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On 14/06/2025 at 06:28, Howard_Grimes said:

This should put to bed for good the excuse that in the past our lack of efficiency came from having shots from 'lower percentage areas' like the pockets. Sure that could be factored in.

But.

The overarching reason we are so poor in this area and bottom of this particular list is down to having a a large group of players who lack composure overall. And it'd be fair to say most of that comes from open play shots on goal. And it's been this way for years.

Kicking ourselves out of games, literally. All over the ground but especially going inside 50 and at having shots on goal.

This is the thing, this whole theory of has having shots in low percentage areas is flawed. Because even from those "low chance" shots we should be getting them 40-50% of the time. The killers are the 25-40m kicks that are either in front of goal or on a slight angle, we suck at them and would miss them far more than we kick them. These are shots that for an AFL player should be bread and butter. Hell even Sparrow's snap is a great example, most players in other teams kick them, we don't.

This issue with goal kicking has been slowly killing us for a while, now we are in the bottom 4 because of it.

 
1 hour ago, Romey said:

It looks like our most accurate goal kicker is less accurate than the entire Geelong team average.

That is embarrassing, to have our best kick be hitting just a tick over 50%. Honestly our players should be filthy with themselves and be doing something about it.

I've said it before I'll say it again, they should be paying fines (going to Jim Stynes charity) for missed shots until this problem is resolved. I'm absolutely fed up with this now.

22 hours ago, Demonland said:

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You'd really hope someone has walked into the coaches meeting with a copy of this and said "any plans boys?"

 
On 15/06/2025 at 22:31, GS_1905 said:

AFLPA limit training time is what I’ve heard. The players would have to do it on their own accord and own money.

How much is kicking a ball at a park these days ??

Unsurprising stat but depressing all the same. We cant just repeat whatever we are currently doing. The evidence is in. No more emails/pres conferences about we have been working on it, etc. Fresh actions swill speak louder than words.


Given we have one of the worst forward lines in the league on paper and we have a bunch of midfielders in Trac, Viney and Oliver (although in fairness the latter two are decent set shots for goal) that slaughter the ball, should we be surprised that our conversion is beyond disgraceful.

What intrigues me is why the opposition are also supremely accurate week after week. Our combined “against” score is the most accurate in the comp. So therefore on a given day we’ll be terribly inaccurate while the oppo will be the complete opposite. It’s killing us.

The only solace I’ll take is that you can’t argue with law of averages, which means that we’ll start having games where we kick more goals than behinds and vice verca our opponents…well at least I hope so!

More horrifying facts:

Since the Brisbane game:

FOR - 59.78

AGAINST - 64.38

35 more scoring shots than the opposition. How we came out with a 2-3 record instead of a 4-1 record is an indictment on all parties.

We've thrown our season into the bin in two tranches:

1) Incompetent football between rounds 2-5.

2) Gross inaccuracy between rounds 10-14. Heads need to roll inaccuracy if we're being honest.

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On 16/06/2025 at 12:08, Wells 11 said:

Add the atrocious goal kicking to the fact we gave up 2 x 50 metre penalty goals as well as a double goal . Given we fluffed a chance at the other end for them to sling shot it actually ended up being an 18 point play. Then add the 3 goals they got after the frikn siren. Too much sheer stupidity and [censored] standards running around this team.

This encapsulates the frustration we all share

brainless footballers doing brainless things with low skill as well

 

The key to goalkicking is drafting/recruiting players that can kick for goal. The majority of core skills and technique are locked in by 18yo. You can finesse/improve but if you start poor you will generally always be poor. T Cloke, N Reiwolt etc. no matter how many years of practice.

So at least we are starting to correct that with Langford and Lindsay etc but we need a couple of fwds obviously. JVR is a lovely set shot just need him to get his mongrel back ASAP


What an incredibly weird and uninsightful article and the response from the coach.

"If you look across a bigger period, whether that be three, four, five years, our ability to convert is actually sitting OK.
"This year it's not to the level, but it's one of those things, the more you talk about goalkicking, the worse you get.

They're going to have more fun evidently but no explanation of what that means.

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'Refreshing': Demons rethink approach to turn goalkicking...

After a season blighted by poor goalkicking, Melbourne is releasing the shackles ahead of its must-win clash with Gold Coast

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