too many talls in forward line?

[i_coulda_been_a_champ]

it has been promoted in the media a lot about the awesome potential of collingwoods tall forward line of rocca , tarrant , fraser , and molloy using probably 3 in there at any 1 time . is this overrated. molloy never kicks a bag and doesnt get a lot of possessions but they talk up that he makes it easier for the others to get possesions. if this is so then explain didak and davis's lack of form lately? and fraser doesnt play like a TALL . if he marks its on his chest or coming over the top of a stagnant pack (which is rare). does anyone other than pie supporters rate him as a potential threat at the moment in the forward line . i think they should clear out the forward line and just leave rocca and tarrant as the only talls . if they need another marking option why not a medium_sized mobile marking option. plz let buckley do this occasionally or didak to beat an opponent 1 on 1 rather than crumbing only . plus if the ball comes down so slow with this chip, chip , chip then crumbers have no hope (maybe explains davis's form slump).plz comment on this and no i am not a whingeing bagging supporter just a 30 year long supporter who loves discussing ideas / solutions to the pies form whether its up or down . cheers

[The Prototype]

[couragous cloke]

good read but i tend to disagree i bit,

i think our problem at the moment is the lack of speed heading into our forward line. We havent been running it in lately. We're very staggered out of defence and into attack, we dont attack, we chip and let the defenders plug up all the holes. We've become very predictable if u ask me. We have to change our game plan running into adelaide this week if we are to win. in the last quarter we showed how good we can play by going long and direct, not short chips, along the boundary and very slowly. As soon as we started to do that we dominated and our forward line was structuring very very impressively. So i tend to disagree with too many talls being in our forward line, i think it's got nothing to do witht the forwards, i think a lot of it, well just about all of it, has to do with the way we enter in there. it needs to improve and i believe Mick will see this and act on it and we'll be a completely different team come saturday night

[The Prototype]

[Bucks5]

I agree with CC... I think our delivery into our forward line is far too slow, What's wrong with Fast, hard & direct football?


With the exclusion of Nathan, I sometimes feel our midfielders sometimes lack the nouse of what to do under certain situations. Look at last night, Saddington was standing 5 Metres in front of Taz blocking his leads. Couldnt they work out that they needed to kick the ball High so it drops on Saddingtons head & Taz can use him as a step ladder.... that would have ended that tactic after several tries.

[Bones]

3 talls in the centre square, one leads dead centre 2 peel off left and right??? um is this too simple or what? Oh thats right we stuff around with little chip passes lately....duh!!!