Game Day Rustle Crow - Round 22

[Bulldogs85]

Our tacking has been terrible all season.

It’s Been quite decent the past month but today it’s been awful

 

[ExRoyboy]

The club is basically telling us they can’t find one person on planet Earth to teach these guys how to kick for goal.

I assume so because it’s been a problem for 10 years, that’s clearly long enough to identify the problem and find someone to help fix it. So clearly this means it has not been a priority or they can’t find anyone to help

 

[Shacf501]

Pretty simple Bevo .... sit them in front of you as a group, get the computer out and and show every missed tackle.

Berat Dale, Poulter and Khamis for their lack of physical efforts...

Old school!!

But no.... we will run with.... oh it's ok guys, we are trying hard.....

Hey you missed that set shot from 30m out three times in a row darce.... good try, I'm very proud of you

 

[Struggle]

The club is basically telling us they can’t find one person on planet Earth to teach these guys how to kick for goal.

Their fund-raiser would have made 5x as much if they said it was fire a goalkicking coach

 

[Marsy]

When so many are pushing for selection from the VFL team, it’s a good time to play like sh!t.
Maybe a few players need to be reminded of this at halftime.

 

[Sentinel]

Lucky Adelaide missed a few very gettable shots as well or the game would be toast. Still a chance.

 

[JTCWBFC]

If Darcy and naughton kick the goals they should were level. It’s caught up with us

 

[fred cook]

Yeah let's get a part time coach and keep our current forward coach who has kicked a total of 3 AFL goals as a forward in his AFL career. I don't care how good a thinker and communicator Spangher is our kicking for goal has been terrible

 

[Lex22]

Adelaide looked like the Harlem Globetrotters and only won the quarter by what, 4-5 points? We’re still just in the game…somehow.

Even if just two of our easy misses were converted….

No one asks for perfection with goal kicking, but you can’t keep going at below 40%.

Missed tackles really hurt us, also, am I the only the one that thought Fogarty threw that ball after having too much time? Not a word said about it commentary.

 

[Hobdog]

As soon as the media starts using the words ‘dogs’ and ‘contender’ in the same sentence, this club sh1ts itself. It’s a pattern that can’t be denied.


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[ExRoyboy]

I dunno, maybe get them to practise occasionally?
Get them a decent kicking coach?

Yeah I’ve made multiple posts about this over the past 6 or 7 years. I have implored the club to do something about it. I have likened it to practicing free throw shooting in basketball which I played at a fairly high level for many years. You can improve with practice but you can’t just practice without putting a person on the mark and trying to replicate the sort of pressure and kicks you need to do in the actual game. No point practicing without any pressure

 

[hoianbulldog]

Not much Bevo can do if they are going to kick for goal like this

Bullshyte, it has been a big problem for years. He is the frkn coach, fix it.

 

[adogsfan5]

Is richards ok?

 

[MaxiBont]

Wouldn’t mind if someone gave Ben Keays

2

Ben Keays

Age

27

Ht

186cm

Wt

86kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

13.1

3star

K

5.8

2star

HB

7.3

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

3.9

5star

G

0.4

3star

D

13.7

3star

K

8.7

3star

HB

5.0

3star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.7

4star

G

0.3

3star

D

13.0

4star

K

4.8

2star

HB

8.2

5star

M

1.4

2star

T

4.4

5star

G

0.4

3star

head a wobble

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Watched more than one team run down 30 point leads yesterday. They took their chances though, we need to do the same in the second half.

Down by 6 in contested possessions and even on clearances. Both stats that we would expect to win healthily

 

[The Inbetweener]

Including this game, we’ve only kicked more goals than points in 4 games of the last 15. Pretty hard to get your head around.

 

[bresker]

crows are going to be begging for this to end by late in the 4th

That's the spirit. I don't think we've played too badly, just need to iron out a few deficiencies over the half time cordial.

When asked if he was Irish, having been born near Dublin , The Duke of Wellington replied "Just because one is born in a stable, it does not make one a horse"

VDM is listed as a forward, and plays as a forward, but he's not a forward. He might be a sort of a horse called a donkey. And Bev is a mule.

 

[Snarls Barkley]

Is richards ok?

Should be. Ran into Rankine’s elbow when he tried to tackle him. Cut him open but he looks fine

 

[adogsfan5]

Should be. Ran into Rankine’s elbow when he tried to tackle him. Cut him open but he looks fine

I get worried with his concussion history

 

[DognBones]

We are really struggling for any system whatsoever. Some of our bottom 6 players are showing up as outclassed. Khamis has been terrible, Coffield looks very slow. Our small forwards are giving zilch and are always out of position. Perhaps it's just better to describe this as a very ordinary team performance.
PS. If you can't kick goals that you should, you shouldn't be playing at AFL level.

 

[bullish23]

This is so friggen simple. Tackling and Goalkicking.

 

[dardog]

It’s similar to the first game against freo earlier this year, isolating Buku and making us vulnerable on turnover. Don’t know if we can carry him come finals if we make it.

 

[House_of_Dahl]

Is richards ok?

Yep was just a cut

 

[ExRoyboy]

Bullshyte, it has been a big problem for years. He is the frkn coach, fix it.

I agree and have posted many times about what he can do, I suppose I meant not much he can do in game. Of course there is plenty he can do on the training track and over the years he has seemingly done nothing, but I meant not much he can do right now in the middle of the game. Its too late, they haven’t addressed it by now

 

[Snarls Barkley]

I get worried with his concussion history

Understandable. They just cut to our rooms before the ad break and he looked comfortable with the midfield group so looks like he’s ready to go