Gorgoroth

Why can’t Salem kick?

Yup, said in a group chat, we have 5 games coming up and can easily lose them all. We haven’t been great all year, we have had great qtrs etc and got wins, but overall been good, but not great and if we play like we have been, including today, we are making up numbers.

Bedford is a ghost out there, unseen. Melksham is the worst selection choice of the year for all clubs across the globe.

But is he the peoples Judean front?

My biggest watch in the next 5 weeks will be the coaching staffs input, in team selection, positional selection, and telegrams to the game plan style. We have failed against Cat, Freo, Swans, Pies with our style. Do they stay the same or tweak.

A player one day will follow through as they know they have him high due to him doing this and will end up hurting him. I’ll have zero sympathy for him when it happens, no matter the injury.

Of course, but our trick has been worked out, they don’t allow us the spare back, move quickly and make sure they don’t kick long. Ensure they set up for kick ins to the left, ensure the sweeper is there at centre bounce etc. So far they have worked all that out. Clarko use to always say that you tweaked the game plan each off season and then once to twice in season. We need change, with Oliver out I’d get Brayshaw straight back to the midfield.

One of the more interesting things for me is that people keep saying, “We aren’t at our best. We will flick the switch. We were like this last year. Our best is still the best.” For me, I think our best last year was the best. But I don’t think we will get to that level. We pretty much have had a full list most of the year, a few injuries but not like 5 missing from our best, we have a game plan that’s been countered and I haven’t seen our counter to theirs. Or a new play. the run home will be determined by is playing above what we are now, but unless we have a new tweak to the game plan and imo some much needed positional changes we will not suddenly rise to the absolute heights we did last year. still means we are a chance to win it all, but it won’t be a demolition like last year, this run home will determine how well we hit September.

Nah at best thommo to CHB and Petty chf. But I’d prefer Disco to CHB and Petty forward if we don’t want to blood van Rooyen

I’d love to see a stat on how many of our kick ins lead to another f50 entry. I reckon it would be quite high. Of we kicked elsewhere every 5th it means the opposition would need to be more aware but everyone knows what’s about to happen. Just another thing we do exactly the same each week even once it’s broken.

I could take one on it…

Whilst all the stats look great, it’s always hard to marry two years up. Have we played better or worse teams this year to last etc To me they feel similar because like last year we dominated inside 50’s and our conversion was avg to poor quite often. For me I don’t think our connection to our forwards is great, but I’ve also thought we have been too tall all year. BBB and Fritta should be our talls with Max and Dogga also chiming in. With another tall we are to easy to rebound against.

I always say to them, if they used the money for the upgrades better they could have demolished the tiny shizenstadium and built one made for humans and not ants for the same cost!

What about he who shall not be named?

It’s their home ground. Why would they be complaining?

To be fair, not one cats supporter down this way (that I’ve spoken too, and it’s a lot of them) wants this game on a Thursday night either.

Sure, but he hasn’t smashed May yet…. But he is a decent player, that Petty will smash.

Hawkins is more a threat. two of the last three times he has smashed mays eye and made him pull a hammy.

If the ump department review this game, they will de register these three. Im watching the second half (missed the second half live) and I’m not one to usually speak about them. And it’s not what they gave them, it’s what they didn’t pay. And the most obvious ones. Oliver hit, langers block, Fogarty jumping into petty trying for mark of the year and getting no where near it. Huge throw by Laird. It was as putrid as the umps against tigers last week.

But their is selfish and plain dumb. And that was plain dumb.

I’m so far from confident after last years debacle

Petracca has kicked 20+ points, I wish it was only 11. mind you he should have had a goal last week but Fritta was selfish.

No change for me this week. Roll them into the next game.

In those blunt cases the AFL offical and fourth umpire should send a message to the officiating umpire and they should be sent off. No medi sub allowed either. But the way the umps game the cats everything I’m surprised they didn’t disallow Soldo coming on and instead allow the cats to have 5 on the bench.