58 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Not even just a sense of where to run but to gut run and keep running until the 'play' is finished. Someone said that run was from wing, thought it started deeper in defence and he keep on pushing through each line as he saw space open up in front in him and he didn't leave it to 'someone else' to finish it off. 

Great to watch.

A football brain. Another rarity over the last 50 years.

 

I really liked what I saw. Another natural footballer, who also appears to possess determination to succeed. 

Think about it further.

Petracca, Neal-Bullen, Oliver.

All Mid/Half Forward types, who hit the scoreboard when up forward. And none of them soft.

Ok, none are proven, but you can certainly see where our recruiting staff have been going here. A clear strategy to add players who can add value in more than one position, even if its only creating a fierce contest. Valuable commodities in a reduced interchange era.

add vandenberg and brayshaw to that list.

3 minutes ago, DemonAndrew said:

add vandenberg and brayshaw to that list.

And Harmes

Both correct. Its a nice change yeah?  And again, all hard nuts, every one of them.

 

Kent and Garlett too

5 hours ago, Akum said:

What I like is that we're putting together a really balanced multifaceted midfield. They're not all extractors, or receivers, or bulls, or gut-runners. It's the midfield as a unit, not any single midfielder that's the key. 

Having said that, the one thing it probably does lack is speed, but it's possible to make up for that with quick ball movement. Which would also be a welcome change.

I would far prefer quick thinking and quick ball movement to a team of Bleases !!

ANB almost won us the game coming in as the sub against North.

22 hours ago, faultydet said:

Think about it further.

Petracca, Neal-Bullen, Oliver.

All Mid/Half Forward types, who hit the scoreboard when up forward. And none of them soft.

Ok, none are proven, but you can certainly see where our recruiting staff have been going here. A clear strategy to add players who can add value in more than one position, even if its only creating a fierce contest. Valuable commodities in a reduced interchange era.

Midfield groups that kick a large volume of goals are a key ingredient in any seriously competitive side.

The strategy seems to be clear that we are putting together a team of competitive beasts.

22 hours ago, Cards13 said:

Not even just a sense of where to run but to gut run and keep running until the 'play' is finished. Someone said that run was from wing, thought it started deeper in defence and he keep on pushing through each line as he saw space open up in front in him and he didn't leave it to 'someone else' to finish it off. 

Great to watch.

Do you remember which quarter that goal was in? It was definitely the Geelong game right? I'm trying to find it on the replay to relive its awesomeness but can't seem to find it.

42 minutes ago, Dees_In_October said:

Do you remember which quarter that goal was in? It was definitely the Geelong game right? I'm trying to find it on the replay to relive its awesomeness but can't seem to find it.

From memory it was the first - we were kicking to the right of screen.

Massive call but... I think petracca could have as big or an even bigger impact than Jesse Hogan did last year! 

 

He's our Jake Stringer 2.0

1 hour ago, Peter Griffen said:

Christian Petracca ......He's our Jake Stringer 2.0

That's funny you should say that. I was saying to a mate on Friday that several of the top draft picks were being compared to Jake Stringer when in fact I reckon Jake Stringer should be compared to the track ie Stringer is the trac mark 2.

I'm not sure he'll make the same impact as Hogan but there is a few similarities. One is that the Trac has sat out a season, another is that he now has an AFL ready body. Another is he has an X factor and also shares the Hogan swagger.  A gun.

I suspect he will play half forward and be a very hard match up given the best back will have to go to Jessie, a decent player will have to cover Gartlett and if fit Kent will pose some problems in terms of match ups. 

Looking at photos the track is a beast, almost too big. Big in the legs he'll be hard to move off the ball in the way that Leigh Matthews was and he will be a real handful. I reckon 25 goals is a possibility. If he stays fit he is likely to play all games and is great vale for the Rising Star at $6.50

On 11 December 2015 at 0:49 PM, Vagg said:

Thanks for the report, Roger.  I've commented on the numbers thing before.  Would be a nice touch if the Club would go to the effort of sticking numbers on the players' training shirts.  Can't be that hard, and would sure help our intrepid Demonland Reporters!

Barrie. A highly respected man like yourself should have a big influence and hat you say should be gospel at the club.......at least until there is another Premiership HFF anyway. :-).  Just tell them to do it!

3 hours ago, Peter Griffen said:

Massive call but... I think petracca could have as big or an even bigger impact than Jesse Hogan did last year! 

