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I agree 100% with this. Also wonder why, when this is so predictable, we never win a crumb from this pack situation. Time and time again it is knocked forward towards their goal and we have no representation. Or it goes over the back and again we have no representation. The football IQ of our crumbers makes Sumich look like a Rhodes Scholar.Kick ins - We need a plan B.
We currently have 2 variations on the same plan A
1) Ryan looks around, makes it seem like he's assessing his options, then bangs it to the back edge corner of the center square where we almost never mark it or win it at ground level.
2) Ryan chips it 17m to a player (keeping in mind you could literally just run to that exact same spot) where said player assesses their options, then bangs it 7m further than our first variation and possibly closer to the boundary where we almost never take a mark or win it at ground level, but sometimes get it out of bounds 80m out from goal.
We do sometimes have a pulled kick version to Cox about 55m out right on the boundary but didn't attempt that today as they were manning up.
Kick ins should be better. It's ball in your hands and something you can work on.
We have NOTHING.
I did. Freddy and Emmett put on no pressure. They weren't in position to crumb either, so every time the ball hit the ground Essendon were able to clear it effortlessly.
1 point is flattering, we honestly should've loss by more. Accuracy flattered us
Agree. It's fine, but it seems even when Darcy and Jackson are there we can't seem to win itI agree 100% with this. Also wonder why, when this is so predictable, we never win a crumb from this pack situation. Time and time again it is knocked forward towards their goal and we have no representation. Or it goes over the back and again we have no representation. The football IQ of our crumbers makes Sumich look like a Rhodes Scholar.
I was not overly surprised at the result given our previous performances in crunch games. We have lost a number of close ones through sheer panic and lack of composure.
As my Dad used to say - I'm not angry, just very disappointed![]()
Hate the comparisons to the midfield of 2013-2015, but absolutely would back Suban, Barlow, Fyfe, Mundy locking it down and forcing every stoppage to be a wrestle.
Stuff talent if Young, Brayshaw, Serong don’t want to man up, get in hard and create chaos
There is a reason why Suban and Deboer played so many games in a midfield that contained Fyfe, Mundy, Barlow, and Neale. That is the kind of player our midfield is missing.
Darcy was on light training which suggests he was injured more than we realised. The Derby obviously messed with him. He had a hard head knock from Pettracelli as well as a hard knock to his knee.What lesson is there to learn today that they shouldn't already know? Momentum begins and ends at the centre bounce. That starts with the ruckman and Darcy let us down big time today. The lack of support by the other mids didn't help either. A clearance dominant midfield should not be getting smacked in their strongest area of the ground.
JLo and the coaching staff are still a fair way from premiership material.
I say that when I repeatedly see the same mistakes and flaws being replayed game after game and even year on year.
Two glaring examples:
one, our repeated inability, in our losses, to stop oppo clearances out the front of centre bounce. Its a mortal crime and we have failed to reliably be able to revert to a plan B when the opposition get on a multi goal roll.
Two: we are such a poor forward 50 tackling team. In order to tackle, you have to actually man up and not guard space. If you want to see a really good example of a super fast, super talented, super ripped strong forward, extraordinarily poorly coached in the art of forward pressure, such that he can go multiple whole games without laying a single tackle, watch a guy called Michael Frederick.
You can also see poor coaching as Walters, Schultz, Freddy et al fly for marks and never are front and centre of the talls for the spoils. Our crumbing is non existent and sure, better personel might help but it still has to be coached.
Players choked tonight but coaching have to share some of this.
I didn't know that, makes sense then.Darcy was on light training which suggests he was injured more than we realised. The Derby obviously messed with him. He had a hard head knock from Pettracelli as well as a hard knock to his knee.
Maybe he shouldn’t have played today. They had Reidy there ready to go.
It could’ve made the difference between a win and a loss.
Seriously? Forwards, accuracy, Switta and Young. The rest was crap, far more negatives than positivesEverything is clouded by the result.
There was so much good in today's performance.
It's kind of like the antithesis to the Sydney game. I can't even remember any of the bad parts of the Sydney game because Logan missed a shot on goal.
Well done on so aggressively proving my point.Seriously? Forwards, accuracy and Young. The rest was crap, far more negatives than positives
I didn't, but well done on being cluelessWell done on so aggressively proving my point.
I think the main negative is again capitulating in the last quarter, proving we aren't contenders until we stop folding under pressure away. Essendon played 50x better than the last few weeks as expected and are an 8-10 team because they aren't terrible.Seriously? Forwards, accuracy and Young. The rest was crap, far more negatives than positives
Which is why we need either Bolton and/or Warner.There’s only so many times you can put Aish or JOM in the centre square and lose dramatically before the blame goes on the coaches. Just in the last fortnight Aish is a massive liability, yet they go to that well again.
I've always liked this quote from David Foster-Wallace:I didn't, but well done on being clueless
I think this is it. We're good at defending score from our front half. We were good at it today by the numbers.I see 2 sides to the pressure in our front 50m.
A) We are spaced out heaps better. In other words real 1-1 contests. Obviously if you lose then it may bounce out.
Previously we may have been able to tackle heaps, but it can be a misleading stat because it may mean we’re bringing numbers to a contest and that can be counter productive to getting shots at goal.
But yeah. Would be nice if we had some crumbed goals.
He's been doing that for the last 3-4 years. We have very poor plans to get the ball in after a kick in.Kick ins - We need a plan B.
We currently have 2 variations on the same plan A
1) Ryan looks around, makes it seem like he's assessing his options, then bangs it to the back edge corner of the center square where we almost never mark it or win it at ground level.
2) Ryan chips it 17m to a player (keeping in mind you could literally just run to that exact same spot) where said player assesses their options, then bangs it 7m further than our first variation and possibly closer to the boundary where we almost never take a mark or win it at ground level, but sometimes get it out of bounds 80m out from goal.
We do sometimes have a pulled kick version to Cox about 55m out right on the boundary but didn't attempt that today as they were manning up.
Kick ins should be better. It's ball in your hands and something you can work on.
We have NOTHING.
He's been doing that for the last 3-4 years. We have very poor plans to get the ball in after a kick in.