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6 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

Why can't we play just simple football?

They have no energy on half their handballs and we often take too long to assess before kicking allowing opponents to easily pick us off.  Many of our clearance handballs are also  too short to a player already covered by an opponent allowing them to tackle us out of the contest too easily.

We play too slow, and look for too many short options by hand and foot as a first choice.  Our decision making and ball movement is pedestrian and needs speeding up and we need to look outside the immediate contest more often for clearance hand balls and the next kick up the field.

Too reactionary, too slow to make decisions and playing the game too short.  Brings other teams into the game too easily.

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1 minute ago, Abe said:

Not sure we can carry both oscar and weid in the side at this stage, neither offers enough and both get outmarked to easily. May both be good players in time but not there yet 

Unfortunately we're lacking in talls to bring in. Way as well keep em in, might just learn something

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Just now, Abe said:

Not sure we can carry both oscar and weid in the side at this stage, neither offers enough and both get outmarked to easily. May both be good players in time but not there yet 

Both are still very soft. Weideman needs to eat some cement to harden him up, Oscar needs some hunger.......and a new brain.

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2 hours ago, praha said:

I'm actually really concerned about their talls. More than I was about Adelaide's. Brown, Waite can go on a real tear. 

Called it.

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Sitting in Athens airport appreciating the ball-by-ball call guys (as ugly as it is).

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Collingwood mate sms: You using our game plan?

me: Hope so... yours worked !!

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2 minutes ago, GCDee said:

I feel their spread from the clearance is killing us, so there clearances are much more effective whereas is seems ours is a quick kick forward

Yep ... we've advanced the ball from our clean clearances but most of the time that movement is stifled after about 30 metres or so.

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stop running under the ball weideman. Lewis, hit a fricken target or go back to casey.  and everyone just lift. Goodwin, get your players to lift during the week. for f%ck sake. bunch of soft [censored]!

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