drdrake

We had 4 players miss clutch goals in the last, Sparrows was hard but to kick it out on the full was terrible, Langdon, Clarry and Fritsch all missed from the same spot 35m out basically in front in the last. Would love for JVR to play forward and not Forward ruck. Seemed every time we needed him forward he was either on the bench or in the ruck. Positive like others have mentioned collectively our your boys played the best they have for the club. They will get a lot of opportunities to show us their ability over the next 2 months.

Same same, jordon harmes especially harmes were just as bad last year and the year before

The club doesn't throw away its depth, the depth leaves for other opportunities. If we look back 12 months Jordan, Harmes and Grundy sitting at Casey, they had chances to cement spots but couldn't. To me it's nothing to do with fringe players, Viney, Oliver, Petty, Salem, Fritsch, Langdon, Billings have been terrible, May is stuffed playing on smaller running forwards looks slow, Tmac is limited, B Brown is cooked, no Brayshaw, no Melksham. Petty had a big price last year, would be lucky to get a third round pick for him. We are slow both ball movement slow and leg speed slow or we just don't work hard enough to defend. The one trade we need to consider is 2 first round picks for Oliver, we can't keep going with the same midfield group and Petracca is our must keep, Oliver is the only other one that has any trade value. Get your 2 first round picks, go after Yeo as free agent to fill the gap for a couple of years.

Issue is simple, we can't hit targets no point having Wayne Carey forward of the ball if you can't kick it to him. There will be an out number in our forward line teams make sure of that, if we can't kick the ball to our players advantage the outnumber will just eat it up. We drafted contested bulls, suited the game at the time and won a flag, now the game has moved on and you need to control the footy. We cover when May and Lever are intercepting a lot of footy but when that doesn't happen we struggle.

All clubs push forwards up the ground, the difference is they are working harder to get back, but more importantly the team is able to control the footy for long enough to allow them to get back. We win the footy, our players start running forward and we turn it over, they then have to work harder to get back to defend. You are wasting so much energy and effort due to skill errors and eventually you can't work hard up and back. The other side our opposition know we are bad by foot sit back wait for the error and really hurt us, they are full of run as they waiting for our mistake

We have the same issues when we play poorly, our ability to keep and control the football. Many of us have been banging on for years on how bad our team is at hitting targets. The game has changed it is all about turnovers now, Richmond brought the frontal pressure get the ball moving forward at all cost, we then brought that pressure around the contest, numbers contested footy, now you have those elements plus the turnover footy, you miss targets you get scored against. It seems once we do turn over the footy our mids just don't work hard defensively.

There is no doubt that the AFL had a direction to umpires to let play go on till the ball came out, less free kicks, less stopages. The clubs and players had no idea of this change. It had to happen, we are protecting players who get tackled which had to happen but this allows players to stand more in tackles as they can't be thrown to the ground. You need to reward a good tackle and hopefully this will do that.

Bowey by far, just need to get him doing more.

I thought he was ok last night. Would love for Fullarton to come in so JVR can actually play a whole game up forward. From being at the game, seems to start either deep forward or on the bench, about 8 min mark goes into the ruck, does 8 odd minutes in the ruck heads off the ground then gets back on for the last 5 odd minutes each qtr as a forward. Never plays our deepest forward, that seems to be Fritsch, which didn't work last night

There is no question the umpires have been told to let the game go and as long as the ball is moving the AFL is happy. The incorrect disposal rule doesn't exist, get tackled drop it play on, get tackled try to dispose of it and you get pinged. The common sense in the deliberate oob doesn't exist, pay a free kick get the ball moving. Tackle someone spin them 360 as long as the ball comes out play on. Minimise stopages make the game faster for TV. Umpires just have so much going on, add this clear AFL instructions and they just have no chance

For the first 3 qtrs our pressure inside the forward 50m was poor. I think at half time Kozzie hadn't touched it, Chandler maybe had 2, Billings was terrible. Then Fritsch, Petty, Turner would have been luck to have 5 touches between them in the first half. The speed Carlton was able to exit our forward 50 with we were very lucky our back 6 held up.

The Eagles will come to the table, no doubt he will be taking a pay cut from his last contract. Just a good old fashioned footballer, that does the basics and hard stuff exceptionally well. Look at North and Hawthorn they have followed a similar rebuild model that we followed in 2009 to 2014, bring in early picks get rid of the experience, it didn't work for us and won't for them, you need big seasoned bodies to protect and teach the young players coming in. AFL has never been more about winning contested footy, Reid is a beast but with out Yeo and Kelly he would be getting smashed each week.

This game is taking me back 10 to 15 years when Melbourne and Richmond at there worst. This is just garbage

Good to see our kicking has improved

Add him to the list, Petty, B Brown, Fritsch got no where near the footy all night. Our forwards don't work for each other and set up very close together. Need to drop B Brown, play Fullarton aa a true second ruck and leave JVR and Petty as our true tall forwards.

The Eagles went hard for Kelly thinking he would help them push for a flag. They also got stuck with dome big contracts for players that have rarely played since 2020. They cleaned out a bit last year that will give them cap space to make a big offer to English and Sydney's McDonald. They stuffed up with the coaches contract, he would be gone if his payout didn't go into the soft cap. Train wreck at the moment, but no way they are getting and draft assistance

Thanks, I think they will still be strong and continue to be strong on the back of the northern state NGAs.

Why not, you have 4 NGA academy's that have priority access to every player in their respective states. They actually speed a lot of time developing the kids in an elite environment.

CEO first, if they get Brendon Gale great start Football Manager: an ex Coach Bolton, Al Richarson Coach: Al Clarkson You get that right and gives you a chance to lure some top end talent.

Bit like Max, TMac, B Brown and Jackson

Every decent coach from u12s teaches in one side out the other, drills are based around bring the ball out the fat side of the ground, that is where the space is. To do this you need players working hard to that side, the ability to hit a low hard 35m kick and the courage to do it. Our problem is the last 2, our players work rate is high, or skill and therefor courage to hit the kick is low. Strange, when we had no expectations on us in 2021 we took that kick on, now there is expectations that we win we play safe football.

The VFL game whenever it is going to be important. Love to see Woey, Brown Jnr, Fullarton kill it and get their spots. I'm concerned about May's fitness, no doubt he hurt something last night, last thing we need May to be out and tmac come in, bulldogs talls will kill us.

A couple of bumps off the ball, they aren't big hits just annoying jack Russell's at you all night. Doesn't excuse him for the garbage he put out there in the last half. Grundy tore him a new one in the last half and Max couldn't or wouldn't keep up. I thought we should have kept JVR in the ruck for longer.

Will May be out for a couple of weeks, it looked like he tweaked a groin and couldn't change direction or accelerate in the last quarter? Excluse ANB as he really plays that 5th mid role rather than permanent hff, non of our small forwards offer any pressure inside our f50, Pickett coming in helps but Chandler, Laurie, Spargo they never seem to be where the need to be front and square crumbing, frontal pressure f50 tackles.

It was bad, no hiding away from poor skills a slippery footy will always find out players with poor skills. The amount of time we had multiple players going for the same ball, Sydney just let us and circled the contest on the outside, as soon as we turned it over they pounced. Positive we had 2 very good young players debut, negative these 2 young players played better then a large percentage of our team.