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If anything, the early losses have allowed us to see clearer the weaknesses in our team structure/personnel/form. There is no easy answer and I think the situation is part lack in personnel and confidence in each other. 2 glaring zones that are in need of a major shift:
1. Defense: losing Brown and Doedee has screwed us in the speed department down back and the crucial attacking flare as well. Laird being tagged hard and/or out of form also is making the defense currently seem very one dimensional.
2. Forward: losing McGovern has instantly made us a less scary proposition when the ball is going high in attack. We do not have any pack crashers at the moment and we need to put one in for overall balance in ground and air players. We’ve focused too much on getting speed up in attack for defensive pressure in Murphy and Jones, but with the loss of marking power.
The down in form in several zones has set off a domino effect in basically the entire team. Examples:
- mids are working harder and probably more frustrated with the kick-in set plays, especially when the kicks are going astray often!
- mids are losing confidence in bombing it long and high up in attack, and are forced to doing more of the chip kicks and creating more likely turnovers.
It almost feels to me like it’s becoming a vicious cycle trend: players making errors, players being fearful of errors, players making more errors etc.
Greenwood, Fogarty, Gallucci needs to come in. I don’t care where, we need to inject more natural footy smarts in the team! We can play them in several positions:
Greenwood - mid/forward
Fogarty - defense/forward (swingman)
Gallucci - mid/utility
Berg, Davis, Scholl, Ned all deserve chances soon if their AFL counterparts aren’t changing form pronto.
1. Defense: losing Brown and Doedee has screwed us in the speed department down back and the crucial attacking flare as well. Laird being tagged hard and/or out of form also is making the defense currently seem very one dimensional.
2. Forward: losing McGovern has instantly made us a less scary proposition when the ball is going high in attack. We do not have any pack crashers at the moment and we need to put one in for overall balance in ground and air players. We’ve focused too much on getting speed up in attack for defensive pressure in Murphy and Jones, but with the loss of marking power.
The down in form in several zones has set off a domino effect in basically the entire team. Examples:
- mids are working harder and probably more frustrated with the kick-in set plays, especially when the kicks are going astray often!
- mids are losing confidence in bombing it long and high up in attack, and are forced to doing more of the chip kicks and creating more likely turnovers.
It almost feels to me like it’s becoming a vicious cycle trend: players making errors, players being fearful of errors, players making more errors etc.
Greenwood, Fogarty, Gallucci needs to come in. I don’t care where, we need to inject more natural footy smarts in the team! We can play them in several positions:
Greenwood - mid/forward
Fogarty - defense/forward (swingman)
Gallucci - mid/utility
Berg, Davis, Scholl, Ned all deserve chances soon if their AFL counterparts aren’t changing form pronto.