JimmyGadson

Matt Rendall is an ex-recruiter (made redundant by Collingwood) and is trying to stay relevant. I'm not sure him saying 'this is not a super draft' means that it's not. It's one opinion. Even Cal Twomey was rightly questioning him on how early he is writing it off. The bloke is a nonce.

Yeh. There's a lot there. But I will give you a simple one. If a Melb player has the ball, in space and under no pressure and the kick results in a direct turnover, that's a serious error . And it's an unforgivable one if it happens in our defensive half of the ground or when we're going inside 50 and have players open. And we are soooooo good at executing these types of errors. Everyone can forgive a certain number of miskicks, fumbles, miss-handballs etc throughout general play and especially through the middle of the ground. And under pressure and heat, errors like these are part of football clearly so I'm not talking about those clearly. Sometimes I wonder if dropping a player would actually wake them up. Like, sometimes I watch Gus Brayshaw with ball in hand under no pressure and wonder what the [censored] he is doing. There should be a price paid for unforgivable errors that continue to happen. Players who continue to execute them need to be dropped. Just as they would if their 'effort' wasn't there. The polarising thing is that decision making and executing under no pressure is effort. It's about [censored] concentrating, kicking with intent and having a will to want to make sure you hit that open target. And if you don't, go and [censored] practice it at training. Either that, or drop some players until they realise that when you have the ball in open space, you need to protect it. And that the same premium should be placed on having care for your disposals as it is with defensive running or bringing the ball to ground or scrapping in a contest. I never hear Goody say, "Geez our fundamentals were off tonight and we just let them back in the game". Other coaches say it all the timeeeee. And every ex-footballer in the media knows how poor we are with ball in hand. Dunstal bangs on about it all the time. Im sick to death of it.

There are errors and then Errors. We have a habit of fluffing the unfluffable. Which ultimately costs us games. Both offensively and defensively.

Agree. That one-on-one vs Rohan was a poor effort from May. He was there at the contest and decided to try and body Rohan rather than contest the ball. I think I'm going to make a compilation of all the errors we made that were unforgivable. Another player who is having a down year and looks lost and fumbly when the ball hits the deck.

The way we play the majority of the time fails to excite, which imo contributes to our supporters either not wanting to rock up and/or doesn't give our supporters much to cheer about. Kosi is about the only excitable player on our list but he's been a shadow of himself for the best part of a month. We have nobody else that excites. Not even Trac. Forward of centre, he's about as reliable as a chocolate teapot when it comes to kicking goals in general play and set-shots. Against better sides, our inability to kick goals from great opportunities and looks forward has been atrocious for two years. Two years. Even in the wet last night, we had so many opportunities going forward that we just waste. When will we actually address this? They talk about method and that the club have worked on that over summer. But it's clear to me it's a personnel thing more than anything. Miskicks, kicks straight up in the air, kicks to the advantage of a defender. It all comes down to the individual and we are stocked full of players who consistently display poor ball use. It doesn't change.. One quick fix for the rest of the year imo is to move Salem to a half forward/centre forward mid role. Take out one of Sparrow, Jordan or even ANB. Give Spargs ANB's role for a few weeks and sacrifice a bit of that run with a ball use. One of Bowey or Salem need to play forward centre. We just cannot hit targets going inside 50 and let me tell you, they are there. Always. I'm just completely vanilla mids in Jordan and Sparrow. We need other types in there. And we are desperate for a mature aged key position forward who knows where to lead, when to leave space and can contest hard.

Quality post. Agree on all but Fritsch. If he can't get involved offensively, he needs to do more than what he's doing off the ball. His defensive efforts are embarrassingly bad.. Interesting observations regarding where we're instructed to kick to... I still think if we had some more polish, ball use and composure, some a lot more of those kicks would be at the very least to a leading forwards advantage.

Every loss and win dictates your ladder position so to say it means nothing in the context of the season actually makes zero sense. Of course it means something. But it doesn't mean everything

It actually doesn't matter who the [censored] is in our forward line at the moment with the way the ball comes in. It's been happening for years and we lose in the same way and have for two years. Even in our flag year, the games we lost were just the same.

We will 'take the learnings'. And Geelong need 'full credit because they were outstanding'. Whatever you do Goody, don't give away the fact that this team has the worst list of ball users inside the top. A list that has unbelievable talent. Just not in areas like composure, ball use and decision making.

Also Fritschhh hahahaha... Has eyes for goals and goals only 100% of the time. That bit of play was unbelievableeeeee. Could have given it to anyone straight away but opts not to, last minute gives a one metre handball to Nibler who is immediately under pressure. So gross.

Smith expiriment over imo. Doesn't have the smarts. Is all athlete.

Lol. Tackler holds the duty of care. Do you understand the game?

It was an illegal tackle. What do people expect lol

Fritsch awesome tackle. Does he think?

We can run them off their feet all we want but if we keep turning the ball over under zero pressure, it ain't gonna mean a thing. That's us in a nutshell tonight and always when we're at our offensive worst.

Gus Brayshaw. We had 30 second and he had the ball with zero pressure. On the wing. All it needed was a kick to the advantage to a forward (at the very least). What does he do? Kicks the ball out on the full. It is genuinely astonishing how often we do that sort of thing. And from him in particular. Its just so lazy.

Imagine if Geelong had Danger, Cameron, Guthrie and Menegola. Game over. The way we pick and choose which games to be 'on' for is embarrassing.

How's sparrow's kick inside 50 with zero pressure. Unbelievable. Sparrow, Jordan. Clones of what we have but without the talent. We just can't kick. As soon as there is pressure. Or rain. It's so so bad.

For a side with this much talent*** I should have said that. And that can't be questioned. It's a disgrace.

This is the worst skilled quarter of football I've ever seen us play. Petracca needs a rocket. Fritsch, Brayshaw, Rivers, langdon. Absolutely disgusting. So lazy. No care. Arrogant.

An accurate kick gets to its target quicker than a ball carrier takes to get it there. They're both important, obviously. And for different reasons. Positionally speaking. But to suggest that we don't need ball users and only ball carriers is a bit silly. A winger's ability to run all day is clearly super important, especially the way in which we deploy ours. But even Langdon's good line breaking comes undone with his poor ball use, more often than I'd like. (Yes, I'm obviously still aware of the importance of his run and how valuable it is). The decision to let Frost and Hunt go is proof of what I'm saying however. There's no point being a line breaker if you turn the ball over the majority of the time. And I can't say we miss them for that reason exactly. We don't have a problem with run. We have a problem with ball use, execution and decision making. Plain and simple. We are a forward half team, we consistently get the ball inside 50. But we fluff so many opportunities due to our lack of composure, ball use and execution. We've built a list to compete in September which as we all know differs from regular season football significantly but I swear to god we're about three players off from being unstoppable. Whilst we still have Max and May playing solid football, we need to address this in the off-season. One inside/outside mid with ball use, class and x-factor (Duursma) One small high half-forward link up player with elite skills in the Papley role (Watson) If we could land these two, I'd be ecstatic. Might be hard. But I digress. Ed Langdon. Great player. Onya Ed.

If he's worthy of the pick and worthy only...

How did Duursma go, anyone watch?

Can't wait to see what Taylor and Lamb do with our draft hand, no matter what it is come end of season. And regardless of how we go this year, the injection of highly talented youngsters into our mix next year will bring rejuvenation and a new wave of excitement going into 2024. Especially if we nab an excitement machine or two. Two top 10 picks should be our aim and one more inside 20. That's achievable for sure. Watson, Duursma and a key forward is my wish.

@Bring-Back-Powell Thoughts?