Rumour 2022 Rumour Discussion Thread

[Scorpus]

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[1970crow]

Well I think there has been some small movement in this direction. But everyone is frustrated at the slow pace of it. Certainly players we have targeted last couple years, there does seem to have been a different emphasis on skillls and I think we all hope that continues. But I'm afraid we still have a way to go to change the nature of our list.

we have won games though by taking the game on, taking risks and running hard. But we lose a couple and a switch seems to get flicked and we change to a method that appears designed to minimise risk and avoid turnovers at all costs.

 

[Cap]

This is getting Cruel (if true)

 

[George CantStandYa]

This is getting Cruel (if true)

John Doe……

 

[Cap]

John Doe……

Hey it's a rumour thread.

Would it he better if I said I over heard it at Henley Cafe?

 

[George CantStandYa]

Hey it's a rumour thread.

Would it he better if I said I over heard it at Henley Cafe?

Rumour thread or posting Twitter fake accounts

 

[Crow-eater]

That bloke talks just like the Trade Whisperer.

 

[Cap]

Rumour thread or posting Twitter fake accounts

Fine, next time I'll say I heard it at the Cafe

Tough crowd

 

[Cap]

That bloke talks just like the Trade Whisperer.

Seems to repeat rumours just after someone else does.

 

[Gtowncrow]

What we need to do is a rule a line through players who can't execute the skills required to play the preferred game plan then. What we do though is stick with the continuity method and adjust game plan to suit the current group that gives us the best chance for the smallest loss. Why bother building competitiveness in players who ultimately don't have the skills.

I think our cattle are too young yet.
Our game plan is all coaching however.
I'm hoping to see a maturing of both into 2023.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Jordan Dawson is the only current Crows player who should have that license at the moment.

We need to have more than 1 player in the side to pull off the risky kick as it's needed to have a decent offensive game.

 

[ABAB]

Rumour thread or posting Twitter fake accounts

Maybe his name is John Doe or has a reliable source?

 

[Bearded Clam]

I hate to provoke anything but Brodie Smith is our commander in chief of the strategically inept long bomb out of defence.

I've just arrived home from the Geelong prelim and their ball use out of their backline is exemplary. We're miles off this standard yet.

All we do is bomb, hope for a scrap and/or a stoppage and repeat.

Josh Worrell has made a nice start but like nearly all our team (and coaches) we're like the boy with the barrow and still have the job in front of us.

We long bomb, hope for a scrap and a stoppage because Nicksy loves contested ball..

He even says thats what he’s aiming to see whenever he’s interviewed pre-game!

Its all about creating a scrap for Nicksy.. its the only way he knows he can win..

Clean, high skilled and direct play takes a back seat for nicksy..

Its why when you watch both our AFL and SANFL sides play the better teams in those comps we so often see all our players in the area go into the contest at the same time, often competing against each other in the process to get the ball, only to see it squeezed out and into the hands of two or three opposition players who are waiting, unmanned, just off the contest.

So much energy and effort for so little reward but hey, its a hard contest!.. yay!

 

[Rory Walkerfield]

What we need to do is a rule a line through players who can't execute the skills required to play the preferred game plan then. What we do though is stick with the continuity method and adjust game plan to suit the current group that gives us the best chance for the smallest loss. Why bother building competitiveness in players who ultimately don't have the skills.

No we don’t. We don’t adjust the game plan to suit the current group. The game plan is rigid and we don’t have the quality of players to execute it. But from my read Nicks doesn’t change the game plan to suit the available players

 

[CROW in BALI]

We need to have more than 1 player in the side to pull off the risky kick as it's needed to have a decent offensive game.

Exactly my point .

 

[ABAB]

We long bomb, hope for a scrap and a stoppage because Nicksy loves contested ball..

He even says thats what he’s aiming to see whenever he’s interviewed pre-game!

Its all about creating a scrap for Nicksy.. its the only way he knows he can win..

Clean, high skilled and direct play takes a back seat for nicksy..

Its why when you watch both our AFL and SANFL sides play the better teams in those comps we so often see all our players in the area go into the contest at the same time, often competing against each other in the process to get the ball, only to see it squeezed out and into the hands of two or three opposition players who are waiting, unmanned, just off the contest.

So much energy and effort for so little reward but hey, its a hard contest!.. yay!

The ball movement leading up to the inside 50 is consider skilled.

 

[kirky]

This is getting Cruel (if true)

Please be so and if so I expect it to be formally announced early this week.

 

[ad victoriam]

Agree..

Piss the draft off altogether.

The NRL gets by fine without one.

Also.. the league needs to bite the bullet and get rid of, or move them into Tassie and NT, 4 of the Victorian clubs..

Take 4 Victorian clubs out of the equation and there goes 160+ list spots and thus takes away 160 opportunities for Vicitorian players to play in Victoria at AFL level.

But this gutless pissant VFL fake excuse for a National league wont do that..

Draft here to stay too many media dollars in it,

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Draft here to stay too many media dollars in it,

There's almost no media dollars in the draft? But yes agree it is here to stay

 

[WheresGroomgone]

Slightly OT - I'm a fan of Cook, but gee he almost lost me in that game in the SANFL finals where he kept avoiding body contact and chose not to go when it was his time. Needs to toughen up a bit..

I agree I was all aboard the Cook train {Panthers lad} but everyone would have to acknowledge that 2022 was very disappointing for him. He was given some taste of AFL but had no impact and then finished extremely poorly in the SANFL finals. Needs to work hard next year to reach his potential.

 

[GameofSloanes]

We need an 18 year old ruck not another Stachan

Surely we'd be looking at keeler

 

[GameofSloanes]

What we need to do is a rule a line through players who can't execute the skills required to play the preferred game plan then. What we do though is stick with the continuity method and adjust game plan to suit the current group that gives us the best chance for the smallest loss. Why bother building competitiveness in players who ultimately don't have the skills.

Can't delist 15 guys at once though

 

[Mutineer]

Surely we'd be looking at keeler

Well and truly beaten by Glenelg's Kynan Dunn in ruck in last night's U18's Grand Final.

For mine Keeler is a Forward and at best a chop out ruck.

 

[crow2crow]

Well and truly beaten by Glenelg's Kynan Dunn in ruck in last night's U18's Grand Final.

For mine Keeler is a Forward and at best a chop out ruck.

hmm far less appealing then...

 

[ad victoriam]

There's almost no media dollars in the draft? But yes agree it is here to stay

Mate, there are a lot of media Dollars in the Draft. Primetime TV generates income. and becoming a two day event increases the value of the TV rites,
All the pop-up reporting generated = dollars in ads.
AFL makes money on the draft.

 

[FR0GGY]

Mate, there are a lot of media Dollars in the Draft. Primetime TV generates income. and becoming a two day event increases the value of the TV rites,
All the pop-up reporting generated = dollars in ads.
AFL makes money on the draft.

Compared to the rest of the revenue made it would be less than a drop in the ocean.