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Possibly better getting his knee on Young’s shoulder was no mean feat for small feet.
Links please FFS!
Have to agree with A B C & E, D is a little debatable on the back of having such a large injury list particularly to key players but we certainly are lacking a little depth on certain positional types…
F is probably the hardest to actually break down, because on one hand the new coaching group have come in together and done a wonderful job with a new group that are limited in certain areas on top of the continuing injuries throughout the year, but there are certainly areas of our structures and game plan that could certainly improve overall and within games themselves…
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Very verisimilitude, I beg to differ, name the other 19?
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He was in beast mode after the ankle roll.
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Let me get my deck of cards out … there’s a red one in here somewhere …
Cripps didn't have a great game. He worked his butt off, though, particularly in the second half. He just sometimes tries to do too much.
It is understandable the adrenaline he gets, when he crashes through a pack and he finds himself standing alone once at the other side, the rush he gets spurs him to keep going instead of doing the instinctive thing. Voss just needs to get in his ear and remind him what makes his game powerful, splitting open a pack and setting up a teammate free. His first 2 months of the year he had the balance right.
It is understandable the adrenaline he gets, when he crashes through a pack and he finds himself standing alone once at the other side, the rush he gets spurs him to keep going instead of doing the instinctive thing. Voss just needs to get in his ear and remind him what makes his game powerful, splitting open a pack and setting up a teammate free. His first 2 months of the year he had the balance right.
Can anyone point out all the ‘tries too much and should have done somehting else’ moments? I recall ONE. I don’t count his missed shots on goal as ‘trying too much’ - he should have had all those shots. I remember him trying to break a tackle he shouldn’t have.
Has anyone catalogued all his crimes?
Has anyone catalogued all his crimes?
It’s definitely not at a level we need it to be at, i think atm we are one of the poorer transitional teams in the comp when it comes down to quick clean & clever spreading running and overlap particularly throughout the corridor…Today we were lucky Saad played agame and no one was interested in stopping him.
He papered over our atrocious transition plan.
We had a few good transitions late when giants had stopped but really struggled other than for Saad when there was some heat on. What's the plan when someone is interested in being within 30m of Saad?
I do wonder if we are pushing so hard defensively that it destroys our transition game. We had attacking threats like fish picking up the ball in the d50 numerous times.
Perhaps that is the plan, hard defensive run to stop most easy goals and then back our gun forwards to be good enough to make the most of our shitful i50s.
I think we just need to be able to tip the scales a little more toward attack at times. Having gov back for any period of time will allow us a 'cheat' a little more, having more faith in us intercepting.
Our kick ins are at times in the same boat and i think a problem in not creating some better balance in creating better opportunities for our ball movement as well…
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Yeah, my perspective on Crippa’s game certainly shifted. Thought he was sub par watching live on tv; but on a second watch thought his value and contribution much better. Surprised myself. Not sure he was in the top 3 but not as bad as I expected.
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ease up, I can imagine someone waving the flag for plow or cotts or dow, they are often found strruggling and never gonna be anything like the footballer cripps is - did you go to the game? hbf and I just couldn't believe how rusty he played, to the point where the word "mare" got rolled out .......next week he'll get his 3 votes like we all know he can..........
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Looked around on Foxfootywebsite but couldn't find anything. Someone might find a way.
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and a death card.........
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How does missing 2 goals make his game better though?
'he could have kicked 3'......
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Ok thanks, finally figured out OTC must have meant On The Couch so will have a quick browse on Kayo to see if I can fast forward to part of episode where it hidden. Hopefully not like Jeff's Hook.
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it was tongue in cheek about stats but off the top of my head - all premiers made top 4. (Now if you count the last 6 premier's, the Bulldogs were outside the top 4
)The way people are impressed by stats astounds me. You can basically find a stat to confirm any argument you want to make in football.
Each to their own
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I was at the game first time in a long time and thanks to the Katman the family had rippa tickets. It wasn’t Cripps best game but my observations are opposite to the consensus I thought in the first half he went first option to players under pressure didn’t seem to find a player free often handball to the first player he could see who was easily shut down.
