Shepherding?

[TigerLand]

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.

[MintOnLamb]

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.

[The Machine]

Ellis is one who simply does not offer a shepherd at any stage during a game

[tony_montana]

Lol reckon we've lacked in 1%ers since the Northey days, clubs a shambles

[wayne]

Tackling, shepherding all these basics that we can't do

[Penelope]

Ellis is one who simply does not offer a shepherd at any stage during a game

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.

[Hellenic Tiger]

Lol reckon we've lacked in 1%ers since the Northey days, clubs a shambles

Lacked in this area since 2012.

[TigerLand]

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..

[Tigeritis™©®]

Lol reckon we've lacked in 1%ers since the Northey days, clubs a shambles

Exactly!

[tdy]

Miles wimped out on some obvious ones too. Bring back Jackson he liked the body contact stuff.

[mightytiges]

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 .

[Hellenic Tiger]

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.

Too much left to too few.

[Tigeritis™©®]

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? 

[TigerMonk]

How can the shepard when the player they handball too is right next to them but so is the attacking opponent 

[Tigeritis™©®]

Such a simple skill that no player can or even attempts to excecute.

I don't understand this. Mindboggling!