- Jul 20, 2016
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If Luke McDonald, Wood and Hrovat play round 1 we’re not fair dinkum.
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The 2 major factors crucial to an improvement here for me are:Coming into this year, I was thinking that to mix it with the best teams we needed to improve:
Depth in general
Outside run and polish
Small forward scoring
Rebound from defence
It looks to me that we might have made some progress on the first three but not the last and we have got a new problem with KPDs.
I’m nervous, but not silly enough to pass judgement after JLT.
Port's chip, chip, chip stuff took away our tempo, and then we broke down going the other way.
The 2 major factors crucial to an improvement here for me are:
-Personell; who are the elite disposers? who are the elite decision makers? who has the wheels? Polec is the one for me. Nobody else on the list comes within a bulls roar of ticking all those boxes. The one who can carry the ball 30 mtrs, sum up the options and hit a 50mtr bullet on a free forward. Shot on goal.
-Tactics: No point zooming out of defence if it's a numbers behind the ball shitfest. No point drafting pace only to chip it backwards, etc.
It's going to be interesting to see how we approach the new rules and an evolving list.
Fingers crossed we stay fit and healthy as I think we could do some damage in September.
Pretty much my thoughts too.
Pretty much my thoughts too.
If I were to elaborate:
That we’re no good and haven’t improved the list? No.
That we might be in a bit of trouble for depth in round 1 and it’s 4 points we can I’ll afford to throw away? Maybe a bit.
I know there are other blokes in the side who can kick, Higgins & Ahern definitely amongst them.Higgins can, also, do what Polec does, with regard to elite disposal and good pace, no doubt. Ahern’s disposal will, probably, prove to be our most elite as time goes on. I believe we’re fairly well served on the elite disposal front. However, one of our issues is that we are even better served on the absolute crap disposal front. Let’s hope that improves.
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Pretty much my thoughts too.
If I were to elaborate:
That we’re no good and haven’t improved the list? No.
That we might be in a bit of trouble for depth in round 1 and it’s 4 points we can I’ll afford to throw away? Maybe a bit.
I know there are other blokes in the side who can kick, Higgins & Ahern definitely amongst them.
I don't want either of them as permanent members of a settled back 6 though, which was my initial point.
So if all those guys are out then Polec goes back? Is that what you're saying? My initial post was about addressing an area of weakness in our ball movement from defence to attack. I'd have Polec back there permanently, move JMac to the wing/hf rotations and improve a weakness whilst making the most of Jamie's assets.If Tarrant, JMac, Marley miss R1 - along with Thompson, we won’t have any option, I suppose.
Yeah I'm not sure what point you are trying to make mate.However, if those 3 get up, then all our talk has just been more or less hot air.
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I'd have Polec as a deep sweeping wing rather than a permanent fixture back there. It would give him licence to get upfield too.So if all those guys are out then Polec goes back? Is that what you're saying? My initial post was about addressing an area of weakness in our ball movement from defence to attack. I'd have Polec back there permanently, move JMac to the wing/hf rotations and improve a weakness whilst making the most of Jamie's assets.
Yeah I'm not sure what point you are trying to make mate.
It's a discussion board. It's all hot air.