drdrake

How is Davey's Knee? Buckley will only play if Davey doesn't although I'd like to see him in for Brown. No reason to play Holland, Frawley to Cloke and Carroll to Rocca, Bell get Didak, Petterd to Davies, Biz gets the next tall and Ward goes back. I would like to see our forwad line Yze Neitz Robbo Sylvia Bate Bruce Davey to the wing

The tag shows the level of respect the opposition has for you, it shows that they believe if the can stop that certain player it will best help them to win. Bruce is a hardworker, but lacks the polish of the top midfielders in the comp.

What facts that he has had one good quarter out of 40, jez he must be a superstar then. Taggers are taggers because they have limited skill but high aerobic capacity, look at ours Godfrey, most teams have one and most of the time they go to Trav or Davey. Don't get me wrong as I said Bruce is a good player he just isn't a star or great player.

Tell my the last time the opposition placed a heavy tag on Bruce. Thats one quarter out of 40 this season, he needs to do that every week or at least every couple.

Went and watched Collingwood and the Dockers last week, the Pies work hard no superstars in the team but they play well as a team and work hard for each other and have good skills. We need to play better than we did against Adelaide to beat these guys but I think we are getting better each week. I'd like tosee another tall forward come into the team to test their defense out and if Clement plays we need to push Robbo up the ground because Clement has a very good record against him, let Robbo run him around a bit. I'd line up as below Bell Carroll Bizzell Petterd Frawley Wheatley Green Mclean Johnstone Bruce Bate Robbo Sylvia Neitz Davey White McDonald Jones Johnson Newton Godfrey Ward Out Brown In Newton

Bruce is just a good honest player nothing more. Trav gets the heavy tag each week because when Trav gets the ball he hurts the oppostion, Bruce's disposal is poor and IMO other teams let him run free because with most of his possesions he doesn't hurt you and will turn the ball over regularly. Bruce runs hard and reads the footy well, just wish he had relaible disposal and he would jump into the level above just being a good player.

I would rather have Wheatley to Ward and Brown, hopefully in the near future these two wil be dropped.

Trade those players and what replace them with draft picks for kids that we have no idea if they can play at AFL level. Its good for Walls to right articles that are opininionated, but he needs too paint the complete picture, it is no point trading players if their is no benefit to the club. If a trade can be done that wil make us a better team, then yes lets look at what we can trade, but IMO the only way any of those players are being traded is to broker a deal for Judd, and that is highly unlikely.

We have 2 players that should retire at the end of 2007, Brown and Bizz and then I think we need to delist or trade another 3, I would offer Jamar to the meat market, some team like Richmond or Carlton will pick with up, hopefully for a second round pick and then we have a lot of players on our list that are good VFL players but not AFL, Ward, Wheatley, CJ(he needs more opportunities)Holland, Ferguson. One of Ferguson, Holland or Warnock will go, I think it will be Ferguson and it depends on how Frawley goes over the next few months will determine if Holland stays or goes. If it was my call Brown, Bizz retire, delist Ferguson and Ward, trade Jamar, promote Neaves gives us 4 picks. Hopefully pick 2, 18, 19,20 which is our first pick, priority pick after round one Richmonds second round pick for Jamar and our second round pick

PJ looks like he wants to play and I think once he gets more ground time and confidence he will be good for us. PJ has a disire for the contest, that was evedent when he did his shoulder last year, he wants to be in the play. Jamar just runs to positions and usually away from the contest unless it is deep in defense. Whether he has been instructed to play that way I don't know but he never seems to be where the ball is, expect at ruck contests.

Most people mention Money doesn't equal success by bringing up Collingwood, we forget that they are the last Vic club to play in a grand final two in a row and almost won 2002.

Backline looks OK, I hope Frawley goes to Perrie, Bell to Welsh though. Is this Pickett's fourth week of the club ban?

Thats because the game has been over by half time for 50% of our games and the others we stopped running for a quarter or two, the other teams go into shut down mode. Every AFL is fit and unless you are the Kangaroos last year there is not much difference between the fitness levels of clubs. It gets down to having your best players avaliable and the management of players through four quarters by the coaching staff.

