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Can someone, for the love of god, please explain to me why the Dockers start playing well when they are behind and need to start going through the corridor to get back into the game?
Did anyone witness the 20 metre handball in the third quarter by Heath Chapman to Brayshaw in the middle? It was a thing of beauty that opened up the game and meant that Brayshaw could find Dudley for a goal.
Why do we wait until we are behind to start playing this way???
Is it Longmuir's coaching? Or is it on the players.
Someone needs to find some answers, because it plays out like this in every. single. game.
 
gungho said:
Can someone, for the love of god, please explain to me why the Dockers start playing well when they are behind and need to start going through the corridor to get back into the game?
Did anyone witness the 20 metre handball in the third quarter by Heath Chapman to Brayshaw in the middle? It was a thing of beauty that opened up the game and meant that Brayshaw could find Dudley for a goal.
Why do we wait until we are behind to start playing this way???
Is it Longmuir's coaching? Or is it on the players.
Someone needs to find some answers, because it plays out like this in every. single. game.
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It is absolutely coached, they hold up the sailing ship sign when it’s time to take the game on, the rest of the time it’s slow and conservative to try to limit the oppo scoring, when our defence is so bad they score from over 50% of forward 50 entries, the entire point of being slow and conservative gets thrown out the window. Banfield, Worner and Ryan are not good 1:1 defenders and got exposed, all great at dropping off their man into a hole to take an intercept mark, but once it’s on the ground they are liabilities.
 
So 3rd year in a row now the grand final is a big Victorian team with all the advantages that gives them playing against a QLD/NSW team full of academy players.

Without major changes to play movement I genuinely think we tap out as a top 4 team max with this current list.

**** it's frustrating.
 
ilikepotatoes said:
So 3rd year in a row now the grand final is a big Victorian team with all the advantages that gives them playing against a QLD/NSW team full of academy players.

Without major changes to play movement I genuinely think we tap out as a top 4 team max with this current list.

**** it's frustrating.
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I'm glad I've slowly been exorcising the sport of AFL out of my system and started following other sports more closely - because I tell you, if we don't do anything with this list - then it's never going to happen because we're so disadvantaged. We have never been - and will never be a benefactor like the teams who are now going to engrained in sustained success (Brisbane, Geelong, Sydney and Pies). It's only going to get worse from here too.
 
The big Vic clubs have a natural advantage. No use whinging about it, it's not going to change. If we learned to play four quarters we might have still been in it this weekend.
 
sdfc said:
The big Vic clubs have a natural advantage. No use whinging about it, it's not going to change. If we learned to play four quarters we might have still been in it this weekend.
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Sure but we lost to Gold Coast who are adding three more top 15 academy kids this year, and also Brisbane are adding a top 5 player again so there’s that.
 

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Lach72 said:
Sure but we lost to Gold Coast who are adding three more top 15 academy kids this year, and also Brisbane are adding a top 5 player again so there’s that.
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GC was the result of not playing four quarters. We go to sleep too often in games.
 

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ilikepotatoes said:
So 3rd year in a row now the grand final is a big Victorian team with all the advantages that gives them playing against a QLD/NSW team full of academy players.

Without major changes to play movement I genuinely think we tap out as a top 4 team max with this current list.

**** it's frustrating.
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Our list is fine, the so called head coach and his favourites at selection and the continued choice of Banfield and O'Meara (plus insisting NOD play wing, Chapman play back, and everything adjustment wise wait until quarter time or half time breaks so "players can be briefed") is the core of why we under achieve.
 
The Feeder Club said:
Gallop 6th ever game of AFL and three goals. With a 20 year old as his fellow key forward. And the sooks talk about how young we are and can't compete.
It's attitiude. We don't have it
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You need size and depth in the midfield.

You don't win finals without it. Brisbanes forwards are young, but they have enough big mids to stand up in finals.

Our old mids don't help us.
 
WA only has 2 teams and is a footballing state, Queensland has 2 teams and is a rugby state. How on earth do they unearth all these AFL players from their academies. We are a football state, we don't seem to have these players emerging anywhere to unearth, look at the the draft ,we have nobody much near the top end but these non-footballing states with their academies seem to have them. I have noticed a huge decline in our state of quality footballers, we've fallen behind big time. WA needs to invest more money in our football so we can get back to a higher level ,at this rate will be minnows for many years to come, a real concern and people want us to have a third team ???? An example of this is if you look at our aboriginal players of recent time ?? yeah right where are they ? We had them in abundance 10 years ago. Farmer,Franklin,Abraham,Kicketts,Krakouers,Winmar,Lewis,Matera etc.
Look at the recent under 18s ,we were thrashed, the allies are way ahead of us. SA seem to be holding up really well, what are they doing right?
 

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