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We need some mongrel/campaigner/hunger/desperation with a little less bombing the ball and more switches!
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What do you think it will take for us to win the flag this year?
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I'd back us to beat anyone except Hawthorn (or Collingwood, but it's not like they're going to be good enough to make it ...) at the MCG
Counting on another team doing that (or Hawks losing enough games to end up playing away )
Given the pre-finals bye this year , I think the QF winners won't end up with as much of an advantage as they would have otherwise (1 game in 3 weeks has the potential to be a massive momentum killer ).
So if we finish 3rd or 4th and lose in week 1, it may even end up being a blessing in disguise
And finishing top 2 (usually crucial for us), may not be the advantage it normally is
I'm growing more confident by the week
Counting on another team doing that (or Hawks losing enough games to end up playing away )
Given the pre-finals bye this year , I think the QF winners won't end up with as much of an advantage as they would have otherwise (1 game in 3 weeks has the potential to be a massive momentum killer ).
So if we finish 3rd or 4th and lose in week 1, it may even end up being a blessing in disguise
And finishing top 2 (usually crucial for us), may not be the advantage it normally is
I'm growing more confident by the week
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In: Edwards
Out: Butler
Hoping to see Edwards make an impact this weekend. Been near on invisible in the WAFL, and his lack of form warrants surprise at his call up from the twos.
Out: Butler
Hoping to see Edwards make an impact this weekend. Been near on invisible in the WAFL, and his lack of form warrants surprise at his call up from the twos.
How tall is Edwards?
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To win the flag WCE simply Need all our Good players playing confidently well on the big stage .
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Lol I think I got Edwards mixed up then...tbh living in Melbourne I've missed a lot of West Coast games too.
Send Edwards back to the Wafl to find some form, could be a really important player for us later in the year if he finds form.
I thought he meant Stenglein
To answer the OP, basically we need to be more competitive and efficient in the contests against the better sides.
We need to make better use of Naitanui's abilities and this means developing our inside midfield nous. In other words, we need a player in there who has the skill set of someone like Hannebery. We have a number of mids who, when combined, have his skill set, but individually they do not. We are therefore less efficient (high hitouts to advantage with fewer clearances that are often of a poorer quality than those by the Hawks/Swans/Cats/Dogs/Giants) at stoppages and when contesting a ground ball.
Given our personnel, I don't see this changing any time soon. Sheed? It'll be great to see him back, but I'm not expecting him to fix this deficiency alone.
Some more fluid, bold attacking footy from the halfback line (again, against better teams) wouldn't go astray. We looked stifled and scared against the Hawks at the MCG, which is worrying considering the extra width of the ground should've allowed for more space for players to run into.
I'm just hoping we play at our best (read: shake the "mental demons") when it matters most, and over a long season you never know what could happen.
Not expecting us to be top 4 so I'll be pleasantly surprised if it happens.
Listen to me: "we" need to do this and that. Used to bug my non-footy friends at school like us footy fans would talk as if we actually played in the team. Obviously not just a fan
We need to make better use of Naitanui's abilities and this means developing our inside midfield nous. In other words, we need a player in there who has the skill set of someone like Hannebery. We have a number of mids who, when combined, have his skill set, but individually they do not. We are therefore less efficient (high hitouts to advantage with fewer clearances that are often of a poorer quality than those by the Hawks/Swans/Cats/Dogs/Giants) at stoppages and when contesting a ground ball.
Given our personnel, I don't see this changing any time soon. Sheed? It'll be great to see him back, but I'm not expecting him to fix this deficiency alone.
Some more fluid, bold attacking footy from the halfback line (again, against better teams) wouldn't go astray. We looked stifled and scared against the Hawks at the MCG, which is worrying considering the extra width of the ground should've allowed for more space for players to run into.
I'm just hoping we play at our best (read: shake the "mental demons") when it matters most, and over a long season you never know what could happen.
Not expecting us to be top 4 so I'll be pleasantly surprised if it happens.
Listen to me: "we" need to do this and that. Used to bug my non-footy friends at school like us footy fans would talk as if we actually played in the team. Obviously not just a fan
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We go looking for JK a lot when kicking inside 50. If it's not that we're bombing it in
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Move Gov forward and bring Stan Gibson to CHB will make a big difference I think
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Edwards could become our trump card come finals time, as he is flying very much under the radar on the East Coast , the media don't seem to have heard of him and opposition fans seem to grossly under rate him.
Kudos to the poster above who spotted the potential coaching nightmare for opposition coaches as they contemplate just how to negate the Gibson Edwards combination.
Kudos to the poster above who spotted the potential coaching nightmare for opposition coaches as they contemplate just how to negate the Gibson Edwards combination.
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Three words, Alec Water Man. Unfortunately he can't win us the flag until next year, so maybe next year.
We can cement ourselves in the top four in the next couple of weeks, particularly if the pies continue their form tomorrow. From there we're as good a crack as anyone. What will it take? Not playing hawthorn away.
I'm just hoping we are cruising to the break, and at the same time keeping in touch with the top 4. Then after the break, bingo we come out firing on all 8 cylinders to put the fear of God into the rest of the competition. Don't know if I'm dreaming or notTo answer the OP, basically we need to be more competitive and efficient in the contests against the better sides.
We need to make better use of Naitanui's abilities and this means developing our inside midfield nous. In other words, we need a player in there who has the skill set of someone like Hannebery. We have a number of mids who, when combined, have his skill set, but individually they do not. We are therefore less efficient (high hitouts to advantage with fewer clearances that are often of a poorer quality than those by the Hawks/Swans/Cats/Dogs/Giants) at stoppages and when contesting a ground ball.
Given our personnel, I don't see this changing any time soon. Sheed? It'll be great to see him back, but I'm not expecting him to fix this deficiency alone.
Some more fluid, bold attacking footy from the halfback line (again, against better teams) wouldn't go astray. We looked stifled and scared against the Hawks at the MCG, which is worrying considering the extra width of the ground should've allowed for more space for players to run into.
I'm just hoping we play at our best (read: shake the "mental demons") when it matters most, and over a long season you never know what could happen.
Not expecting us to be top 4 so I'll be pleasantly surprised if it happens.
Listen to me: "we" need to do this and that. Used to bug my non-footy friends at school like us footy fans would talk as if we actually played in the team. Obviously not just a fan
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For having such an ordinary season, we flog Gold Coast and we'll most likely be top 4 after this week. Other top teams have dropped games to each other (see GWS/Adelaide) so it'll be a pretty tight top 6 you would have thought.
Easy run home, rest up over the bye and if we hit some form at the pointy end of the season we could find ourselves in equally as good a position as last year, except less chance of playing Hawthorn in a GF. I'm quietly confident about this season...
Easy run home, rest up over the bye and if we hit some form at the pointy end of the season we could find ourselves in equally as good a position as last year, except less chance of playing Hawthorn in a GF. I'm quietly confident about this season...
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