Lol you are a sycophantic muppet, mate.
Stop trying to please others with your posts and you might come up with something worth reading.
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Lol you are a sycophantic muppet, mate.
Stop trying to please others with your posts and you might come up with something worth reading.
Timid response.
I’m trying to help you here - as your schtick offers little in the way of footy knowledge, I’m encouraging you to be funnier, to bring something to the table.
Lol again. He doesn’t need your help, mate.
TBH you come across as a bit needy, a bit too eager to please.
Yes, this. By any measure his game on Friday wasn’t good enough.
Dimma and co. should, IMO, look at someone like a Stack or Cumberland to provide much needed polish off F50 aerial contests.
TM no one knows what you’re bangin on about half the time and this post certainly fits that category. Don’t try and explain it.
Still used everywhere bud. Bloody hell I ain’t young but I’m tippin not nearly as old as you.
But I’m sure the grandkids liked your #
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I'm not sure why I'm in the crossfires here but I'm stoked that you're thinking of me.
Wasn't sure where to put this post, but George's thread is as good as any.
A lot of posts pointing towards our forward personnel being the reason for our loss, or should be dropped,
Sure we'd like more impact from MJ, George or even Jack on the weekend, but here's a tip - They ain't the reason we got beat.
Let's take individuals out of things for a sec:
We kicked 15 goals on the weekend. Only one other game this year has a team done that and lost (in 100 games). What are we expecting - 17 or 18 goals to win?
We have also kicked the second most points this year of any team.
Our ball movement and forward line as a unit are actually functioning unbelievably well - Elite.
If you want to vent and apportion blame do it where we are losing games - Our complete inability to stop teams scoring.
12th in defence. And even worse per inside 50.
And don't give Leysy the injury stuff - Collingwood, Hawthorn and now Sydney have all sliced us up over the past month.
If talking reason's why we lose - It aint George, or anyone in the front half. It's our defensive game that is the cause.
Particularly:
Teams are walking out the front of stoppages for easy entries.
Tarrant is a bust and if being honest - over the course of the year: Grimes, Vlastuin, Broad et al are below previous performances.
Tough on some champions, but we need to face facts, overlook what might seem the obvious, and put focus where we are actually struggling.
And it ain't with ball in hand.
Seem like most want to fix the accelerator when we're already the (2nd) fastest car but the brakes don't work.
A lot of posts pointing towards our forward personnel being the reason for our loss, or should be dropped,
Sure we'd like more impact from MJ, George or even Jack on the weekend, but here's a tip - They ain't the reason we got beat.
Let's take individuals out of things for a sec:
We kicked 15 goals on the weekend. Only one other game this year has a team done that and lost (in 100 games). What are we expecting - 17 or 18 goals to win?
We have also kicked the second most points this year of any team.
Our ball movement and forward line as a unit are actually functioning unbelievably well - Elite.
If you want to vent and apportion blame do it where we are losing games - Our complete inability to stop teams scoring.
12th in defence. And even worse per inside 50.
And don't give Leysy the injury stuff - Collingwood, Hawthorn and now Sydney have all sliced us up over the past month.
If talking reason's why we lose - It aint George, or anyone in the front half. It's our defensive game that is the cause.
Particularly:
Teams are walking out the front of stoppages for easy entries.
Tarrant is a bust and if being honest - over the course of the year: Grimes, Vlastuin, Broad et al are below previous performances.
Tough on some champions, but we need to face facts, overlook what might seem the obvious, and put focus where we are actually struggling.
And it ain't with ball in hand.
Seem like most want to fix the accelerator when we're already the (2nd) fastest car but the brakes don't work.
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Leysy, I agree with a lot of what you say, but the problem is up the ground. Yes, the defence have had issues. But Vlastuin has played well at times, Grimes is still Grimes, Tarrant has been a bit off but some decent play.
We seem to have no answer when the opposition get a run on. I reckon the way the game is played now it ha become harder to stop a run on and harder to keep the ball in your forward 50. But it is still possible.
