Fair enough, but you've only got to look at the poll to see that Crows supporters felt Berry and Soligo were in our top 3 and Rachele was in our bottom 3.
The modelling that graph is based on is pretty flawed imo.
Review Good/Bad vs Melbourne, R16 2022
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The modelling that graph is based on is pretty flawed imo.
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Yes, backwards handball ... or it's the blind bomb-kick forward.
Compare that to the Dees; they structure up until after one or at most 2 handballs out of a clearance, they find a man in space (not under pressure) who can lower his eyes and kick forward with a teammate in mind.
Oliver <==> Petracca <==> Langdon, again and again.
They have uncanny knowledge of where their teammates are. Yes, that comes from the experience of playing many games together, but it's also from structure and discipline and practice ie good coaching.
It's very rare for the Crows to go handball/handball outside to a player in the clear running forward for quick delivery to another player on a lead.
And same as Murphy. That's why he fluke those difficult goal and pass but always miss the easy one.
He tried those a few times but not enough.
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This is 1000000% where we are at with selection of this spud
Was that the play where he didn't contesting the mark when the Melbourne player marked the ball uncontested 10m out and goal directly costing us 2 goals within 5 minutes of play.
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I don't think they are "effort" clappers. Aren't they applauding the outcome?
eg Supporters don't applaud the leap (effort), but the mark or spoil oob (result); they don't applaud the snap (if it misses), but the goal. The run-down (effort) is not applauded, unless the bloke with the ball is caught. There's always light applause after a good tackle (effort) but only if it nails the bloke with the ball or, better, gets a htb decision, and so on.
What aggravates me is the posters on here who rave about 'effort' as if it's some wondrous quality in and of itself.
It's not.
Effort is a base-limit, not-negotiable minimum and should be expected from every player, every contest.
(afterthought: I don't doubt that Murphy made an "effort" yesterday; he's a scrappy, try-hard little tough nut, but the outcome/result was awful. Nicks' decision to play him --- and scrappy trier McHenry when selected --- on the basis of effort and "experience" and not outcome (ie impact) is the kind of thing that makes me doubt him as a Coach. We've seen enough of Murphy to know that the effort is there, but he's not a small forward's ahole.
Would we have lost by more if Newchurch was playing and not Murphy? I doubt it).
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TRADE for one, so that we don't have to wait 3-4 years for the kid to be elite.
Work out which one of JHF, Rankine or Lukosius or another that we really want and throw a pile of money at him.
Speaking of throwing a pile of money at someone, I hope the Crows will be eyeing off Goodwin after Melbourne tapers off
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Yeah, he had an angle to at least attempt a spoil, but instead positioned himself for a chest mark.
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This is where senior players and the Leadership group have to step up on the ground pre-game and make sure their teammates are switched on.
The answer to your other 3 questions is: bad coaching.
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I thought the first half was excellent (except for our forward deliveries which were marked far too often by Dees interceptions). A good game of footy.
It seemed to me that Melbourne turned it up a notch in the third, especially defensively (we kicked only 1.2). Had they kicked 5.4 or 6.3 instead of 3.6, we'd have been in big trouble, 27 or 32 points down.
Then, when we got close again in the last, they were able to turn up the heat and pull away for a good win to them.
Excellent teams and solo players (eg in tennis) seem able to do that. They moderate their effort to suit the conditions/opposition and have something in reserve when threatened, especially against a much weaker opponent.
Were they 'toying' with us? No, well, I don't think so, but every time we got close they pulled away again.
Horrible 5 minutes from him having been solid up until that 3 quarter.
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Here are a few comments I posted from the last G/B/U thread I posted in (vGold Coast).
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A lot seem to be giving up on Pedlar who hasn't yet got AFL fit being a year behind in the AFL system.
less about fitness and ability, more about being able to stay uninjured.
The fitter you get the less soft tissue injuries you get, basic football knowledge.
They're giving up on him because he keeps breaking down. Nasty ones too. Ankles, shoulders, groins etc. Don't think anyone is arguing he lacks talent but his body just isn't holding up to the rigors of AFL. I had hoped Burgess would turns things around for him but some players are just cursed.
The fitter you get the less soft tissue injuries you get, basic football knowledge.
how many soft tissue injuries though? So far I know he came with a shoulder and has had an ankle, haven't heard of groin or hammy problems. But may have missed it. That said, you're wrong on nearly everything, so this is probably just another example of that.
The backwards handball is infuriating and obviously a clear Nick's directive. The funny thing is that no other AFL coach is directing their players to do it. It's first instinct stuff and has been ingrained into our DNA so it's going to take a while to get this out of our game. The other thing I notice is that we do inside backwards handball instead of using handball to get the ball outside of congestion. Even Dawson at one point did the 3 metre handball inside to even more congestion instead of getting the ball out to space and runners. The top sides such as Richmond always get the handball out of congestion to space and not in it.
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As an aside, Melbourne have a great record at Adelaide Oval.
Overall their record against both sides is 9 wins 5 losses and against they have won 5 and only lost 2.
Overall their record against both sides is 9 wins 5 losses and against they have won 5 and only lost 2.
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Groin. No need to apologies since you haven't for the other times I've corrected your post.
You've never corrected anything, you're almost always wrong. As I said I may have missed it and then went on to correctly state how wrong you normally are. Why would I apologise for that?
Melbourne weren't exactly playing there best football and with their rucks out it was a prime opportunity to knock them off. We currently make to many errors to take advantage of such opportunities and our kicking is nowhere near AFL standard to punish teams.
