Demon Dude

and you reckon ANBs not quick enough but you want Jones forward? ANB kicked about 30 goals last year so id say he's better around goals than your criteria gives him credit for. I guess it must make sense to you, but I have to disagree because it makes little sense to me.

yeah I agree, his running efforts does seem to effect his disposal and hands at times. but he needs to be better or else what's the point of it all. he seems to get in the way of his team mates a lot, so do we really need him going into the contest? it might be another part of Goodies game plan that needs looking at, considering how much our fwd line is getting beaten atm. I mean if I was an oppo coach, without a doubt, i'd be telling ANBs man to let him go, drop off him and stay deeper because he's not going to hurt you with ball use and they'll just bomb it to you anyway.

yeah ANB is pushing up to the contest as usual, but is having little impact, which is costly as it usually leaves us outnumbered inside F50. it might be time to change his role slightly and leave him deeper in the F50 as a crumber/pressure fwd, or send him back to Casey to regain some touch.

I tend to agree, its too big a job for 1 small fwd to create enough pressure. if there's only 1 small fwd the oppo aren't too worried about him, but throw another 1 or 2 into the mix and defenders become a lot more jumpy with ball in hand as its harder to keep an eye on where 2 or 3 small fwds are at, that can chase you down. get Jeffy in and tell him to chase, tackle and create pressure, to stop teams walking it out of our F50, because once they do they usually go all the way to goal up the other end.

criticism of this bloke, and TMac for that matter, is a bit rich imo. it wouldn't matter who we had down forward atm, the quality of our forward entries are amongst the worst in the AFL. I doubt Reiwoldt or Kennedy would kick 2 goals in our forward line the way we just ridiculously bomb it in the majority of the time. its the perfect set up for oppo defenders, its completely predictable and that's the way they want it coming in.

I think we need to have our wingmen hold space at centre bounces and general play, then look to have our mids kick sideways/short to them to open up our fwd 50 more. We need to get it to the outside so weid and tmac can find the space to get on the lead inside f50. Atm we are too predictable in our ball movement. Enough of just bombing down the middle from clearances. It just forms a pack inside 50 with all our blokes getting in each others way and then creates a lot of space for the oppo to run it out easily. With our lack of leg speed it plays into opposition hands and they can move it easily down field to score. We need to spread, take more uncontested marks and move it more deliberately. So I'd be dropping the butcher's and bringing in the better kicks. Out- ANB, Hunt, Sparrow, May inj. In- Spargo, Baker, CWagner, hore B- Jetta Oscar hibberd HB- Salem frost hore C- Fritsch harmes brayshaw HF- Trac weid spargo FF- Wagner tmac melk R- Gawn Oliver viney Int- lockhart kk Jones baker

I cant believe we just signed up Goodwin for 4 more years of this crap game plan.

I reckon he's right and wrong. its been an embarrassing week for the club all round. Goody did get outcoached. the only thing Cornes is wrong about is saying that Port did nothing illegal, which is not right, as you cant drop blokes off the ball like Jonas did, that's why he got fined 2k.

yeah we do that a lot. a symptom of too many inside types, like Jones, AVB and the like, playing wing etc. like I say there is a balance to be found, and we don't have it atm. the sooner we can get a KK or Baker in the side the better I reckon.

you cant chase down and pressure opponents with foot skills though. I agree moving the ball quickly will always beat running it, but its only half of the game. there is a balance to be found, and pace is certainly a handy thing to have when you don't have the ball. our midfield was very slow on Saturday, quite often when they won possession Port were off and running in waves and we were powerless to stop them, our blokes plodding along 20m behind them.

out -O.Mac, Frost, Viney in- May, Petty, Preuss OMac and Frost were pretty woeful at times. both don't deserve to play next week. May for Oscar and we may as well bring in Petty while we're at it. surely Petty has more upside than either of those two, who continue to make the most basic errors every week. I just cant see the point of playing them if we don't have to. I also think this could be one of those games where we can play Preuss to help out and protect Max a bit. we should be able to get away with playing 2 ruckmen on the skinny Geelong ground, where it will be more congested and contested game style you'd think. Vineys obviously not fit enough. leave him out until he is, otherwise he's a liability. would like to see other changes to the midfield but the reality is we already have our best guys in there, they just need to lift and work a lot harder defensively.

I disagree, he's already better than Hogan in his intended role. that's why we traded him. Hogan plays more like an oversized half fwd flanker than a key fwd and he's frightened of the big stage. that's why he always gave a poor showing in big games against top teams, and is probably the same reason why he wanted to go to lowly Freo. unlike Weid who plays like key forward, taking contested marks and bringing the ball to ground for the crumbers, and he tore it up on the big stage against good teams when he got his chance.

hope not, we got rid of Hogan for being a Hogan type.

yeah Spargo and ANB will play that role, but I want to know whos next in line if we have injuries/poor form to those guys.

so with Hannan being out for a while, and now Garletts injury, who would be next in line as a goal sneak/small fwd option for us? Bedford, Chandler, or heaven help us, C.Wagner or JKH? also can we still use our last draft pick* to get a player like that, or has the window shut on that option? edit- *spot on our list may have been a better term.

yeah I think you might be right there. small forwards like Nibbler who push up the ground to the contest then have to sprint back inside F50 run as much as anyone out on the footy field. i haven't seen him training but I watched Corey Wagner a bit in the VFL last year and it looks to me like he could play that same sort of role as ANB does too.

we start the year unsure of what our best defensive set up looks like and we end up going with playing the 3 talls in May, Frost and Oscar. which makes our defence too big and slow, plus they all proceed to get in each others way and we leak goals, before Goody realises by about R3 or 4 that that's pretty much what happened to us last year. and so he then drops Oscar and brings in the smaller, more mobile Marty Hore instead, who then manages to keep his spot in the team for the rest of the year, even when Lever returns, because by then its also become apparent that Lewis is struggling more than ever to keep up with the pace of the game and needs to be permanently replaced in the backline.

look forward to receiving 40% off the RRP of a new Jaguar when we have a win in 2019 ?