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Ahh, you just spoke of composure and that’s right. You’re a teacher, do you just allow that to happen or do you offer direction? I think you may need to question all 18 teams and ask why they have forwards, midfield and defensive coaches along with development and strategy coaches.You're right that the coach does contribute to the team's skills, or lack thereof. I do think Horse is not a good skills coach, and the fact we've only had like two elite users of the pill in his whole tenure is proof of that. But to say it's purely because of the coach would be wrong. Because the greatest skills coach in the world wouldn't be able to stop young players from just lacking composure under the pressure. I think the last few weeks with our forwards have been more a case of that than the coach's influence.
Ahh, you just spoke of composure and that’s right. You’re a teacher, do you just allow that to happen or do you offer direction? I think you may need to question all 18 teams and ask why they have forwards, midfield and defensive coaches along with development and strategy coaches.
A coach fails and the team fails, I’ve never seen a losing coach with a big trophy!
Of course, to err is human nature. Nobody ever is perfect and never will be in delivery but the instruction can’t ever be mistaken. To be told to push wide or slow tempos hardly physical, it’s srtstegicHaha not a bad analogy at all there MO!
But I stand by that there are some cases, not all the time, where lack of skill or composure is inevitable because a player's just cracked under pressure. I've seen some of the most polished blokes to ever play the game, like Pendles or Sam Mitchell, have some moments where they've just shat the bed. If they can despite all their class and 200+ games of experience, I'm willing to be a tad more lenient on a bunch of young forwards and their coach. That's not a free pass though, just a warning in class terms
Don't fret. We don't need much improvement to reach finals with just a bunch more games going our way. Our list suggests we will develop each year in what should be a fairly linear improvement.Commentary last night was that we’re years away from finals contention.
I wasn’t sure if we resemble or resent that remark.
Shock Tracker results: Your speed machines, endurance beasts
How does your team and players fare in the Telstra Tracker stats?www.afl.com.au
Distance kings – average distance covered per match
1. Tom McCartin: 14.70km per match
2. Jake Lloyd: 14.48km per match
3. Ryan Clarke: 14.44km per match
Distance kings – single-match records for 2019
1. Ryan Clarke: 17.28km v North Melbourne, round nine
2. Ryan Clarke: 16.95km v West Coast, round 12
3. Tom McCartin: 16.17km v Melbourne, round four
McCartin’s problem is not his fitness. His problem is he runs around like a headless chook and he can’t kick.
We are a chance of earning one !The question now beckons how low can we go and can we trade for a top 2 pick!
rewatched this when i was up ill
You re-watched that game? You weren't drunk enough!
Couldnt sleep
it helped
Commiserations on the loss.
Here are the midfield frequency stats from the game. If you haven't seen a previous post, this is an overall summary of how often your players were lining up as one of the 5 mids at bounces.
Overall Summary - 17 Bounces
Hewett 15
Kennedy 13
Florent 11 wing
Parker 10
Clarke 9 wing
Lloyd 7 wing
Rowbottom 6
Jones 5 (3w, 2i)
Heeney 3 (2i, 1w)
Papley 3
Fox 1 wing
Blakey 1 wing
Stoddart 1 wing
Rucks:
McLean 10
Fox 2
Aliir 5
Centre Clearances (per Champion Data/AFL.com.au
Jones 1
Fox 1
First Half - 10
Hewett 10
Florent 9 wing
Kennedy 8
Parker 6
Clarke 6 wing
Rowbottom 5
Lloyd 3 wing
Fox 1 wing
Jones 1 wing
Heeney 1
McLean 8
Fox 2
Final Term - 4
Kennedy 4
Lloyd 4 wing
Hewett 3
Papley 3
Jones 2 wing
Parker 1
Clarke 1 wing
Heeney 1
Stoddart 1 wing
Aliir 4
Notes (pertain to the 10 analysed games this season and ones from seasons past):
- Most starts for Lloyd since Rd 4, 2017. This was only the 2nd of the 10 games where Lloyd has received a start at all. He attended 100% of the bounces in Q1 & Q4, but nothing in the middle terms.
- Equal fewest starts this season for Florent. As noted above, he didn't feature in the final term.
