree with most of what Go Rich12 said but will add a few of my own.
Nahas, why dont he even try to stay on his feet ? His standard move seems to be tap the ball and slide and hope to be first up. Well if dont work 90% off the time and its easy pickings for opponents.
Our backline looked so small comparied to Roughead ,Franklin and the resting ruckman down there. Seeing lots of teams are going to rest a ruckman down foward this year we are going to need other options apart from the normal guys. That said I really like Ashbury, he will be our general down there for years to come I hope.
Our disposal is terrible, so many butchers out there you would think its some sort of convention.
Miller is not the answer thats for sure, he waved his arms around alot and pointed but not much else. Maybe is is being used as on feild coach for these games, who knows.
Our ruckmen just dont seem to know when to jump, that includes when going for a mark. Their timing is awful.
We seemed to try some sort of weird tactic of putting on play back in foward line on there own in the last quater to try and break up the zone, but it had no effect just ment that they had 18 in the zone and we had 17 to try and break it. They rotated the players used (bigs and smalls) but the hawks took no notice and just kept the pressing zone and kept the presure on.
Likes
Cotch was great, he sure goes in hard and I love that. Classy act
Ashbury (as I said above)
Griggs did some good things
They seemed to be trying to do what ever the instructions were with lots of talking and pointing. Thats a positive becasue it means Harwick has them playing for him.
Realy Bad
Nahas
Jackson and Tuck are the same old turn over merchants even though they go in hard. They were no alone though
I am sure I will find more to say once I read all this and have time to realy think about it.
One thing I will say is that I will bring up the old arguemnet about passing judgement on things just from seeing a game on TV. Although there are a few things you do miss by not being there (like that deep foward line player tatic) there are lots you just cant see at the ground (other side, other end, in close stuff). To be honest I find the TV few of things a much better way to make judgments but I know many will disagree.
