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Chapter 1: What is the pressure index and how does it apply to St Kilda?
Vanessa, thank you. The pressure index for Osmond, rooftop and bar. Enjoy happy hour with the footy live and loud. St Kilda bought themselves a place in this with a goalless first half.
What was that? Now, there was a massive talent gap watching it. We called the game for SCN and we recognised very early that Hawthorne are a very good side and Gunston's important.
Chapter 2: What were the key mistakes made by St Kilda in their recent game?
And the way they've set that up, we've spoke about it a lot, about how he disconnects himself from the rest of the game. And good luck to you if you want to play in front of me, you want to play behind me. If the ball comes quick, I'm going to kick goals. And that's the, you'd say it's the number one strength for Hawthorne if they can go move the ball quickly. And the Saints just let him do it.
So fumbles. And you can't coach fumbles, can you? No. Yeah, the fumbles fundamentals you do on a Monday, like taking a ground ball, hitting a handball, the basics of the game.
Chapter 3: How does Hawthorne's strategy impact St Kilda's performance?
And then their forwards got worked under the ball. I think he went in with a strategy or the coaching staff to go, let's not go down the line. They're too good at intercepting. Let's go through the corridor. Sometimes when you do that and it doesn't work, it's like, ah, what's the plan B? And I think you can over-index your ball movement.
And when you do that as a coach and there's too many guys trying to take this corridor on when it's poor decision to do, and it doesn't come off. It's like, oh, hang on. What happened to that cell? We've been selling this all week. The corridor is going to be open. Let's embrace it. Let's go with some speed and it doesn't work. And then you've got to reshuffle everything.
So he did a pretty good job at halftime to move a few magnets around, but the damage in the first half. I won't tell you about the expected score. We'll maybe touch on that later. We will get to that. But yeah, so that on top of the, just the talent difference. So there's the coaching and the system and what's, what's going on in the Saints there.
But then it just looked like they were bereft of some, some, some talent. And they're missing players, Gerard. They're missing four or five in the front half. So it makes it difficult.
So they are defined by their best 23, aren't they? Which is a, it's a hard way to live a season. Yeah. is once you've got injuries, you don't go deep enough.
Yeah. This is what we spoke of at the top of the show. What's their cycle? Because it's a different cycle. They've decided to do things differently. So it's hard to judge where they're at. So they go and get these players who weren't A graders. So just because they've, they cost a lot, doesn't make them A graders when they arrive. So what are the expectations of those acquisitions?
They're going to be B, B plus at their best. They'll be part of a good system. So the expectations probably are they're playing the way they normally play, aren't they? So that's how I read it. And then what are they good at? This has been your question the whole way through. Yeah. So what's their strength? What do they lean on? And I had a little bit to them a few weeks ago.
They're sort of getting good at everything at one stage. They're starting to build a good defensive profile, good ball movement. Stoppages look pretty good. But I think they're just eighth at everything, which is fine if you can start to work towards being top six at everything. But at the moment it just feels a bit flat with, you know, it's not the Ross line, um,
build our game off defence style, is it? What are you seeing with that? So what's the overlaying week to week to week to week other than let's beat Hawthorne through the corridor or let's do this strategy? So that's the look for the back half of the season. I think the Saints supporters have seen some positivity this year.
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