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I have no problem with competition for spots, that is great. But we don't have a midfield and an excess, even if it is only a percieved excess, should be utilised. Good decisions need to be made.
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That is what Richardson did on his wing when he played well enough for you to bring him up a few posts ago. Swing forward or back a kick ahead of the play and hurt the opposition. From this learned football watcher: Watts may be forced out of the forward line by Clark, Dawes, Hogan, and Howe, and Fitz may be surplus to requirements entirely if two of Jamar/Spencer/Clark/Gawn dominate the ruck tandem.
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Yeah, I don't see it. Mahoney is there because he is the Interim Head of the FD surely. I don't even know what Viney's role will be next year and with the Hun saying that contracts will be negotiated by the Head of the FD - Viney's future role may be diminished further (he didn't do that - Harrington did, but I could see a Player Personnel role for Todd in which he did that). Maybe Player Development Manager/Coach? That's my role for Craig though...
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It doesn't really stifle anything. Personally, I would trade Fitz for a mid and get Watts to emulate Richo. See, I did that without a coach...
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It's called a paywall and if you have Chrome you can just copy and paste the last bit of the URL and search for the article on Google and get around it.
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Yeah, you mentioned this in the ridiculous Trade Dawes thread. Dawes is a FF. Watts is not. Fitz is not. Watts still has physicality issues and is not built like Dawes. And neither is the subject of this thread - I get the love for Fitzpatrick. But he is 200cm tall and I do not believe he has the size (bulk) to be a FF that can take a defender away from future focal point Hogan. Dawes can protect Hogan, and allow the club to not ask everything of the talented kid; we always ask everything of talented kids. Clark, Watts, and Fitzpatrick are more mobile talls and I very much doubt our half forward line can take all of them. That doesn't mean that the surplus of Watts and Fitz must be traded but it does open the possibility.
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You really think that he is not worth $500k a year until he is 28? He is a bullocking FF with a great attitude and leadership skills who will provide protection for a star-in-the-making Hogan. And Watts will never have a solid body like Dawes, nor his penchant for contact. And Fitzpatrick is a wiry, slight 2m beanpole who may develop into a poor man's Mitch Clark. There is no chance those two progress past Dawes in 2014 or any point in the life of Dawes' oh-so-terrible contract.
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Oh, FCS, put "Kate Upton" into Google Images and go nuts.
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...you guess.
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There may be little value in him leaving, especially if we want to get involved in signing FAs ourselves... Yay, I guess.
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We have our long awaited bullocking FF and we trade him because Hogan may be better than him, and Fitzpatrick and Watts may continue their recent good form? I am all for being ruthless to get a decent midfield but I would be looking at players we didn't just bring in who have delivered and are leaders. Too many sept away by promise. Dawes is. Hogan will be. And Watts and Fitz may be. You trade the latter group.
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This is what I am talking about - Jetta is a mid. Tapscott doesn't get to the right areas, Kent is a baby and a mid, Bail is a mid, Blease is a wing. Only Davey and Byrnes are small forwards and they are both about to retire or a year away from it. Get a good small forward to work at the feet of Dawes, Hogan, and Clark and it will mean we keep the ball down there and are a more dangerous proposition.
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196cm small forward... The idea is that Hogan and Dawes don't have to create a contest and then be asked to fight it out for their own crumb. I don't think we should fashion a forward line that sees Watts close enough to their space to crumb from them. Watts will bring his defender into the contest, and you don't want another 190cm+ defender competing with Hogan in the air. You want to isolate him and his man, and get a small into his area at the right time. And you cannot just plug a midfielder into the forward line and call him a small forward. If he doesn't get to the right areas and if he doesn't kick goals - he is going to be easy to defend. You have to have a small forward who is aggressive offensively and can also play a periphery role.
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As they might - Jackson has confirmed that we approached exactly 1 person. Tough to frame a market on that isn't it? "At this stage it could be Roos or no-one." Frame a market on a coin toss. And these coaching markets, and political leadership markets are just gimmicks. Cheap stunts screaming for attention. They know nothing. That's my point and you seem to agree with it.
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Yes, but I baulked at your assertion that we should 'get midfield types who get their own ball and kick goals'... It's much easier to find a small forward and make them useful up the ground or in a complimentary role. Teaching mids to play small forward is tough. Get a crumber, who reads the play well and has kicked goals and teach them a complimentary role.
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Yeah, well I refuse to believe they know any more than we do; Roos is the only one that has been contacted, he is first on the list of coaches we want, and he hasn't said a definitive 'No' yet. And just because only Centrebet got in the paper does not mean it wasn't a PR stunt for the other agencies. The Coaching markets are all about cheap controversy.
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rjay - you are being far too simplistic with this 'Small Forwards don't exist anymore' spiel. They do exist, but some have had to bring another skill to bear so as to avoid being one-dimensional as you say. Rioli goes into the middle and is aggressive in his defence work. LeCras goes up the ground linking with the midfield. Stokes runs through the midfield. But these guys, and others, are dynamite around goals. If you ever play in a team with dominant tall forwards (which I do) and you don't have a small forward smart enough to get to the right areas (which we don't), then you really feel the effects of wasted entries forward (which we do). A small forward who can read the play and be useful when he is not kicking his 3 goals are a great resource and definitely a priority once midfielders are found.
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Yes, we need good midfielders. But that doesn't mean we can't walk and chew gum at the same time - we can look at the defence too. As for these two players - lol. The OP doesn't even include them both in his revamped best 6.
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Bail is contracted for 2014.
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I will just throw out something for all those that bemoan 'list cloggers': if you have to replace someone with no future (a clogger) at the club with Teenage Pick 85, you have to keep that Teenage Pick 85 for two years. Whereas you could have kept that 'clogger' for one year and moved him on then. Digest that.
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I could just read myself... http://demonland.com/forums/index.php?/topic/34205-don-mclardy-resigns/page-6?hl=+bad%20+list%20+management I am all for looking at the real reasons we have a bad list, but let's not blow it out of proportion. It wasn't one or two stupid Freo like decisions. It was a decade of amateur behaviour.
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What if the betting agencies simply listened to what Jackson said last week - that only Roos has been contacted. So, in a one horse race, surely the only horse offered the job would be pretty short odds, wouldn't you think?
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When?
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It's a gimmick! If they 'knew' something, they would suspend betting entirely.
