Opinion (Bring in Didak) - Keep Didak in?

[blaze036]

Why not? If we had scored 6 more goals we would have won. I think we botched a lot more than 6 opportunities through sloppy entries. Taking away their 2 umpire gift-wrapped goals we only needed 4 more goals. Ppl say you can't beat Dawks in a shoot-out, I say why not? With our current team and set-ups I think that's the only way we can beat them.

Any coach will tell you defense wins premierships.. you can't let hawks kick well over 100 points and expect to beat them anymore than once in a blue moon

When people look at krakouer or didak they look at their offense and say wow look how good their offense is! what some armchair critics forget is that a hard gut busting chase in the forward pocket can save a goal down field, saving a goal is just as important as kicking a goal.

Didak and Krakouer's defense is not up to scratch, bucks can see that, that's why they aren't in the team. We need players who work hard both ways to win a premiership, we can't fill up the team with guys like dywer seedsmen krakouer didak elliot ect and expect our defense to hold come September.

 

[rose jam]

We need this

 

[aflife]

Half of me says i would love to see him play again the other half says we are just stopping a kid from getting a game for a bloke who probably won't play next year

 

[DermiesLuvChild]

Any coach will tell you defense wins premierships.. you can't let hawks kick well over 100 points and expect to beat them anymore than once in a blue moon

When people look at krakouer or didak they look at their offense and say wow look how good their offense is! what some armchair critics forget is that a hard gut busting chase in the forward pocket can save a goal down field, saving a goal is just as important as kicking a goal.

Didak and Krakouer's defense is not up to scratch, bucks can see that, that's why they aren't in the team. We need players who work hard both ways to win a premiership, we can't fill up the team with guys like dywer seedsmen krakouer didak elliot ect and expect our defense to hold come September.

Didak agrees !

 

[blaze036]

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Didak agrees !

I wouldn't of said this in 2010 when Didak was a superstar.

It's 2013, get with the times. Through age and injuries Didak is a shadow of his former self, that's hard to hear but it is fact

 

[DermiesLuvChild]

I wouldn't of said this in 2010 when Didak was a superstar.

It's 2013, get with the times. Through age and injuries Didak is a shadow of his former self, that's hard to hear but it is fact

Fact...absolute 100% pure BS.

 

[Bring_Back_Brad]

Any coach will tell you defense wins premierships.. you can't let hawks kick well over 100 points and expect to beat them anymore than once in a blue moon

When people look at krakouer or didak they look at their offense and say wow look how good their offense is! what some armchair critics forget is that a hard gut busting chase in the forward pocket can save a goal down field, saving a goal is just as important as kicking a goal.

Didak and Krakouer's defense is not up to scratch, bucks can see that, that's why they aren't in the team. We need players who work hard both ways to win a premiership, we can't fill up the team with guys like dywer seedsmen krakouer didak elliot ect and expect our defense to hold come September.

So who are our forwards who can run both ways?

 

[blaze036]

Fact...absolute 100% pure BS.

Okay mate.. so you are saying Didak is currently as good as he was in 2010? Or slightly below that?

Let's get real and stop looking at didak through rose colored glasses

 

[blaze036]

So who are our forwards who can run both ways?

Blair Sidebottom goldsack.. guys like that

 

[Bring_Back_Brad]

Blair Sidebottom goldsack.. guys like that

Goldsack has been playing in the back line.
Sidebottom and Blair rarely take up forward positions.
You don't know what you're talking about.

 

[blaze036]

Goldsack has been playing in the back line.
Sidebottom and Blair rarely take up forward positions.
You don't know what you're talking about.

Oh boy.. i was giving possible examples, not stating they are our current forwards

 

[DermiesLuvChild]

Okay mate.. so you are saying Didak is currently as good as he was in 2010? Or slightly below that?

Let's get real and stop looking at didak through rose colored glasses

Make up your mind Buddy!
You start off with posting about defensive pressure, then suddenly pull out the "too old no longer up to it" card. You are all over the shop.
I wonder what your next BS post will be?

 

[blaze036]

Make up your mind Buddy!
You start off with posting about defensive pressure, then suddenly pull out the "too old no longer up to it" card. You are all over the shop.
I wonder what your next BS post will be?

Um...

wut...

Defensive pressure lacking is related to players slowing down with age... seriously confusing post

but i guess i'm saying Didak is no longer a superstar so you should bash me

 

[Hva sher a]

Dids has always been a defensive liability we all know that. But he is still one of the best kicks at the club and his pinpoint disposal skills and the x factor he provides has a place in the side. Agree that he's no longer at vintage 2010 level but he still requires a good defender to play on him.

 

[ksardog]

If its a contest between didak and blair, its dids easily. Better user of the ball, creates far more, can read it off a pack and makes our forward line look dangerous.

