drdrake

No idea

I think it is the percentage of inside 50m that result in a score so 100 entries they will score 19 times.

As soon as we accept that we will use Casey as our Summer base and that we will get a HQ at Gosch's Paddock the better we will be. Whether that HQ will be on the corner of Hoddle and Swan or Over the Carpark near the current training oval will the only real sticking point. The next is getting funding so we need to find our angle, you need to have something that adds to the community even if it is a small percentage of the complex, I really hope we are looking at the Reach Foundation located in the Jim Stynes center of being the best that you can be.

We need a quality midfielder with speed and that can hit targets, outside Langdon we are still a bit slow in the midfield and we don't have any elite kicks in there.

The back 6 last year was by far our best unit, they have continued to improve and have the opportunity to be together for the next 3-5 years outside May, Lever, Tomlinson, Rivers, Hunt, Salem still have a lot of footy ahead of them.

Yep, TMac has the spot he keeps it whilst form is good. M Brown will make way for some one, I think it will be B Brown. I don't think B Brown/Weiderman/Jackson/TMac can all fit into the same side, three off them do with Fritsch who really plays a hit up leading forward as well.

He is a defender that had run and dare but couldn't kick, that was his issue ran off HBF great but turned it over and was then out of position. Seems to be kicking with in his limitations now hitting targets and picking better options. Also helps that our back line balance hasn't been this good for a very long time. May/Lever/Jetta/Tomlinson/Rivers/Hunt/Salem they are a strong unit with confidence. Salem and Hunt have the confidence to create off half back knowing that the other defenders will work to cover their man.

Do it like NFL, play State of Origin the week before the GF with all non GF teams players available or rebrand it to an All stars game east coast QLD/Vic/NSW/Tas V SA/NT/WA. Get rid of the bye after the season and have it before the GF, give players a chance for the new concussion rule as well. Missing a final is hard but missing a GF due to the 12 day rule would really suck.

I went to the border Albury/Wodonga a bit a few years back, basically every person I visited that had boys playing footy their kids very signed to GWS academy. Clubs will sign anyone they get priority access to, sign 1000 and hope there is 1 they can get on the cheap. On a side note do we still have our father/Daughter academy? The Swans do a heap of development in their academy and are seeing massive rewards from this. The Victorian/SA/WA have extremely limited priority access to Academy players whilst the northern states I believe still have priority access to anyone in their zone.

GWS had a very simple game plan, stop us scoring and get us on the rebound. They basically played a 2 man forward line with every other player behind or around the ball. Once they won the ball it was a mad dash forward. Worked well in the 1st qtr with fresh legs but then tired. The lose of players didn't help. It meant our forward 50m arc was always congested, we adjusted to move the ball through our spare players. A win is a win, wasn't pretty but we grinded this one out.

I'm involved in a local based club, we book and pay for the slots we use, our cricket pitches are covered last week of March. We have rocked up to Junior matches/training and pick up groups have removed the cover, set up games on the oval and protest aggressively when we tell them this is a booked slot. Good for us now the council has gone back to dumping sand on the pitches so they can remove the temporary covers we did have. If we aren't using the oval go for it, the issue that casual groups face is you want to use the ovals the same times the clubs do, after work and weekends. So who should have priority access to an oval, the paying tenant or casual users that get upset as they don't want to pay anything?

Kev, you have the same opportunity to book facilities as long as no one else has booked these and as long as you pay to book. I have no idea which other councils they are comparing pricing to, the going rate out in my area is about 6-10K per season depending on the hours of usage. That would be the rate for Training 4 nights a week 5-8pm and match days 8am-6pm Sat and Sunday.

He is a role player, nothing flash but does what he is asked to do. The third rock we need down back

Nick Smith, had to feel for this guy just couldn't get a run at it. Luke Molan, Aaron Rodgers, Mitch Clarke, Chris Dawes, Jesse Hogan really every key forward we have drafted/traded in since 2001 falls into the 426 category,

Richmond are well drilled and all players play there role. Dusty has a big role and with out him you are most likely right but that is irrelevant as they have him and 3 cups. Pettacca has an equally important role as Martin. Like Martin, Petracca alone doesn't win you flags, helps but needs all other players to play their role

There is nothing going on in the Footy world outside AFLW. We will always be the easy target for comments like this because of our performance. Only one way to shut the journo's up.

