Wolftone
Cancelled
- Feb 1, 2012
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Seasons done, let’s have a good look at all the untried players and players with 50/50 job security next year.
those who’ll be moved on and have no currency don’t pick them again.
List cloggers out for good,
All fit and untried talent in.
wins are irrelevant, but understanding what we have on the list most important so we can go into next year with a clear idea of where we are headed and with what cattle.
delist the players who we know don’t have what it takes.
I agree totally. I think one of the problems we had last week was Aliir out and we had no talls at all, except McLean. Team balance is important. Now we drop McLean and bring in Sinclair and McCartin. I think McLean and McCartin can play in the same forward line. The new interpretation of the holding, blocking and pushing rules do not suit smaller players playing on talls. Rampe is at a huge disadvantage now and it is obvious. He is being penalised far more often. Time to bite the bullet there and put him on a back flank with two tall backs instead of him playing a key position. In the twos he was a fantastic flanker. He gave lots of drive and was unbeatable. In his first season in the seniors he played there too and was really good. Before the interpretation changes he was a wonderful key defender too. But now that has changed due to the new interpretation and he is always going to be at a huge disadvantage.
I think these players need to be put on notice. Harry,he has been poor for some weeks now. Clarke, mainly due to bad decision making and skill errors. O'Riordan, he is like a rabbit in the headlights on the small forwards. he seems to be always out of position. Blakey improved last week and was serviceable. But he needs to ALWAYS do the team thing not just sometimes. Twice last week he decided individual effort was better than the team. In each situation the result was in the negative. There were players in a better position to goal and he had a wild shot at goal and then on a second occasion instead of passing off he went for the long kick and run which was always going to be picked off as Richmond had four players waiting down the line.
I thought our inclusions from last week were very good under crap coaching. I can't wait to get a look at Elijiah Taylor. Maybe we can play some semblance of attacking footy Horse so he actually gets the chance to kick a few. After all if the ball is 78% in the opposition forward line there is verty little chance of scoring. I mean Richmond are not very good extractors and they start most attacks at HB. I hope at some stage Horse will see fit to play Gould. I think he will be good for our back line.
I am hopeful this week but not confident. If we play that terrible negative footy horse had them playing last week, we will get flogged, because Stewie knows Horse's negating tactics so well. He will counter by playing man on man and Horse will be out-coached. So if we do go negative we are going to be in trouble. What's more the Suns mids are better at extracting from centre bounces and stoppages than most teams. We will not have time to set up a flood. They score from centre clearances.
I think Warner, Papley, Florent and Rowbottom will have far more minutes in the mids with Joey out. With Elijiah Taylor coming into the forward line that still gives us that dangerous small forward if Papley is in the mids.