Due to the impotency of our forward line or some would say our game plan, I have decided to compile a list of quarters of fooyball played by the Demons in the Bailey era that we have scored 1 or no goals in a quarter. Make of it what you will.

2008.

27 out of 88 quarters.

2009.

21 out of 88 quarters.

2010.

12 out of 44 quarters.

Not much improvement, even this year when we have won a few games.

Ever since the Neitz days we havent been able to generate or sustain a consistent cohesive forward line- merely an array of hopefuls curtailed prematurely by injury and the usual suck ass luck we seem to have. deflated. go dees.

Ever since the Neitz days we havent been able to generate or sustain a consistent cohesive forward line- merely an array of hopefuls curtailed prematurely by injury and the usual suck ass luck we seem to have. deflated. go dees.

Your right BUT!

Having Neitz & other forwards allowed us to hide a myriad of weaknesses behind the effective scoring ability of those talented goal scorers.

This time their doing it the right way.

This year's goal (and victory) drought pretty closely corresponds with the injury to Petterd.

Since he went down we have really struggled down forward. I under-estimated his impact. His ability to find space and kick consistently is seriously missed right now.

He ain't coming back anytime soon so it could be a tough second half of the year.

Here's hoping Dunn's Casey form stands for something bigger.

I think Robbo was delisted prematurely. At least some target would have kept a bit more purpose in the game plan. Millers inadequacies were obscured when Neita and Robbo played. As a lead up forward, his one skill of leading and chest mark had a place. As a prime target he fits in well at Casey.

The fact that we have no targets up forward contributes a lot to this.

Also, we've had more bursts of goals this year than we have previous years. Didn't we kick 8 in one quarter against Brisbane?

I think the fact that we don't play any forwards has something to do with it. Bailey needs to keep players at least 2 in our forward 50m, the amount of times we get the footy through the middle and don't have targets inside 50 it stupid. If you don't have players waiting for the opportunity in the right spots you miss the opportunity to score. We push our forwards that high up the ground that it is easy for defenders to stand of them and get back to block up space.

One other thing we are not good enough to allow teams to play loose men in our forward line and the worse thing is we cause it Bailey goes safe and puts players behind the footy, this is great for our defensive stats but bad for our attacking stats. Play 6 forwards, play 2 deep inside the 50m tell the small forwards to get to the contest use the three mobile HFF Sylvia, Bate and Dunn to give options through the middle and hit up a leading forward Watts, Green. If we can't hit a leading forward put the ball on the top of the square no shallow 50m entries when we turn the footy over say from 35-50M out we get hurt on the rebound to much.

It is great stopping teams from scoring but we need to be able to score to win games.

Edited June 6, 201015 yr by drdrake

For what it's worth, this is from Cameron Schwab on Twitter: Had a few comments about our forward line. Project it forward a few years with a developed Jurrah, Watts, Bennell, Jetta, Morton +++