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Game day Tiges v GWS
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There was certainly more effort put into the match today but still a way off what is needed to win matches. What the coaches have got to do is hone those basic footy skills that let us done week in week out
Just got back too. The above is a fair assessment, though I'd add Kosi and Hugo to the positives list for today too.
Short was awful though, how bad does he need to be to finally be left out of the side, sure his stats look ok, Lots of average disposals, half arsed 1 arm tackles etc.
We are going to add to our cattle at the end of the year, we can't magic them out of thin air. At the end of the day, all we can ask for is effort at the moment, generally we aren't as good as the other opposition in pretty much every game we are playing at the moment.
Lots of ball watching hoping a team mate will do the work and get it to him so he can dink it 15m or hack it high in the air.
Even some of those dinky 15m kicks he turned over too.
His stats look ok (74% DE%) but I wished the AFL gave the more important retained ball %. Those long hack kicks that he does to a contest go down as effective disposals if they travel over 30m (I think 30m is right), but we don't retain possession from many of them.
The one on the Southern Stand side was utterly deplorable. It was a training drill kick -maybe 20m zero pressure - and couldn't get it done.
The senior players really look like they are labouring through the last half of the season, making silly mistakes. Rioli had a number of howlers, and Flossy a few typical brain farts.
We are a lot more competitive with Taranto, Hopper and Prestia in the middle. Shame Taranto won't play next week (presumably) so that they can get some continuity together. It must be a shock for the team to be competitive in the middle - it might explain why we have no structure going forward or seemingly a game plan. Interesting to compare with the run and directness of the Giants.
Just feels like we don't have a single player that can spark the team or lift the team to fight out the game. Perhaps this is part of the transition before we bottom out, but we look aimless. Back in the dark days guys like Coughlan or Tuck were capable of doing it. But no one looks likely right now.
Anyway, quite a few positives and a bit bizarre we dominated the I50's.
Now back to reading the draft thread!
We are a lot more competitive with Taranto, Hopper and Prestia in the middle. Shame Taranto won't play next week (presumably) so that they can get some continuity together. It must be a shock for the team to be competitive in the middle - it might explain why we have no structure going forward or seemingly a game plan. Interesting to compare with the run and directness of the Giants.
Just feels like we don't have a single player that can spark the team or lift the team to fight out the game. Perhaps this is part of the transition before we bottom out, but we look aimless. Back in the dark days guys like Coughlan or Tuck were capable of doing it. But no one looks likely right now.
Anyway, quite a few positives and a bit bizarre we dominated the I50's.
Now back to reading the draft thread!
Again proves the stats to be misleading & in a lot of cases useless!
We get cameos from Hugo or Steely, but the player that can spark them isn’t on the team. Maybe we haven’t drafted him yet.
No way. The Crows or PAdelaide would be VERY LUCKY to have him on their team!
If they offered a second rounder, perhaps a 2nd and pack of chips, I could understand the club moving him on...
What I noticed was the skill, speed and agility of so many small/medium GWS players and the marking of their talls in attack and defence. We should get 1 or 2 good mids in this draft but it's going to take 4-5 years to get to their level bc our young guys aren't good enough yet.
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