Autopsy Round 16, 2021: Collingwood v St.Kilda

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Let’s get this out there ….sick of people saying he’s not being offered big dollars .he is.
Connors ( Billings Mgr ) has met with StKilda ..2 clubs have offered over $200 thousand
what StKilda have offered……restricted free agent .he why he hasn’t signed fielding offers.
Little doubt Billings has played injured , majority of the year .
Hardly trains, most of the sessions only very very light , little or no participation in match simulation.
So rest him to get better
 

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The Dunstan's, Long's and McKenzie's are relics of a bygone era of tryers. We have enough tryers who can also kick the ball without them and they're all only playing because of our outs. Who of them stays in when any 3 of Paton, Gresh, Jones, Clark, Hanners, Carlisle, Frawley, Coffield, Bytel et al. come back?
Answer? None.
Yet none of the latter players have never had 25 plus Disposals 5 games in a row,which Spook has.
 
Remove Hanners, Carlisle & Frawley from the equation. None are best 25 going forward. Paton & Clark come in for possibly Highmore & Connolly. Gresh & Jones for Billings & Ross when they are traded. Battle & Coffield battling it out for 1-2 positions. See how Wood continues to perform. On paper we have decent depth when we have minimal injuries.
Paton and Clark come in for Long and McKenzie without even the question of a second thought. Any 1 of Gresh, Jones, Bytel or Hanners let alone all shouls play ahead of Dunstan because they all bring stuff he doesn't that Crouch and Steele already bring. The last month we've plaued 4 frankly ordinary teams and Dunstan has looked good but I guarantee next week against Brisbane against another big mid group he'll get shown up.
 
Yet none of the latter players have never had 25 plus Disposals 5 games in a row,which Spook has.
Hanners certainly has and his 25 are double the quality of Dunny's. The rest aren't playing for touches bar Bytel who's in his 2nd year and who also has 18 great touches compared to 25 meh touches.
 
Hanners certainly has and his 25 are double the quality of Dunny's. The rest aren't playing for touches bar Bytel who's in his 2nd year and who also has 18 great touches compared to 25 meh touches.
Hanners is an unfair comparison. The bloke is genuinely our most talented player uninjured. Three time All Australian and a player of the year once.
 

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A win is a win but we have to find a way to kick more than 8-10 goals a game. It wasnt Collingwoods sterling defence that stopped us kicking more goals, it was our own disorganisation and game plan that seemingly bans players leading straight out in front of the footy in the corridor. Our goals came from chaos balls, free kicks and a couple of contested marks. Look how often the Pies hit a bloke lace out in space inside 50 even when they were playing poorly. Luckily De Goey is a hack set shot.

If our attack was as organised as our defence, we'd have kicked 18 and been 70 points in front at 3/4 time

Not a new problem either
 

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