Review Strategy changes to turn this thing around

[Cuzz09]

wish the MSD was this week.

Need something

 

[GoEaglesGoSGIO]

Well playing Hough as a tagger looks a winner.

Next one I feel is Hamish Davis to HF. A hard tag on the rebounding defender. If we plan to play a contested style up forward then locking down on 2 players out of the 6 isnt the worst idea, especially if we play it smart and try to get Reid more time up forward to kick us some goals

For next week id have Hamish Davis on Lachie Ash to try tag him out. Hutchinson on Idun to stop him being the third man up and Hough on Toby Greene

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Toby Greene

Age

32

Ht

182cm

Wt

85kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

22.7

5star

K

12.5

5star

HB

10.2

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

3.0

5star

G

1.2

4star

D

17.5

4star

K

9.5

4star

HB

8.0

4star

M

4.8

4star

T

1.0

2star

G

2.3

5star

D

26.6

5star

K

12.4

5star

HB

14.2

5star

M

4.8

5star

T

3.6

5star

G

0.0

1star

. Perhaps if we give players defensive roles we can have better defensive output?

 

[Aarick13]

At the next home game, can some of you member watch what our players are doing before they get the ball kicked to them in 1 on 1 contests. It seems like too often the ball is dropping short and being intercepted. At first I just assumed we had shit skills and couldn't kick properly but I feel like it happens too much to be completely skill based. Are the players leading to the ball then doubling back during the balls flight in the hope that they will get a cheap ball over the top and the ability to run away with it?

 

[ghostbat12]

hold ship until end of 2027. then watch read destroy teams once we get a sudden jump when duursma, shanahan, Lindsay, reid, hewett, CDT, Davis hit 50-60 games.

thats really the plan, the only plan that will work. people want to continue throwing talking about holy mars and darts eg. hope for MSD saviour, they will be bitterly disappointed. there is only one way. get them to that magical number.

 

[TY24]

It seems like too often the ball is dropping short and being intercepted.

It drops short because it gets bombed in high and the defence has about 3 weeks to read it and pick it off

Are the players leading to the ball then doubling back during the balls flight in the hope that they will get a cheap ball over the top and the ability to run away with it?

Leads have been few and far between in recent weeks

 

[Cuzz09]

Strategy: Keep playing kids together

 

[HoneyBadger35]

At the next home game, can some of you member watch what our players are doing before they get the ball kicked to them in 1 on 1 contests. It seems like too often the ball is dropping short and being intercepted. At first I just assumed we had shit skills and couldn't kick properly but I feel like it happens too much to be completely skill based. Are the players leading to the ball then doubling back during the balls flight in the hope that they will get a cheap ball over the top and the ability to run away with it?

A lot of the ball movement early last year was leading away back to goal, pressing up really high then trying to clear the last man. Often times it’s still there, especially if they have a spare - can’t go through the spare so have to try clear them and get out the back. Very Richmond 2017-.

There was a good example today where maybe Maric couldn’t clear it because it was a 70m kick back to goal, and Waterman was out if he could (but it’s an unrealistic kick to expect).

Then there’s other times where guys do lead up and the entry kick is just dreadful misread. If you want a good look at one of these, there was a sequence that ended with a Waterman free inside 50 (maybe the build up to Cole’s goal?). Broadcast showed it perfectly.

Harley marks on half back, goes with a good kick inside, moves on to Yeo, Waterman is leading diagonal across goal and instead Yeo goes for the over the top out the back kick seemingly on instinct which disadvantages Waterman massively who does well to con a holding free out of it.

There’s just no (ducks head) synergy between the entry kicking and the leads, and the default status of lead back to goal does not benefit a tall team like us at all.

 

[ukurrie]

Interesting run of six games coming up. The oppo are all sides that probably won’t make the finals and four of them are at home.

There’s a chance to try some things without worrying about 100 point losses.

 

[Plague]

There is a very obvious blueprint to beat us right now and every other team is aware of it.

When we have possession, we are so slow and indecisive that the opposition are able to park all of their players in the central zone of our 50. This makes it impossible for our forwards to lead into this area. However, this means that the leading lanes into the pockets 30-45m from goal are wide open. The opposition are more than happy to allow us this. It results in a 25% shot (give or take) at goal. The majority of the time, we'll kick a behind, giving possession back. And with our inability to stop defensive transition, they know they are favoured to turn every kick-in into a score.

So how do we counter this tactic? By moving the ball quickly through the corridor and preventing them from having the time to set up in the central zone. We have shown we can do this through the first 4-5 weeks of the season. But it seems now that we've stopped trying. I'm guessing that because we were getting killed on the turnover so regularly, either our confidence to take the game on has dropped off, or Mini himself has instructed the players to slow it down.

So we're kind of at an impasse right now. Our i50 conversion efficiency will continue to be abysmal until we start moving it quickly again. But we won't move it quickly until our basic skills and decision making become league standard.

For the first time in years, our effort and fitness base actually seem to be decent. The question is can we drill basic skills into these players, or is it a case of churning through the list until our youngsters with technical ability outweigh the battlers?

Personally, I think basic skills are primarily an issue of confidence. The likelihood of being drafted to an AFL club without the fundamental skills is almost impossible nowadays. And just look at all the recruits and MSD guys who come in and seem like world beaters in their first game or two before we all start asking "what happened to X?" They lose their confidence because we as a collective aren't letting them play with any excitement. Plus getting spanked regularly can't be helping.

A long post, I know, but;
TLDR - we can't score because we don't move the ball quickly. We can't move the ball quickly because our skills suck. And our skills suck because our confidence is in the gutter. It will come, eventually (please) but until then we will continue being an extremely frustrating football team to support.

 

[Mighty Eagles]

There will be book written about this.

Dummies guide to ruining a club
Co-authored by Nisbett & Simmo

I think Simmo has been unfairly attributed for those performances far too often and easily.

Gavin Bell should be the next bloke under the microscope. He was appointed Head of Development in 2013 and promoted to Football Manager in 2022. You might want to look at the quantity players who developed on his watch between 2013-2022. Makes for very sober reading!

 

[Goroyals22]

Well playing Hough as a tagger looks a winner.

Next one I feel is Hamish Davis to HF. A hard tag on the rebounding defender. If we plan to play a contested style up forward then locking down on 2 players out of the 6 isnt the worst idea, especially if we play it smart and try to get Reid more time up forward to kick us some goals

For next week id have Hamish Davis on Lachie Ash to try tag him out. Hutchinson on Idun to stop him being the third man up and Hough on Toby Greene. Perhaps if we give players defensive roles we can have better defensive output?

Ash has been playing midfield the last couple
Of weeks.. Whitfield the one we have to stop down back

 

[CursoryMercenary]

Sack most of the board who have no experience in heading up a football club. Most of the them have prior jobs in mining & retail for christ sake. Only Mark Paginin has served as a president & worked at Claremont. Jan Cooper has experience in AFLW side of things... Elizabeth Gaines the Chairwoman is a former mining executive.