Opinion What are our current areas of concern or improvement required

[Gointocarlton]

Foot skills and leg speed.
We lack genuine line breakers who can hit aggressive targets.

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[Blue_Fusion]

The better question now is, what aren't our areas of concern or improvement required?

 

[JJBagger]

10% - Coaching/Gameplan

There will come a point when Coaching/Gameplan will become an issue but at the moment, I think the gameplan is roughly there, we just cannot kick to save our lives. Even players that should be "solid" kicks are no longer showing any ability. Cerra and Walsh are not terrible kicks, but they've regressed over the years. The only player that has really impressed me this year with his kicking skills has been JSOS. Haynes and Weitering also make solid decisions, but we lack a zone busting kicking player. (Should be Saad or Boyd)

You can look slow or fast depending on how well you can kick a ball.

75% - List Management

We're always correct in hindsight, but many of our draft night moves have been head scratchers. You will only remember the players you hit on and forget the misses.
Just this year alone, I was big on Murphy Reid and Hannaford/Berry combination. Those players were around the mark at that point, I loved Tauru as another option. A number of years ago, Rivers was high on my hopes, I preferred Caldwell over Stocker. These guys are getting paid the big money to make these calls and they're missing more than hitting at times.
SOS was not the best and we've not improved a lot since those list management days.


10% - HP/Rehab

This is part recruitment and list management.
Jack Martin, Fantasia, McGovern, Williams - I swear they all came to the club with a very average ability to stay on the park long term. Then a few unlucky injuries and your rehab looks terrible.

5% - Player Commitment

The player commitment will wane as our form and hopes change, that is just human nature at times.
EDIT: Charlie Curnow's defensive efforts are something that needs to change, compare his efforts without the ball and Treacy's. Saad's ability to defend a forward line stoppage as hopeless as well. These are our leaders and don't paint a great picture for the rest of your team.

So, whats the circuit breaker?
We need to overhaul our list management but we've been left in a hole with our recent trades and not much light other than F/S's to come.

10% on the coaching is wild. Teams with far less talent look like a more cohesive unit than us. We are bottom 4 coached team in the league

 

[BluStreak]

Skill execution

 

[ajb72]

Teamwork and leadership: the biggest issue I see is we lack teamwork and leadership. We are running a bunch of individuals that appear are concerned more with stat padding than working as a team. So often we have players run to be an option, who get totally ignored by senior players with the ball, who go the hero play instead. Imagine being a young player for the blues, what would be the point in busting a gut, when you are just going to be ignored. Our players get smashed, no one is there to help them out, and this translates to general play. A distinct lack of support and care from team mates.

Skill Execution: it’s good than finally our insipid kicking is being highlighted, because it has been shithouse for so long that isn’t funny, well it is kind of yakety sax funny at times. And our poor kicking skills translates to poor goal kicking. And on top of that, our hand passing is dead set country footy reserve level. The amount of hand passes to recipients feet, or the bullet handpass when the recipient is barely 2m away beggars belief.

List Mgmt: none of our mids kick goals. Our small forwards rarely kick goals. We have a team who have so few threats, we can easily be defended against. We don’t have fast skilful distributors out of backline like most teams have a few who can do it.
Plus we just don’t seem to have recruited anyone with high footy IQ. We just seem like a dumb footy team, always with the low footy IQ moments. We just don’t do the basics well.

What’s the fix? Too hard to identify as we are just so broken there needs to be a total reset.

 

[Lukeblueboy]

Foot skills and leg speed.
We lack genuine line breakers who can hit aggressive targets.

My concerns as well mate. Spot on

 

[katmanblue]

The backline
The midfield
The forward line
The gameplan
The execution
The coaches
All are of concern

Just a vibe I've got, yep, it's a vibe

Oh, how the worm has turned