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SOLUTIONS NEEDED. 2 JUNE 2024. Memo to Goody

spirit of norm smith
in Melbourne Demons

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7 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

Perhaps we have the answer now?

Trac and Gus.

(Spot the common thread...)

 

 

Nah... this lot won't fly the flag.....   white one maybe.

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    On 07/06/2024 at 19:15, spirit of norm smith said:

    Yes I’m not sure that our issues are all effort based. Sure appears some are comfortable in their spots and are not dropped even after 3,4,5 poor weeks.  Shows how the demise in depth in the list starts to hurt you as well. 
     

    BUT FOR ME , THE ISSUES ARE MAINLY


    Lazy footy - no blocking, shepherds, body contact in contests 

    Execution errors or Poor Skills

    Poor decision making

    Slow indecisive ball movement

     

    Absolutely oHh  and its winter in melbourne Good grief!

    On 07/06/2024 at 15:09, WalkingCivilWar said:

     

     

    If you say it three times it comes true, right? 😉 

    Aparently...  yes ;)

     
    On 03/06/2024 at 13:46, DeeZee said:

    Ditch the new game plan right now.

    Go back to putting all our efforts into winning the contest, ball ups and centre bounce and pump it forward.

    Van Rooyen , Fritsch,  Kozzy, etc may benefit with the ball coming in fast .

    I know we missed finals because of this approach but it was mainly inaccuracy.

    Get back to our DNA!

     

    I reckon this too but not entirely.

    You still need players who can finesse, have great poise and vision coming inside and then deliver the ball to space (that player with ball sees) in order to draw leading forwards to the ball.

    I reckon its about 70/30 but that is also dependent on the quality of the oppo and their level of pressure around the ground.

    Just dumping it 8 or 9 times out of 10, even under little to no pressure won't work all that well against decent defences.

    Our only decent ball user coming inside (if you believe Champion Data) is ANB.  And he can't do that as effectively if being used to tag the likes of Daicos.  Which he did brilliantly mind you on Monday.

    It comes down to recruiting very good ball users in general, by trade and draft.

    Just don't recruit anyone unless they are VG or better at field and goal kicking.

    The finesse, finish coming inside is a critical point of diff imv.

    The result being more marks inside 50 in more dangerous places and better conversion % in front of the sticks.  Assuming you've chosen well here also like JVR & BBB for example.

    Minor skill improvements all over the ground can result in a marginal improvement in the above.  And sometimes that's all you need in today's game with the differences between teams (and scores) very tight in the majority of games now.

    Something i've been harping about for years now.

    Don't bother with average, mediocre (or worse) skills when recruiting.

    They need to have high level kicking skills as a starting base or they don't get picked unless they're in a purely extraction / inside bull clearance role aka Viney, Libba, Rowell etc.  That's a little different.

    Even then, if you are looking at two similar players in this specialist inside role, you should still favour the one who is showing he is more accurate by hand / foot assuming other facets needed are relatively similar imo.

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