Johnny Rutten
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Our team selections from here on in need to have one eye firmly set on 2020. Hopefully Jones and Fog put in blinders today.
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Review R18: Adelaide v Essendon post-mortem (...please don't disturb our team, we're dead tired)
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At the ground, it's truly disgusting to watch.
I have been on about our midfield for a few years now with a few of its issues: lack of pace, cohesion, lack of skill, poise, class and dealing with intense pressure. And defensive running. And nothing has changed. I haven't made campaigns against any individual in there because it's all of them. This includes guys who are currently not there like defensive jogging expert Douglas. Sloane is the best of them for defensive care factor but even his level of it is not as good as it is made out to be by some - it's ok.
Even when an opposition player or players get through, they half hearted chase, they don't believe in that old idea of chase even if you can't catch them as it will at least make them know they don't have room for error either with messing up a bounce or having time to double guess what they will do next with the ball. We also don't chase the other free opposition guys so they can't support the guy with the ball. That's why so often it then appears to be a tsunami coming down together.
If they're running parallel with the opposition player, they don't cut inwards to pressure from the side, they just keep jogging parallel to him about 20 odd metres away. Some of it is pace but no way is it just pace. Lots of half hearted jogging when the ball is going the opposite way.
Who developed a lot of these mids for years now and do they play/care defensively similar to him? It's strange that they all pretty well seem to have this type of attitude.
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Yep, but try and get that through to the boys club in there.
The fourth oldest team we’ve ever fielded, full of senior players and experience should not be losing to middle-ish rubbish side like that at home.
Let alone after being so far in front
This has to be a sign, a cry for help that something is wrong down there
Let alone after being so far in front
This has to be a sign, a cry for help that something is wrong down there
Squiba
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I've completely checked out this year, check the stats for supercoach purposes but otherwise couldn't care less.
It's good to see a full year of footy (touch wood) get into Brad Crouch, if Smith moves to the midfield at least we have something proactive. Otherwise, the season has no positives.
Giving up after half time in multiple games is the epitome of pathetic. Imagine the poor people that have paid their hard earned to attend every home game; disgraceful.
It's good to see a full year of footy (touch wood) get into Brad Crouch, if Smith moves to the midfield at least we have something proactive. Otherwise, the season has no positives.
Giving up after half time in multiple games is the epitome of pathetic. Imagine the poor people that have paid their hard earned to attend every home game; disgraceful.
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Not sure what you've been watching this year but its a whole lot more that the few things you've listed.
This team is not good enough, no where near it.
Not having a crack at you personally but any one that thinks we are good enough is delusional.
The only reason i can come up with for your comment on Tex Leading is IT'S the midfield Duds who don't lift their
head and look ahead for movement and Bomb the ball in
Snake_Baker
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The inevitable arrives sooner or later, as our coach found out, and the Crows are a recession proof club, so I don't quite understand the procrastination from your admin.
Get Lukosious back this year, and trade out for some picks, then go hard at the draft for the next couple of years with an eye on the free agents.
The likes of Keath and Greenwood would have draft pick trade value.
One step back, two steps forward.
Absolutely, and I totally understand that.
I think you could be right. These boys have been through so much and aren’t playing the way they used to.
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Yes. 20 years.......but there's always next season eh !
I’d expand that time frame.
Selections need to have a focus on 2022 being our next year to challenge for a flag.
The next 2 years (starting now) should be about rebuilding up to that point.
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Take some honesty pills
Tex and Betts piss off
Crouches severely overrated as sloane always has been
Recruitment has been crap
Work it out
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After half time it be like:
Who drafted all these players?
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I totally agree this club has lost Bailey, Walsh, the boys babies to name a couple. I actually think they are emotionally shot, too much in a short time. Not sure how this group comes back from this.
I also think the continued reference to Walsh and his supposed legacy like a flag was a fore gone conclusion is detrimental.
Sad as it is we will never know as tragically that chapter was cut short.
