Player Watch #31: Bayley ‘Slick’ Fritsch

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Being #ATG it was the worst I'd ever seen him play. Got beaten hands down in contests by Jackson Archer who's a battler.

Tried to sag off the contest a few times and Archer just went the ball and won it. Was terrible. He doesn't look like his head is in the game at the moment. How about that play at CHB where he had zero awareness a guy was on his hammer about to spoil him?
 
What the **** are we doing with him. He's one of the most dangerous 1-1 on forwards in the league and we have him standing at half forward running back to goal all the time. Start him in the goal square and let him move when he wants to towards the ball. He's insanely smart with his body for his size but we use him like ****ing Jeff Garlett under Roosy
 
Topkent said:
What the **** are we doing with him. He's one of the most dangerous 1-1 on forwards in the league and we have him standing at half forward running back to goal all the time. Start him in the goal square and let him move when he wants to towards the ball. He's insanely smart with his body for his size but we use him like ****ing Jeff Garlett under Roosy
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Yeah its ****ing stupid. Cant get out of a jog at the best of times and we have him running back towards goal playing high up the ground. Ridiculous. Didnt see it last night but you should be isolating him at full forward vs a scrub like Archer id have thought.
 

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A11dAtP0w3R said:
Yeah its ****ing stupid. Cant get out of a jog at the best of times and we have him running back towards goal playing high up the ground. Ridiculous. Didnt see it last night but you should be isolating him at full forward vs a scrub like Archer id have thought.
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The guy is one of the most inside 50 only players he's ever seen. He's **** on a bull the second he walks outside 50. If he touches the ball inside 50 it normally ends in a shot at goal. I don't get it.
Leave him in the goal square, either the oppo has to put their best defender on him and they're out of the play or he gets a mismatch and should kick 5
 
Can guarantee if you traded him to a team who moved the ball well and let him do his thing out of the goal square he'd be in Coleman contention. Trying to turn him into a pressure forward and holding him to that standard is typical Melbourne, just like how we try and turn every KPF into Chris Dawes. Players have different strengths, its about maximising them, not trying to turn them all into the same certain style of player to fit a shitty predictable game plan.
 
A11dAtP0w3R said:
Can guarantee if you traded him to a team who moved the ball well and let him do his thing out of the goal square he'd be in Coleman contention. Trying to turn him into a pressure forward and holding him to that standard is typical Melbourne, just like how we try and turn every KPF into Chris Dawes. Players have different strengths, its about maximising them, not trying to turn them all into the same certain style of player.
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It really does feel like when Kozzy gets the ball in the middle and streams through and hits a target Goody brings him to the bench and says " look not bad mate, but you missed this, this and this backwards handball to a contest"
 
Well done Simo, you've managed to turn your most natural forward into a weird combination of Petty and Sparrow.. killed his strongest attributes and enhance his weaker ones. Can only hope these past 10 weeks have been some sort of weird experiment to get other guys looks deeper inside 50 but I highly doubt it given we went back to what had "worked" in the past, meaning, we were trying to win games. Absolutely terrible coach.
 
A11dAtP0w3R said:
Well done Simo, you've managed to turn your most natural forward into a weird combination of Petty and Sparrow.. killed his strongest attributes and enhance his weaker ones. Can only hope these past 10 weeks have been some sort of weird experiment to get other guys looks deeper inside 50 but I highly doubt it given we went back to what had "worked" in the past, meaning, we were trying to win games. Absolutely terrible coach.
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Some of the worst coaching I've ever seen. Fristch is almost completely useless outside 50 and one of the most dangerous guys in the league inside 50 so we clear out the 50 for 2 key defenders and push him up field.

Guessing because his ability to be involved in long kicks inside 50 isn't good.
 

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Player Watch #31: Bayley ‘Slick’ Fritsch

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