The only thing blair does better than didak is tackle and pressure acts.

If didak can get the ball 15-20 times a day i would take that in a heartbeat. We need x factor in our forward line, he provides that in bucket loads

 

[maace]

I agree, 34 touches and 1.4 (I think?) in the VFL suggests that he's back in the kind of form which could be very useful to the senior side, especially if it can be carried into September...

As everyone who has any involvement in match committee always says, if you perform you will get picked.

1.5 actually mate.. just imagine had it been 5.1, would've been his best match in the past 2 years.

Agreed that he should come back in, and I really really hope he can get back to his 2010 form for next year.. It would definitely be a good thing for him to end his career on his own terms

 

[THATSGOLD]

Hows his sick mate going? Surely he wont be able to play missing training and meetings.

 

[Jelly Bean]

I don't see a reason not to give him another go.

He's been a great player for the club. He could really lift the side if he came in with some form. However, I think that TD might be right about Kennedy being in before Didak, which would be a mistake if we're missing Elliot for finals games.

For a small forward role, Didak is miles in front of Kennedy. For an inside mid role, Kennedy is miles in front of Didak. Kennedy's better games have been when he is played in the midfield.

If it is to replace Elliott's spot on the ground, it is a no contest between Dids and Kennedy. The real competition may come from Martin.

 

[Jelly Bean]

Any coach will tell you defense wins premierships.. you can't let hawks kick well over 100 points and expect to beat them anymore than once in a blue moon

When people look at krakouer or didak they look at their offense and say wow look how good their offense is! what some armchair critics forget is that a hard gut busting chase in the forward pocket can save a goal down field, saving a goal is just as important as kicking a goal.

Didak and Krakouer's defense is not up to scratch, bucks can see that, that's why they aren't in the team. We need players who work hard both ways to win a premiership, we can't fill up the team with guys like dywer seedsmen krakouer didak elliot ect and expect our defense to hold come September.

A tackle in our F50 doesn't save a goal. It saves a disposal. A number of perfect disposals are required across the entire length of the field before the opposition kicks a goal from a missed tackle in the F50. So it only contributes a VERY small amount to a goal benefit for us. On the other hand, a goal from them is a full goal. And they tend to set up goals as well.

It is like picking someone for their one percenters instead of picking someone for their 99 percenters.

P.S The defensive pressure in the forward line is less about saving goals upfield and more about keeping the ball in our forwardline and therefore creating goal opportunities for us.

 

[forwardflanker]

Blair Sidebottom goldsack.. guys like that

Sidebottom has hardly played forward line this season. Blair runs hard defensively but he gives about as much to our attack as Didak gives to our defence. He has contributed nothing other than defensive pressure and tackles all season.

Giving Didak a game this week doesn't lock him in for finals. What it does do is give him a ton of incentive to do the 1 percenters that he has failed to do in the best; and if he doesn't then he know he'll be dropped. It would be stupid not to give him the opportunity imo, he also deserves the chance for what he has contributed to the club over the last decade.

 

[forwardflanker]

A tackle in our F50 doesn't save a goal. It saves a disposal. A number of perfect disposals are required across the entire length of the field before the opposition kicks a goal from a missed tackle in the F50. So it only contributes a VERY small amount to a goal benefit for us. On the other hand, a goal from them is a full goal. And they tend to set up goals as well.

It is like picking someone for their one percenters instead of picking someone for their 99 percenters.

P.S The defensive pressure in the forward line is less about saving goals upfield and more about keeping the ball in our forwardline and therefore creating goal opportunities for us.

+1, and I'd go as far to argue that our emphasis on defending at the front is one of the reasons why we have struggled against Hawthorn and to a lessor extent Sydney the last couple of seasons. We have way to many players committed to our forward press to allow them to move the ball out of our forward half so easily, and of course when they do they score so easily because they have players like Franklin, Roughhead, gunston, Rioli, Bruest running into the space which is almost impossible to defend 1v1. The way we defend is always going to run into difficulty against the higher skilled sides on a ground as big as the MCG - it's just too difficult to defend from the front with that amount of space behind imo. Especially when our midfielders can be exposed running the other way

 

[4QTRTIME]

Why does he deserve a game over Martin ... Anyone?

Can't believe the amount of people who forget about Martins performances he has far put performed Didak, Kennedy etc over the past month. He deserves his chance again.

 

[Cousin of Daicos]

Not much to lose.

A few were off enough against the Hawks to warrant a week off.

 

[DaVe86]

I'd give him the shot. I think we've blooded enough kids this year and a guy like Didak deserves a crack considering his VFL form has been good. He would be the ideal sub for finals I reckon

 

[THATSGOLD]

Will he train???