Desperate to get Heeney more involved? Likely yes.... are we not desperate?
Desperate to find an alternate to Parker, Rowy, Errol, Gus, Chad and Adams at centre bounce? I hope not.
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Desperate to get Heeney more involved? Likely yes.... are we not desperate?
Look, our forwards have played plenty of game time tgether. This is not the problem. Last week the leading patterns & the high kicks hit the mark. Today neither did. This wasn't due to the bad forward patterns but to the shit midfield delivery. Even if you go long you set the ball to the advantage of your talls. tonight it was either on their heads or too short which allowed the intercept. Leads were ignored in favour of long bombsWolf how many games have our forwards played together? vs a quality AA backline in tough conditions?
What I am trying to say is that I think Horse deliberately set Dummy Patterns so they would not be used .Dummy patterns is a forward problem. Lead with conviction and you will be used.
At the very least mids will learn to use you.
i have never said it was. I think Horse did not even want to get near winning this.I'm suggesting it's a practice game with several key players sitting out the game, a lot of our B-team playing and we weren't as intense as they were. It's not the end of the world.
He played very little time in the mids. He played mainly on the wing. That pissed me off. We need him to get practice in the mids because we need him there, not on a bloody wing. What's more he was obviously far too slow for his opponentI didn't think Sheldrick was as bad as some made out. Not a lot went right for him tonight, but I feel like it was all down to the tempo. He was just playing with the wrong intensity for that game.
It was kind of slow and sloppy, the kind of game where you just had to show some poise and calm and the ball was in all likelihood going to spill out to you rather than you needing to get it. Nearly every player who "cracked in" turned it over or gave away a free.
Sheldrick - understandably, given he was a fringe player wanting to make an impression - was going at full bore every contest and I felt he kind of put himself under pressure and overcooked a lot of his possessions because of it.
Very redeemable IMO. If Adams is out for multiple games as well as Parker, then Sheldrick can play round 1 knowing he's got some room to breathe, and games to build his form up and he can be less... manic.
We saw this last year when the window opened for him.
Was definitely a centre bounce where Roberts was on wing
please do not blame the forwards. This is a game plan issue. The effing problem was we just bombed the effing ball on every occasion. We never even looked for an effing
Those patterns would 100% be a forward coaching thing. And they wouldn't be delivering the instruction as dummy, more so as legitimate leads patterns which players tend to just execute lackadaisically going through the motions.What I am trying to say is that I think Horse deliberately set Dummy Patterns so they would not be used .
I didn't mind him DQ. Certainly didn't stand out as a weakness in the midfield, but then I rarely think anyone does. Have said it before but when I watch our games, I don't feel like I'm watching midfielders playing badly, I feel like I'm watching a midfield play badly. There is something in the connection/chemistry/structures between them that doesn't seem to work.Desperate to get Heeney more involved? Likely yes.
Desperate to find an alternate to Parker, Rowy, Errol, Gus, Chad and Adams at centre bounce? I hope not.
That is not the problem if we don't have 4 talls. Ladhams absolutely confounded the forward line structure. But I think you are not quite right about the game plan. We used this game plan today. But last week we used a short pass game plan, 20-30 metre kicks. But today we were not passing 50 metres we were bombing it on their heads or short. Very few kicks to advantage. It certainly gives your oponent a huge advantageWe bomb because we are trying to hit fifty metre passes, the lions look for 20 metre passes kicked to the forward softly as they move. We are trying to play a very fast game getting the ball long to forwards one on one. But if we don’t mark the ball we are going to get smashed because our forward line is too tall and too immobile.
I just can’t convince myself that inside midfield time plays to Heeney’s strengths.I didn't mind him DQ. Certainly didn't stand out as a weakness in the midfield, but then I rarely think anyone does. Have said it before but when I watch our games, I don't feel like I'm watching midfielders playing badly, I feel like I'm watching a midfield play badly. There is something in the connection/chemistry/structures between them that doesn't seem to work.
Hopefully that improves this year. I'm not ruling it out based on one practice game where we looked to be cruising somewhat.
The predictable critics.Still calling an undefeated year.
Didn’t take long for poor Gus to join the whipping boy crew lol
A pre-season game played in stifling heat, with a slippery ball, low to medium intensity and minus key players. Not to mention deadly serpents everywhere.
And yet there’s some hysterical hyperbole.
God I love Bigfooty.
As I live 10 minutes from their training ground at Springfield, I can confirm it has been an unusually hot and humid summer here and I often see them training at night under lights. The conditions last night sound like the exact same conditions they have been training in all summer. I'm sure they would have run out the game far better because of it.Brisbane handled the conditions SO much better. Like a home game for them.
Sheldrick is going to rip this season apart, all the signs are screaming for a breakout season. His pre season program, He’s fit there are openings in the midfield and his pedigree is excellent.
I couldn’t be more bullish on this guy. Reading anything into pre season games is just silly, that’s a general statement not just pointed at Gus.
I like Gus, just get a Tom Mitchell vibe in that I think Horse doesn't rate him. He will prefer to shuffle the magnets around to cover Mills / Adams / Parker and bring in guys like Roberts and Fox.yeah, i can't believe the criticism of sheldrick ... from what i saw, he was in everything ... some things just didn't go his way (as was the case with most of our players ... eg, amartey) but you can see he's got confidence in himself to keep at it, keep trying stuff, and there were several "nearly" moments ...
but apart from that, and ignoring the bigfooty bitchiness over a trial game in pretty horrible conditions, i thought there was a lot to like
jordon and melican looked very good
mcinerney, blakey, wicks (geez, he can tackle), campbell, mccartin, corey warner, roberts and cunningham showed a bit
even ladhams, for all his general haphazardness, looked ok
but it was a practice game in which we were mostly competitive, against what looked a pretty strong lions side that has been a finals fixture for several years
I rate him. I'm sure his team mates do too. Just not sure Horse does. I hope I'm proven wrong and he gets a good run at firsts with all our inside mids out.you're kidding yourself if you think Gus isn't rated.
I can't see Grundy, Ladhams, McLean and Amarty playing together much, it will be interesting how that all pans out.
I think Sheldrick's highly rated? The Swans players literally said he's the player to watch ahead of this year.you're kidding yourself if you think Gus isn't rated.
I can't see Grundy, Ladhams, McLean and Amarty playing together much, it will be interesting how that all pans out.