My 3 word player analysis V The Poos

[Jarka 767]

Let's for a moment, consider you are right Jarka.

Neita, we all know as a champion and struck down before he was due. Nevertheless, he is gone.

At what stage, did we draft anything that resembled his understudy?

Surely, we did not need a crystal ball to find that out. FFS, it told today when it mattered.

But, as I asked in my original post, could someone please tell me what our game plan is, because as sure as hell, I have no idea.

OK, alright, yes I am stupid.

iva, if you've read my posts over the last 3 years you'll realise that I completely agree with you about our lack of key forwards, or more accurately how we've failed dismally to have some sort of replacement plan in place.

Watts is the only person on our list who stands out as a KPF, but he still shouldn't play before he's ready.

I hope two things happen this year...

1. We receive a pp pick before the 1st round

2. Butcher develops into the star he looks like he could be.

A forwardline with Watts and Butcher looks bloody fantastic, but there's alot of ifs to fall our way for that to happen.

[drdrake 3,062]

Your gameplan is only as good as the players you have. In 2007 our list was meant to be top 4, what we found out is that the older players bodies started to break down, our list was unskilled in the basics of Footy Kicking, Handballing and Marking and finally that our recruitment was rubbish. In two years we have seen the older players either retire or be delisted and the long serving unskilled delisted. Unfortunately you have a draft that gives you a top 25 that will play AFL and the rest of the draft is a lotto so you still need to persist with some players that don't have the skills to execute your game plan. So what do you as a coach do, draft kids with the skills that hopefully in 3-4 years can display exactly what your gameplan is.

Don't forget we have picked up in the last 2 drafts 6 top 25 picks, 5 of them we have seen either very little or not at all. All 6 if you go by recruiting reports have good skills mainly by foot. The 1 we have seen a lot of Morton can play and will get a lot better.

Today we played an elevated Rookie, and 3 players taken +30 in the drafts. All four showed enough today to suggest they have the skills to play at this level and we only hope they have the work ethic needed to be a 150 gamer.

We can not hit tarkets that is the main issue and until we have players that can hit targets at a high percentage we need not worry about Bailey's game plan. Bailey needs to improve our skills or get players that have better skills, once he does that and if he can do that then we worry about a game plan.

[iv'a worn smith 1,979]

So let me see if I understand this coreectly.

We don't need a game plan until we can get the skills right?? In the meantime, our confidence, as a team, disappears up its own rectum..

Regardless of the talent we have, we need a game plan. Chook, Morton, Beamer, Jones (who in my view was great today) Junior (who I am sure would not like his game today as a skipper) Bruce, Davey and Green, did not seem to have any idea, despite their undoubted talent, what the dish off options were. We went wide, we held the ball up for excrutiatlingly long periods, only to turn it over.

We should be better than that. North, probably much to their regret, have never bottomed out, but they continue to have a go and with purpose.

All I ask is that we can demonstrate a purpose, even if it does not work.

I am yet to see it under Bailey. Like I said before, I hope I am so, so wrong.