Prediction Changes vs. Brisbane

[Spadge]

PRESSURE

ACTS

 

[Doctor Feel]

PRESSURE

ACTS

So that's what the monogram stands for on our merch. I was wondering that.

 

[Adz2332]

Im sick of picking what they think is the best 22 and fitting them in positions for the sake of it
Boaks not a hff. sam gray isnt a small forward. Trengove isnt a tall forward. Etc
Play players where they should be played. If u cant drop them and play genuine forwards or what not.
Dont pick 22 players u think are the best and try n find roles for them

 

[Magus]

Im sick of picking what they think is the best 22 and fitting them in positions for the sake of it
Boaks not a hff. sam gray isnt a small forward. Trengove isnt a tall forward. Etc
Play players where they should be played. If u cant drop them and play genuine forwards or what not.
Dont pick 22 players u think are the best and try n find roles for them

Exactly this, plus Hartlett isn't a defender.

 

[Sleezy]

Both also share the philosophy that if there are 17 coaches standing in one corner they will go stand in the other.

When eventually proven right they'll go down as geniuses!

Alastair Clarkson: builds a unique gameplan, wins 4 flags.

Damien Hardwick: Copies successful gameplans from other teams, yet to win a final.

Say what you like about ken - he is all in. If he's not good enough, so be it. At least he tried to win the whole shebang intead of settling for making up the numbers.

 

[*PAF]

Alastair Clarkson invents a unique gameplan?

Unless I have been watching some other sport, Hawthorn under Clarkson is the team tbat structure wise resembles Jack's teams of old week in week out.

Tall forward gets injured, tall player replaces him up forward. Tall back is injured. Tall player comes in down back.

No tricky shit there. Just solid uncompromiaing structured footy.


EDIT: Not sure about the whole shebang either.Our fear of losing sponsors gets in the way of that.
If we were going for it we would be replacing fringe players who have already reached their peak with slighly inferior players who are yet to reach their peak, but have a higher ceiling potential wise.

 

[edgie]

lol leave Janus alone farken. He's alright and at least tries to justify his opinions. Eccentric, but he never bad mouths any other posters which is better than me, and many others.

I do believe he badmouthed me once, but I guess that's par for the course.

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[Sleezy]

Alastair Clarkson invents a unique gameplan?

Unless I have been watching some other sport, Hawthorn under Clarkson is the team tbat structure wise resembles Jack's teams of old week in week out.

Tall forward gets injured, tall player replaces him up forward. Tall back is injured. Tall player comes in down back.

No tricky shit there. Just solid uncompromiaing structured footy.


EDIT: Not sure about the whole shebang either.Our fear of losing sponsors gets in the way of that.
If we were going for it we would be replacing fringe players who have already reached their peak with slighly inferior players who are yet to reach their peak, but have a higher ceiling potential wise.

I can't say i ever watched port in the SANFL, but i doubt they ever employed Clarko's cluster.

He won a flag with those tactics in 2008 (defeatimg one of the great sides of this century), and built on them to create a sustainable game plan that many tried and failed to emulate, resulting in 3 more falgs from 2013-15.

It doesn't hurt to admit that Clarko is a great coach.

Is Hinkley Clarko? No, of course not. 2014 was our chance to snag a flag with a tactical advantage over a great team and we blew it.

We've since been trying to develop that sustainable game plan, with less success.

Will he ever get there? Probably not - and that is probably due to both personnel and coaching failures.

But I'd much prefer that Hinkley follow his own path towards success and fail than do what Hardwick has done so far in try to copy better teams in an effort to compete and not wven manage that.

There was an Aussie ocean swimmer at the Rio Olympics. He knew he wasn't good enough to win in a straight race. He struck out from the first kilometer and tried to build a big enough lead to break the contenders and hold on to the finish. He ended up coming about 20th. But he ****ing went for it. Go hard or go home. Gotta respect that.

 

[240volt]

I feel something building up......time to go to the toilet.

 

[PowerLil]

"He's actually been pretty close to probably the best player I would have thought throughout the SANFL season. I reckon if you stopped it now and had a look, you'd say Jake, if it was a best and fairest count, he'd be right at the top of it, I think. He's (played) pretty consistent footy. What I've liked the most is his pressure - it's been right back to an elite level over the last four to five weeks. He averages up around 9 to 10 tackles a game, and that's what we need in our side. We play our best footy when we defend really hard and aggressively together. Jake will help us do that."

"It's an interesting one with Dougal, because we did send him back for quite a period early when he was coming back through the SANFL - we played a lot of centre half back, full back type positions, so we were very careful about giving him the opportunity to play just a little more straighter line football. And now we've made the decision two weeks ago to push him back to where we think his future looks and we want, and that is to play a little bit more in the forward line, and last week was a great step forward for Doogs and he's progressed really...he's clearly nearly ready."

"It's just a consistency - he hasn't played much forward line footy. It's a team balance thing for us - do we have three talls in our front half? Does Jacko go back? We are going to trust what we've done over the whole of preseason and the first eleven weeks of the year."

