Hoping Aliir can bounce back and be that weapon we saw late in 2016. That will make a huge difference to us.
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If nothing else I respect your relentless zealotry.Nah two poor games is unforgivable
Except Towers, who has really just started to string together some consistency.I’d like to be proven wrong but I wouldn’t think any of our draftees would be ready to go for early 2018 (unless we have a disaster start again and need to call on some untried kids)
So Florent, Hayward, Aliir and Dawson need huge pre seasons. I’d like to see at least the first three playing predominantly senior footy this year in lieu of Cunningham, Towers, Sinclair etc.
Florent or Dawson can take Towers place in the middle, Hayward is an improvement on Cunningham forward of centre, Aliir plays ruck in Sinclair’s place, Melican comes back in as a defender (which means Sammy the Dinosaur gets the boot but we only need one ruck Horse!)
Then let Naismith and Cameron work on their craft in the NEAFL as I think both could be good rucks they’re just harder to develop.
Everybody wins!
I'll argue against you here as in I certainly wouldn't have said either team showed up a huge weakness in our game plan, we lost two games to Hawthorn by a solitary kick and and the slightest difference - a mark taken here or there, Jake Lloyd playing, a bit more hardness around the packs etc, etc would have/could have delivered an entirely different result.
As far as the final against Geelong goes, (in my opinion anyway) in our minds we had that game done and dusted and were focused on the following week, simply put we didn't bother turning up. We had shown a few weeks earlier that our game plan is capable of cutting Geelong to shreds.
Take out the first six weeks of last season and we showed our game plan works and works incredibly effectively, with only Adelaide, Hawthorn and GWS really showing they had any answers.
2018 Game plan will equal the 2017 Game plan....... We have been shown to not deviate much.
Yes, it will be the same plan but, based on who we recruited, maybe with more outside toe.
The one flaw is when we let other teams chip it around uncontested, a la Hawthorn (twice) and Geelong in the SF(if I'm remembering). I'm assuming other teams tried it as well but failed because either we didn't let them get the ball or we pressured it back off them.
Let's hope Horse has that one figured out for 2018 because every team will come at us with it.
I would love to see every team try that keepings off game plan against us. They have all tried and only Hawks have had any success using it.
Collingwood did also
Richmond to a lesser extent to.
Elite kickers all across the board. Obviously not what they used to be though.True.
But it just demonstrates that what Hawthorn do is exceptionally good ( even though it looks so simple, much easier said than done).
Would be great. Just hoping 2017 was the anomaly and not 2016.Aliir is one that i hope has a big hear..if he can get back to 2016 form we will either have a great defender to go forward with or we will get a decent pick back from freo
Would be great. Just hoping 2017 was the anomaly and not 2016.
Good rundown Kirksy.So it seems to me that no-one actually knows what the game plan is... and no-one is willing to speculate either.
What about roles? Do you think that each of our players goes out with a specific role to play, or only some of them?
Smith's role must be to take his opponent out of the game... definitely a winner imo
Reid's is swing man... and I wonder if he is actually sent down back or now makes the call himself?
Rampe is surely the general in defence now that Teddy is gone... another winner
Jones is maybe being developed into a Shaw and Newman into Malceski type roles...
Thoughts, opinions???
So it seems to me that no-one actually knows what the game plan is... and no-one is willing to speculate either.
What about roles? Do you think that each of our players goes out with a specific role to play, or only some of them?
Smith's role must be to take his opponent out of the game... definitely a winner imo
Reid's is swing man... and I wonder if he is actually sent down back or now makes the call himself?
Rampe is surely the general in defence now that Teddy is gone... another winner
Jones is maybe being developed into a Shaw and Newman into Malceski type roles...
Thoughts, opinions???
Buddy might win us a game or two off his own boot...By themselves each players role won't win us any games, together they make an awesome team.
We need a tinker of our stoppage set up and our transition out of defence.
We need a complete overhaul of our forward setup.