Pettifer performance today

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Trade bait=Ruckman

 

[Rayzorwire]

his weakest area is that is slow, not that he is unfit. Completely bereft of any explosive speed off the mark with a turning circle akin to the queen mary.

LOL...yep, good point Cogga...it is that first few steps.

He's like a tall that can't play genuinely tall - though he can take a grab.

Having been familiarised with the Brown saga - how he simply couldn't run to save himself during his first few years at the Dogs - I had hoped that with the right coaching, players like Pettifer may be able to do better than get increasingly further behind chasing others...while grimacing and shaking their head back and forth while chasing to let the crowd and coaching box know for certain they are really trying hard.

Foley has significantly improved his pace...maybe the coaching technique is there...it's just only getting through to a small handfull.

 

[CoggaRules]

LOL...yep, good point Cogga...it is that first few steps.

He's like a tall that can't play genuinely tall - though he can take a grab.

Having been familiarised with the Brown saga - how he simply couldn't run to save himself during his first few years at the Dogs - I had hoped that with the right coaching, players like Pettifer may be able to do better than get increasingly further behind chasing others...while grimacing and shaking their head back and forth while chasing to let the crowd and coaching box know for certain they are really trying hard.

Foley has significantly improved his pace...maybe the coaching technique is there...it's just only getting through to a small handfull.

dude, its all about which way he wants to go. If you were a proffesional footballer and you had a deficiency, wouldnt you seek out your own means to make the grade? Get yourself a sprinting coach Petrified, tie the ****ing tyers on a rope and run. You would be surprised what can happen over the of season. But alas i feel you have coasted for to long. The way you are going now, you are heading for the back paddocks of a surbuban ground.
Lets just say at this point in time, the only team that would entertain picking you up would be a demons. Daniher loves the fast players, lets face it he hand picked cement legs Holland after hand pikcing the next bg thing in the funcke squad, the committee saw they needed to lend a hand so they hand picked Davey.

 

[Crumden]

You guys are so hard on Pettifer. Yes i'll agree he is a bit soft when the ball is on the ground. But from watching him its more because he goes to bump the men instead of going the ball. Which means he doesnt lay a tackle or get the ball and looks stupid.

This is a real problem he needs to work on I reckon. He should be putting his head over the ball and winning it himself instead of trying to bump opponents out of the way, especially when he usually bounces off. Otherwise I think he is judged a bit harshly by some on here. 31 goals from a flanker two years in a row is a pretty good return and he also takes it into the 50 quite a bit. But he does seem to need a boot up the bum every now and then to make sure he keeps working hard enough on the field.

 

[CoggaRules]

This is a real problem he needs to work on I reckon. He should be putting his head over the ball and winning it himself instead of trying to bump opponents out of the way, especially when he usually bounces off. Otherwise I think he is judged a bit harshly by some on here. 31 goals from a flanker two years in a row is a pretty good return and he also takes it into the 50 quite a bit. But he does seem to need a boot up the bum every now and then to make sure he keeps working hard enough on the field.

man, he works his butt off every game, dont you get it? What you get now is what you are going to get. He is at 100% of capacity. Not good enough.
Do yourself a favour, make a list of all the HFs in the league and see how many you would have in the side, before Pettifer. You can start with the dees who are 0-7 and work up from there.