Free flowing footy

[Tiger_heart]

Interesting to hear commentators refer to the fact that "Tigers would have played a different game if in the 8's" - by this I think they meant that we wouldn't see as much free flowing football. And yet, this is what I believe to be our most natural game, best suited to the youth in the team and our speedsters out wide. All out attack, you get some points scored against you but you have the confidence that you will outscore the opposition. I just don't think that "conservative" suits us. IMHO. Further, had we played with the same flamboyancy earlier in the year, we could have been talking about who we are playing next week, rather than what might have been.

 

[innsaneink]

We tried the same flamboyancy earlier in the season - its low % and high risk, do you not remember all the dropped balls and pushed passes?
This sort of football takes a season and more worth of practice every day to get down pat.
Last night there was NO pressure on us - nothing to lose.

 

[anderson_silva]

i loved it and hated it at the same time, i know we are a better team then penrith newcastle manly and parra geez i think we are even better then brisbane, but here we are again out of the finals such a pity, we could of easily finished top 4

 

[Juro]

We played free-flowing footy against Parra and it didn't come off (eg, taking risks with playing through the hands on the 6th tackle). We played it again last night and it did come off.

It is a hit and miss tactic and not what the commentators see as "semifinal football". The trouble is that this is our natural style and moving away from that reduced our chances of winning.

 

[BornBlack_amp_Gold]

We had it down to a fine art for much of 2005.

Including the semi finals.

 

[Jazza]

The problem is, as Ink said, its low % and very risky.

If we play like that and there are some errors, then that puts our defence under a lot of pressure which then leads to soft tries as we saw earlier in the year.

We need to find a balance and we found that in our winning streak. At the start of the yr we were over flamboyant which lead to our defence being poor because we put pressure on ourselves. In the middle I believe we overcompensated and we were to conservative which = 5 losses in a row and not a lot of points. And obviously we found the right balance when we won 6 in a row which was shown by the fact that we didnt score a tonne of points (Except for the Sharks and Souths game where they were very soft), but we didnt concede much either because we didnt place a lot of pressure on our defence.

 

[stryker]

Its touch football - pretty to watch but can be very destructive for a full contact side.

Need a balance

 

[Paris_Cobbs]

Commentators talk rubbish. Semi-final football is still football. Manly won the GF last year 40-0 by playing attacking football. If what the commentators say was true, they would have shut up shop and won 12-0.

We would have continued to play in the way that makes us superior to other teams, surely. Brilliantly creative attack and speed.

If the teams in the 8 can't play attacking football that proves that the safest way to win is still to play like Melbourne and St George based on defence.

 

[Torbizlo]

sheens in 2005 said that tigers will score 4-5tries per game. to beat us ull need to score 5-6 tries.
i think we need to go back to that theory.
also, we will make the 8 next year 4 sure now that morris is gone. mark my words people.

 

[stryker]

sheens in 2005 said that tigers will score 4-5tries per game. to beat us ull need to score 5-6 tries.
i think we need to go back to that theory.
also, **we will make the 8 next year 4 sure now that morris is gone. mark my words people**.

I actually think him leaving will weaken our bench.

 

[Kul]

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