go take a look at facebook once in a while. as soon as hanners comes up people get pretty hyperbolic themselves about him. Though I admit I probably used too strong a wording on this forum. Have been browsing the facebook pages when Bigfooty is quiet and its really been melting my brain
Well that’s your first mistake!
And you may even be sitting next to them at the footy for all you know…
you ever glance over and see someone refreshing bigfooty at half time? True sign of degeneracy
That would be me!
7 more than Dunstan? Tim Minchin looks good with a star studded team around him, a high tide lifts all boats.
Will probably come in the top 3 in the BnF
We have 2 very good midfielders in Steele and Crouch but we need that midfielder who can break open play and also be dangerous around goals.
With Gresham out with Billings it is going to be interesting who plays this week - Hannerbery for Billings / Bytel or Owens for Gresham.
Plugger, myself and a few others have been steadfast in our adherence to this basic sporting concept for a number of years now.
Well again all I can say is some have a different opinion of Guthrie than myself. I think he is nearly their best mid. Get enough contested ball and clearances so I’m not sure he is relying on others. Anyway as I said if our midfield has all these very good players then obviously it’s the coach. I don’t believe our midfield has anywhere near the right balance. I think the midfield is pretty much the standard of where we sit on the ladder. Good individually but average as a group. I think they would love to play gresh mainly forward but due to the same same and the lack of ability for 3 to play elsewhere he plays more in the middle than they would would like.
Well if we got him, and he proved to be a great player, I would be wrong in my assessment of a footballer which is not unusual.
Do you know what the funniest thing about that article is?He probably is their best mid but that just reinforces my point. They aren't a stacked midfield. They are an adequate midfield. Their best talent is in defence and up forward.
Our midfield isn't making the most of itself so you either blame the players or the coaches. Carlton have an over supply of inside mids and it seems to have not hindered them.
Go and rewatch the Sydney v Saints game, watch their mids set up. They have set plays. They will sacrifice their own run to hold and scrag to free a team mate when the ball goes in a particular area. We just all run at one ball. We look like under 9s with a very confused system.
They do it in defence too, I would look at all of the guys under Ratts and find some strategists. Rath probably needs to go if he's our strategist because it's certainly not working and he's hard a good run at implementing some of it. I'll leave you with one of his inspirational quotes.
“Our philosophy, I suppose, is that it’s a game, so it should be played,” Rath added.
Inside Ratten's coaching philosophy with 'football guru' David Rath
David Rath’s strategic mind and experience in the AFL industry has him with a finger on the pulse to the game’s subtle changes and wider evolutions - and it shapes as a major benefit to the red, white and black.www.saints.com.au
I personally mainly blame the coaches. We currently have Ben McGlynn as our midfield coach, who played at Hawthorn and Sydney for 10 years, mainly as a small forward/tagger. He moved to an assistant coach for 2022 after being in charge of stoppages in 2021, previously being the small forward mentor. Think about our midfielders of the 90/2000's. Hayes and Harvs. Both have been coaching, Hayes as midfield coach at GWS who had arguably the best midfield throughout their good years, and Harvs who stepped up to Collingwood coach last year. Why don't we have a look at either of them as the proper mid coach as they will be experienced, tactical and a major improvement
So you would rather them to Marcus Windhager, Jack Higgins, and Sinclair off half back? Obviously we got better players to play the same roles.
No worriesHe probably is their best mid but that just reinforces my point. They aren't a stacked midfield. They are an adequate midfield. Their best talent is in defence and up forward.
Our midfield isn't making the most of itself so you either blame the players or the coaches. Carlton have an over supply of inside mids and it seems to have not hindered them.
Go and rewatch the Sydney v Saints game, watch their mids set up. They have set plays. They will sacrifice their own run to hold and scrag to free a team mate when the ball goes in a particular area. We just all run at one ball. We look like under 9s with a very confused system.
They do it in defence too, I would look at all of the guys under Ratts and find some strategists. Rath probably needs to go if he's our strategist because it's certainly not working and he's hard a good run at implementing some of it. I'll leave you with one of his inspirational quotes.
“Our philosophy, I suppose, is that it’s a game, so it should be played,” Rath added.
Inside Ratten's coaching philosophy with 'football guru' David Rath
David Rath’s strategic mind and experience in the AFL industry has him with a finger on the pulse to the game’s subtle changes and wider evolutions - and it shapes as a major benefit to the red, white and black.
Exactly. He is the perfect modern half back.