Then second half complete opposite looking to hold the ball longer which I liked more but a few times didn’t pull it of that hook kick was a howler very next kick for goal I told my son he’ll nail this.Like I said he regurly went first option early but our receivers where badly positioned or he chose the wrong one probably a bit of both
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Not sure about elite, but he is a very good footballer. And most importantly he has settled after a few years in the wilderness.
I was a huge fan of his coming through the draft and early in his career he certainly projected as someone who could be elite at the level, but stalled badly for various reasons.
Not sure he gets to the elite level, but certainly he has rediscovered his flair and form and is having his best season at the top level, which is a real credit to him and the coaching staff.
Didn’t go to game. Have watched it twice on replay. Am carefully watching now to see what I missed.
Cripps Q1: 8 touches. One hanball hot under pressure got intercepted. One banana snap miss. All other of his 8 touches hit targets. Zero Superman cape efforts. Hard tackling by him.
Cripps Q 2: 10 touches. One perfectly understandable kick off the ground from a pack. Rushed shot from 50. Somehow Ward was allowed to block a handball after a mark (should have been 50). Otherwise I believe he hit every target.
So at half time I have him hitting 13/16 targets plus two difficult misses. Zero Superman efforts.
Q3: kicked on his left to a 50/50 at half forward. The snap goal that stuffed up. Kick a drop punt from
There mate. Superman shot on goal got tackled. I got that at 5/5 plus two shit shots for goal.
By now he’s 18/21 plus 4 misses.
Q4: 4’45” left ball in, got tackled and hand balled under huge pressure and it got cut off. Btw thr free against Cripps with 3’45” left what a joke. Kick to leading sos but cut off with 2’50” left. 2 mins left drilled Taylor. I have him at 6/9 for Q4.
So 24/30 plus 4 misses.
Frankly until the last few dead mins of the game he was 24/27 plus 4 misses. To me that’s 70 percent effectiveness. No idea how they did their stats. Are they counting a handball to space that Kennedy runs on to (which he meant) as ineffective??? Zero clue what they looked at.
It was a very high quality game but he should have kicked 3 not 1. I think people have a ‘recency’ memory of the last few mins and remember those 2 bad misses. Maybe they look at DE stats which were just rubbish and wrong.
He had one Superman moment. Happy for him to do that.
Cripps Q 2: 10 touches. One perfectly understandable kick off the ground from a pack. Rushed shot from 50. Somehow Ward was allowed to block a handball after a mark (should have been 50). Otherwise I believe he hit every target.
So at half time I have him hitting 13/16 targets plus two difficult misses. Zero Superman efforts.
Q3: kicked on his left to a 50/50 at half forward. The snap goal that stuffed up. Kick a drop punt from
There mate. Superman shot on goal got tackled. I got that at 5/5 plus two shit shots for goal.
By now he’s 18/21 plus 4 misses.
Q4: 4’45” left ball in, got tackled and hand balled under huge pressure and it got cut off. Btw thr free against Cripps with 3’45” left what a joke. Kick to leading sos but cut off with 2’50” left. 2 mins left drilled Taylor. I have him at 6/9 for Q4.
So 24/30 plus 4 misses.
Frankly until the last few dead mins of the game he was 24/27 plus 4 misses. To me that’s 70 percent effectiveness. No idea how they did their stats. Are they counting a handball to space that Kennedy runs on to (which he meant) as ineffective??? Zero clue what they looked at.
It was a very high quality game but he should have kicked 3 not 1. I think people have a ‘recency’ memory of the last few mins and remember those 2 bad misses. Maybe they look at DE stats which were just rubbish and wrong.
He had one Superman moment. Happy for him to do that.
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Ok found the Weiters bit just over 24 minute mark on Kayo for latest episode of On The Couch.
It literally only about 40 seconds or so but shows what most of us probably already knew that he was the traffic cop on field for how the defence zone sets up. You could call him the Zone Keeper if you like.
It literally only about 40 seconds or so but shows what most of us probably already knew that he was the traffic cop on field for how the defence zone sets up. You could call him the Zone Keeper if you like.
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More damaging and makes things happen rather than a dinky kick around the corner and zero impact on games. Big developer this year, finally showing what we all hoped he'd become, just a couple of years later than we hoped
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He and Walsh take a similar long arc when receiving the ball in traffic on the exit means they don’t lose speed trying to turn around to come back to goal direction gives them time to asses best option for disposal
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