Most of the side is dumb. No vision, no awareness and worst of all slow thinkers.
They hold onto the ball after a mark and ignore first options in the clear. It's like they need 10 seconds think music before making a decision. So they hold onto the footy until everyone is manned up and then they're forced into short nothing kicks sideways and backwards.
We get the footy in the clear from the kick-in to a HBF and there's no one on the wing waiting for the next pass. Plough mentioned this in his press conference so players aren't following instructions or can't follow simple instructions. When there is the Tiger on the wing the teammate with the ball still holds onto the ball forever again until everyone is manned up.
When a Tiger gains clear possession from a pack goal side and he then runs back into the congestion and gets caught
Most of our forwards lead to the congested thin side when we have the ball on a HFF. If one of them went back to the goalsqaure and then lead out to the fat side they'd get a simple mark and shot on goal on a 45 degree angle.
Half our blokes in a game situation can't kick over a 40m distance through the goals on the full. They chip it like a golf chip instead of kicking through the ball.
Before the game when we were having our pre-game warm-up you can see us hit our targets and nailing goals. Once the pressure of a game is on and they don't have infinite time to think nor are allowed by the opposition to run an extra step or two, the skills and decision making go to pieces. You have to train as you play. We don't train under any physically pressure at all and it shows come gameday. Plough needs to fix this up over the preseason big time if he is too survive another year.
