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spert

Players seemed to enjoy their footy last season- have a look at the body language this season.

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Seems to be quite a few players who have dropped off the pace this season- we need to look for a common denominator

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spert wrote: ↑Sun 26 May 2024 7:41pm Nobody deserved a vote after that rubbish

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Nobody deserved a vote after that rubbish

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I will tell you why Bonner stuffed up because we have no one forward of the ball to kick to. Ross Lyon is a soccer coach who thinks there's an off-side rule in AFL. Horse shyte All he had to do was hit a target Stop talking out your arse Slack kick, sort of hard to hit targets when your teammates a...

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Loved Ratts I didn't have a problem with him, he had the same problem Lyon is having with regards to access to his first choice players. It's always been a really hard club to coach for one reason and one reason alone, lack of talent. It's perpetually frustrating that most of our fans don't get tha...

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If Lyon wasn't our coach, there is no way we play finals last year with the injuries we had for the first half of the season. No chance! A few weeks ago, we would have beaten by twice as much against the Dogs if he wasn't coaching. RTB can clearly coach, and I am certainly a lot more confident in o...

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Otiman wrote: ↑Fri 24 May 2024 10:29pm
Rocket wrote: ↑Fri 24 May 2024 9:16pm His leg speed is a worry .. runs in gumboots
I think it's that he doesn't hit the contest with speed, always gets the ball flat footed. Will learn that soon enough.

I don't think he has that speed and run naturally that you need as a midfielder..from a runner's point of view anyway.

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This is a game we can win by playing attacking, positive football, exploiting Melbourne's lack of real leg speed. That's what West Coast did, apparently ... I didn't watch the game. If Lyon allows the game to open up, by shelving his negative lame plan, we should win on the MCG. You know Lyon will ...

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Byrnes = Robert Eddy Bonner = Brett Peake (?) :cry: :cry: :cry: When is Keeler going to get a go?? If we’re going to score 50 points and lose every game, at least give us something to look forward to . Needs to dominate a bit more in Sandy games over four quarters, not just do a few speccy things h...

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I reckon my old granddad would have snagged a couple of goals against the Richmond 4ths.

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All he is saying is that our good performance last year (which surprised everyone, noting the year of experimentation and the injuries we had particularly early) resulted in the bar being set too high for this year. He is under the pump because he isn't living up to last year when in reality with o...

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Wasn't Cordy CHF in the Dogs premiership? If so, why not play him there- we need a bit of grunt on the HF line.

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Can't see Lyon hanging around for the long term

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A few things from that Collingwood game we won- the midfield were much more attacking, Windy played a more attacking game and got the ball out, and since his suspension, seems to have gone into his shell a bit and is now just defending and nullifying. Nas got a lot of the ball and set up a lot of pl...

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I'm always bemused by the way we take so long to bring the ball in from a kick out, often just to kick it 15m. Yet our opponents almost always bring it straight in, often with kicks of 30-50m. Watched a game a few days ago, the kick-in went a long way towards the wing to 2 guys who were well in the...

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With all due respect, Battle at his height can get away with playing a CHB (nominally) But it is another matter playing as a key forward at that size where you have an opponent focused on spoiling (at least) And Owen is 191cm, so smaller again In regards Ratts and defence, during the season in Quee...

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I think it is time for Battle to be put in the forward half- he came to us as a forward anyway. All the talk about Owens should be in the midfield is just pie in the sky, I would like to see him developed as a CHB as I think he would perfect in that role. Battle is more skilful than Owens and has be...

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I’m the other way I think we’ve gifted games, which I’m not a fan of Nothing wrong with learning in the VFL - especially with more significant roles I agree- we can't just gift games to those who are not really busting their guts at VFL level. I was a bit crook on Collard getting a senior game afte...

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So Teffers Are you saying he inherited a bad list Ipso facto Ratten had a poor list Meaning it wasn’t his coaching - it was the list then too… right?! Ratten's defensive systems were s*** and he didn't know where our List was at. So it had a bit to do with his coaching. In hindsight Richo was a bet...

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Jack Stevens played 30 games before Ross showed his true colours and ran off to Freo for the cash. So if you claim he developed him he didn't develop Fyfe who already had 40 games before he arrived. Sean Darcy played 26 games only under Ross. You haven't really helped your own argument by showing h...

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Can't really knock Marshall- he is doing a great job, but I feel his actions of grabbing the ball at centre bounces and booting it, are almost a message to our midfield to get into it. Our mids are static at ball ups and stoppages, no running, no spreading, just blocking, playing behind and playing ...

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Drop every midfielder that got beaten in the last two games, tell the senior players to stop fumbling and dropping marks that they should be taking..that includes Max.

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Vortex wrote: ↑Mon 20 May 2024 10:54am
spert wrote: ↑Mon 20 May 2024 10:48am
..Sharman should be played deep forward and left there for four or five games

surely that opportunity has been given in spades, he's just not up to AFL standard.

A handful of times at best, until he had been moved up the ground to play in other positions in most matches.

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Ok, we can use a lot more class in our team- like most teams, but we are playing a terrible style of football as a TEAM. We can point the finger at a few player's form, but what I see is a team who are not working together, lost confidence, look confused, and you don't necessarily need elite skills ...

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