Give Us Your Trap To Avoid in 2008

[carn_sainter]

What are the traps to avoid for 2008?

Last season, i reckon we beat ourselves more often than the opposition did...obviously by playing poor footy. But the reason for this poor footy was that we kept falling into self-made traps...poor footy habits if you will.

Part of this relates to a new style of game...both us and the opposition...this can confuse players and have them do things they think are right just because everyone else is doing them or because they've misunderstood what they're supposed to be doing...

It's basically what happens to young teams and why they generally struggle...because they lack leadership.

I noted almost weekly last year how bad we were for leadership on the field...having a gun like Ball struggling to play let alone lead is a good way to sap your leadership....

Basically, you can get a downward spiral where a drop in leadership causes poor play which causes a loss which affects the whole team which causes poor play, poor leadership etc etc...


Anyway, in order to try get a decent list going of bad footy habits we showed in 2007 and should avoid in 2008, i thought we should get as many people as possible to contribute.

It could be a good way to see where we went wrong and also a good tool we could use to measure how much we learned and improved over pre-season as the season approaches.


Play On For the Sake of it:
We did this a lot last year, possibly in an attempt to speed our ball movement up. problem was that we didn't always have options to kick to further afield so we had to back pedal, muck around with the ball, put people under pressure and eventually turn it over.

[bigcarl]

one of our ruckmen is injured so we decide to patch the ruck division up by throwing kosi back in there

... thereby robbing ourselves of one of our surest avenues to goal and the focus of many forward moves

definitely a trap to avoid

[Ice Wolf]

Kicking it to Reiwolt was a trap we fell into a lot last year he aint the best finisher.

Also letting oposition teams get large numbers back into our forward line killed us.

[bigcarl]

Kicking it to Reiwolt was a trap we fell into a lot last year.

that's why kosi's got to be there too

[TimeToShineFellas]

Definitely would be avoiding this trap..........



Seems way too overpriced for mine

[aussiejones]

Predictability .......allows opposition to man up

[emmdee]

Getting ahead of ourselves & believing media hype. In 2005 after r10 the news articles were comparing us to Carlton '95 & Essendon 2000... the rest is well documented history, still no flag forthcoming.

[Winmarvellous]

Forcing our forwards to follow their men downfield, robbing us of a rebound option when turnovers are created. A double-edged sword, but Gehrig doesn't need to leave the front half of the field.

[carn_sainter]

Kicking it to Reiwolt was a trap we fell into a lot last year he aint the best finisher.

it was never selective kicking to riewoldt...as in, the kicker had plenty of options and kept choosing roo

it was always that roo was the only player working hard enough to present as an option

i'd rather keep kicking to the same bloke who is actually an option than kick it to nobody

everyone else needs to work harder to present

[riccardo]

One thing they should do. Keep running if you can.

Alot of times players would stop and look for an option because it was the plan, only not realising they could have run and casrried it for anotyher few metres.

May get us the few extra midfield goals we are gonna need.

[hAyES]

We need to get out of the habit of kicking it to Roo every time. With Kosi and Gehrig playing deep, this means Roo will probably play more up the ground and we could go back into this trap.

[snippa]

any post that has Dal Santo in the title.......

You just know it's going to be another'he's so hot' thread

[Persuader]

Playing injured players.

[CeilidhSaint]

Traps:
Thinking that winning the NAD Cup is the premiership
Thinking that Fraser can kick 100
Thinking that without a squad of 10 decent mid fielders we can win it
Not committing 100%, 100% of the time
Thinking that the GF is at the TD
Thinking your top 6 win a game when it is your bottom 6
Thinking that number of forward entries wins you games when it is the efficiency of entries that does
Expecting our new recruits or young guys like Geary to make all the difference
Thinking injuries won't occur
Thinking most people on this forum know anything much......but enjoying it anyway....