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AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Brads the right coach imo. I'm just not sure they have the list.
Durham
Langford
Merrett
Mckay
Mcgrath
Redman
Caldwell
Thats the core I'd be building around. Martin is a talent but imo a bit of a figjam, certainly not in the trade him category but I don't see him as one of those personalities you can build a culture around. Draper's a complete idiot on and off the field, if they had other options I'd palm him off to someone else but they only really have Goldy.
Reid
Cox
Perkins
Jones
Tsatas
Hobbs
Pretty grim stuff from a drafting perspective. They'd be desperately hoping some of them kick on to become stars. Durham looks to basically be the player they hoped Tsatas would be but his kicking is rubbish.
Still a lot of work to do but they're slowly chipping away at it.
Not sure how Martin is a figjam?
Ridley would also clearly be added to the list.
But agree it’s top end talent that is the issue. Player vs player the side just doesn’t stack up against the best.
The positives this year as an Essendon fan is that now feels like the main issue. In previous years we weren’t even successfully implementing a system/game plan week to week to even give what talent we had a chance.
Wright is an a grader. Essendons strength is their midfield, I'd be trading parish and a first for Max King at the end of the year, suddenly they are a top 4 lock for 2025. Hobbs, perkins will be stars. Jones is also gone well ahead of cox, who I'd also look at trading. Maybe cox and parish for King and keep your first rounder
id be throwing the kitchen sink at max king.
id be throwing the kitchen sink at max king.
He’d probably fumble it …
Seriously though, does that address the fundamental issues the dons have or is it just another sugar hit …
You’d want to ensure King eradicates the conditional footy from his game, otherwise you're getting another Wrightid be throwing the kitchen sink at max king.
id be throwing the kitchen sink at max king.
Surely you need mids and not another forward with questionable kicking ability. End of the day this comes back to Dodoro and his constant non drafting of midfielders, why did it take till the last few years to do it?
No one thing will fix ours or any other teams' issues, but our fwdline is a complete ****in disaster.
I see it as fundamental issue atm. By no means the only one.
Our midfield is fine IMO.
Our fwdline is not.
First Stringer
Then Wright
Then Weideman
Now King ?
Your midfield is fine? Could have fooled me, Merett and Durham are stars, but it falls away drastically after that. Teams and contending ones especially bat 8-10 deep in there. A great midfield can make an average forwardline look good have you seen our forwardline?
Huh? They had 28.6%, we had 15%Silly comment.
I didn't say it was the best in the league, but the midfield is not our glaring issue.
Take Geelong game for example.
We won clearances, and we also won the inside 50's. Our issue was that Geelong had 45% Fwd. 50 Efficiency We had 30%. We are winning the ball and getting into our 50, the issue is our rubbish fwdline gets the thing straight back out without scoring and then we are getting scored on turnover.
TLDR our midfield needs work, but our fwdline needs more. Max King and a good small fwd with be heaven send for us IMO.
Silly comment.
I didn't say it was the best in the league, but the midfield is not our glaring issue.
Take Geelong game for example.
We won clearances, and we also won the inside 50's. Our issue was that Geelong had 45% Fwd. 50 Efficiency We had 30%. We are winning the ball and getting into our 50, the issue is our rubbish fwdline gets the thing straight back out without scoring and then we are getting scored on turnover.
TLDR our midfield needs work, but our fwdline needs more. Max King and a good small fwd with be heaven send for us IMO.
Your issue wasn't the forwardline, it was kicking it to advantage of the forwards or lack of, how many kicks went to the advantage of the Cats defenders? That isn't the forwards fault that's where the kicks are coming from. Merrett and Durham can't do everything there, and even Durham as good as he is you wouldn't call him elite by foot not saying he isn't a gun he is. Essendon's need class in the middle, what you'd give for a Josh Kelly type on the outside. Jones looks promising up tehre anyway Striger is an AA player, there's enough quality there. You probably lack a small forward or two to keep the ball in but I'd be going for mids, fix the middle the other parts will fall into place.
We got stringer in to play with Daniher + Fantasia. Both of the latter were injury plagued with us.
Wright and Weideman are on next to nothing contract wise.
I dont think so, but is what it is.
We have consistently shown a lack of scoring all year, whilst showing good dominance in the midfield. There has been numerous games this year where we are absolutely dominating the game but simply cannot put it on the board.
At a certain point you need to look at the fwd line.
We scored 9 goals from 60 inside 50's (15%). They scored 16 from 56 (28.6%). Even if you expanded that to scores they scored 41.1% of their I50 to our 23.3%
Apart from Hobbs the rest of the group dont have any kent in themThe sad thing is we didn't even expect Durham to be what he is now. We got him in Pick 9 in a mid season daft.....
the rest though....
Reid - Pick 10
Cox - Pick 8
Perkins - Pick 9
Jones - Pick 30
Tsatas - Pick 5
Hobbs - Pick 13
Alot of them are young granted. But we would have hoped for a lot more than what we got thus far with those picks. Alot of these guys are now in their 4th or more season........
Might be best for both Essendon and King. I think he needs a fresh start, and maybe outside of a Ross Lyon system. St Kilda might get the early picks to help rebuild their list.id be throwing the kitchen sink at max king.