Bailey needs to do some tactical changes and i think he could start by having Aaron Davey in our forward goal square, this would take yarran deep back out of the play and exploit him him. worth a shot as he will ony get tagged hard everywhere else.Davey on Judd would also be interesting although Judd will probably out run him fitness wise. But at least Davey will see how hard you have to run to be a champion of the game.

Also, i think we should bring in Max Gawn - at least if we lose we have debuted a player in the process. Blease off half back would be good to.

Bailey needs to do some tactical changes and i think he could start by having Aaron Davey in our forward goal square, this would take yarran deep back out of the play and exploit him him. worth a shot as he will ony get tagged hard everywhere else.Davey on Judd would also be interesting although Judd will probably out run him fitness wise. But at least Davey will see how hard you have to run to be a champion of the game.

Also, i think we should bring in Max Gawn - at least if we lose we have debuted a player in the process. Blease off half back would be good to.

There is only one move for Davey this week it is off to Casey,

As you say Carlton will tag him out of the game, like they have every time we have played them in recent years.

I doubt Gawn will get a run he is still very young, to play him now might set him back.

We are in no danger of winning so why feed the kid to the wolves.

I will be surprised if there is more than one change this week.

Perhaps Howe in for Tapscott.

There is only one move for Davey this week it is off to Casey,

As you say Carlton will tag him out of the game, like they have every time we have played them in recent years.

I doubt Gawn will get a run he is still very young, to play him now might set him back.

We are in no danger of winning so why feed the kid to the wolves.

I will be surprised if there is more than one change this week.

Perhaps Howe in for Tapscott.

This week will be interesting. Will Judd and Warnock be going around for the Blues or are they going to be given a spell to get over injuries in time for their next "important" game?

Rather than dumping Davey, I would like to see him given an ultimatum of perform or spend the next few weeks at Casey and maybe swap him with Maric so he can play the crumbing forward role he used to be so good at. It will be a good test of his character to see how he responds to all of the criticism that has been leveled at him after Saturday's insipid performance.

If Warnock is out, I wouldn't be averse to bringing in Gawn for half a game as a sub and if Blease is fit enough, bring him in for Tapscott. They could even do worse than bringing Cook or Howe in for Newton.

Edited May 23, 201114 yr by hardtack

There is only one move for Davey this week it is off to Casey,

As you say Carlton will tag him out of the game, like they have every time we have played them in recent years.

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I think the stay-at-home forward pocket idea is an interesting alternative to Casey. It takes an opposition backman away from the play, makes a long misdirected bomb into the empty forward line interesting. Just a few kicks for Davey there might get some goals which is more useful than five times as many kicks in the middle. It may boost his confidence which is clearly in a deep hole at the moment.

Something needs to be done to help break Davey's tag. He is just not dealing with it all at the moment, he is to important to the team for us to just yell frustrated that 'he should just be able to deal with a tag'. Clearly he is not, perhaps he just isn't at the level capable of dealing with opposition attention. Dumping him to Casey is not the answer, this just hurts the team of a quality player at a time when we just don't have the luxury.

I like the ideas of playing Davey at Full-Forward or giving him perhaps a defensive forward role on Yarran.

Another idea would be to have Davey as the sub. When he did come on, he would hopefully be fresh enough to burn off any potential tag or otherwise Carlton's structures might be more focused on players who had started the game.

If I was Dean Bailey this week, these are the tactics I would use

First our Zone, doesn't work get rid of it. If we play our forward press against a good team we will be smashed and Carlton are a good team. I would implement a new simply zone, starting with our back half we must have two players in our defensive 50m arc no more easy goals out the back. The other 4 of our back six stand on the defensive side of the centre in the middle between the square and the centre circle to out riders 15m from the boundary and to protecting the middle 5 m in from the centre square. This moves to which the side the ball is on and grabs a player as they run past. No lose player is to enter into our defensive 50m arc man up. That leaves 12 players to stop the ball coming out set up 3 players 30m out from goal 4 players 45m out and 5 players 55m out in a fan mode. If they get the ball out at least they will see our defenders in front of them rahter than open space, this will slow them up.

Next our point kick ins, I want 4 players to set up in a rectangle 25m out from goal 10m in between each player for the first two then 45m from goal 10m apart for the other 2, these are defensive players not to be used, if we turn it over we have the corridor protected. If we win the footy the two guys 45m out run to space to create and our back 6 get into position in our defensive half. Poit kick ins, if we can't hit someone kick to a point and get numbers around the fall, don't do what we did against Hawtorn and kick to the same point, mix it up change sides kick long up the middle, get some sort of code or something so we know were the ball is going. With the 4 guys protecting for a rebound have confidence.

Our forwards, don't push to high, always have 2 forwards inside our forward 50m arc, play Jurrah and Green in there, Carlton will man them up which takes players out of there zone. The other 4 forwards play from HFF to and lead, lead at the zoned player they will be stationary you lead hard to get in front of them.

Give Davey the Job on Yarren. Play Green as a deep forward, back our midfielders to win the contest and give them something to kick to. I thing that it is mental, we win the footy look up no one to kick to so we start to play defensive, we stop prop switch and turn it over keep structure and players in our forward line and don't be afraid to kick it 50m to a contest but do it quickly. That will encourage players to attack as they know they will look up and see red and blue jumpers, get Davey and Maric front and square kick it to 15-25m out from goal even to a contest it puts pressure on Carlton.

We can win this game, not by setting up like other teams but setting up the way that suits us. We have good defensive backs that can win one on one contests, we have mids that can win the footy and to me we have forwards that can kick enough goals to win this game.

maybe we can take players mobile phones away?

maybe we can take players mobile phones away?

Yeah I agree... it's terrible isn't it. I follow a number of the players' tweets including those of Sylvia, Petterd, Jones, Trengove, Watts etc and I was appalled by the fact that I have seen one tweet this morning! And I'm almost positive there must have been a lot of wasted time and distraction in getting Petterd to pose for that shot of him on the "Deloader" in the team gym.