From what I witnessed last night, Taranto will be worth every cent. Wait until he learns our system completely...
Player Watch #14 Tim Taranto.
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I am watching the reply and noticing Taranto missing snaps.
Taranto needs to learn to snap without looking at the goal. So believe you know where the goals are in relation to your surrounds including bearings and concentrate on the ball drop and good connection with the ball while maintaining balance. In time he should be kicking snaps without needing to look where the goals are and getting better connection as a result. Practice makes perfect and improves confidence and belief.
When you know where you are and are confident in your awareness especially to where the sticks are you become more calm and steady in your motion and less complicated in what are trying to do so good contact and motion makes things simpler and easier when luck is replaced by belief in your mind
I have also noticed Taranto kicks a lot of snaps as part of his play like through balls in the middle like received from Prestia and others. As Taranto does not like to use his left foot and prefers a right foot banana has Taranto thought about about developing a left foot snap? He seems to prefer the snap. I have nothing against that, its a younger generational thing after Stevie J presumably. A left foot snap should be easier to develop than a fine tuned left foot drop punt because your kicking in the belly of the ball plus Taranto is accustomed to the snap
Taranto needs to learn to snap without looking at the goal. So believe you know where the goals are in relation to your surrounds including bearings and concentrate on the ball drop and good connection with the ball while maintaining balance. In time he should be kicking snaps without needing to look where the goals are and getting better connection as a result. Practice makes perfect and improves confidence and belief.
When you know where you are and are confident in your awareness especially to where the sticks are you become more calm and steady in your motion and less complicated in what are trying to do so good contact and motion makes things simpler and easier when luck is replaced by belief in your mind
I have also noticed Taranto kicks a lot of snaps as part of his play like through balls in the middle like received from Prestia and others. As Taranto does not like to use his left foot and prefers a right foot banana has Taranto thought about about developing a left foot snap? He seems to prefer the snap. I have nothing against that, its a younger generational thing after Stevie J presumably. A left foot snap should be easier to develop than a fine tuned left foot drop punt because your kicking in the belly of the ball plus Taranto is accustomed to the snap
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Why don't you rock up to training and teach him?
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I could but I live in another state. I am sure Taranto will get the hang of it. He has the passion so it just comes down to application, practice and belief
Looks to be an outstanding acquisition, natural footballer , finds it in his sleep , will have even more impact when he better understands how we play , reckon there’ll be a greater balance with handball in order to get cleaner entries but rapt to have him in y&b , is a ripper
Just give him a call
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I'm sorry but is there any chance that this guy can at least occasionally tilt his eye line at the horizon before he throws the ball on his boot?
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That's an understatement, his disposal is as poor as I have seen from any AFL player in a long time
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55% is horrendous. Almost 1 in 2 possessions he's not retaining the football. Was the exact reason why Dimma didn't play Shane Tuck in his early years when he correctly identified turnover footy as more important that contested, but makes you wonder if Dimma is sleeping at night knowing we have signed this guy up for 7 years. What is he at goal? 0.4 and two OOFs?
Also a reason why we didnt play anthony miles.
His first game v carlton was awesome - needs to tidy his kicking cos its shocking
His ball use was awful tonight. No use winning it 30 times if you can't hit a target half the time.
I don't think Taranto will ever be a damaging kick. He has some really valuable attributes for us and we just need to slowly but surely work our way though stopping him from turning it over by foot without risking killing our forward momentum on the ball completely. Collingwood have a lot of dangerous kicks hanging around waiting for Adams and Mitchell to release to them all the time, and this is what we may need to work towards with our man Taranto.
Currently rated the worst kick in the AFL. But so was Clayton Oliver a couple years ago. It'll get better as he settles in, probably leading our bnf, been great.
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You can see by the kids we've drafted over the last couple of drafts that our aim is to have quality ball users on the outside moving foward. Slowly they are being introduced to the AFL side, whether it's full time or a taste here and there.
The players I see becoming those outside balls users include Bolton Short & D.Rioli who are already established, then there is the likes of Sonsie Cumberland Clarke Banks Campbell & Brown coming through.
Spot on.
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The most sickening thing about it is all those Melbourne players credit their improved disposal to working with Choco Williams. The same bloke who took, amongst others, a young Dusty and Rance under his wing and helped nurture them into the Superstars they became. And Richmond so lovingly fired Choco whilst at his mates actual funeral in SA over the phone. Leaving him the indignity of having to sneak back into Punt Rd to gather his belongings. Maybe we could ask Choco back to help with skills? Unfortunately him and Hardwick are no longer speaking which is a shame considering Choco and Hardwick's long involvement together first at Essendon, then Port and finally at Punt Rd. So the club gets a lot of things right these days but still manages to stuff things up now and again. Would be handy having someone with a proven track record of improving skills. Watching the game Friday night seeing them constantly hit targets whilst we couldn't even put it to advantage most of the time. Thank fu@k for the rain and their hitting the post and missing goals or some people might be deluded enough to think the game was actually close because we only lost by 3 goals.
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