NavyRedGold
Debutant
- Oct 4, 2017
- 103
- 235
- AFL Club
- Adelaide
- Other Teams
- Philadelphia Flyers
This rebuild is going well.
We need two things out of this season:
The losses against Collingwood and Hawthorn were perfect.
If we want to be top of the table flag contenders like Melbourne or the Bulldogs, we need to spend some time not winning these games. If we want to avoid being perennial bottom feeders like Carlton or the Gold Coast, we need to prove that we could have won these games and to actually pull out some wins against good teams. We're doing all of that.
References
Melbourne: Petracca (#2), Brayshaw (#3), Oliver (#4)
Bulldogs: Macrae (#6), Bont (#4)
We need two things out of this season:
- To finish the year by drafting elite midfield talent
- To prove that even without the elite midfield talent, our young underdeveloped team can compete with the grown-up teams in the competition (both to build a culture that supports player retention, and to prove that we don't need to blow the rebuild up and could be flag contenders once topped up with elite talent)
- Win games against flag contenders who won't be around the bottom area of the table competing for draft picks
- Lose games competitively against the others, but just get pipped due to bad luck or obvious gaps in the team structure: e.g. poor goalkicking from players who are ordinarily very good, umpiring errors and/or obvious selection mistakes (e.g. not selecting a 2nd KPD, allowing us to lose games due to obvious mismatches)
The losses against Collingwood and Hawthorn were perfect.
- Collingwood: we were all over them for long passages in repeatable parts of the game flow (e.g. clearances, possession counts, I50s, marks inside 50) and would have won easily if it wasn't for uncharacteristically poor performances in front of goal by the likes of Tex and Fog. This will have no bearing on future flag chances.
- Hawthorn: would've won if the umpiring was even a little bit better, but much better for us that we lost.
If we want to be top of the table flag contenders like Melbourne or the Bulldogs, we need to spend some time not winning these games. If we want to avoid being perennial bottom feeders like Carlton or the Gold Coast, we need to prove that we could have won these games and to actually pull out some wins against good teams. We're doing all of that.
References
Melbourne: Petracca (#2), Brayshaw (#3), Oliver (#4)
Bulldogs: Macrae (#6), Bont (#4)