{"id":12877,"date":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/malcolm-blight-has-called-out-the-most-overrated-thing-in-footy\/"},"modified":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"malcolm-blight-has-called-out-the-most-overrated-thing-in-footy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/malcolm-blight-has-called-out-the-most-overrated-thing-in-footy\/","title":{"rendered":"Malcolm Blight Has Called Out The \u201cMost Overrated\u201d Thing In Footy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Super coach Malcolm Blight sees things a bit differently.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/malcolm-blight_0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThis sounds probably silly, but the most overrated thing I see in football is tackling,\u201d Blighty said on FIVEAA during his Sportsday debut with Kane Cornes. \u201cBecause tackling means you\u2019re not getting the ball.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIn the perfect world the ruckmen go up, you tap it to your rover, you kick it to full forward, full forward kicks a goal\u2026 you don\u2019t need to tackle.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWhen I coached I dreamt what I wanted to see teams and our players do, so I actually put them in that position. Only when the other mob got it did we have to try and get it back off them.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI\u2019m 80 per cent get the footy. If you focus on 80 per cent of what you do I reckon you\u2019re a lot better off.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PODCAST | &quot;This sounds silly probably but the most overrated thing I see in football is&#8230;&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jackziebell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jackziebell<\/a> joined the show, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cleary_mitch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cleary_mitch<\/a>, Bernie Tomic and more. <br>LISTEN: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AUGD9fcCLQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/AUGD9fcCLQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LFIDydp0la\">pic.twitter.com\/LFIDydp0la<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sportsday SA (@SportsdaySA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsdaySA\/status\/952838524167798784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super coach Malcolm Blight sees things a bit differently. \u201cThis sounds probably silly, but the most overrated thing I see in football is tackling,\u201d Blighty said on FIVEAA during his Sportsday debut with Kane Cornes. \u201cBecause tackling means you\u2019re not getting the ball.\u201d \u201cIn the perfect world the ruckmen go up, you tap it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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