Booney wrote:bertiebeatle wrote:I agree with Booney with how our defence press forward and put the ball back inside 50, but surprised with the below. Pittard the first defender on that list and came in 12th
2017 Port Adelaide Total Inside 50s Leaders (Minimum 5 Games Played)
Rank Name Games Total
1 Brad Ebert 23 101
2 Jared Polec 22 98
3 Oliver Wines 23 97
4 Chad Wingard 19 94
5 Charlie Dixon 23 80
6 Sam Gray 23 76
7 Travis Boak 22 70
8 Patrick Ryder 22 68
9 Sam Powell-Pepper 22 66
10 Robbie Gray 23 62
11 Jarman Impey 20 61
12 Jasper Pittard 17 52
When the ball is I50 our mids push up, but not too far, they hold between the F50 line and the middle, this still allows some space I50 if ( and as it was last year ) when we go back in for repeat entries. The defenders are between the middle and the D50, that's why none of them really got involved with too many I50's.
It's the exact reason we saw Dixon or Gray or Wingard 1 on 2 or even 1 on 3. Balls goes in, fumble about, ball comes out, midfield are holding outside 50, ball goes back in there's 4 Port forwards and 381 defenders, ball comes back out repeat.
We need to make sure that first entry is as rewarding as it can be.
Exactly, and would be far more beneficial to get some free goals from F50 pressure than let it go out and have it come back in again to the 381 defenders you already mentioned. Interesting that no other premiership teams of recent times have had this game plan.
I think Hinkley still holds out hope that Neade is this person, apprently he done it once back in 2014 but i dont have the stat to back me up just a vague memory thats clouded in drunken premeirship glory
