Pace & Skill

[Moti]

To extend my comments from above, please insert my comments from the past 12 or 13 years.

 

[shinboner magic]

we are an amateur organisation - same shit for the last 20 years.

The recruiters should be sacked

 

[nelroo]

Id have skill and great decision making under pressure as more important!

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

pace skill and clubrooms 3 things you losers lack

Piss off. Once Shane Crawford and Ben Dixon retire, you guys will be nothing.

 

[tazaa]

To extend my comments from above, please insert my comments from the past 12 or 13 years.

So sad

we are an amateur organisation - same shit for the last 20 years.

The recruiters should be sacked

Find it hard to disagree with this

 

[Arthur Cloke]

What a bump

Brian Pickett like if u ask me.

 

[koshari]

Brian Pickett like if u ask me.

Byrons brother?

 

[Benno_900]

Lol - this is too funny.

 

[shinboner magic]

Lol - this is too funny.

It would be if it wasn't so serious

 

[Devil Fish]

These are the 2 attributes which are now critical to a successful midfield. These players don't have it & the coaching/recruiting staff MUST address the situation:

Kasey Green - Slow & non-skilled. Surely can't play regular seniors next season if we are to improve.
Adam Simpson - Slow & non-skilled. Must be used in defensive/negating roles from now on. His poor disposal, lack of pace & sloppy clearances cost us time & time again.
Eddie Sansbury - Slow & Wasteful. He actually is capable of good disposal but under pressure, it falls apart. Showed his true colours in the finals. Back-up midfielder at best next season.

The BIG issue is when Grant, Sinclair, Swallow & Harris are in the midfield, that means we have 7 SLOW-MID-PACED midfielders. Is it any surprise we get exposed for a lack of pace through the midfield against the top teams (we only had 1 win from 6 games against the other prelim finallists this season)?

PACE, PACE & MORE PACE. This must be the emphasis for next season.

11 years later and NOTHING has ####### changed.
Finally seeing Swallow leave our midfield, I was hoping that maybe someone at the club finally realised that pace through the midfield is PARAMOUNT. But I was wrong. Lets inject Dumont, Ahern, LDU, Morgan, Murphy, Zurhaar etc. into the midfield. On top of Luke Mac, J Mac & Wright in defence.
I've had a gutful of teams smashing us with run/spread.

If I have to bump this thread in 11 years, punches will be thrown.

 

[naturally north]

11 years later and NOTHING has ####### changed.
Finally seeing Swallow leave our midfield, I was hoping that maybe someone at the club finally realised that pace through the midfield is PARAMOUNT. But I was wrong. Lets inject Dumont, Ahern, LDU, Morgan, Murphy, Zurhaar etc. into the midfield. On top of Luke Mac, J Mac & Wright in defence.
I've had a gutful of teams smashing us with run/spread.

If I have to bump this thread in 11 years, punches will be thrown.

I hope you do bump this thread in 11 years as it will be Brad Scott's 20th year at the helm!

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

Didn't Sansbury once kick 12 on Cooney in an AFL Grand Final?

 

[The Filth Wizard]

Thanks for the bump. We just had a post reported from 2007

 

[Roosurgence]

Only one player on the list with both.... Higgins.

It’s also disgusting that Ben Brown covers more ground than our midfielders.

 

[Liam Boy]

Didn't Sansbury once kick 12 on Cooney in an AFL Grand Final?

I heard he once kicked 100 goals for West Coast

 

[Moti]

Might add my obligatory comment.

Please extend my previous comments, should cover the next few years.

 

[Arthur Cloke]

I emailed the club this morning to vent my spleen. I included footage of myself running the Tan showing them how important leg speed is. I even showed them how fast I can run backwards.
I’m assuming they’ll soon get it.

 

[DesertRoo]

I emailed the club this morning to vent my spleen. I included footage of myself running the Tan showing them how important leg speed is. I even showed them how fast I can run backwards.
I’m assuming they’ll soon get it.

Did you do it with ball in hand??
They might get the wrong message and give Clarke a payrise.

 

[longyroos]

I emailed the club this morning to vent my spleen. I included footage of myself running the Tan showing them how important leg speed is. I even showed them how fast I can run backwards.
I’m assuming they’ll soon get it.

How many friends ran with you?

 

[Arthur Cloke]

How many friends ran with you?

None. But I made 2 friends on the run taking my current tally to 287.
And that doesn’t include my best mates cousin who has indicated he wants to be my mate. Fingers crossed on that front.

 

[Zondor]

I emailed the club this morning to vent my spleen. I included footage of myself running the Tan showing them how important leg speed is. I even showed them how fast I can run backwards.
I’m assuming they’ll soon get it.

I wouldn't be holding my breath mate. :stern look

 

[Thewlis Dish]

God speed randall boner, God speed.

 

[Hazey1977]

Geez, this is actually a shocking indictment on our lack of QI processes to identify weaknesses and put in place business/recruitment strategies to overcome them.

I'd be out on my a**E if I served this up at work for 2 years, let alone over 10.

 

[Orange Peanut]

Dunno what’s more depressing
-Devil Fish seeming to have a better fist of important traits than our list managers
-11 years of the same issue
-the fact that that Randall campaigner got to see his team win 4 flags after his troll post.

 

[koshari]

Geez, this is actually a shocking indictment on our lack of QI processes to identify weaknesses and put in place business/recruitment strategies to overcome them.

I'd be out on my a**E if I served this up at work for 2 years, let alone over 10.

I think its a bigger inditement on the pool of talent available. The AFL is fast becoming a journeyman league. look at the 14-22 players in the last 2 premier teams and compare them against our 90s team or WCE or carltons 90s teams or Brisbane 2000s team or hawks late 80s teams.

This year's premiers whoever they are will be likely the same unless it's the Giants who bat pretty deeply with talent providing they have most of their list available.