2019 Non-Crows AFL Chat #3 - the off-season

[Simmo28]

Great to see north's form tail off just in time to play port..that club is kissed on the you know what

Could work the other way and kick them into gear

 

[dogs105]

Premiers two years later!

We're on the right track

In 2000 they beat us by 19 goals signalling 20 years of futility

AFL Tables - West Coast v Adelaide - Sat, 1-Apr-2000 8:10 PM (10:10 PM) - Match Stats

 

[dogs105]

In 2000 they beat us by 19 goals signalling 20 years of futility

AFL Tables - West Coast v Adelaide - Sat, 1-Apr-2000 8:10 PM (10:10 PM) - Match Stats

Interestingly won the clearances by 21 that day, with Roo and Bicks getting 28 between them. WC only had 35.

 

[SC26]

To cheer us up before the Eagles probably pump us today, let's go back to exactly 1 year ago today....

 

[Anzacpaul]

Yes

Well so much for that. Luckily it was only bonus bets!

 

[GROTTO]

To cheer us up before the Eagles probably pump us today, let's go back to exactly 1 year ago today....

If I was offered for us to lose the game after the siren today, I would take it now.

It would mean we could push reigning premiers/potential grand-finalist 2019/keep our percentage at the same mark.

It would be multiple wins.

 

[jenny61_99]

Melbourne v Collingwood is an atrocious game of football

Has the 6,6,6 changes made football unwatchable? There have been a s**t load of really bad games this year. More than any other that I can recall.

 

[ABAB]

You actually still buy this. I've got a bridge for sale if you are interested.

Depends on the players personality, Cameron looks like he will play a lot better in a less AFL pressure city.

 

[ABAB]

This Essendon team beat us at home

We were 5 goals up and then did our normal s**t in the 2nd half.

 

[ABAB]

You are not serious right? We let him go, simples.

He was a good depth player with us and then M.Crouch went pass him, he developed into a better player at GC and they traded him Brisbane, simple football knowledge isn't it.

 

[GROTTO]

This Essendon team beat us at home

If the Eagles play at their absolute best today, they will comfortably beat us by over 100pts.

 

[The Sloane Ranger]

We were 5 goals up and then did our normal s**t in the 2nd half.

5 goals up against WC, Port, Essendon and Geelong this year and lost all 4 games

 

[MRB37]

Has the 6,6,6 changes made football unwatchable? There have been a s**t load of really bad games this year. More than any other that I can recall.

Think it caused coaches to overload even more on defensive tactics. Look at us, our entire gameplan involves around preventing turnovers that lead to scoring opportunities, which is a massive 180 from Pyke's first two years.

They can change all the rules they want, coaches need to be the ones leading any sort of move towards higher scoring, free flowing games. The only rule change I can think of that would fix that is giving an extra point to teams who win while scoring over 100, however that massively disadvantages younger teams who may not have the offensive players developed to score that highly. The complaint would then probably be it's leading to too many blowouts like when Lepptisch took over Brisbane and tried to get their offensive game working with a bunch of 20 year olds.

 

[jackster83]

We were 5 goals up and then did our normal s**t in the 2nd half.

The first half was really good though. Campo was impressed.

 

[jenny61_99]

Charlie Cameron is All Australian this year, we dropped the ball big time with him

How?

 

[Pea Nut]

He was a good depth player with us and then M.Crouch went pass him, he developed into a better player at GC and they traded him Brisbane, simple football knowledge isn't it.

The Suns dropped him several times for his lack of defensive accountability. Then delisted him.

 

[footy4ever]

Has the 6,6,6 changes made football unwatchable? There have been a s**t load of really bad games this year. More than any other that I can recall.

Yes. I hate it.

 

[Mike Smyth]

Go Doggies.

F**k me, I was just thinking that too, I would love to know when that photo was taken.

3 quarter time, 2017 GF.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Has the 6,6,6 changes made football unwatchable? There have been a s**t load of really bad games this year. More than any other that I can recall.

Evidence says this has completely backfired on Steve Hocking.

 

[footy4ever]

Jesus, even Freo’s Ball movement kills ours at the moment.

 

[footy4ever]

Evidence says this has completely backfired on Steve Hocking.

AFL will never admit it though.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

5 goals up against WC, Port, Essendon and Geelong this year and lost all 4 games

There has been a definite pattern, which won't be fixed whilst the club is in denial that there is a problem.

The message is to be excited about our good half, rather than admit we have a problem running out 4 quarters & we are looking to rectify.

Dropping those players who regularly have poor 2nd halves would be a good start...

 

[Scorpus]

Evidence says this has completely backfired on Steve Hocking.

I was listening to the Trends podcast and they were saying the AFL were happy with the kick-in rule because it's made it fairer for each team in terms of ability to score from the kick-in.

Which of course is not at all what they originally said they aimed to do with that rule.

They also said the only reason scoring is down is because accuracy is down, there have been roughly the same number of shots as previous seasons, so no issues with the 6-6-6 rule at all.

And to cap it all off, because there have been lots of close games the AFL have been really happy overall. Nothing about the quality of games, just that they are close, so that must be good

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

AFL will never admit it though.

Gil is too daft to even realise...

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

To be fair Fagan tailors his game plan around personnel. They make their system play to Charlie's strengths.

Old mate Donathan tries to fit square pegs into round holes. No way he would have become an AA player trying to play the AFC way.

Last final we won he tore it up. Was five or six he kicked in a prelim ?