BMac was an improvement
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Spewing about the loss. Never good losing, especially to those campaigners.
But jeez there’s some positives out of that game with the way the kids played.
Cracking game of footy too.
The kids on ball were unbelievable around stoppages - so talented, agile, with repeat efforts and really clean possession chains through traffic. Just not the usual hack kicks forward from stoppage we've been used to for so long.
We just had a couple of 5-7 minute patches in the 3rd and 4th quarters when we were out on our feet. Looking across the ground, we just couldn't find the legs to spread and move it from D-50 or run to defend. Understandable with the injuries and younger players.
Goldy didn't look to be moving like his normal self from the very start. We have no fit ruckmen left and he has played sore a lot through his career. Worked his way into it after Draper killed us early.
Watching Ziebell at the ground, his legs looked so heavy in the last quarter and at other times. Looked full on lactic at times, including just before his "out of bounds, on the full" (Nintendo). Looks very slow trying to keep up with long searching leads. Still courageous in the air though and gets across to spoil marking contests.
LMac is a one trick pony. We play him as a lock down defender. Outside of that he contributes very little.He was bog average. Same as last week and the week before.
It's disappointing to lose any day. But at least today they gave us something to get excited about, versus what they dished up during April and May.Just my opinion but it was disappointing to lose today.
In some respects there was a sign of improvement from the umps today, except where Larkey is concerned. Is he a mouthy kind of bloke (not that anything he says should impact the decision of any umpire as to whether or not to pay a free kick if he is infringed)?Larkey has been pushed and tackled without it 400 times today. * off umps.
Good... cos he is a defender... nullified Stringer and Pappley this monthLMac is a one trick pony. We play him as a lock down defender. Outside of that he contributes very little.
Spicers back kick still resulted in a goal as it ended up being kicked back in where stepho got his goalJZ was horrible but so many things cost us the game. Spicer missing that back kick to Hall in the F50, Wardlaw not handballing to Scott and getting caught, Sheez missing and open goal. But these guys have what, less than 20 games between them.
We will only get better and better and we are already we are showing we can match it with the better teams.
Just caught a clip of Brad’s presser on First Crack where he mansplains that they had the younger side out there today, “facts”. What a *stick. I see what everyone meant now.
Yeah maybe look at the facts before you postWow.
There's much wrong with this. First and foremost is that Brad himself gutted the list in 2016 as an "aggressive reset" that had the subtle recruiting strategy of chucking wads of money at whoever might be half interested. When that failed Plan-B was just going to the draft with whatever picks we 'earned' (aka - do nothing). And when that didn't get instant results it was back to Plan-A but lowering the eyes to clog the list with Polec, Hall, Tyson and Pittard. And when that failed Brad went to the board with Plan-C - we need to rebuild. How Brad doesn't see his own culpability in our mess is staggering.
Also - he's wrong. The average NMFC player today was born on March 6, 1998. The average * player today was born nearly two month earlier on January 10, 1998. The median NMFC player (Larkey) was born on June 6, 1998. The median * player (Redman) is 9-months older being born on August 26, 1997. Games wise - on average he's right. NMFC 96 v * 87. And on median NMFC 83 v * 72. But dig a little deeper. The 5 least experienced players on the ground played for NMFC (Sheezel, Ford, Spicer, Bergman & Wardlaw). Take out the three most experienced players from each team (Goldstein, Ziebell, Shiels vs Heppell, Shiel, Merrett) and the average is the same. North had 12 players in the 50-200 games sweet spot. * had 14.
But no matter how you spin it - North were easily the younger side out there today. Brad, not for the first time in a presser, is full of s**t.
They're starting to believeWe gotta be happy with that everyone. Two hard nuts down, they arse a winning goal.
Geez, George & Harry ❤❤
Basics are in place and Ratt's coaching well.
Geez, Tarryn had me in awe at stages.A lot to like. Been the tale of the last three weeks really…
- Hugely positive signs from the young guys, particularly our young mids who have bursted onto the scene in Wardlaw, Phillips & Sheezel
- The improvement from the guys that were previously quite inconsistent, your CCJ’s, Scott’s, Fords
- Rattens ability to tinker things mid flight, like Shiels to Merrett, Tarryn sweeping behind the ball for periods and moving Sheezel up the ground
Then we had a couple additional things happen which made us look even better, one of which being…
- McKay and Logue looked elite together, was always going to take time but today it started to click
- Tarryn is still an absolute freak and brought the genuine X factor star power we’ve lacked
For mine there are still a couple issues which we need to address…
- Our senior players letting us down with basic skill and tackle execution, enough is enough
- Ball use out of the back half, we need to find more Bergmans
- Pressure in the forward half, small pressure forward is about as big a need as we have, would make us a lot better if sides weren’t able to just walk out of our d50
Very positive signs.
Good... cos he is a defender... nullified Stringer and Pappley this month
None of that contradicts him you drongoYeah maybe look at the facts before you post
Yeah maybe look at the facts before you post
Yeah maybe look at the facts before you post
At that size you need dynamic speed and crazy smarts around the goals. He has neither and a turn style could tackle more effectively.Hope you fellas don't mind the intrusion George Wardlaw is going to be a superstar.
But boy oh boy I'm not sure how phoenix spicer is an AFL footballer
4 words. Closer to a flag.
Essendon will be Brad Scott’s next project that will never be good enough.
He is the king of coaching teams that will never be a realistic chance.