Match Report
Round 6
Saturday 11 May 2024
AJAX v De La Salle - Away
I didn’t need to go to Google this week to check on the opponent's history because I already knew that De La Salle was an anagram of Aron La Sala!
And with that, we reflect on our first loss of the season, why it happened and why losing sometimes presents us with more to work with than winning
In this day and age where football, especially AFL football, is totally over analysed and its education of how to play the game has become entirely distracted by “dream teams”, there is one thing that has stood true over the last 100 years of the game – BAD kicking is BAD football
For those who like a little bit of maths, here it is represented as a formula to think about ..
BK=BF (maybe a new screen saver?)
But bad kicking is not just a function of what you see on the scoreboard (5-12 with the wind), its also a reflection of a team’s inability to pass the ball by foot from one person to another in an effective manner across the ground.
Yesterday, we failed that too many times. Kicks to outnumbered contests, kicks where we rushed, kicks where we were too close to the man on the mark, kicks with no forward momentum, but most of all way too many kicks where there was not enough care.
We have built our DNA around our team themes around the care we take in all areas of the game but yesterday we didn’t really buy in to them. In simple terms, we kept expecting someone else to do it and from the midway point of the ground forward, we just didn’t work hard enough to keep the ball there
If we give opposition teams uncontested use of the ball, give away goals through poor discipline and fail to support each other on field, then we can expect many more weeks of challenging football ahead
The shout outs this week go to Adrian Rosenwax, Tye MW (of the MMWH), AJ, BP and the whole backline who were outstanding yesterday. Well done to you all
A loss is a loss …
The next part of the journey will be to see what we learnt from it both as individuals and as a team = training …
Coach A
Goals: Rosenwax 3, A Joel 1, Mitsel 1, Siegel 1,
Bests: Tye Marabel-Whitburn, Rosenwax ,Lowe, A Joel, Klooger, Feldman
Teams
|
Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
---|---|---|---|---|
AJAX |
2.6.18 | 3.6.24 | 6.10.46 | 6.12.48 |
De La Salle | 1.0.6 | 4.3.27 | 6.5.41 | 10.8.68 |