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From Leppa yesterday "they’re really competitive in the air, but if Weitering or Liam Jones don’t mark it and hits the deck, they’re not winning that ground level ball in their back half"
This game may rest with our defence and our ability to shut down players like Kozzie and Fritsch. I'm a little worried!
Weitering and Jones will likely get Brown and McDonald
Who gets Fritsch, Kozzie and Jackson?
From Leppa yesterday "they’re really competitive in the air, but if Weitering or Liam Jones don’t mark it and hits the deck, they’re not winning that ground level ball in their back half"
This game may rest with our defence and our ability to shut down players like Kozzie and Fritsch. I'm a little worried!
Weitering and Jones will likely get Brown and McDonald
Who gets Fritsch, Kozzie and Jackson?
Not sure what this obsession with Setterfield and Kennedy. Setterfield is seriously overrated and Kennedy is a strong ressies player. He is to slow for AFL.After the failure, yet again, of our midfleid under pressure (not the Queen/Bowie song). I think that we definitely need to make a couple of changes.
B: Williams, Weitering, Doc
HB: Parks, Jones, Plowman
C: Walsh, Cuningham, Williamson
Fol: TDK, Setterfield, Dow
HF: Honey, Casboult, Kennedy
F: Owies, McKay, Betts
IC: Ed, Stocker, Fogarty, Cotterell
Outs: Pittonet (Managed), Cripps (managed), Saad (managed), JSOS (Concussion), Gibbons (omitted), Newnes (Omitted)
Ins: TDK, Setterfield, Williamson, Kennedy, Honey, Dow
Will we win... maybe, maybe not. I'd say TDK for Casboult, but Pittonet needs a period of R&R. Cripps and Saad are playing hurt and need a rest. JSOS is just pure bad luck. Honey has been kicking braces of goals in the VFL for fun it seems, time to see what he offers instead of Gibbons. And time to see what Williamson can offer as a link up winger.
Good points!I don't think anyone is suggesting he's a star, but you can't deny his effort plays do have an impact. Just watch the game and you can see the influence he has when in a contest even though he doesn't get the stat for it.
He definitely needs to finish those goals, though. Especially when they're that easy. Similar to Fog I think they both actually wanted to pass it off and were caught in between. If you're open and in space 20m from goal, just kick the bloody goal.
OK so if an esteemed analyst doubts out ability to win the ground ball in defence, what better argument to play Williams down back?From Leppa yesterday "they’re really competitive in the air, but if Weitering or Liam Jones don’t mark it and hits the deck, they’re not winning that ground level ball in their back half"
This game may rest with our defence and our ability to shut down players like Kozzie and Fritsch. I'm a little worried!
Weitering and Jones will likely get Brown and McDonald
Who gets Fritsch, Kozzie and Jackson?
I gave you a bunch of examples where he's moving on his knee with flexibility and planting on it.
His performance is not being hampered by his knee. It's hampered by the fact that he is a limited footballer and struggles to make good decisions particularly under pressure.
If anything is shot, it's his confidence. Happens to a lot of players when they reach past 30 years of age.
This would be the worst post of the year but hear goes...Eddie Betts to defence this weeks. If our talks drop it or it hits the ground Eddie knows where to be and can distribute it well. Bring on honey? Drop plowmanFrom Leppa yesterday "they’re really competitive in the air, but if Weitering or Liam Jones don’t mark it and hits the deck, they’re not winning that ground level ball in their back half"
This game may rest with our defence and our ability to shut down players like Kozzie and Fritsch. I'm a little worried!
Weitering and Jones will likely get Brown and McDonald
Who gets Fritsch, Kozzie and Jackson?
Been contemplating similar, however would put Levi on Brown and allow Jones a little more freedom.Play Levi back on Jackson/Gawn, Pitto in the Ruck/chopout forward, TDK forward/chop out ruck
It should be a team rule if you kick it to Levi, you have to run past him for the handball receive.Your observations regarding Levi's performance with ball in hand in the last quarter are 100% spot on - he doesn't have the field awareness or skill to be a distributor.
However I do think he is playing very hampered in what he does do well and that is contested marking- he can't leap and that is his 1 Wood. To further the analogy - Levi "puts like he drives" as far as general basic field skills go - he is elite in contested marking ( which he cant do because he has lost his leap) and pretty much crap in everything else is big man slow and clumsy.
