drdrake

Interested to understand what happens to the rest of the clubs in the NEAFL, do they go back to the QFL and NSWFL, if that is the case the Northern state sides are better off just aligning themselves with clubs in these comps or maintaining sides in these. Can't understand this in a time the AFL cost cutting why they would look at increasing costs to a second tier comp for travel. The other thing they skimmed over is the Academies, these are old fashion zones. The Western Bulldogs get access to a top 3 rated pick being compared to Buddy Franklin, they have not developed this kid, they just signed him to their NGA as he is a part of their zone. Many other clubs have benefited the same and will. Gold Coast has their Queensland Zone and I think Darwin as well, they get access to every kid in their Queensland zone and the Aboriginal kids in Darwin. I like moving 18's to 19's it gives kids another year if they miss out on the first draft to develop and stay in the system, you will find in a couple of years a lot of kids will be drafted as 19 year olds instead of 18 year olds, clubs will let players develop another year. Top end talent won't change but your late 2nd picks and there after you will find will become the older kids

One thing I've noticed a lot the past 3-4 weeks is our players running ahead of the ball looking for the easy touch instead of getting front and square of the contest. It looks great is we can win the ball at the contest as the flick over to an open player looks great. But when we don't win the footy or turn it over at the contest, we are out of position and have no chance to defend the ball getting out.

Fact on current form Harmes no matter what position he plays shouldn't be in the side. OK the coach is trying to make him something he isn't, if that is the role the club has him pinned for and he can't execute that role bring someone in that can.

Moving the same players to different positions won't improve our side, you might get 1-2 games of positive but essentially the same underlying issues will re-appear. Forget Viney to Forward line Harmes to Tagger Tmac to Defense Lockhart to Forward Bandaid moves, lets see what is on our list. Bedford, Rivers, Jordan, Chandler, Baker and get games into Bennell, no more Wagners, Hunt they deliver more if the same as what we have in at the moment. Preuss can't play forward, Weiderman is better closer to goals if you play Preuss and Gawn this forces Weiderman up the ground. This is the issue with Tmac, he is better as our deep forward he is lost up the ground that is why Jackson and Weiderman work well, Jackson needs to be running and offers more up the ground than deep forward. Give Jones the week off keep him for our cairns games. My team Lockhart May Tomlinson Hibbard Lever Salem Langdon Oliver AVB Petracca Hannan Melksham Pickett Weiderman Fritsch Gawn, Brayshaw, Viney Rivers, Bedford, Tmac, Jordan

He looks like a player that needs a long spell in the paddock. Put him out give him a good break to get his body right. There has to be some sort of injury to cause him to move the way he is. It is something that is manageable but he is moving like a 60 year old

Yep, incorrect disposal doesn't exist anymore

We need to stop moving players around. He is out of form, try some one else. Rivers has shown more this year, Harmes has got games on past years form

It all comes back to skills, we just cant keep the football and if you cant keep the football and turn it over the way we do you have no chance to defend. It is the same players making same mistakes. The highlights of this year hsd been May, Weiderman, Jackson, Langdon, Pickett and Petracca, most are fresh faces to our club, weid and May we didnt see much of in 2019. Need to see more fresh faces, we know what we get with most of the guys that played today lets see what else is on our list

We can see that we still are a bit off legimate top 8 sides. We need to focus on 2021 get games into Rivers, Bennell and see if Bedford, Jordon and chandler can show something Out Tmac, Harmes, Spargo, preuss, sparrow In rivers, bennell, bedford, jordon, gawn Tomlinson to follow in Ryder for second ruck

The bulldogs just followed the blue print to beat the dees. Push players back across half back and just wait for the turnover then attack. Teams know we dont run hard to defend and we can't kick. Don't worry about playing a ruck the dees mids and ruck dont communicate and you can just rove off melbournes ruck. Gawn Preuss same same, their tap dominance isnt a concern, just rove off them

Yep, i wouldnt call the dogs a quick team, the saints are. If we cant win the clearance and control the footy they will smash us. Would love for Weiderman to kick 5 goals in a game, he is almost there again getting hands on the footy but not capitalizing

Fritsch, was terrible, for a bloke his size he needs to defend

Harsh on Tomlinson he was good today

Was and is are two different things

Agree he was one of our better players, he basically rucked for both teams with the dogs mids reading his hits the best

Because he is no good, another player gettinh games on 2018 form, stop backing him

Just need to cut and paste same comments from port, richmond Geelong wce and the games we have lost, same as last year, cant kick cant take advantage of ruck dominance, no forward pressure, midfield got outworked. If it isnt on our terms we go to who we are.

Preuss was the dogs most valuable player.

Play Rivers, Harmes is cooked

Same old story cant kick turn the footy over cant keep backing players that make the same mistakes over and over

Forward pressure we are done usual suspect cost us

He is a player that when he came into our club he didn't have a position. To me early days he was a midfielder that just didn't have the tank to play big minutes in there, he was never a small forward and it wasn't till he had a foot out the door we put him down back, thank god we did and he fought hard for that spot. Great story and should be told to any aspiring athlete or person a lesson on persistence and commitment.

The issue all clubs face is the reduction in list sizes and salary cap. Players might want to go but clubs just won't have the room for them. Don't believe any reduction has been confirmed but this will happen. Another point is the draft, 12 months development is massive for a 17 year old. Recruiters will have no idea, a kid that dominated last season my have struggled. If this happened the Clayton Olivers draft year there is high good chance he isn't drafted and if he was it would have been in the 3rd/4th round or rookie. He had a massive year and we picked him up early. Hard job for the recruiters and list managers this year.

Hopefully a club like North Melbourne with early picks make a few clubs use up their early picks by bidding on F/S and Academy players. This is where the NGA are so unfair, the Bulldogs have a kid that is rumoured to be top pick, the bulldogs have pick 8, this enabled them to go hard on a trade with pick 8, trade pick 8 for a future first round pick, there is not a chance that the Bulldogs will take pick 8 in this years draft, as long as they can have enough points to cover the pick in late second rounders and third round picks. I'm not all over the F/S and Academy players but all we here is the top end of this draft is full of them. On the flip side it might give us a chance if we want to get a pick in the top 10, lets say Future first round pick and pick 23 for Bulldogs pick 8 and future second round pick

For those suggesting Tmac goes out for Gawn, with Preuss to stay in don't really understand Weidermans role at the moment. He is playing our deepest forward with either Tmac or Jackson in front of him. Preuss couldn't play the Tmac/Jackson role he would need to play the Weiderman Role, I not sure we what to change that up.