I am at a loss what happens or how to move forward, but I truly think we can't move forward while the majority of the squad has been effected by this....
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Woosha (pre-match): OK boys, don't be surprised if they come out playing well. Just absorb the pressure and do not panic if they get a few goals ahead.
(at half-time): Good job, fellas, to get those last 2 goals. Now, after half-time I want you to run and run and run at every opportunity. After a while, they'll stop chasing you. This mob gives up when teams come back at them.
(post-game, to his beaming players): Told you so.
(at half-time): Good job, fellas, to get those last 2 goals. Now, after half-time I want you to run and run and run at every opportunity. After a while, they'll stop chasing you. This mob gives up when teams come back at them.
(post-game, to his beaming players): Told you so.
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Positives
Brodie Smith midfield/forward worked well
ROB continues his good season
Talia and Brown ok
That's all I got
Sure you don’t mean Richard Douglas
**** that was the only funny thing all night !
None of us had a clue what was going on !
Brasher
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In 10+ years of Bigfooty never posted in this thread before, but last night enough was enough. Forget the post mortem of this game but things I love watching the 2019 Crows for this year include:
- Murphy and Betts flying for marks when a tall forward is already competing leaving no crumbers.
- Opposition teams deliberately leaving Talia, Hartigan and Kelly free in the back half to collect sideways possessions because they are the slowest decision makers ball in hand and least damaging footballers in the entire league. We do not have one single backman that can pitch hit as a forward.
- Come to think of it we have taken the 6-6-6 to extreme...we literally role out a group of players who can only play in their designated 6.
- Atkins continually ignoring the first and often best option to go for the million dollar disposal.
- Absolutely no run off the back of stoppages, its a joy watching the Crouches, Sloane, etc run around in circles looking for a running option
- Clearly the 50 metre square is Adelaide's defensive pressure version of Chernobyl.
- Watching horrifically out of form players from other teams have career days against us.
- Trying to find a bootleg stream of the SANFL side to watch our highly touted draftees (I think this is a tactic of the contracting department to keep our young players down so we can low ball them on contract extensions....either that or we are so scared of some Melbourne club poaching our younger talent we hide them away.
- I have no idea what code of football Laird is playing these days.
- Our ability to mark space on the outlet which is typically immediately underneath the apex of the ball in flight as it goes from the kicker to the unmarked opposition player.
- Our offensive pressure is so good that players like Fogarty, Stengle, Jones would upset the operation of this well oiled machine.
I've got two tickets to the pregame lunch at the MCG next week....I might stay in the dining room for the afternoon
- Murphy and Betts flying for marks when a tall forward is already competing leaving no crumbers.
- Opposition teams deliberately leaving Talia, Hartigan and Kelly free in the back half to collect sideways possessions because they are the slowest decision makers ball in hand and least damaging footballers in the entire league. We do not have one single backman that can pitch hit as a forward.
- Come to think of it we have taken the 6-6-6 to extreme...we literally role out a group of players who can only play in their designated 6.
- Atkins continually ignoring the first and often best option to go for the million dollar disposal.
- Absolutely no run off the back of stoppages, its a joy watching the Crouches, Sloane, etc run around in circles looking for a running option
- Clearly the 50 metre square is Adelaide's defensive pressure version of Chernobyl.
- Watching horrifically out of form players from other teams have career days against us.
- Trying to find a bootleg stream of the SANFL side to watch our highly touted draftees (I think this is a tactic of the contracting department to keep our young players down so we can low ball them on contract extensions....either that or we are so scared of some Melbourne club poaching our younger talent we hide them away.
- I have no idea what code of football Laird is playing these days.
- Our ability to mark space on the outlet which is typically immediately underneath the apex of the ball in flight as it goes from the kicker to the unmarked opposition player.
- Our offensive pressure is so good that players like Fogarty, Stengle, Jones would upset the operation of this well oiled machine.
I've got two tickets to the pregame lunch at the MCG next week....I might stay in the dining room for the afternoon
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