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[Falkon]

I remember Ross Lyon saying that you have to be top 4 in attack and defence to win a premiership.... So we are coming 11th in attack and 1st in defence. Now if we can start kicking straight we are already on the path to contesting a premiership in his first year!!!!

 

[strobe00]

Once Mundy and Barlow find some form we'll look 10 times better and more dangerous, as long as we're defensively sound I'll be pleased and we are.

It's very surreal now that with such a strong defence and increased tackling pressure we're a chance of winning all our games as long as we kick straight, even if it's dour and low scoring we'll still be right in it till the end and hope our strong last quarter run gets us home.

It's also why I'm confident of beating teams like Richmond and Melbourne away for once because I can't see us rolling over like we have done so consistently in the past.

Agree with all this.

Mundy started showing some good signs against Port. He shouldn't be too far away.

 

[tacopavlich]

How efficient up forward have the Saints been tonight. 46 inside 50's for 19 goals 8! Watching that game compared to ours yesterday is like watching a different code of footy or something. We need to get our forward line sorted and bloody fast.

The Saints were playing with 2 talls and 3 smalls in their forward line most of the time. We should try that and go with Pav, Clarke, Ballas, Neale and Walters or Crozier. Mayne is obviously the other forward.

After reading the Carlton board Saints only went in with that structure to expose them for not having any quality small defenders.

We should find what works for us, not what works for others. Think we made the mistake of trying to emulate WC and played three tall forwards against Sydney, and failed miserably.

 

[VolgaBoatman]

I remember Ross Lyon saying that you have to be top 4 in attack and defence to win a premiership.... So we are coming 11th in attack and 1st in defence. Now if we can start kicking straight we are already on the path to contesting a premiership in his first year!!!!

Actually every team is kicking poorly. We are operating at around 50% in terms of goals to points (not sure about rushed). The league average is around 52.5%. Essendon for instance is at 48%. So not only do we need more accuracy, we also need more scoring shots to be up there with the best attacks. There are 11 teams above us with more scoring shots - of course this can be skewed by blowouts.