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Not if Ryan is taking the kick outs
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Not that it would happen but Freo would be silly not to look at it. He's coached in 4 more Grand Finals than Freo has as a club.
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That's the number reason I want JL gone. His lack of creativity makes it easy to scout.
We should have 5 or 6 set pieces from a kick out and it seems like we kick long 80-90% of the time.
Also, stated by others we have Ryan kicking out majority of the time. I want a kick out from a person who can hit the short and medium targets and the ability to carry the ball. We Ryan kicks out, the player guarding him is 40m from goal and stops any medium kick to the middle. If we have somebody who could run and carry, it stretches the zone.
JL needs to change this, or he needs to go.
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Well Chris Scott seems to think this a strength of Freo. We play our plan A exceptionally well.
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Should have the next player delisting early this week.
Got a direct quote that mentions the kicking out set up?
Having one method of kicking out is easy scouted.
Wouldn’t be surprised if we didn’t.
We’ve lost a few during trade period the last few years but generally delisting the last few players post trade period is reasonably common.
Out of the remaining out of contract players, Stanley is the only one I give zero chance of being on our list next year tbh. Not sure we’re announcing just one delisting at this stage.
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Yes, watch his press conference from when we last played them.
And I have no faith JL can even get us close to a GF, let alone win one.
All premiership team had stability right? Hawthorn Richmond Geelong and now Brisbane . Stability first, then top up with what is missing? We were opposite and we're having exodus?
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Our restarts from opposition behinds are terribly actually, compared to most other good sides in the comp.
I would like to see much more of Clark and even Wagner bring into the ball in after a behind and far less of Luke Ryan.
What made it worse this season was that his one successful weapon from a restart was to kick to cox on the boundary outside 50 and the good pre 2024 version of cox usually marked it. It wasn’t particularly inspiring but at least it worked mostly.
We didn’t even have that this year.
I would like to see much more of Clark and even Wagner bring into the ball in after a behind and far less of Luke Ryan.
What made it worse this season was that his one successful weapon from a restart was to kick to cox on the boundary outside 50 and the good pre 2024 version of cox usually marked it. It wasn’t particularly inspiring but at least it worked mostly.
We didn’t even have that this year.
I'm not against kick it long to boundary to a strong marker. When it happens 80-90% its predictable. Also, it's the second possession also counts. It slows ball movement.
We need other options.
Ya agreed I don’t mind it but not nearly every time.
And not to Luke Jackson who can’t mark the football consistently.
We could even get Hayden Young restarting. Nick Daicos often does it for the pies.
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Excuse me what the ****? I was under the impression all the exciting stuff would start happening? It's literally been less than 24 hours since the season ended, I want my trade news damn it.
Yeah I talk a big game, but I'm going to tune in at 7am tomorrow to hear Corn tell me we should trade Darcy for the 243rd time.
Only reason it works is Cox and someone else is usually in a 2 on 1 in our favour.
The problem is how long Ryan takes to kick - Good teams, or any team for that matter, will make sure the only safe-ish options are the short 30m kicks into the pocket or bomb it to packs just outside 50 if you wait 30 seconds. The best kickers in the league wouldn’t find a free man if there isn’t one.
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Lingy on ABC radio just put it all on the line, he had the opportunity to talk about any team for his sum up of the year, and chose us for butchering the end of the year but saying if we go all in on Bolton and Baker we will be top 4 next year and challenging for the flag.
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The fact people think Luke Ryan is just choosing to bomb it to packs unilaterally is hilarious. He's a laser the few times he's allowed higher up the ground, and varies the kick-ins when the circumstances call for something different.
Most importantly, a kick-in is just about the most controlled environment a team has. If JL didn't at least approve of it (if not actively encourage and instruct it), he'd say someone else takes the kick-in or to stop bombing to packs. And it would happen.
Reality is nobody really scores from kick-ins. We're a low scoring team from kick-in, at 3 points per game (rank 16th). Port are the highest with...5.9. It appears obvious that our philosophy regarding kick-ins is "a boundary stoppage outside d50 is a good result, anything better is a bonus".
Most importantly, a kick-in is just about the most controlled environment a team has. If JL didn't at least approve of it (if not actively encourage and instruct it), he'd say someone else takes the kick-in or to stop bombing to packs. And it would happen.
Reality is nobody really scores from kick-ins. We're a low scoring team from kick-in, at 3 points per game (rank 16th). Port are the highest with...5.9. It appears obvious that our philosophy regarding kick-ins is "a boundary stoppage outside d50 is a good result, anything better is a bonus".
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This is why I harp on about marks between the arcs. It's why Lobb was so structurally important even if he didn't take a mark - he didn't allow easy marks to his opponent and would bring it down over the boundary line. We have a dominant clearance team, we should be playing a field position game. Take the ground, move the chains so to speak, reset and do it again.
Every mark we take between the arcs adds 50+ metres to the play.
I reserve the right to also want fast ball movement once we are forward of centre.
You are probably right with all this, but if we have that many stars on big money we should have performed better. That's the point of it in the end
I still think our biggest issue is in the general coaching area. Game plan, selection, overall strategy.
Sure Bolton and Picket and Warner would be amazing additions. In the end we performed below what I think we should have.
Next season I think we need to be ruthless. For me that starts with Walters, O'Meara and Fyfe. But it includes Darcy.
I also think we lay the opportunity in front of O'Driscoll, Simpson, Erasmus and Draper. Tell them that there is not locked down 23, and that they should go out and grab those spots. Knobel and Reidy too.
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If you were Sydney would you consider trading Warner to Freo and try to pry Ugle-Hagan out of the dogs?
They clearly need a bigger key forward presence...
They clearly need a bigger key forward presence...
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