Technically his 2nd preseasons given his first 2 were stuffed.
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Player Watch Luke Pedlar
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Pedlar along with TT were the two players I was most looking forward to seeing take the next step this year.
Having watched the SANFL over recent weeks, I’m completely baffled as to how bad Peds kicking has become.
His kicking has always been questionable, but geez it has become god awful this year.
Every single kick seems like a complete shank. How has it come to this?
Having watched the SANFL over recent weeks, I’m completely baffled as to how bad Peds kicking has become.
His kicking has always been questionable, but geez it has become god awful this year.
Every single kick seems like a complete shank. How has it come to this?
Pedlar's form this year feels like a chicken and egg question. All throughout the preseason he was constantly training in the B side for match sims. I remember being worried about it at the time, and unfortunately, in retrospect his form this year has probably justified it.
The question is, was he training in the B side because his form was down, or did training in the B side hurt his form?
I am far from writing him off - I thought he was fantastic last year. But I also thought Berry was good the year before he fell away... and ditto Schoenberg. If he can't recapture his 2023 form by the end of 2024 I'll be very concerned.
The question is, was he training in the B side because his form was down, or did training in the B side hurt his form?
I am far from writing him off - I thought he was fantastic last year. But I also thought Berry was good the year before he fell away... and ditto Schoenberg. If he can't recapture his 2023 form by the end of 2024 I'll be very concerned.
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Regardless, bring him in and give him some midfield rotations and tell him we are building for next year and you are a key part of it. Give him the words he may need to hear and get him in the game. I don't give a suff about win / loss now, its all about getting our better youngsters in the side and getting AFL games into them now
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Would be interesting to find out the reasons for his poorer than expected year
His season has pretty much mirrored the club's in terms of expectation vs output
I doubt that whatever went wrong with Pedlar is isolated to him
His season has pretty much mirrored the club's in terms of expectation vs output
I doubt that whatever went wrong with Pedlar is isolated to him
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How about getting a real coach who can develop him properly.
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Wasn't it Luke that was rumoured wandering the streets alone, late at night in a drunken state in the preseason?
I've nothing against a night out but I've not forgotten my concerns about the why and how this occured.
Might be totally unrelated but his football has regressed and for that alone, there must be a reason. Does anyone have any information about how he's doing outside of football?
This is it. If we just leave him in the SANFL, or give him limited AFL minutes primarily in the forward pocket, he is presumably going to continue posting disappointing performances. Then when we get to the end of the year, what have we learned? Is he part of our future or not?
Why not just bite the bullet and run a bunch of our potential inside mids through the middle and see what happens? Who stands up? Who can't hack it? Let's find out now in a season when wins and losses no longer matter, rather than waiting to 2025.
You think Nicks want to finish as low as possible lol. Ironically, it's his current selection which will give him the biggest chance of finishing as low as possible.
The club should be making it very clear to Nicks that his continued presence at the club is contingent on him demonstrating he has a vision for 2025 and beyond, not whether he can take us from 15th to 12th on the ladder this year.
And Nicks will be telling them that we need the "momentum" into 2025, just like he probably sold them this new "game plan" was the right direction need to play Finals and it will take time hence the 0-4 start to the season and the players looking shit playing it.
There seems to be a trend with a lot of our young players where in the first two years, they show improvement and look like they will become good players for them only to regress so fast, they cant even get a spot in the team.
Pedlar and Rachele this year have gone backwards
I hope it doesn't happen to Max next year
I noted elsewhere that our development is terrible... Hard to separate poor recruitment from poor coaching when every single player goes backwards at a rate of knots.
You could see glimpses of why Jones, Pedlar, etc were drafted high, but they never turn into more than glimpses and become rarer.
Our sole purpose remains winning as many dead rubbers as possible. There will be no deviation from that.
Those in power have all repeated the same mantra. Pick the best team to win this week. There's not a lot of long term thinking going on, which is half the frustration with the current situation. They developed a plan in the pre-season and they're not deviating from it even if it's shooting themselves in the foot for next year.
Said it at the start of the year. 1 player out of form is a player out of form. When you have so many instances of it it goes past just being on the player and there's something stinky going on with the coaching. Same with our development. They'll point all the fingers at Hamish, but there's no way that 1 guy is so untalented that he picks every dud available and there's nothing coaches can do to salvage these untalented players.
I keep holding out hope that once we are mathematically eliminated from contention (which should be within a few weeks) that maybe they'll switch things up?
A fool's hope, probably.
mcleod at 50 lines it up
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his shoulder hanging out of the joint might have a tiny bit to do with it, not an injury that you recover from till you get surgery, and is the type of injury that inhibits your play, was taped from day 1 so obviously hurt in preseason and decided to play with it. some blokes can pull it off eg Chris judd others it keeps dislocating and are best sent off to surgery eg porplyzia
Eyewitness, first hand sighting not rumour
And I can’t get it out of my head either. It seems like it might have been a bit more reflective of a Schoenberg, poholke drive for ultimate success
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Yep, our season is cooked... so get him in the side as far more upside than Murphy or McHenry. No point rotting him away in SANFL.
Or if his shoulder is really holding him back... book him in for surgery with a view for an early rehab and lead up to 2025.
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Very good point!
I largely point the finger at Hamish, given his decade long inability to pull off a high draft pick success that has spanned several development teams...however the two don't need to be mutually exclusive. That no mid is now more highly regarded than when they were drafted other than Soligo, points to a serious problem. The propensity to fumble and inability to hit targets points to development. I remember Pedlar as being a good kick in his draft year, often injured and a big reach at 11 but a long penetrating kick. 4 years later, best bet is to ask him kick it to the opposition, as you know it'll go elsewhere.
