agreed plague. i see jobe & zad touching the ball the most, hence the most chance to give the ball away.
imo gve has his attacking layout setup completely wrong, and it leaves in particular our cbs & our mid that picks the ball up in a dire situtation with no options. gve wants our high, wide players to set themselves up in a position that basically cancels themselves out. you could see it was virgilli on the wkend - everytime our cb or jobe/rubez had the ball, he was setup basically in behind the wellington left back. not an option whatsoever. taggart came on & when he realised that postion was never seeing him get the ball, he decided to cut in to find the ball - at which time gve blasted him from the sidelines and told him to push high and wide and "i don't want you in there". then you've got the setup where if one of jobe or rubez has the ball, gve wants the other to be setup basically in the mirror-image across the centre-of-goal-to-centre-of-goal-plane position away from him - on the opposite side of the 1-2 opposition defenders closing the man on the ball down. we push our widebacks up into a position which effectively cancels out both themselves & the high/wide guy, and the only option our cbs/jobe/rubez have is a direct play to heskey who's being double-marked.
in summary, vj would be fuming at our setup. we're playing 3 high/wide men exactly how we shouldn't be. the reason this type of game works so effectively for brisbane is they have nichols/murdocca/henrique/etc running the whole game and being very dynamic in their positioning, looking for the ball from smith/jurman/adnan(prev)/paartalu, as opposed to us who don't do any effing running.
we're setting ourselves up so our cbs (tiago, mitchell) plus jobe/rubez only ever have one, maybe two options. and that's why we seemingly lose the ball so much, and why people call for mitchell's head. we're not mobile enough, and hence have no options to play to. we're way predictable.