Adam The God

The FD can't really win with some supporters. Last year, many bemoaned that there wasn't more rotation of the squad. This year, we're clearly rotating in game and still winning comfortably, and now supporters aren't happy that we're only just winning clearance and only winning by 9 goals at round 9. Look at Geelong last year. They were 5 wins, 4 losses to the same point in the year. They had a softer draw in the second half of the year, with majority of games down at their funny shaped ground. By the end of Round 10, we'll have travelled interstate 5 times in 10 games. Whatever happens next week, we'll have a better record than Geelong last year. Patience is a virtue. It doesn't always pay off in footy, but the FD are on the right track IMO.

We're not just continuing to score. We're leading scores. How do you know what sort of planning is or isn't going into stoppage work? Game play is the ultimate way to test and practice stoppage connectivity. So that's the path we've decided to go down in the first 9 weeks.

We also win from scores at stoppages. We were 4th for scores from stoppages heading into the weekend. We also won stoppages by +3, so not really sure why some people keep bringing up this idea of needing to do better from stoppage. Not only are we doing well in this department, when every side in the comp knows this is our strength, but we are experimenting with personnel and clearly resting/protecting our prime movers.

No one has said they are mutually exclusive. The point is we don't have to rely on them and we're still in the top 4 for scores from clearances. And the GF is in September. We're in Round 9. Plenty of time to experiment and still win by 9 goals.

Geelong, Hawthorn, Essendon and Carlton losing, with us on top overnight. It doesn't get any better than that, other than if we added Collingwood to the losers list tomorrow.

Weitering almost gave that one up like his bank account.

I thought the Dogs post clearance pressure was elite, and their pressure gauge just showed the elite territory. Interesting that they're playing that way. That's our model.

I reckon internally they'll be roasting a number of his half hearted chases today. It'll be a tough balance, because he's clearly low on confidence too, but no doubt it'll be framed something like get back to doing the simple things well.

How do you figure that? We won CP +14. We've turned ourselves into a team that can win multiple ways. We win on turnover. Check out the thread on it.

Hasn't aged well this one.

And a final series. I see they're watering down that sort of pressure already...

Disagree. He's a horrible decision maker and ordinary disposer. Those media pundits are like those MFC supporters that loved Frost. He looks exciting and flashy sprinting off half back, but he does it at the wrong times, misses targets and unlike Frost, is pretty ordinary 1v1. He's the guy that I'd be playing through if I were Melbourne. The turnover game we now play, should score heavily off his sort of speculative nuffiness.

Yep, he's a real weakness in their system, but they don't have elite kickers or particularly good decision makers off half back, plus they're paying him a mint, so may as well use him. If Carlton wins a flag with Saad in their backline, I'll be staggered.

The other AFL player that sprints off half back with no idea where they're going and undermines their defensive set up is Adam Saad. The way Goodwin plays the percentages, I'm staggered Frost lasted as long as he did at Melbourne.

You can't play a solid defensive system with that sort of incompetence and unpredictability.

Harmes offered very little last week on fresh legs, when everyone else was tiring. As for JJ, I like him as a player, but won't ever break B grade and we can afford to lose him.

I must be the only one who doesn't hold a soft spot for Frostball or the player. But I do remember a number of posts whinging that our FD had got it wrong when we jettisoned him. Looking forward to a few stupid turnovers from old mate.

Welcome back mate!

Perhaps, although I reckon it's more likely that Petty is just better at ground level than either of them.

Probably based on his historical body of work, which has shown he gets completely lost in the defensive zone and often gets caught on the wrong side of his opponent. Don't want to speak for TU, but there you go.

And to be clear, there's no way Curtin gets past WC's pick, right? Is that what you're hearing? @Pennant St Dee @ChaserJ

My point was at this stage he's serviceable as a forward and if it clicks, he'll be more. As Goodwin intimated in the presser, they want to give it a further try. Let's see if it works.

Yep, you don't want to be experimenting when it comes to the finals. Well, at least not knowing whether it works or not.

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1) he competes well and is an excellent mark. 2) he takes a good defender. 3) he's better than Tmac or BB at ground level and follow up. I actually think the thing he needs to improve on is his link play. So if JVR and Max are the more stay at home/forward 50 players, Petty needs to get up the ground more and take marks, and link inside 50. This is something that an uninhibited and fit TMac at his best does. BB is more your stay at home, lead from the square forward - that doesn't mean he doesn't work up the ground sometimes, even into defensive 50, but I'm being crude with the descriptions. At this stage, Petty is a better bet than those two. He's also a very good reader of the game, better in defence, but he reads the game. The only alternative to Petty if those two aren't options is someone like Joel Smith, who doesn't have a good game sense IMO and doesn't have a footy brain, but has excellent athletic traits that could link play and help at ground level. In the end, I think they've turned to Petty because the other options are thin. But if it clicks for Petty forward (a bit like 2019), our forward half becomes super dangerous with tall marking targets in Max (elite), JVR, Petty and the mobile, but good above his head Fritsch. We'd be a handful in the air, being complemented by very good ground level players in Kozzy, Chandler and Spargo.