layzie

Our gamestyle is NQR at the moment but our goalkicking is doing it a massive disservice. Despite all our grievances with ball movement and forward structure, we are still generating a swag of scoring opportunities in these games and simply not converting. When we get to the level of inaccuracy that we’ve seen in the past month is a new and tweaked gameplan going to change this all that much? Sure some of our shots have been from tough positions, not all of them and not over a month of football. There is a critical mass of data and unfortunately in a two-team sport you don’t get the luxury of taking all your shots 30m out directly in front. Ball movement and forward structure would help but I can’t help but think if we’d nailed some more shots at goal and picked up 2 extra wins we wouldn’t be putting it under the magnifying glass as much.

From how bad the injury looked I would probably take this to be honest.

That's what I'm thinking. Like it could be something you look back to and notice how he moved differently before it. Hope not, all we can do is hope not.

'potentially not season ending' is something as I was bracing myself for 'potentially career threatening'.

I appreciate this post and agree with all of it. The question I have though is how many times can we say that Max is scragged and bashed around at marking contests, it's becoming rather trite and it feels like we've been saying this the whole season. We either need to do something about it and make offenders accountable with a response or alter our gameplan. He's still one of our best and most important players and too good to be a decoy.

Think we need to run the table or at very least for 3-1 in the next month to have any shot at top 4. Slightly tall order but can be done. We must change things though, hoping out of crisis comes some kind of revolution.

With no extended podcast ep I think this is the best week for my question to @binman Stuck on a desert Island, only a turntable or a CD player available and one album of choice. Go!

I listened to the song Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin 15 times yesterday..

Kozzie is copping it hard on here. Not in great form I'm not disputing that but even with that in mind he was our best small forward yesterday and still managed to make a couple of things happen to get us back into the game. Drop someone else.

Probably not, the second Greene goal was sloppy but I'll take that performance and they did their part to give us the best chance to win. Need the other end to help out.

And this is annoys me to no end about our sport: ANB played a less than spectacular game but had he kicked that goal late we all would have praised him as the hero, our backline balled out all day snuffing out some pretty threatening Giants attacks but because they lapsed late they are the villans. I know many on here are smarter than this but the general footy public watching on would absolutely see it this way. In short, I have a lot of sympathy too. Converting better would take some heat off.

Bam, nail hit sweetly by hammer. When you start a game with a few misses at can start to become a sideshow, when you miss more after that it can really flatten the mindset in front of goal and this is on a good day feeling fresh. Throw any sort of fatigue onto all of that and you could very well have a nice multiplier effect that is just going to torment the mind and send it to the pits of hell. All the running, the pressure, the getting back to setup the structure, it feels so much harder if you aren't converting up the other end. In this area of the game, one good performance good definitely turn it around. I'd even go as far as saying one great quarter in front of the sticks could get it going again, especially if it's the first quarter next week. That's really all you can hope for, you can't really coach harder on the track with skills. It's mental and sometimes you just need a good period with things going your way and it can turn. In other words, sometimes you need a little luck. Just hope the damage isn't done.

I'm pretty close to Harry Trott Oval, will go down and watch Collegians play in the ammos in a couple of week. Jared Rivers is the coach so happy to give him my support! Been so long since I went to a country footy game, I did actually go to a Fish Creek v Foster game years ago believe it or not! Good times.

Plenty of knee-jerks and some just jerks.

Would have been good if ANB kicked that goal.

We were playing a real high line, good in principle but it means nothing if we don't convert the chances we get from it. I would have just loved someone to stand the mark when Kelly had it.

Goodnight Montreal.

Exactly. Don't go chasing waterfalls.

Let's tear this place apart.

Shots in a crowded forward line are tough hey.

I hate tonight

I'd be bringing kicking boots or a calculator.

It's just another one of those cases where we don't know and are just morons watching on from the cheap seats.

Still pretty confused as to why they chose this game to bring him back

We need new faces in the team. Been going to the well too much and it's time for a new look. Taj, Howes, Laurie, anyone. I want to see if these guys can play at all, at least there will be learnings.