Like your post. AFL is a job to the players and staff. Like any job it is different from other jobs, different skills are required as you point out, outcomes can sometimes be taken out of your control as you are chasing an oval shaped ball for a living, this uncertainty is in most industries just different variables. It is a job and with that comes certain levels of expectations, you are expected in all jobs to execute the skills of that job at an acceptable level, you need to show the required application at you work place, adhere to certain work place standards. The members of an AFL club are shareholders of that club. When you have an underperforming business the shareholders need to question why. The club makes statements to in a business sense push their stock market price higher, when those statements are followed up with the required performance they need to be questioned. Agree with you yelling and screaming are in the past, most younger people these days put up the brick wall and you get nothing out of them. The bottom line is we are an underperforming business that needs to lift its results. The fear is we don't have the right staff to take the club forward. The next 6 months will show us which direction the club is heading.

Yep, more words. A few years back they would have sold memberships but I think any Melbourne supporter is sick of words.

The hardest thing being a Melbourne supporter is going to games not knowing what side will turn up. We are either on or we are off and the gap between the two are a mile apart. Every club has bad games, the good clubs don't go from looking like a top 4 team one week to a bottom 4 team the next, their good and bad aren't that far apart. This isn't just the Bulldogs and Richmond games this year, this is basically been a massive issue for our club for an extended period of time. We have turned the personal over players/coaches/administration/conditioning/medical, we have seen periods of a little light that we can be a successful club but this is short lived. Jackson had us on the right path with assistance of Roos the future looked bright and now we seem lost again. It can be turned just takes the right people at the top, look at Richmond was a powerful club in the 70's, it was us and them the laughing stock of AFL, one club is still being laughed at the other will be in contention for their 4th flag in 5 years.

I agree with your comment about the intensity and this should be a non negotiable, we are very hot and cold with our intensity levels. On Skills, I can't believe that we have so many bad kicks in our side. How can one club draft so many players that fail to execute a fundamental skill of the game. Our recruiting team went over board for 3-4 years drafting contested ball winning players and to me it was more important to be able to win the ball at the contest then disposal. Top level players should be good to elite kicks, I reckon we only have a handful of players that would be rated as good AFL kicks, we don't have any elite kickers on our list Salem would be the closest we have, most would be poor to average. Once a player hit 18/19yo it is bloody hard to improve kicks especially under AFL pressure. Is drafting the wrong players culture, no it is mismanagement. Our drafting was extremely poorly managed for so long and then the development once they got to the club was poor. We should have 10-15 top 25 picks that would all be 25-30 years old running around for us over the past few years but we don't as we under developed and drafted the wrong players.

Only on Field performance can silence the negative noise directed at our club.

Our club is getting great for making big statements off field but not backing it up on field. It is well past the time for all our coaches/players and officials to shut up and deliver. A strong performance yesterday would have seen all the fans turn up at the MCG in a couple of weeks time. Now I bet the AFL wished they could have switched the games. The biggest concern is the injuries again. We heard all pre-season how healthy our team was, it gets to the start and we are severely depleted. On the game it is what you expect when you have 8-10 players out V a pretty good side. We tried hard in the first half then fell into our bad habits once tired in the second half. The concern is the forward line, where will our goals come from whist our 2 KPF are out. Jackson doesn't kick goals, Tmac is cooked, the smalls have no talls to create crumbing opportunity so we need them to hit up and lets face it Caleb Daniel ran out yesterday and felt tall against our small forwards. We need to hope Bayley Fritsch stays healthy he looks like to only dangerous forward we have. Have to be massive alarm bells ringing at our 2 training sites plus our admin office.

No game plan will matter if we can't keep the football. We don't have a contested marking forward means we need to hit up players on leads. We don't move the ball clean enough and will turn it over that will lead to opposition scoring. Until we can get out disposal up to scratch we will not be contenders. We can keep composure for small parts of the game, but like the third quarter yesterday as soon as we lose it, bad kicking spreads like Co-Vid through our side everybody starts missing targets.

This article is nothing that hasn't been posted on here for the last few years. We are a see ball get ball team, all our players are drawn to the football even when we have it and more so when we don't often we have 2-3 players going for the tackle. Our mids don't work for each other, our forwards don't work for each other. Our defenders are starting to really work well as a unit my feeling is they will have to especially in the first 3-4 rounds. Max needs to stop tapping the ball behind, we don't play a defensive sweeper at centre bounces as we leave that space for Max to hit the ball and mids to run onto this. The issue is our opposition know this and also work to Max's tap it is an easy clearance for them if they win first possession, if we win we either look to feed it to a HBF running through or rush kick around corner.

And the one we have can't kick, great runner and can get the ball just can't hit a target