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1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

That's the first kick I thought when I wrote that comment. That would have been easily 50m? Was just low and bullet like. Can't wait to watch Jetta this weekend.

All of 50. Brave too. 

I'm hoping for a dry deck on Friday as I reckon if dry wc will give cats a real touch up.The cats simply can't score enough.

 
11 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

I watched Lewis Jetta on Thursday night and I can happily say he is by far one of, if not best kicks in the game. Absolutely love watching him with ball in hand.

Aaron Davey back at his peaks was one of the deadliest kicks in the game also when he was playing off half back.

Gws have some brilliant kicks too. Kelly, finnlayson and Whitfield in particular.

A key skill players need these days as opposed to say 15 years ago is the ability to weight a ball over zones and into pockets of space and the quick change of direction diagonal kick. Both very tricky and both reasons why so many kicks get turned over and intercepted across hb.

17 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

I watched Lewis Jetta on Thursday night and I can happily say he is by far one of, if not best kicks in the game. Absolutely love watching him with ball in hand.

Aaron Davey back at his peaks was one of the deadliest kicks in the game also when he was playing off half back.

Agree he was super......

 
22 hours ago, Stretch Johnson said:

Agree with all that.   Another incredibly frustrating part of our game was our tendency to crowd the contest, both aerial and on the ground.  That stems from panic and again a loss of confidence.

Our whole game was compromised and each problem bled into the other.  Skills are the easy thing to single out,  but they are partly symptomatic of a host of other issues. 

This would be a coaching issue. And the reason we have cleaned out the coaching ranks.

2 hours ago, Laughing Goat said:

Agree he was super......

Jetta fires long low bullets. A joy to watch. Davey from memory was much shorter but yes, very accurate

The only one that we have to match Jetta would be Melksham.


On 9/8/2019 at 3:06 PM, jnrmac said:

There are numerous poor aspects to our game plan, players skills and player positioning that the coaches don't appear to be able to identify - or at least be able to rectify. Playing Jones & Lewis on the wings is one (and Tyson last year), Fritsch down back.

Allowing opposition teams to chip the ball and play keepings off against us is another.

Not sure why you are so confident they know what the issues are.

 

So once again it's all just Simons fault.

No accountability for the playing group? 

Keep spinning that broken record, the longer you say it the more likely you'll be spot on.

One thing I have noticed is that Jones has developed his ability to kick with both feet....maybe Brayshaw's influence.  He is now pretty reliable on both sides.  For me, one of Viney's huge flaws and failures to lead is his failure to develop a right foot.  Great footballers and great leaders find ways to eliminate their weaknesses.  I still think he's a good player but..........!  How often do you see Pendlebury, Selwood, etc waste a kick these days?

 

On 9/7/2019 at 11:37 PM, Fork 'em said:

 
If you're working hard into space and your teammates are continually butchering the delivery it makes it tough to keep running with confidence that they'll actually reward your effort with a decent disposal.

Double edged sword.

This is / was one of the key issues this season plus the fact that we had a forward line pretty much incapable of getting separation on their opponents  often enough to present a regular target (incentive to kick to or kick to favoured side where player can run onto the ball).

It is a dual edged sword which only works if both sides are sharp and you have clever/classy ball users coming from mid field and beyond to deliver.

Outside of Big Maxy, Tracc on odd occasions, Melk and the occasional decent pass from the usual bombing mids, we just don't have many quality ball users outside of 50 who are capable of consistently finding targets or kicking beautifully weighted kicks to the favoured side.

Having said that you also need the occasional big pack mark around the hot zone inside 50 from occasional big bombs and/or chaos worm burners to mix it up.  However even this wont work as well if other forwards aren't playing their role and leading their defenders away from that zone/contest.  How often do we lament other teams doing this against us yet we are often left complaining about how crowded our forward line is.

We don't really have that KF pack marking impact option either.

Then there's the lack of quality smalls to feed off that latter situation (front and square or out the back) when the pack mark isn't taken and the ball spills free.

As many have said and i've said so often over the past year or more, our list is completely out of wack with too much emphasis on slow plodding 'see-ball-get ball' mids.

The mix on this list needs a major overhaul.  I would anticipate an improvement / bounce back off a very low base next season but might take three to five seasons at the trade table before we start seeing a serious phoenix type rise with regular finals appearances & cred.

 

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