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Thoroughly enjoying this season so far. Boy do we have a tough stint ahead though. Do us proud fellas.
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yep. for the first time I looked up our fixture ahead. Some tough games to the bye. Will be interesting to see how we go.Thoroughly enjoying this season so far. Boy do we have a tough stint ahead though. Do us proud fellas.
Last year we were regularly fielding a side with 4-5 players under 10 games. This year the majority of our team have 3-4 preseasons under their belt. This was a big reason Coyler and Conca were brought in.
You are right.its actually not though lol, we need a cogs or kelly who has more attacking power! deadset reckon we need neither if Blakely can do what we know he can! Blakely has the potential to be a josh kennedy (swans) type!
Next 5 games are so clutch.
Adelaide away
Tigers home
Essendon away
Lions home
Collingwood away
We could play well in all of those games and lose every one. Some untimely returns to form for some of those teams also.
I'd be happy if we could at least win 2 of those 5 and still have more wins than losses at the bye.
Next 5 games are so clutch.
Adelaide away
Tigers home
Essendon away
Lions home
Collingwood away
We could play well in all of those games and lose every one. Some untimely returns to form for some of those teams also.
I'd be happy if we could at least win 2 of those 5 and still have more wins than losses at the bye.
Richmond do play well in Perth. They beat us a number of times here. That will.be a very tough game.We should be able to win both our home games. Richmond don't play that well in Perth traditionally - didn't travel well at all last year, and we should also be able to beat Brisbane.
I think we can win at least one of the other 3. Let's start with Adelaide - I think we can cover their forwards if we break even in the midfield, and we have a lot of different options in attack. Let's hope it doesn't get too dewy in Adelaide though.
I don’t know what’s happened at the club since preseason to change us so much but I like it and hope it continues.
If we’re confident and brave, we should beat Adelaide. Get it it’s Adelaide Oval, but no reason why we can’t do it now. They’re not great atm. Gold Coast and St Kilda.Next 5 games are so clutch.
Adelaide away
Tigers home
Essendon away
Lions home
Collingwood away
We could play well in all of those games and lose every one. Some untimely returns to form for some of those teams also.
I'd be happy if we could at least win 2 of those 5 and still have more wins than losses at the bye.
**** it, we have a team capable of playing finals this year, and that's honestly what I think we'll do. I haven't felt this good about our team for 4-5 years, we're a team that can make the top 8, and is likely capable of snatching some finals games. The team is seemingly starting to gel together, all we need is Blakely now to truly give this team a full strength crack. In terms of our next 5 I honestly think it'll be
Adelaide- win
Richmond- win
Essendon- lose
Brisbane- win
Collingwood- lose
I only put us losing to Essendon because we'll probably drop one of our away games but ideally we should be beating all those teams except Collingwood realistically.
Are clearances per se an issue for us this year? I think we have been doing ok. I've also seen comments that Lobb was "beaten" by English, but I didn't see it that way (really like how English is shaping up by the way). Your point re Grundy and the Collingwood midfield is well made.I post this here because someone mentioned getting pantsed by Grundy. Perhaps it belongs in the stats section.
Yesterday what made me nervous was our inability to win clearances. We, surprisingly, won the hit outs but lost center clearances. Most significantly when we struggled in Q3 it was on the back of poor center clearances.
Why this is interesting to me is that the commentary of the Collingwood game had Grundy dominating hit outs but Collingwood convincingly loosing the centre clearances to 3qtr time. For such a good midfield it’s a surprising weekness
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I watched the replay. Libba focused on sharking taps to Fyfe. That's why we need second (Barra) and third (Blakely) options for Lobb to tap to otherwise other teams will just copy.I post this here because someone mentioned getting pantsed by Grundy. Perhaps it belongs in the stats section.
Yesterday what made me nervous was our inability to win clearances. We, surprisingly, won the hit outs but lost center clearances. Most significantly when we struggled in Q3 it was on the back of poor center clearances.
Why this is interesting to me is that the commentary of the Collingwood game had Grundy dominating hit outs but Collingwood convincingly loosing the centre clearances to 3qtr time. For such a good midfield it’s a surprising weekness
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Unfortunately Lobb, while tall, is not a great tap ruckman so he gets his hand to it a lot but isn't necessarily going to put it to the right spaces for our mids. This is where Sean Darcy a "pure' ruckman excels, his taps are generally put into advantageous positions for our midfield. Rory will make a great backup ruckman, but once Sean is fully fit (I don't think he is yet) I'd have him back in the team. It will make us tall with Darcy, Lobb, Taberner and Hogan but with the exception of Darcy they are all quite athletic and reasonably good movers. With rotations there will often be one of them on the bench, and providing we have all our rotations intact we can deliberately play less ground time for them if we need more leg speed.Are clearances per se an issue for us this year? I think we have been doing ok. I've also seen comments that Lobb was "beaten" by English, but I didn't see it that way (really like how English is shaping up by the way). Your point re Grundy and the Collingwood midfield is well made.