Inaccuracy

[MWPP]

This is the 5th game already this season that we've lost despite having more scoring shots than the opposition . Is this some kind of record ? and can't see it changing anytime soon . Oh well .

 

[ep2018]

Been happening since forever (like literally a decade).

Inaccurate kicking kept Sydney in the game in the 2006 GF.

Inaccurate kicking cost us the flag in 2005.

It's plagued us for as long as I can remember, it's our club culture.

 

[Quinz]

I guess our form is not as bad as our W/L suggests, but our players struggle under pressure and in pressure games.

As I posted in the GDT, 8 of the last 14 derbies we've had more scoring shots and only won 3 of them.

 

[Eastern Rangers]

The types of shots matter, need more low pressure kicks from easy areas. If they be set shot or on the run, to generate shots like that you need to break up defensive zones and create mismatches and overlap. We don't do it often enough.

 

[The Dodger]

The types of shots matter, need more low pressure kicks from easy areas. If they be set shot or on the run, to generate shots like that you need to break up defensive zones and create mismatches and overlap. We don't do it often enough.

Yeah its no surprises its happened against some of the better teams with good structures that force you wide or keep you under pressure on the run.

 

[Roobs321]

On the bright side, 26 scores against a side like Ross Lyon's Freo seems like a decent effort.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

On the bright side, 26 scores against a side like Ross Lyon's Freo seems like a decent effort.

They didn't have a tall defender bar Dawson, anything else would have been a massive let down.

The more I think about it the more I can't help but think we really ought to have won today.

 

[eaglesfan84]

They didn't have a tall defender bar Dawson, anything else would have been a massive let down.

The more I think about it the more I can't help but think we really ought to have won today.

No doubt about it, Simpson should be pissed, hopefully he realises this team isn't up to AFL GF standard, hopefully he starts ringing the changes and brings the kids in, might find a few players who can handle pressure with clean skills and accurate kicking? Or is that just crazy talk?

 

[Smotie]

On the bright side, 26 scores against a side like Ross Lyon's Freo seems like a decent effort.

As long as we have decent effort thats all that matters...well done boys. Collect your pay.

 

[Smotie]

No doubt about it, Simpson should be pissed, hopefully he realises this team isn't up to AFL GF standard, hopefully he starts ringing the changes and brings the kids in, might find a few players who can handle pressure with clean skills and accurate kicking? Or is that just crazy talk?

This is what needs to happen. Out with the Worsfold era once and for all and his players. ie: McGinnity (although that goal was great).

 

[Matera92]

Mentally soft, none of them have the stones to win, too easy taking the soft option.

Wish I could consistently fail at a basic skill in my job and get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.

 

[lmach]

No doubt about it, Simpson should be pissed, hopefully he realises this team isn't up to AFL GF standard

Pretty sure Simpson isn't an idiot.

 

[Doughboy]

Mentally soft, none of them have the stones to win, too easy taking the soft option.

Wish I could consistently fail at a basic skill in my job and get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Totally agree. If I was as soft at work as the team is on the field, I reckon we would all be lining up at centerlink

 

[eagles rule]

They need to have some sort of motivation whether it be rewards or punishment to the hip pocket.

Any suggestions

 

[ChampRevesby]

They need to have some sort of motivation whether it be rewards or punishment to the hip pocket.

Any suggestions

Its not the fault of the players that they are getting a game, its the fault of the club that allowed them to make it into the list.
It needs a policy change at the club to screen out the crap (like most professional organisations).
This is my suggestion.
1) You must be able to kick to a player >=40m away at full pace on the chest 80-100% of the time or you will not be signed.
2) You must be able to do a 20m sprint in the allotted time for your given size/position or you will not be signed.
3) You must be able to hand ball to a persons chest 90-100% of the time. Not achieving the pass mark means you will not be drafted.
4) You must have a certain minimum average possession, hardball count, %DE over your junior career if you want to be drafted and play in the midfield.
5) If you are in a position to sheppard or tap the ball to advantage and fail to do so results in a reprimand and a chew out by teams mates and staff.

There are not very onerous or outrageous set of criteria for your average AFL player, after all it is a professional sport played by professionals at the top of their chosen career path.

 

[Patron]

Its all mental, Look at kennedy some days he's perfect others he is poo. Our Players rarely want to take the set shot they would rather play on and that says it all.

 

[Fatty rules]

We lost the game in the first ten minutes of the second quarter, missing some very gettable shots. The team is improving, and I think Simpson's stamp is starting to emerge. Showing some heart in the 4th was a welcome sign - we hadn't done that for a long while.

 

[bodazoka]

Forwards are tanking..

 

[ChampRevesby]

Its all mental, Look at kennedy some days he's perfect others he is poo. Our Players rarely want to take the set shot they would rather play on and that says it all.

He is very fragile one on one most of the time although the delivery to advantage has not been great of late.

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Had McGovern kicked that goal from the pocket things might have been very different, but we kicked ourselves out of it in the second term.