Mariners V Roar Rd 17

[yorkshireman]

Nope NY, from a very reliable source this one. not said by a fringe player either.

 

[rbakersmith]

As an interesting aside, here are the ratings for this weekend's matches:

• CCMvBRI: 70K on Fox, 116K on SBS
• WELvMCY: 18K
• NEWvWSW: 30K
• SYDvMEL: 60K
• ADLvPER: 42K

 

[VicMariner]

I thought we drew the lowest TV numbers??

Out rate the "Big Blue".
High facebook traffic.

Makes me wonder what attendances we would get if head office got their act together.

 

[Capt. Awesome]

What I found frustrating the other night is that we seemed to throw our possession game out the window. In past games we had actually developed quite a good passing game up until the final third. We did away with this in favour of long balls. I know Brisbane were pressing us but if we just brought back a little of the composure we had a month ago we could have played through that press. Once we got the ball into their half there was acres of space in the midfield. But no, we decided to lob long balls at Simon that rarely paid off. Very frustrating low percentage tactic.

 

[VicMariner]

What I found frustrating the other night is that we seemed to throw our possession game out the window. In past games we had actually developed quite a good passing game up until the final third. We did away with this in favour of long balls. I know Brisbane were pressing us but if we just brought back a little of the composure we had a month ago we could have played through that press. Once we got the ball into their half there was acres of space in the midfield. But no, we decided to lob long balls at Simon that rarely paid off. Very frustrating low percentage tactic.

Sometimes a few long balls can force a high press back. Once the defence is in two minds about pushing up you can go back to playing on the deck. It is not necessarily a scoring tactic or abandonment of the possession game.

 

[dibo]

It would help if the execution were better. MV has used it for years to punish sides that press high and especially sides that 'cheat' by leaving their line high - they play sharp *angled* balls to a runner and get players in motion from midfield to create overloads on a defence that is already moving backwards. This catches out DMs on the wrong side of halfway and buys them room to play in their own half.

We're just hitting straight balls at Simon and hoping he gets a knock-on. It was a badly dated tactic twenty years ago and ridiculous now. Our problem is that nobody hits the long angled ball well at the moment and so nobody bothers to make the run. They can't be arsed running into a contest where they'll either be killed by the opposing fullback who sees the play minutes before it comes (there *are* things that move more slowly than Bosnar preparing to launch, but I can't think of any just at the moment) or watching the ball sail over their heads.

 

[nearlyyellow]

(there *are* things that move more slowly than Bosnar preparing to launch, but I can't think of any just at the moment)

Hmmm, yes, noted.