Lets start to build a strong back 6 develop them together so they can learn to work for each other. Injuries permitting I would like to see our back 6 for the rest of the year as follows Whelan Carroll Frawley Bell Rivers Petterd This should be our best defense for the next 3-4 years. No Holland, Biz, Ward, Brown, Green, Bruce, Ferguson these six are the ones weneed to learn to play down back together for the rest of this year and for the next few years. Hopefully all are over their injuries and don't get injured again this season. In modern day Football I don't see the need to have two or more tall strong forwards, we have key forwards in Neitz and Robbo who can kick goals, Neitz is getting older but he still has next year and hopefully the one after so we need to focus on our Half forward line. Lets go for a more mobile line Bate, Sylvia, Pickett or change that around to include any of the following Yze, Bruce, Green, Newton, Davey, push Robbo back out htere for short spurts and even Dunn have a hard running Half forward line that can go into the midfield and also push forward to kick goals. Contested marks don't happy accross half forward every team wants to hit a player free or on a strong lead. It will also inject some stronger defensive pressure. The midfield, wouldn't we love to see Jones, Mclean and Mcdonald in the centre bounce with TJ and Davey of the wings. Thats a pretty good and balanced starting midfield.

If injuries are bad luck it must follow this guy around, Hawthorne also had a lot of bad luck injuries whilst he was in charge of there fitness. However, when you change your fitness training as extremely as we have it will take a year to adjust.

You need to look at where we look our weak areas to see what type of players we need to keep. We have to many slow tall players, two out of Bizz, Ferguson, Holland and Warnock will go I'd say the first two. Two maybe three of the following running players Ward, Brown, Wheatley, CJ, Neville, Yze and we should trade Jamar and promote Neaves. I can't see us delisting any more than 4-5 players.

With Neitz and Robbo back, Miller should never be allowed to enter the forward 50 again. I don't know we ND kept pushing him deep into the forward line when we needed a target leading up the ground. He made to forward 50 congested and got in the way of our best two forwards. Godfrey has grat running capacity but is one paced, he should never be used on explosive footballers like Harvey, Judd and Kerr. His best match ups are hard running midfielders one paced like West, Goodes, Crawford and next week Goodwin. ND get your match up right Bell should of played on Grant, I would of given Frawley first crack at Jones and Petterd would of matched up well on Harvey

could we be so lucky that Ward will be out, not Yze though he always plays well against the roos. Its no point having Robbo back if we can only manage 30 inside 50's like last week

If we win with this team, ND picks well, if we don't I can script the prees conference today, we just ran out of legs and made bad decisions. Hope it is the first, but we look on paper big and slow.

We cant line up like this we will be run off our legs, we don't have enough running players to rotate through the midfield. One of Brown CJ or Brock will come in

Laidley was assistant at Collingwood for a few years. I would employ a director of Football to be a mentor to Voss as a coach, someone part time with past history of sucessful coaching, someone with experince but no passion to coach. Maybe Ron, the living legend can come back.

You can add Bartram when Whelan is out, our back six for the future, hopefully Frawley can get stronger like his uncle after a few seasons in the weights room. That's the only player we may need to add a stronger body Tall. Hopefully this week we don't have Dunn and Miller playing, all those excited about Dunn on the wing are mis-guided by one game, he is a forward not a midfielder, with Robbo back play him at CHF Miller needs a spell. one of Cj or Brown should play hopefully it is CJ andI don't think Biz will get a game this week, our match ups down back look OK. Holland-Pettrie or resting Ruck Petterd-Harvey Carroll-Edwards Godfrey-Grant Frawley-Jones Bell to get however is left. No midfield tags needed beat them one on one. Love to see Half forward line Bate Dunn Davey with Robbo Neitz Yze behind them.

Go after Warnock's brother, playing at Freo 206 cm 2 years in the system, lets poach him back. We need a strong KPP around 196cm that can develope a strong body quickly. I don't care if he plays forward or back as long. KPP win you matches, that is the difference betwwen Carlton, Richmond to Hawthorn, the hawks used early picks for KPP and the other two picked midfielders with early picks, the hawks are miles ahead of the other two. Our midfield looks strong enough but we do need some explosive pace through there.

We should add coach, ND outcoached again, Pathetic Miller, I though Subi would suit him space long great for a lead up CHF, he didn't run gave no option coming out of defense, why ND didn't put him on Hanson after the first quarter and Dunn to CHF? Cam Bruce should never be used a tagger, he gets smashed every time. Is ND trying to retire Neita, by playing him at CHF he will expire very quickly. I fell sorry for PJ, he was made to ruck against Cox, Cox is the best ruckman in the AFL, PJ is getting better but Cox smashed him, White unfortunately is not even competitive in the centre against good ruckman. ND waits for the game to be well and truely lost before he makes changes, I thought Yze was OK in the first half then he has sent to the back pocket and wathed the ball go over his head again and again. Bell is not 6'4 at on stage he was playing on Cox in defense, bring on PJ and play him down back when this happens, don't just allow miss matches, both PJ and White have good endurance they can stay on the ground, PJ doesn't need a rest after rucking for 5 min per quarter.

I feel sorry for him, when your midfield is getting smash and turning the footy over like we have been for the past 8 weeks no Key defender would be able to stop their oponent.