Plough on SEN's morning glory

[one-eyed]

Wallace will be on SEN's morning glory this morning (b/w 6-9am) with Watson, Brownless and Maher.

Not sure what time but they usually do these interviews around 8am-ish, either just before or after the hourly news.

If anyone would like to give a summary of what Terry's says it'd be much appreciated  .

Radio:  1116 AM
Internet: http://sen1116.conexim.com.au/sen1116_16.asx

[Stripes]

Anything worth reporting?

[one-eyed]

Summary

* Plough played against Mick Nolan in the '78 GF and offered his condolences.

* Re: Ross Lyon - every coach eventually gets his "turn" at being under the media spotlight. As a coach you've just got to focus on what your doing. The club should show a united front but as a coach you shouldn't be hoping for the Prez to come out. That can be done internally. 

* We focus on about 8 things during a game one of which is tackling. We had/have a number of youngsters coming through now so after the North and Collingwood games where we were comfortably beaten we drew the proverbial line in the sand. It wasn't not tackling as such but more defensive pressure. You would need an excellent offensive game to compensate for a lesser defensive effort if you wanted to stay in the side. For example Richo takes 16 marks per game amongst all he does so it doesn't matter if he misses out on tackles, we're not obviously going to drop him.

* Yes Pettifer was one who was sent back to work on his defensive side and Plough thought he showed that defensive pressure on Saturday night. Had 3 tackles inside 50 which was the most on the night. It wasn't just Petts and Joel but 4-5 blokes were told to work on their defensive side.

* Browny has had 9 tackles in the last 2 weeks. With all due respect to Browny it would've taken him half a year to get to that number of tackles in the past.

* Interchange - didn't want to get into trouble but he would take match points off a side if they made a major stuff-up (playing 19 men) and a major fine if a player steps over the line before he is suppose to.

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* Fixture inconsistencies - Plough compared us (16th) and Carlton (15th) who you would think have similar draws.
- We play the top two sides Geelong and Hawthorn 4 times (twice each). Carlton only play Geelong once and don't play Hawthorn by round 21.
- We have 5 interstate trips to Carlton's 4.
- One advantage in the system is playing interstate sides at home. We only have 3 games whereas Carlton have 5.

Roughly a 6 game difference so the ladder doesn't necessarily reflect where teams are at. A caller rang in about Collingwood (only played 2 top 8 sides so far and only 4 trips interstate). Plough said in the past things use to even out over 5 years but not anymore. Sure it doesn't matter where we are now as a side. You'd hope we'd test ourselves against the better sides. But he would be very surprised if the same thing happened again next year.

* Nevertheless we missed some opportunites. 3 goals up with 3 minutes to go with Will Minson having the last shot and then 2 weeks later we had the last shot.

* New clubs - they shouldn't be allowed to just stockpile draft picks and hence youngsters. If they say have 10 then 3 or 4 or some percentage should be made to trade for more ready-made players with size. Existing clubs can trade players away for picks.

* Mentioned we want everyone at 100G at the 'G in round 14 against Carlton. 

[Francois Jackson]

Summary
 You would need an excellent offensive game to compensate for a lesser defensive effort if you wanted to stay in the side. For example Richo takes 16 marks per game amongst all he does so it doesn't matter if he misses out on tackles, we're not obviously going to drop him.

exactly.. i think it was u tigers alive or someone who said there should'nt be seperate rules for seperate players.
well there is pal. richo's offensive work is far superior to any one elser on the list.
thats why u see him on the sidelines spewing his gutz out for the team

[mightytiges]

* Fixture inconsistencies - Plough compared us (16th) and Carlton (15th) who you would think have similar draws.
- We play the top two sides Geelong and Hawthorn 4 times (twice each). Carlton only play Geelong once and don't play Hawthorn by round 21.
- We have 5 interstate trips to Carlton's 4.
- One advantage in the system is playing interstate sides at home. We only have 3 games whereas Carlton have 5.

Roughly a 6 game difference so the ladder doesn't necessarily reflect where teams are at. A caller rang in about Collingwood (only played 2 top 8 sides so far and only 4 trips interstate). Plough said in the past things use to even out over 5 years but not anymore. Sure it doesn't matter where we are now as a side. You'd hope we'd test ourselves against the better sides. But he would be very surprised if the same thing happened again next year. 

The funny thing is it'll probably be advantageous to have such a tough draw being a young developing rebuilding side at the moment. Finishing lower than where we deserve on form will pay dividends in November in the last untampered draft before the new teams come in. Let Carlton finish 9th and us say 11/12th. We need another top 5/6 pick to add more class that will take us ahead of the Blues in the next few years. Hopefully by then we should be at a stage where we are good enough to not worry about the draw.

I actually think the soft draw the Pies get hurts them in the long run at the dratt table. They always fall just short in the finals lacking that extra class in September needed to win a flag due to finishing higher up the ladder than they should most years.

[peggles]

* Fixture inconsistencies - Plough compared us (16th) and Carlton (15th) who you would think have similar draws.
- We play the top two sides Geelong and Hawthorn 4 times (twice each). Carlton only play Geelong once and don't play Hawthorn by round 21.
- We have 5 interstate trips to Carlton's 4.
- One advantage in the system is playing interstate sides at home. We only have 3 games whereas Carlton have 5.

Roughly a 6 game difference so the ladder doesn't necessarily reflect where teams are at. A caller rang in about Collingwood (only played 2 top 8 sides so far and only 4 trips interstate). Plough said in the past things use to even out over 5 years but not anymore. Sure it doesn't matter where we are now as a side. You'd hope we'd test ourselves against the better sides. But he would be very surprised if the same thing happened again next year. 

The funny thing is it'll probably be advantageous to have such a tough draw being a young developing rebuilding side at the moment. Finishing lower than where we deserve on form will pay dividends in November in the last untampered draft before the new teams come in. Let Carlton finish 9th and us say 11/12th. We need another top 5/6 pick to add more class that will take us ahead of the Blues in the next few years. Hopefully by then we should be at a stage where we are good enough to not worry about the draw.

I actually think the soft draw the Pies get hurts them in the long run at the dratt table. They always fall just short in the finals lacking that extra class in September needed to win a flag due to finishing higher up the ladder than they should most years.

well said....absolutely no complains from me regarding the draw....tougher opponents will toughen our kids up.....and the added bonus of better picks in november is certainly most welcome