am Bays wrote:Dutchy wrote:Best team lost IMO
How the hell did the Cats get so many free players in that last surge forward?
Fatigue mate as you well know
Push forward for the previous play, ball gets turned over, ball gets partially cleared comes back Dogs can’t get back and across to the grandstand pocket, mark to Rohan.
This is the plan of limiting rotations. Fatigue creates free players as they can’t do the full ground press/squeeze of the late 00s/early 10s.
Dogs fans can thank the ex Cat player Stephen Hocking for that loss….
Possibly, however Cats players would have been following dogs players forward also, or their structures fell apart or Geelong cheated a bit and had a couple of players forward of the ball that Bullies did pick up on (ala Centrals v Glenelg semi 2008) if this was the case its brilliant coaching
Would love to see the behind goal vision of that last minute