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Surfer Dee

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  1. Wasn’t too bad. Need to get Windsor and Kolt up to 20 games ASAP. Look for improvement in the back half of the season this year. Hopefully young players come on and we pop a bit. If we’re about 7-7 after 14 rounds I wouldn’t be stressing. 

    I reckon Laurie will be a player. Need to get him to 20 games too.

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  2. We need to average two goals a game more next year imo. 
    Assume we target accuracy every year so even though this is the most relevant way to improve I'll ignore that here.

    We just need a clever, crafty forward. Not a freak, just someone to kick 30-40 a year. That might be Petty...

     And a lock down defender. 
     

    Don't panic, stay the course, keep our strengths strong, bring our forward line up to afl average or slightly better and we're golden. This team will compete for 5+ years. 
     

    The window is not closing, don't burn it down, small improvements will make the difference.

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  3. 4 hours ago, Demonstone said:

    At 170cm, he'd struggle to reach the ceiling.  It's his only flaw.

    Nice.

     

    But seriously, small players are dominating the comp right now. If you can step, take the game forward and have X factor around the goals then height counts for very little.

    Contested marking is the most overrated stat in the game. Teams must average what? Maybe 10 per game??? Pfft, give me ground level hunters with goal sense. Every. Day.

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  4. I'm something of a stats man ala Binman. I believe that, overtime, statistical dominance in key areas of the game translates to scoreboard dominance.

     However, the Dees have an issue. I believe that we lose more games when the expected score predicts that we should have won than any other team. I wish I had access to the predicted score database over the last few years because I would like quantify that statement but I'd be surprised if it's not the case. 

    So, I now believe that there's something more intangible going on that the stats aren't telling us. I feel like we're the reverse Collingwood. We lose when we should win and they win when they should lose. 
     

    So what's going on? I feel like there's something in our gameplan more significant than straight kicking. Our mistakes often cost us easy goals. Our full ground defensive web takes a huge amount of effort and I'm worried that it leaves us spread out too thin to run in waves on the turnover. It feels like the goals we concede are easy goals, where as ours are the result of brutally hard efforts and contest work. Teams seem content to play the game in our forward half, causing congestion and basically forcing us to kick stoppage goals.

    I'd love your thoughts on this. 

    I feel like we're good enough to beat any team but we make everything harder than it needs to be. This is why these losses are so frustrating.

     

     

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  5. Massive yes to this guy. Ignore his height, it's never been less important. This kid can dance, makes a moment into something special regularly. Do people think Tom Papley is too short? Or do they hold their breath when he gets near it? The latter imo.

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  6. The surface level critique of Trac when he was drafted was that he was arrogant. I would now describe him as self aware. Completely comfortable with talking honestly about himself - his strengths but also his weaknesses. 
    Could there be a better personality trait for a professional athlete to help them deal with constant criticism and praise and use what they need to improve themselves? A bad misread by St kilda and it's been our great fortune ever since.

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  7. 8 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

    i'm going to go slightly against this...

    whoever we pick with our first pick this year i expect to be part of our starting side

    we've not had the opportunity to inject high-end talent since dog, koz, and rivers at the end of 2019 - all were regulars in 2020 and premiership players the year after

    be it duursma, mckercher, sanders, watson, or another, i'm expecting we'll be bringing in a 'ready-made' player at the pointy end of this year's draft who by natural talent will become a part of the side immediately

    I get what you're saying but Kozi and jacko played early on in 2020 but would you call them 'ready made' plug and play talent? 

    I reckon it was the next year before they were impact players. Have either hit their ceiling yet? Probably not.

    i guess what I'm saying is I want a high talent ceiling not a physical specimen that dominates against kids. They can of course play straight away and hopefully impact but that shouldn't be the priority imo.

  8. Brutal game. Insane intensity. Forget top two, that was the type of footy we need to be playing. That'll get us to a prelim (anything can happen from there). Undone by a few lucky bounces, kicks that fell short and a damn good midfielder in Cripps. Nothing to be ashamed of here, let's replay it in September.
     

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  9. Forget his height. Kid is an impact forward. Wins contests in the front half. Kicks goals. 
    We crush our opponents under the weight of a brutal contested game in the midfield. We need players to take advantage of the i50 opportunities we create. Love this kid. Forward line of JVR, Jefferson, Fritsch, Kozi and Watson sounds like a handful in 2-4 years to me.

     If he displaces Chandler and co.??? No worries, he's depth or a trade piece. Hardly an issue to me.

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  10. My vote is for two top ten picks if we can swing it. We have Petracca so our need for Reid is slightly reduced. I'd argue there's value around some of the talls at this draft...

     I'd be targeting an impact forward, and a key defender. That may be dursma or Watson...

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  11. Best win since '21 GF.

    Grundy stays in the vfl. Trade him if possible. 
    Kozi remains further up the field. Running back towards goal he just looks so lethal. 
    Trac phenomenal. how many 4 goal, 26+ touch players are there in the league? Worth every cent of the $1mil he makes. 
    Gawn just huge. The opposition just cannot compete with that kind of dominance. 
    loved Rivers at the end. one on one wins and driving his legs and moving the game forward.

     If we're going to be serious at the end of the year we need to keep competing like this. Loved it.

     

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  12. I love the pod and Binman's positivity about our team but I see some serious flaws in our game plan. 
     

    We're so inefficient going forward that other teams actually want us to play in our own forward half. This leads to the opposition getting the ball 9/10 times. Then they take the risky option. They go down the middle, they go fast and they try burn us with speed. It's risky, and it leads to turnovers. However, we're one of the worst teams in the league at turning a turnover into a goal. So the risk to the opposition of playing this way is mitigated. 
     

    We bludgeon ourselves all night in the contest but other teams just need to be vaguely ok in the contest and flood our backline, then they go for it. 
     

    We need to move the ball from the defensive half with speed at least sometimes to break the pattern.

    i just think we're easy to coach against because you know what we'll be doing before we do it and it requires a defensive system to be perfect. 

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  13. I now feel quite happy trading all three of our available r1 picks for a top 5 pick this year if the player we want is there. We might rate Philipou as top 2-3 talent. If we lose Jacko and replace him with another x-factor young player, I'd be happy. More than ever I think high end talent breaks games open and wins flags. You can draft a million role players to fill out the rest of the team but IMO 3 x pick 13 < 1 x pick 2.

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  14. We got screwed but no one is to blame. Nothing Tim Lamb could have done. Jason Taylor will weave some magic from here. Good chance we trade out of the draft on the night if someone we like the look of isn't there.

     I'll boo Jacko once or twice but my heart won't be in it. His fingerprints are all over our premiership cup.

  15. Anyone familiar with the NHL? I believe the salary cap and trading setup is what the AFL needs to emulate.

    A third year player like Jackson, out of contract, would be a restricted free agent. If freo offer him a big contract we have option to match it. If he walks, we get compensated based on the contract.

    If he were contracted and the team he wanted to get to doesn't have the ability to satisfy the controlling team in a trade, then bad luck, you can go somewhere else or stay.

    Also, the AFL needs to remove the PSD. Why does this even exist? If a team cannot be satisfied by the destination club, the player should return to original club under a standard one year contract. If this were the situation, Freo would have to offer something reasonable. Currently they have no incentive to pay market value for LJ.

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