drdrake

Our ball use by foot is the difference

We need to wait and see going to be a long 8 weeks

We are smashing them just letting them kick goals to easy and not making the most of our f50 entries

The best thing to happen for us to have a chance to resign him was him being in Perth last week. He had his first experience what it would be like to play for a club in a 2 club town. The fish bowl where every thing you do someone is watching. The media are all over you, walking down the street isn't an easy task, going to dinner you are guaranteed some one will want to disturb you for an autograph photo or chat. No doubt he gets that a little bit in Melbourne but times it by 1000 in WA.

Our flag was built with a mix of Melbourne one club players and trading in from other clubs, would love to live in an AFL world players stayed but salary cap will always force players out of top clubs.

Give us another flag or 2 and don't really care who we lose on the way.

Beating top 8 sides is a concern. Our ability to control the tempo of the game, we can't control the footy to slow the game down when teams get a run on. This comes down to skill execution, we look great front running soon as real pressure comes on our skills really fall away

One thing that has been evident over the past 6 odd weeks, we are fumbling a lot. As soon as real pressure comes one we aren't clean. Foot skills, James Harmes is the most frustrating player by foot, you never know what you get. The kick forward that all he had to do was kick 30m in front of either Melksham or Pickett for a certain goal was the turning point last night. Add in Petracca, Oliver and Viney our midfield kicking isn't great.

Luke Jackson needs to be dropped. Played a great game v Brisbane but has been completely out of form since. Hopefully B Brown is fit Weiderman to play back up ruck. Lever for Tomlinson. Our Back 6 aren't playing that well.

It is more about making Gawn and Jackson more effective as a forward. Playing a second tall draws a tall defender whether that is the second or third tall defender. I just think our forward line needs another tall for balance, it then means fritsch gets the 4th defender making him more dangerous. What is to lose we are having 2 small mid size forwards playing with little impact each week, adding a tall for team balance might just help the forwards click.

Luke Jackson and Gawn are offering little up forward, to me we need that second tall forward for the resting ruck to take the third tall defender. Out Melksham In one off Weid/m brown/jvr Then it comes down to player fitness Oliver and Petty straight in if fit with Bedford and Tomlinson the likely outs. Or try Tomlinson as a forward we picked him up for his running capacity play him in thar TMac running tall forward roll, keeping B Brown closer to goal.

Just look flat and disinterested.

Free agency get him for nothing and all we get back will be pick after what would have been our first round pick which we all hope will be 18, which will make compensation pick 19

That comes down to pressure on the kicker. Geelong last night put a lot of pressure in the middle. Helps that they smashed us in the clearances giving them better field position, the games we have lost this year the teams beat us at our game, clearances, forward pressure, pressure around the ball and keeping a strong backline structure. Our forward line isn't working as we aren't controlling the football, we need more uncontested footy just to control the tempo of the game especially when we are losing clearances

Issue we faced last night, the club set up is for 3 tall forwards plus Fritsch and the 3 smalls that work high and then back. We are running with one less tall and the smalls are having little impact. B Brown is playing to high up the ground to compete in the air, max and Jackson both terrible. B Brown is a lead up forward we are killing this bloke asking him to get so high up the ground to create a contest at long bombs out of d50. When teams like last night dominate us at clearance we struggle to get field position and have to work to hard up and back. I hope we are training at Casey fine tuning or game plan for finals, we keep playing the way we are it is going to be a short finals campaign

We have lost our dare and just want to play safe down the line footy. It is boring and frustrating to watch.

Is he that good that you think he would go first round. If Brayshaw goes we will get end of first round pick, shame he is worth more but we can't complain to much that is what hawthorn got for buddy.

The advantage of banking early wins it gives you options. You will hit flat spots with in a season, it is all about peaking at the right time. It's a build, you need to build to be hitting top form. Some clubs need to peak early to get the hype and confidence up, others like us are fortunate to be able to map our your season to ensure you are peaking in September. Different ball game for us now

A 21 year old premiership ruckman, not a bad player to get to start your rebuild. They still have the bones of a good midfield if they can get fit. Yeo, Kelly, Shuey still have 3 to 5 years in them.

150 years of history in the competition to start with. Tassie hasn't been able to maintain a side in the vfl or u18s. AFLW, yep and moving it to late in the year no one is going to give a stuff. AFLW should have been capped at 8 sides

The AFL can not afford to massively bank roll another club. They have gws, gcs and aflw draining the bank account. Attendance is down the game is Boring and over umpired. This stadium thing is basically saying go get stuffed for 5 to 10 years and you can be some else's problem

Not that hard being a journo, I'm sure both WCE and Freo have offers in front of Jackson. Freo don't really need him though, WCE are in dire need to replace Nic Nat. They would need to back end an offer as you have a few players pulling way to much out off the club at the moment. I still think Jackson stays for 2 years and Brayshaw will be gone

Hard to predict, is the last 3 weeks the indicator or the previous 17 weeks. We don't seem to have that dare and fight at the moment. Last year we fought when challenged last 3 weeks we caved. Our remaining games is a lot harder draw than first half of year

Contested marking, last year we were taking Contested marks the last 3 weeks we are getting out marked at the contest. Max is going ok but Lever, Jackson, B Brown and M Brown just not bringing the ball to ground

In May, Rivers, Weiderman, Dunstan, Bedford Out Turner, Sparrow, Harmes, M Brown, Spargo Brayshaw back into mid rotation