jake_h03 wrote:
We are going to cop some massive beltings this year.
Not necessarily. As we showed last week and for most of the last 5 years, we can go with anyone for a half. Then when the heat is on we melt away, but it's usually more like a 30 point loss than 100. Whatever that's worth (less than nothing).
Can anyone explain this to me though, why we always seem to play with dash and dare for the first quarter or half of games, then in the second half we have no support run, no one making space, just tentative prodding and long bombs?
I don't think it's opposition coaches working us out mid-game. It's not like we come out with totally new tactics every week. If they can work us out at half time, they can surely work us out in midweek video sessions and training.
Is it instruction from our coaches? I understand you need tempo footy sometimes, but this isn't tempo footy, it's just blokes looking around desperately for a team mate.
Is our fitness so diabolical that we can't run for more than a quarter? Or our discipline so poor that we expend unnecessary energy in Q1? Do we have too many kids whose bodies aren't ready? Jagga and Dean's first and second halves have been night and day. That's understandable. Lord stays involved but loses polish as the game goes on. HOK too quiet to tell. The rest?
Or are we so scarred by 25 years of failure, so weighed down by the jumper, that we lose all confidence? Would a few inspirational characters make all the difference? I thought Hayward might be one such guy. Travis Boak on the sidelines. Will Newman's return bring the steel?
Help me out here. This can't be by design, surely. So why the Jekyll and Hyde?
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