- Clarke didn't have a start in Q1
- First start for Blakey since Rd 2
- Stoddart's debut start in analysed games
- Fox's debut in the back-up role
Bit harsh. That last quarter was really entertaining (if not particularly skillful) footy.This will go down as one of the ugliest games of footy ever. The scoreline is enough to tell the story. Scrappy, more mistakes than Trump, a surface that is plain dangerous and so many unforced and elementary skill and decision making errors you could be forgiven fir thinking you were probably watching the Balmain Docker Juniors V Leichhardt Cygnets.
This game was marred by the dreadful condition of the surface. Slippery, dangerous and totally unacceptable. But that wasn't the only reason for the multiple skill errors. Decision making by both sides was lamentable. But ours was just a disgrace. I am under no illusions about our team, they are young, but it was the decisions of some of our experienced players that left me astounded. Poor decision making was followed up by even poorer disposal. Tommy Papley probably managed to hit two targets all night.
I know Jones is given license to take the game on but he needs to rationalise when to go and when to slow. When to give off and when to hold on and run. He constantly got himself and his teammates in trouble leading to turnovers. If you are surrounded by a wall of opponents it is probably a good thing to Dish off to a teammate in a better position rather than take them on Jonsey.
What can Longmire take from today. McLean. Even though he only won 18HO his second efforts were very good and he laid some crunching, telling tackles.
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Thanks so muchCommiserations on the loss.
Here are the midfield frequency stats from the game. If you haven't seen a previous post, this is an overall summary of how often your players were lining up as one of the 5 mids at bounces.
Overall Summary - 17 Bounces
Hewett 15
Kennedy 13
Florent 11 wing
Parker 10
Clarke 9 wing
Lloyd 7 wing
Rowbottom 6
Jones 5 (3w, 2i)
Heeney 3 (2i, 1w)
Papley 3
Fox 1 wing
Blakey 1 wing
Stoddart 1 wing
Rucks:
McLean 10
Fox 2
Aliir 5
Centre Clearances (per Champion Data/AFL.com.au
Jones 1
Fox 1
First Half - 10
Hewett 10
Florent 9 wing
Kennedy 8
Parker 6
Clarke 6 wing
Rowbottom 5
Lloyd 3 wing
Fox 1 wing
Jones 1 wing
Heeney 1
McLean 8
Fox 2
Final Term - 4
Kennedy 4
Lloyd 4 wing
Hewett 3
Papley 3
Jones 2 wing
Parker 1
Clarke 1 wing
Heeney 1
Stoddart 1 wing
Aliir 4
Notes (pertain to the 10 analysed games this season and ones from seasons past):
- Most starts for Lloyd since Rd 4, 2017. This was only the 2nd of the 10 games where Lloyd has received a start at all. He attended 100% of the bounces in Q1 & Q4, but nothing in the middle terms.
- Equal fewest starts this season for Florent. As noted above, he didn't feature in the final term.
- Clarke didn't have a start in Q1
- First start for Blakey since Rd 2
- Stoddart's debut start in analysed games
- Fox's debut in the back-up role
Bit harsh. That last quarter was really entertaining (if not particularly skillful) footy.
I enjoyed that game despite the farcical umpiring and inside 50s at times.
I think if we'd had Dawson playing we'd of won comfortably. Mind you if they'd had Fyfe....
It's tongue in cheek. Of Course I would rather have Hayward for the future instead of Rohan but lets call a spade a spade he is as starving as Balinese street Mongrel at the moment.
I have no doubt as a club we are that stupid.We are a chance of earning one !
Not out of the realm if Carlton and Dees win a couple and we don't. I did the ladder predictor last night. We play both in the run home.
If we do the smart thing and find out who in the NEAFL can contribute while at the same time managing our players so as not to cook them for meaningless games. If we are serious about improving Heeney, Blakey, McCartin, JPK, even Mills all need resting.
Rose, Grassy, Stoddart, Amartey, McLean, even McInerney all need 3 games into them from here at a minimum.
Are we that F'n stupid as a club as to cook the likes of Heeney, Mills and JPK for a 12-9th place finish?
We can go out there and play hard Swans footy at the same time as setting ourselves up for next year and developing some new talent.