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Review Bad & Ugly vs Bulldogs
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Southerntakeover
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Again, not a single thing about what would have improved the delivery.
He would have leadership'd the ball 19 metres back on course?
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This is 100% correct and makes a mockery of our "backing the boys in to respond" attitude we've taken from these results previously
Bad: There were a few lazy attempts early on from Rachele at tackling. He was a witches hat at times.
Ugly: Nicks over thinking it at selection. The group got ahead of themselves obviously and thought it would just happen. Young player syndrome I guess. But yet again, another example of Nicks failing to get the side up for the game. One of the very basic jobs of a coach.
Ugly: Nicks over thinking it at selection. The group got ahead of themselves obviously and thought it would just happen. Young player syndrome I guess. But yet again, another example of Nicks failing to get the side up for the game. One of the very basic jobs of a coach.
Someone else mentioned that Worrell should have been sub and this is exactly right.
Not only could be potentially have covered the taller Bulldogs players if it became a problem, but we also have defenders that potential have the flexibility to go into the midfield if required.
Instead we pick a specialist midfield tackler.
Who is making these sub decisions!?
Not only could be potentially have covered the taller Bulldogs players if it became a problem, but we also have defenders that potential have the flexibility to go into the midfield if required.
Instead we pick a specialist midfield tackler.
Who is making these sub decisions!?
Simple yes/no.
If Tex retired today, is Fog ready to be the Forward's leader.
I say no.
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I firmly believe they picked this week to rest tex right back when the SANFL fixture was released..
One of the main factors being that they would’ve thought…
“if we pick the SANFL bye to rest tex then we wont have to weaken the SANFL side by taking Gollant or Himm out of it”..
It being a game at the coldest shittiest stadiums on earth was just a convenient coincidence..
I completely understand why tex or sloane need a rest but why does that rest need to be a full game off rest?..
What would be wrong with saying to either of them.. “look, no AFL for you this weekend but we’re still gonna get you to don the jumper in the SANFL”..
Give them a licence to just sit in the goal square and marshall the troops and kick a few goals if it comes their way.. treat it like a light training sesh..
Not a full rest but a rest all the same..
And they can encourage, mentor and direct young lads like newchurch, cook and nank while they are at it..
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Every team gets them. What happens if in a prelim you get 5 or 6 of your best players that get a slight knock. I guess if it's a Victorian team you will see a mad scramble for a rule change.
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I say Yes.
Fog has led that forward line on many occasions tex had been out.. he normally plays even better with tex not there..
Today was an outlier..
Mostly due to our horrid midfield performance..
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Not arguing the kicking was shithouse..but for the love of god..forwards need to play the percentages and thats play in front on a wet day
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In the top two in that game
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I agree they rested Tex in the SANFL bye so it wouldn't affect the SANFL team. The question needs to be asked of why didn't they rest Tex against Geelong and did Tex actually need a rest this week? Maybe the club just wrote this one down as a loss.
Southerntakeover
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I'm concerned about how often we allow the outnumber back there, a pattern of both this and the Geelong game.
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Yeah..but the outnumber then seems to translate into further outnumbers down the ground as they find players well in the clear. A feat i can't recall us doing all day. Workrate methinks
Was it that or was it the other forwards getting into fogs space and bringing their man over.
It wasn’t until the 3rd they mentioned about us playing a spare.
Southerntakeover
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Suggests we're pushing numbers at the contest to artificially inflate clearance.
We win it, hack kick, other team takes off into the clear.
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It looked like they just didn't want to work for it today and just went through the motions. You could tell from the first 5 mins who was going to win.
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It's because we test
Probably a bit of both.
Disorganised forward line, with no leadership there, leads to mids who have delivered the ball well this year kicking to no one or defenders.
I50s are a two way street. Forwards need to meet the ball, mids kick to forward leading patterns or static contests.
Today neither happened well.
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Sloane has been poor for a while now.