 

He's our Jake Stringer 2.0

Fitness will be Petracca's issue. Hogan's a good endurance athlete, Tracc isn't and still isn't in full training. 

He won't kick 40 goals either, but if he combines with Hogan, Garlett etc then suddenly having a potent forward line with multiple options might change the way we play and improve results. 

Hogan and Garlett were a huge part of us going from 4 to 7 wins. Petracca could be worth another win or two which is heavy praise on a young kid in a team sport (and also an indictment on our forwards of previous years).

11 hours ago, monoccular said:

Barrie. A highly respected man like yourself should have a big influence and hat you say should be gospel at the club.......at least until there is another Premiership HFF anyway. :-).  Just tell them to do it!

LOL.  The REAL Barrie Vagg might wield such influence!  Alas, I must confess to being a pathetic imposter!  Albeit, I was a big fan of the great man! 

19 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

Do you remember which quarter that goal was in? It was definitely the Geelong game right? I'm trying to find it on the replay to relive its awesomeness but can't seem to find it.

Here you go, first quarter it was, this is the actual goal. I've watched this game on replay many times! The ball starts about 30 out from our own goal, and goes coast to coast.

You can see ANB behind the wing as Lumumba takes off:

http://www.afl.com.au/video/smart-replay?round=CD_R201501412&matchId=CD_M20150141206&eventType=Goal&seek=1201&videoQuality=high

12 hours ago, Georgiou R.R. Martin said:

Fitness will be Petracca's issue. Hogan's a good endurance athlete, Tracc isn't and still isn't in full training. 

He won't kick 40 goals either, but if he combines with Hogan, Garlett etc then suddenly having a potent forward line with multiple options might change the way we play and improve results. 

Hogan and Garlett were a huge part of us going from 4 to 7 wins. Petracca could be worth another win or two which is heavy praise on a young kid in a team sport (and also an indictment on our forwards of previous years).

A forward line consisting of Hogan and Trac both crashing packs will have the opposition worried. Include leg speed of Kent, Garlett, JKH, ANB and Kennedy to get the loose ball - it's starting to look like a pretty potent line up!

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12 hours ago, Georgiou R.R. Martin said:

Fitness will be Petracca's issue. Hogan's a good endurance athlete, Tracc isn't and still isn't in full training. 

He won't kick 40 goals either, but if he combines with Hogan, Garlett etc then suddenly having a potent forward line with multiple options might change the way we play and improve results. 

Hogan and Garlett were a huge part of us going from 4 to 7 wins. Petracca could be worth another win or two which is heavy praise on a young kid in a team sport (and also an indictment on our forwards of previous years).

 

Not so sure.  He has been working on his fitness almost non stop for many months now, even back when the rest were playing footy.   Could end up a surprise packet.

18 minutes ago, monoccular said:

 

Not so sure.  He has been working on his fitness almost non stop for many months now, even back when the rest were playing footy.   Could end up a surprise packet.

A surprise for me would be Petracca not being fit.

2 hours ago, DemonDave said:

Here you go, first quarter it was, this is the actual goal. I've watched this game on replay many times! The ball starts about 30 out from our own goal, and goes coast to coast.

You can see ANB behind the wing as Lumumba takes off:

http://www.afl.com.au/video/smart-replay?round=CD_R201501412&matchId=CD_M20150141206&eventType=Goal&seek=1201&videoQuality=high

How wicked would it be to do that to them again next year!

If only i had time to watch that whole thing again!

 

2 hours ago, DemonDave said:

Here you go, first quarter it was, this is the actual goal. I've watched this game on replay many times! The ball starts about 30 out from our own goal, and goes coast to coast.

You can see ANB behind the wing as Lumumba takes off:

http://www.afl.com.au/video/smart-replay?round=CD_R201501412&matchId=CD_M20150141206&eventType=Goal&seek=1201&videoQuality=high

Thanks! Love an (almost) coast to coast!

2 hours ago, Wormburner said:

A forward line consisting of Hogan and Trac both crashing packs will have the opposition worried. Include leg speed of Kent, Garlett, JKH, ANB and Kennedy to get the loose ball - it's starting to look like a pretty potent line up!

JKH has no leg speed...

Watching that makes one wonder why Dangerfield supposed to make that much difference and I don't think he will....