Review Rd 1 Review - !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? (Freo Beat Adelaide by a Point - Praise be to ChapGod)
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Yeah, I think in 2-3 years time we'll be very happy with our trio indeed.
Agree.
The narrow mindedness to just have Serong, Mundy, Brayshaw and hardly anything one else is the reason why midfield isn’t strong as it is.
Rotate Young,
The goalless quarters.. been happening probably since the club’s inception. Hell the 2013 GF.
The players lack experience and on field leadership to keep the tempo, energy continuing.
That third quarter is hopefully a reminder of what to not do the rest of the season. Glad it happened round 1, because that was horrific. Being 26 points in front at half time to 10 points behind a quarter later. A 6 goal turnaround. To be a good team, less of that in the future ahead.
The kid is from Vic Country. They tend to stay loyal.
Yeah, absolutely. Players like Erasmus become invaluable.
Switta is the only other one I think we have who can go forward or back, and then have small runs through the midfield. It is a big weakness in our list.
Coaching is too conservative, look at the Blues, Crazy Vossy wasn't ready at the Lions, should of done an apprenticeship. But now has found the
balance,
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It was round 1.
"Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth."
That third quarter Adelaide hit back and hit back hard. Yes Umpiring helped a bit but a 9 goal run on isnt entirely bad Umpiring.
We dragged ourselves up and won the match. Not only did we win we were at one point 20 points down away from home.
Lets see if we can back up a win at home.
"Everyone has a plan until you get punched in the mouth."
That third quarter Adelaide hit back and hit back hard. Yes Umpiring helped a bit but a 9 goal run on isnt entirely bad Umpiring.
We dragged ourselves up and won the match. Not only did we win we were at one point 20 points down away from home.
Lets see if we can back up a win at home.
Is the reluctance to run players though the midfield another example of Jlo conservatism?
He’s erring on the safe side when it comes to selecting kids ahead of fringe players quite a bit too in his time in charge especially early in the season.
He’s erring on the safe side when it comes to selecting kids ahead of fringe players quite a bit too in his time in charge especially early in the season.
Serong had strong jnr numbers as a small forward and was highly rated in that area. He can push forward more, Mundy can play pretty much anywhere on the ground and Fyfe we know can play FF. It’s really only Brayshaw that is that mid only type player and given he’s elite that’s fine. Switta, Chapman, Tucker, Walters etc all these guys should be rotating through the middle to give the main crew a breather.
Yeah time will tell, but with laser kicks, express speed, and a defensive background
doesn’t make much sense with so many half backs.
Very easy for oppositions to workout Freo mids plan A.
Fyfe, Mundy, Brayshaw, Serong, then maybe Will, Brodie to be dropped?
I look at that list and allI see is excitement, burning teams to the ground.
Young is a wasted talent, get him more involved and closer to goal.
Team A is all the same pace, Mundy is the best kick at 37.
You’d like to think players like NOD and Walker will be getting more game time soon. I’m convinced that if we had not had a massive injury list last year Walker would still be waiting to debut. We would be all on here speculating is this guy any good or what, and know nothing about him at AFL level. He comes in because Jlo is pretty much forced to select him and amazingly - looks great at the level.
Is Erasmus that much worse than Banfield at this present moment in time? If he’s truly worthy of the pick 10 we paid for him, he will have bypassed and exceeded Banfields contribution by his 5th game. He might be equal or slightly lesser to Banfield contribution for his first maybe 4 games.
Is Erasmus that much worse than Banfield at this present moment in time? If he’s truly worthy of the pick 10 we paid for him, he will have bypassed and exceeded Banfields contribution by his 5th game. He might be equal or slightly lesser to Banfield contribution for his first maybe 4 games.
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This is true. I remember thinking there's no way walker was ready when he was named to debut. He was plenty ready.
is it a list weakness or a development weakness?
Both Clark and Chapman can play more through the wings, and could rotate with each other hbf/wing.
Aish has played everywhere. Tucker can play in the midfield.
Young could go through the middle.
I'm not sure about Walker's potential but if it is limited to hbf he isn't required. Try him elsewhere.
It's probably Josh Carr's call, he is the midfield coach after all, I wonder if we see more rotations this week. Hopefully JL had a word to him about it.
Well it's getting that balance right, we want to be contending right? If we add all these guys at the expense of experienced but lower impact players we will soon look like a developing team. You have to remember we have many players under 50 games and not many players over 100 games, so what happens if we start playing more under 20 gamers in place of 50-100 game players?
Aren't we discussing players like Banfield and Henry. Not replacing 50-100 gamers.
Personally I would do Henry for Aish/Colyer/Crowden and Banfield for Erasmus and think we are stronger.
Yeah just throwing up some food for thought, I've also heard Walters should be dropped, Banfield is 24 with 39 afl games and a ton of wafl league games vs Erasmus with 1 wafl league pre-season match.
For the coach and their strategic planning, it's the role that needs to be filled too. So it's not necessarily a simple matter of equating Erasmus for Banfield, but is it manageable to have Erasmus be in that defensive forward role? And if not him, then who (and how do other roles/players shuffle over)?
Yes I agree.
There is an undercurrent in the debate on here about whether we should be in development of contention mode. Of course it isn't as black and white as that.
However in our forward line without a doubt we need to be in the mode of scoring more. We will live or die by that. For me that would drive decisions for the make up of our front 6, especially with Taberner and Sturt down, and Amiss not ready.
I think what has been lost on here is that we scored 83 points on bad kicking for goal. On average kicking we were over 100 points away from home including having a crap third quarter and getting half the free kicks of our opposition. This also without our best forward, midfielder and first choice ruck. There are good signs.
Good signs but it's all going to be undone if we capitulate at home against the Saints who need to turn things around from their weak as piss effort last week.
Simply need to bring it on the weekend and start to build some momentum even without all of Fyfe, Tabs and Mundy.
Simply need to bring it on the weekend and start to build some momentum even without all of Fyfe, Tabs and Mundy.
Where’s Dave going ?
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