That's all well and good Ken but the win/loss count is 6/5 and we still haven't beaten a legitimate top side for quite a while. We were 6/5 this time last year.

 

[*PAF]

I can't say i ever watched port in the SANFL, but i doubt they ever employed Clarko's cluster.

He won a flag with those tactics in 2008 (defeatimg one of the great sides of this century), and built on them to create a sustainable game plan that many tried and failed to emulate, resulting in 3 more falgs from 2013-15.

It doesn't hurt to admit that Clarko is a great coach.

Is Hinkley Clarko? No, of course not. 2014 was our chance to snag a flag with a tactical advantage over a great team and we blew it.

We've since been trying to develop that sustainable game plan, with less success.

Will he ever get there? Probably not - and that is probably due to both personnel and coaching failures.

But I'd much prefer that Hinkley follow his own path towards success and fail than do what Hardwick has done so far in try to copy better teams in an effort to compete and not wven manage that.

There was an Aussie ocean swimmer at the Rio Olympics. He knew he wasn't good enough to win in a straight race. He struck out from the first kilometer and tried to build a big enough lead to break the contenders and hold on to the finish. He ended up coming about 20th. But he ******* went for it. Go hard or go home. Gotta respect that.

Clarko's cluster? TV buzzword for forcing teams to go wide.

 

[rogerjames]

"He's actually been pretty close to probably the best player I would have thought throughout the SANFL season. I reckon if you stopped it now and had a look, you'd say Jake, if it was a best and fairest count, he'd be right at the top of it, I think. He's (played) pretty consistent footy. What I've liked the most is his pressure - it's been right back to an elite level over the last four to five weeks. He averages up around 9 to 10 tackles a game, and that's what we need in our side. We play our best footy when we defend really hard and aggressively together. Jake will help us do that."

"It's an interesting one with Dougal, because we did send him back for quite a period early when he was coming back through the SANFL - we played a lot of centre half back, full back type positions, so we were very careful about giving him the opportunity to play just a little more straighter line football. And now we've made the decision two weeks ago to push him back to where we think his future looks and we want, and that is to play a little bit more in the forward line, and last week was a great step forward for Doogs and he's progressed really...he's clearly nearly ready."

"It's just a consistency - he hasn't played much forward line footy. It's a team balance thing for us - do we have three talls in our front half? Does Jacko go back? We are going to trust what we've done over the whole of preseason and the first eleven weeks of the year."

I've seen a number of Maggie games and Neade was terrible in them turning the ball over continuously. He's improved in the last 2 weeks for sure and on his best form he is an important player for us but he's been nowhere near that until recently. He's actually a big disappointment due to his inconsistency. Not sure he wants it enough to succeed at afl level.

 

[rogerjames]

The best way to be a defensive forward is win the ball and score.

wtf is the gameplan? kick it forward, then when they get the ball, we will scramble around and put pressure on and hope for a turnover.
If we could hit someone on a ****in lead we wouldn't need 4 defensive forwards.

How dare you be so logical. Didn't you know this is a very complicated game. Scrambling is so much fun and confuses the opposition.

 

[Power Raid]

I'm warming to the Neade selection

 

[Grandaddy J]

I think the point a lot of people are missing re: Neade is that the vitriol isn't so much directed towards him, more so the fact that he's being promoted to the side when we've already got perennial midget plodders in S. Gary and Impey in the squad. Not to mention DBJ has been fairly average this year and Young is seriously lucky to be back in the side after only a week out.

We're carrying far, far too many low-ceiling footballers in this team, and instead of trying something new and making a few hard calls Ken and co. seem to be content with towing the mediocrity line.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I haven't seen a sanfl game since the Rd 6 game v Eagles at Alberton but I watched live in the flesh 4 of the first 6 games and the crows game about 3/4 on TV and the 3 of the trial games and what I wrote below after the Rd 1 game down at the Bay summed up what I had seen in those games. I dont know how much he has improved, but I would hope its plenty. I guess he wont be playing in a tall forward line today.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/glenelg-vs-port-adelaide-round-1-glenelg.1161904/page-24
Neade - another one who has to visit Todd Sampson and retrain his brain. I don't know if it was the BS Ken has programmed him to play deep in the AFL side in 2013-15 years and have to compete against 195cm players but the kid doesn't know where to place himself when the ball is kicked to a pack to crumb and then have a ping on goals. With a likely regular forward line of Marshall, Ladhams and Frampton, he should be licking his lips at the opportunities coming his way if he learnt to play front and centre. Did a few nice things and kicked a good goal from the boundary but doesn't do enough. Will struggle to play AFL this year but he is Kenny's favourite so who really knows.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I do believe he badmouthed me once, but I guess that's par for the course.

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Everyone badmouths you edgie, carn.

 

[edgie]

Everyone badmouths you edgie, carn.

Par, course.

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[GremioPower]

I didn't need to say anything.

Do not destroy our fantasy! Let us imagine what happened...

 

[Finest of Wines]

Why do we plah impey, neade, sam gray in the same forward line??? Play a farwkn tall to help dixon, its ridiculous