Ironically - this merely points out another example of the game plan working because positionally the team is set up to score fairly easily - and failing because of basic skill errors - the wrong person in the right spot.
Whilst I don’t necessarily disagree with your assessment of his decision making, limited ability and age etc, I can tell you what I mentioned is accurate as well.I gave you a bunch of examples where he's moving on his knee with flexibility and planting on it.
His performance is not being hampered by his knee. It's hampered by the fact that he is a limited footballer and struggles to make good decisions particularly under pressure.
If anything is shot, it's his confidence. Happens to a lot of players when they reach past 30 years of age.
Or run to the bench....It should be a team rule if you kick it to Levi, you have to run past him for the handball receive.
Whilst I don’t necessarily disagree with your assessment of his decision making, limited ability and age etc, I can tell you what I mentioned is accurate as well.
Not going to disclose how I heard this info but let me assure you it is fact.....
Was discussed at a private lunch last week in which only 2 people attended and discussed it amongst many other topics....
Parks - JacksonFrom Leppa yesterday "they’re really competitive in the air, but if Weitering or Liam Jones don’t mark it and hits the deck, they’re not winning that ground level ball in their back half"
This game may rest with our defence and our ability to shut down players like Kozzie and Fritsch. I'm a little worried!
Weitering and Jones will likely get Brown and McDonald
Who gets Fritsch, Kozzie and Jackson?
Wasn't discrete at all. I think most people watching knew how the game was going to play out.It was such a discrete part of the game but the JSOS and Fog misses in the second quartet really hurt from a momentum perspective.
His decision making and execution is killing us and this shot knee story is just an excuse when he's out there sidestepping and pirouetting his way around the ground. I don't think he's playing pain free, but it's definitely manageable and not the cause of his mistakes.
It's nothing personal, fwiw, I think he's a great character, very loyal club man. This is based purely on his ability to play football at AFL level.
Been contemplating similar, however would put Levi on Brown and allow Jones a little more freedom.
Melbourne?
However do yourself a favour and go to the Melbourne forum and you’d think they’ve won 3 flags in a row,best team since slice bread and bagging the crap out of us......yep the DEES.
Yep they’ve won 8 games in a row last time I checked the premiership is won in September or October.
Hilarious.
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Whilst I don’t necessarily disagree with your assessment of his decision making, limited ability and age etc, I can tell you what I mentioned is accurate as well.
Not going to disclose how I heard this info but let me assure you it is fact.....
Was discussed at a private lunch last week in which only 2 people attended and discussed it amongst many other topics....
Can't keep playing SPS as the sub, MC needs to make the call on whether he's in the 22 or in the reserves for a full game to work on [whatever].
Honey as a straight swap for JSOS could well be worth a look, but would probably prefer TDK so that he and Pitto can tag team Gawn.
Murph for Gibbons is probably the right move at the moment, though Fogarty might benefit from a week off so he'd be a possible out instead.
Conservative option:
TDK for JSOS
Murphy for Gibbons
Bold option:
TDK for Casboult
Honey for JSOS
Murphy for Gibbons
Honey for Fogarty
Subject to fitness:
Setters or Dow for Williams
As I said his knee problem is preventing him to train, which impacts a few things....Like I said, he's not playing pain free. But I can guarantee you there are a lot of footballers that aren't. As an example, Neale injuring his ankle and continuing against us, Hunter this past weekend breaking his hand...
His knee is not the main cause of his inability to perform. The movement he has displayed is clear evidence of that. Sidestepping players, pirouetting through traffic, the ground ball get followed by a sidestep... it's obvious he's not that hampered by it.
If it was that bad, surely we would've given him a couple weeks off at the start of the season when we still had OMac available...
You don't need your knee to be 100% to know when to dish off a handball and/or who it should go to. If anything as I said earlier, if he is even slightly hampered by it, he should be looking to avoid kicking where possible. He had ample opportunities to do so yet still opted to kick knowing he's hampered? Sorry, it doesn't make sense.
Demons have a few talls to deal with. He won't be dropped this week, but he will likely cause more headaches as he has been one of the main culprits of our momentum killers along with Williams and Cripps.
There are too many excuses for Levi and he has spent all his tickets. We are at a stage where we need to be vigilant and manage our list properly so we are not reliant on him to fill voids.