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That's true, there are often games where it feels like Viney is the only one really standing up and working through the tough periods.

There's not one person I know that doesn't have the same reaction when that ad comes on..

I'm all for the idea of trying Viney or Harmes up forward right now, if nothing else just to give the forward line some jumpstart. Our forward line needs to be hard to play against and I feel these moves could help there.

Random question but is there anywhere that has the biggest range of stats with every stat possible? I was trying to find our what our record was with scoring from forward 50 stoppages and can't find it anywhere.

Yeah excellent posts from Bob. Maybe with our forward setup there is too much burden on guys like Spargo and Pickett to do the pressure stuff? I don't know, seems a tough one but I'd definitely keep him in there for now.

Sometimes You'll watch him applying pressure and doing nice things but then others you'll check the stats and notice he hardly had a touch. I'd persist with him for now but he has to offer more over a whole game.

How the heck would this work? Where's the money? Some of these clubs have tyrefire facilities and operate in the bright red. Sounds like a bunch of Hollywood hogwash, but there's some reasonable sources here I guess. Edit: After studying the article a bit more I can see how absorbing the NEAFL may work. Think i'd prefer the reserves path but not sure. Would like more info.

Gonna be hard to displace Andrews from FB but he's making a real good charge.

Totally nailed it, Goodwin talks all the time about how we want to be a contested ball team that wants to lock the ball in the 50 yet the ball comes back out repeatedly and when we actually do force a stoppage in the 50 we rarely do anything with it. I couldn't agree more that if this is the kind of side we are then we should be trying to create as many contests as possible, force stoppage after stoppage and frustrate other backlines.

MFC - Need harder running

I still can't get my head around not making a change and getting Harmes onto Bont, he was gashing us. Would it have definitely worked? Who knows, I'd just prefer to see a coach try some things rather than stand there next to his director of coaching looking like idiots.

Kozzie will have these days early on, he's got all the tools but it will take a bit of time to put it all together. He's still a bit like watching someone in fast forward at the moment, and I'm sure that's how fast his mind is going as well. A bit more structure in his play and ways of working smarter around the contest should help with this. Confident he's on the right track.

I had to read it in two sittings it was that full on.

A very difficult but necessary read. Thank you Engorged Onion for bringing it to attention. I'll be reading a lot more of Russell Jackson's stuff after this. Absolutely tragic, I missed his era but saw plenty of footage and always got the impression the 'Mad Dog' name was a badge of honour for him. Hardly. I also vaguely remember the Footy Show spot and I knew there was something slap stick about it but still had lasting memories of Muir's 'outburst'. Turns out that show did him no favours. These are the stories I would like to hear more of, forget what the latest WAG is getting up to on their Hub trip. No-one should ever have to deal with what he went through. And I hope he eventually does come through with the book idea, might actually be the perfect thing.

Speed on the outside is critical against the saints and I'm starting to think the Baker idea could be worth thinking about. We seem to do a lot better when there is bit more run and carry as shown from Oliver recently, the quick hack kick and down the throat method isn't doing anything right now.

Reading is important, didn't say anything about his tackle count simply when he puts a tackle on they feel it. Was reaching for some kind of positive yes but by all means let's go back to kicking the guys head in and blaming him for a crap all round team effort.

I'm done, gonna play some Red Dead online and do more running in that than we did today. Hope you all have a good evening.

One thing I'll say is that at least when T-mac tackles he tackles hard, wish I could say the same for some others.

Lynch can get nicked.

Oh yeah that's right, Hannan played today..

Ok so the issue I have with this throw away line (that the club liked to use early this season) is that Bennell gets dropped the moment he misses a tackle but someone like Melksham can just stand in the 50 and offer zero pressure and get his 1 cruddy tackle for the game and not come close to being dropped. It's just complete and total crap. If we're holding players to these 'defensive pressure' standards then this needs to be a team wide expectation.

If we were a team that created more contests then that would make sense winning on contested ball alone. There's too many oxymorons about the way we play or how we say we want to play. If we want to be this contested beast team we should just be kicking long to contests and forcing stoppages rather than trying to be a play on team. If we want to be a 'lock the ball in the 50' team then we need to not have an abysmal record at forward 50 stoppages. I'm sure this is the moment where someone tells me our forward 50 stoppage scoring rate this year is not bad or some stat to refute my claims but just get off the grass. We offer nothing from them and we stink at them.

I think when we drafted him he was more of the thumping kick who gets good purchase on it. I've got faith he can get it right but he's got to clean this up.

Yeah pretty much this. The running and forward pressure from last week has to be the standard, can't just pick and choose when. It's a tough caper hard running sure but if you want to be in the middle you better be running your socks off every single week.

Why do you need a director of coaching to stand next to you in the box and tell you not to make any changes in a game?