Our main problem has bee an inability to get the ball between the two bigger sticks at the end of the ground. Our forwards have been abysmal, as has the delivery to them.
Exactly. Also if our mids stopped blindly bombing it into the forward line via the stratosphere or kicking it directly to the opposition it would help.
The other issues up forward:
1. The ball rebounds out of our forward fifty too easily due to lack of tackling.
2. All of our forwards go up for the one mark and don’t spread.
3. There is nobody crumbing effectively.
4. The players all seem to be scared to have a shot at kicking a goal! They prefer to pass the responsibility to another player who then gets tackled, the ball spills free and the opposition rebounds to kick a goal.
5. Out tall forwards don’t supply good leads.
Petty, Keilty and Oskar Baker are NQR VFL players who have been seriously underperforming at Casey. You don’t seriously want to throw them into the team when even our best players are playing poor football. That’s a recipe for disaster!
I went to the pre season game in Shepparton. That’s how we’ve played the last three AFL games: as if we have a disjointed bunch of men on the field with no cohesion, no plan, experimenting with useless newbies.