Do we have the personnel to stop an opposition run on? That is a big question. Short in the middle means we have a player who has been in defence for most of his career in the middle. Pickett has been in good form, if he can come back in form it will help a lot. KMac needs to lift, he is capable. Castagna is not justifying his place and we need a better option. If the pressure rises in the middle and the defenders step up plus having Balta back, we can improve this.
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We seem to have no answer when the opposition get a run on. I reckon the way the game is played now it ha become harder to stop a run on and harder to keep the ball in your forward 50. But it is still possible.
Do we have the personnel to stop an opposition run on? That is a big question. Short in the middle means we have a player who has been in defence for most of his career in the middle. Pickett has been in good form, if he can come back in form it will help a lot. KMac needs to lift, he is capable. Castagna is not justifying his place and we need a better option. If the pressure rises in the middle and the defenders step up plus having Balta back, we can improve this.
DS
I agree with almost all of this.
The question is whether you consider George a forward.
Certainly not a traditional one.
And often not a positional one either.
No doubt, a certain percentage of his role is negating. Taking something away from the opposition. My position over the last two years is that he hasn't been doing that well enough.
I posted a month ago that we were playing well. We seemed to be defending the ground better than 2021. Stopping teams from transitioning from defence to attack via the switch. Combined with the year long potency of our attack, we've been thereabouts in every game (bar Melbourne), even in our losses. Conversely, we seem to have gotten a little poorer in this regard during our recent streak of wins. Probably an older team.
But I've always seen George as a weak point. Because he runs so ineffectively. Last year, I could see opposition teams taking the Aarts highway as a route to goal, simply working the ball through his opponent. This year, it's unfortunately been Castagna. You can kick to Castagna's man knowing that he'll probably misread the play, and run in circles, or he may take a mark, then hand it back to you.
He plays as a very very high forward for this. And runs hard back in to our forward line when we're attacking. But I really don't think he's doing either the up the ground work, or the attacking work particularly well.
It's a problem.
Nicely done TBH and no, you are light years beyond the gallery of muppets I am engaging here
Leysy this isn’t true for what happened on Friday.
Yes we scored 15 goals but a) with higher than usual accuracy and more importantly b) clearly it was a game where more was required to beat Sydney on their small oval.
Repeated entries onto Jack’s head in the second half was easy street for their defenders.
We badly needed some forward craft either in the form of a medium marking tall (Caddy gone) or a skilled small (stack or Cumberland).
As much as I have defended him, George was a liability for this game. We were a man down.
Structure or no structure, the law of natural selection in a footy club means he gets a spell.
Otherwise you are correct - our points for and our forward efficiency look great in general.
I think Teague is doing a great job but is occasionally hampered by defensive requirements from the head coach.
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I know I’m just a muppet but thought you should know Caddy has retired. Unless out of favour is the new way of saying retired?
Perhaps Teague is a part of the problem. Carlscum could attack but were abysmal at defending the turnover n rebound n it cost him his job.
Now we're still attacking well, but we're struggling at times to defend both from losing the initial midfield contest and the rebound from our forward half.
We go o.k. when we maintain our high pressure game n force the oppo into a lot of rushed dirty ball footy. As soon as our defensive pressure drops away in our forward line or through the midfield we get slaughtered with coast to coast ball movement.
George struggling to have any input
Jaaack slow n getting slower
Shedda struggling to keep up
Lamblett struggling to play
Dusty brain fart absence n struggling for form
Prestygiocomo injuries
Cotchinator slowing
Moju, Raaallph, Rossy n Dow still learning their craft. Stacky n R2D2 not yet stepping up.
Got a huge amount of senior forward n mid talent just not quite up to scratch at the moment n the kids are still trying to find their feet. We've never played a pretty game of footy, we've always beat up on teams with relentless heat n pressure. Doesn't take much for our game to turn into a *smile* show in a big hurry if the heat n pressure drops away.
