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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: TigerLand on April 25, 2015, 01:30:29 AM

Title: Shepherding?
Post by: TigerLand on April 25, 2015, 01:30:29 AM
Has the art of shepherding died out?

Seems in Hardwicks (We can beat anyone on our day) game plan, we never shepherd. Instead we run on to create an overlap. Surely there are times where it's needed to protect team mates. Doesn't work when we can't execute skills under pressure.
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: MintOnLamb on April 25, 2015, 05:06:54 AM
Agree, there were plenty of shepherding opportunties, our players only had to observe Melbourne players if they were unsure what to do, one percenters help create space and run. Melb deserved to win, theyhad more intensity.
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: The Machine on April 25, 2015, 06:32:41 AM
Ellis is one who simply does not offer a shepherd at any stage during a game :banghead
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Post by: tony_montana on April 25, 2015, 06:35:08 AM
Lol reckon we've lacked in 1%ers since the Northey days, clubs a shambles
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Post by: wayne on April 25, 2015, 07:50:17 AM
Tackling, shepherding all these basics that we can't do
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: Penelope on April 25, 2015, 09:31:44 AM
Ellis is one who simply does not offer a shepherd at any stage during a game :banghead

He;s not the only one. When you see blokes like Vlastuin run forward of the contest rather than shepard it surely must come down to how they are coached?

Watch the vivisection video after the dogs game. Dimwit highlights where Ellis lets a player run past him to create a contest, which results in a doggie goal, but rather than say that Ellis should have put a block on, he blames the bounce of the ball.
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: Hellenic Tiger on April 25, 2015, 09:32:34 AM
Lol reckon we've lacked in 1%ers since the Northey days, clubs a shambles

Lacked in this area since 2012.
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: TigerLand on April 25, 2015, 10:27:56 AM
It's 100 per cent coach direction.

Remember Dusty and Ellis (I think) both running away from contest thinking the other would get the ball to give to them and left it for Dogs player..
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: Tigeritis™©® on April 25, 2015, 10:33:14 AM
Lol reckon we've lacked in 1%ers since the Northey days, clubs a shambles
Exactly! :thumbsup
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: tdy on April 25, 2015, 10:47:10 AM
Miles wimped out on some obvious ones too. Bring back Jackson he liked the body contact stuff.
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: mightytiges on April 25, 2015, 10:32:32 PM
Too many Tigers peel off and run away from the ball and chaser expecting the receive. Back to the future when Wallace was coach.

Tackling, shepherding all these basics that we can't do
Yep. Add not playing in front especially in the wet and not on the move front and square to a marking contest in the forward half :banghead.

Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: Hellenic Tiger on April 25, 2015, 10:45:07 PM
Remember the Hawthorn game in the wet 3 years ago.
This was total opposite with virtually more than half the team that played that day. :help

Too much left to too few.
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: Tigeritis™©® on July 16, 2016, 02:53:12 PM
Does it really take that much extra effort when handpassing to a teammate on the run that the player then can't shepherd for the receiving player?
This is truly mindboggling to me why this basic fundamental skill of the game is so foreign to everyone in this group?  :rant :shakeshead
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: TigerMonk on July 16, 2016, 04:32:56 PM
How can the shepard when the player they handball too is right next to them but so is the attacking opponent  :lol
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: Tigeritis™©® on August 05, 2016, 10:59:31 PM
Such a simple skill that no player can or even attempts to excecute.

I don't understand this. Mindboggling!
Title: Re: Shepherding?
Post by: mightytiges on August 05, 2016, 11:18:59 PM
How can the shepard when the player they handball too is right next to them but so is the attacking opponent  :lol
This!


Feels like a leftover from the Wallace years that's never been erased. Player A, who gives off the handpass, runs away from the receiver Player B and the opposition chaser, to create the next link in the handball chain, instead of protecting Player B by shepherding the opposition chaser and giving Player B time and space to dispose of the footy cleanly under minimised physical pressure.