Clearances

[GPW1]

how bloody good were we at the clearances tonight? smashed them in it. judd and stevo hitting some form, kruezer helping out at ground level, and hadley at the bottom of the pack. this is the biggest "team" positive we can take away from tonight.

 

[one eyed bluey]

yep definately agree, I really like Hadleys game tonight he was really tough and put his head over the ball in the middle. Judd was super unfortunately he cant do it by himself, stevo was good but then faded. Simpson,scotland,carrazzo all out of form from what i saw tonight.
Kreuzer was a huge poistive tonight!! I thought he was nearly our best tonight, he really rallys the team with his 1%'s and skill.

Did you see him chase down Lovett?? Impressive

 

[DaveyBlues]

Gotta say tho, when the ball hit the ground from a ruck contest i felt as if Essendon ran away with all the hard gets from the bottom of the pack. Am i the only 1? Its in contrast to last week, whenever there was a hard ball to get I noticed we got it pretty consistently.

 

[GPW1]

Simpson,scotland,carrazzo all out of form from what i saw tonight.

not bagging them, but they are all receivers. scotland and carrazzo seemed to be playing different roles to what we saw last year.

 

[AlecDuncan]

We smashed the Bombers at clearances. However Essendon cleaned up at half-back and rebounded most of their goals because we still fall down at CHF. We don't have much answer to that at this stage, but the other pieces are falling into place.

Hopefully we can fix CHF at the end of the year.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

100 jillion on the 'clearances'
A total nonsense against the other stuff.

Nerd stuff gone crazy.

Give me a break.

 

[GPW1]

We smashed the Bombers at clearances. However Essendon cleaned up at half-back and rebounded most of their goals because we still fall down at CHF. We don't have much answer to that at this stage, but the other pieces are falling into place.

Hopefully we can fix CHF at the end of the year.

gonna be too late if its fixed at the end of the year

 

[av76]

Gotta say tho, when the ball hit the ground from a ruck contest i felt as if Essendon ran away with all the hard gets from the bottom of the pack. Am i the only 1? Its in contrast to last week, whenever there was a hard ball to get I noticed we got it pretty consistently.

Yep....they out did us at rebound footy...we had the big bodies and talent at the clearances but they waited and got us with their speed going the other way when we couldn't hold it in the forward line. I feel if we had played one-on-one accountable footy - rather than going for a shoot out - with our dominance in the centre we would have won. And yes we need a CHF!
One good thing about tonight, Hadley and Judd hit their straps and showed us what they can do. The good thing about Judd is that once he is fit he will play that well or better every week!

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Nerd crap.

 

[one eyed bluey]

not bagging them, but they are all receivers. scotland and carrazzo seemed to be playing different roles to what we saw last year.

Yep they were dissapointing tonight, carrazzo played ok early on but then went missing for most of the game and disposal was shithouse,
simpson is just shockingly out of form I dont know what's happened to him....scotland was "ok" tonight i think his getting better.

Murphy played well.

 

[HBF]

We smashed the Bombers at clearances. However Essendon cleaned up at half-back and rebounded most of their goals because we still fall down at CHF. We don't have much answer to that at this stage, but the other pieces are falling into place.

Hopefully we can fix CHF at the end of the year.

Hartlett will be available for selection next week, and I still like the idea of having Cloke rotate through there as well.

 

[bakerboy]

how bloody good were we at the clearances tonight? smashed them in it. judd and stevo hitting some form, kruezer helping out at ground level, and hadley at the bottom of the pack. this is the biggest "team" positive we can take away from tonight.

Yeah we get it but can't use it?

 

[AlecDuncan]

Hartlett will be available for selection next week, and I still like the idea of having Cloke rotate through there as well.

Yeah, but is Hartlett the answer? I agree he's the obvious guy to play there, but so far he's shown little. A CHF is more than just a tall marking target, and so far he's not even that.

I can't see Cloke at CHF - he's not mobile enough, or a good enough kick. Plus he's not a long-term option with that shoulder.

The only other prospect on our list is Austin, and I say that only because I don't know he can't play there, rather than anything he's shown so far.

Every year there'll be something left to do with list management, and this year it's a CHF.

 

[len_jet]

Yeah, but is Hartlett the answer? I agree he's the obvious guy to play there, but so far he's shown little. A CHF is more than just a tall marking target, and so far he's not even that.

I can't see Cloke at CHF - he's not mobile enough, or a good enough kick. Plus he's not a long-term option with that shoulder.

The only other prospect on our list is Austin, and I say that only because I don't know he can't play there, rather than anything he's shown so far.

Every year there'll be something left to do with list management, and this year it's a CHF.

I would prefer Austin at CHB... Hartlett will be the answer as he will only demand a third string defender... Teams will look to cover fish and fev first, possibly double fev and then harlett should come into it a lot better. Dropping and resting Kreuzer and Cloke down there will be good at times too.

our list management issues lie with our backline... tonight we scored enough to win nearly any AFL match... we just conceeded WAY too many points!

 

[james Dean]

I would prefer Austin at CHB... Hartlett will be the answer as he will only demand a third string defender... Teams will look to cover fish and fev first, possibly double fev and then harlett should come into it a lot better. Dropping and resting Kreuzer and Cloke down there will be good at times too.

our list management issues lie with our backline... tonight we scored enough to win nearly any AFL match... we just conceeded WAY too many points!

Austin!?! Has he even played a good game for the Ants yet?

 

[NWTYRX]

As Ratts said, we smashed them inside, but we got smashed outside

 

[walshy93]

our list management issues lie with our backline... tonight we scored enough to win nearly any AFL match... we just conceeded WAY too many points!

Completely agree here. Apart from the fact that their forwarsd didn't do as much scoring as their midfielders. I see our problem that we cant stick to our man when they get clearances, they seem to handball it backwards, then they have a diagonal line of them whisking it away. This happened in the first half and last quater.

I think midfielders still need to stick like glue. It has been worrying m for a long time now, we think we need to be tagged, and it leaves 3 or 4 of them free.

 

[AlecDuncan]

Completely agree here. Apart from the fact that their forwarsd didn't do as much scoring as their midfielders. I see our problem that we cant stick to our man when they get clearances, they seem to handball it backwards, then they have a diagonal line of them whisking it away. This happened in the first half and last quater.

It starts at the Half Forward line. Essendon didn't get many clearances. Most of their opportunities were created with run off half-back. We need someone who can consistently take contested marks at CHF to prevent those spills which favour teams playing spare men.