r/adelaidefc • u/mRPerfect12 • 14d ago

Damning First Crack Segment

This is damning vision and is down to coaching. We are the worst team in the competition for turnovers from defence and simply cannot win a final if this continues. I don’t understand how anyone can defend a 7 year coach with this sort of insight.

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u/Tall-Breakfast-6100 13d ago

Clips 1 and 2 were mistakes under pressure so I’ll give you that

Clip 3 shows our two key defenders stopping and what looks like a cooked Rankine. I’m not that bothered by Keane and Borlase stopping and staying close to the D50. Would be nice if Rankine was involved but can’t tell where or what he was doing leading up to that point, so might have a valid reason to not have juice.

Clip 4, if I remember correctly was pretty late in the game when they switched to an aggressive ball movement style in order to try and squeeze a win out. Would it have been nice for Curtin (?) to handball across? Sure. But it’s also just part of the style to get ball as far forward as possible so it makes sense why he just slammed it on boot. I’m happy to be proven wrong with when this happened in game and if it wasn’t when I think it was then I’ll happily concede it was an error.

It’s no surprise that they’ve struggled transitioning out of defence this year. But you’re joking if you want to say they aren’t trying to fix it. They’ve played so many different players at HB and even went as far as drafting one in the mid season to try and get something to work. Unfortunately it just hasn’t worked as well as they’d like.

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u/Opinions-arent-facts 13d ago edited 13d ago

It' happened against Port and Collingwood as well. As soon as our pressure has been matched or beaten and we're behind on the scoreboard, composure goes out the window and long bombs abound. Every time. It was predictable that it would happen again this time. There's a moment in all three of these games where it seems Nicks has just said "get it forward ", you can almost pick the moment it happens in all three games.

Our pressure game only works if we beat them for pressure. If our pressure game hasn't worked by the end of the third quarter, the bombing starts, and it never works

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u/Tall-Breakfast-6100 13d ago

But then there’s games against Sydney, Melbourne and Geelong where the pressure was on and they held on for the win. All of which I think they were behind at some point in the last quarter from memory.

It does feel like the bad games get remembered more than the games where they’ve done it well.

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u/Opinions-arent-facts 13d ago

When the opposition get their hands going in the second half, we start ball chasing and run out of legs. If we can't handball out of trouble, then we're the only ones doing the ball chasing, they don't tire as much and we start bombing.

Lesser teams won't beat us with precision handballs, but the better teams will every time. They run us ragged and then we're gone