Adam The God

FFS. Cancel him? Can people not call someone out without the free speech brigade banging on about cancelling? No one's calling for Brown to be cancelled. People are merely pointing out he's a nuffy, who is part of the problem. His comments were either poorly worded (so stand by them) or they were pathetic. He's paid big bucks to analyse football. If he can't string a sentence together properly that's his fault and needs to stand by his words.

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That kick out to Harmes 1v1, the kick down the middle, the kick to Langdon, we mixed it up from the kick outs last night and that'll keep the opposition guessing going into finals. We also looked to go a bit more central inside 50, particularly when we had good run and carry. But going central makes more sense when you've got waves. I'm convinced we're far more unpredictable from stoppage (especially centre stoppage) when LJ is rucking. Max almost always taps to the wrong spots or his taps are sharked by the opposition. It was noticeable, I thought, how well our talls did at bringing the ball to ground at every opportunity. The opposition rarely took an intercept mark. And unlike the second half of the year, we were always the ones first to the ground ball off these contests. We also held our high forwards back in the square and deep pockets and the mids half forwards were really disciplined in ensuring our forward 50 wasn't too clogged. But moving the ball so quickly helped in this regard. I was happy with any win, but to win in that manner, I was just proud of my footy club. Bring on the finals. His work rate last night was again phenomenal. A couple of times taking marks in deep defence. And his kicking was Ben Brown-like.

#veilofnegativitythread

And he hits targets. Love him.

I dunno. Andrews does a bit of that to my eye.

Andrews is not a good leader either. He drops his head at the first sign of defeat. If you look at their list, their only potential tial captain is the guy that tried to leave them for Freo last year. And even he goes missing in the big moments.

Running on top of the ground last night. You ripper.

Brown is the type that tears would signal weakness. That's what he meant and that Petty shouldn't get upset and that if he'd just brushed it off, there wouldn't be an issue. Hence, according to Brown, he played his part in this. Brown has the emotional intelligence of a mosquito and should be called out for it.

What a game. We looked vulnerable from stoppage with Max rucking. With LJ rucking, we looked unstoppable.

Jeepers. Settle down.

I know you know this, but they offer different things. Sparrow is more explosive from stoppage and arguably stronger in the contest, with a more penetrating kick than JJ. Spargo is the deliverer, even if he only gets it 10 times. I like them all, but we need more from our defensive winger now that Langdon is being shut out of games. I reckon that's the call on Gus to the wing. He can still roll through the middle at times, but if he can have an influence down the other wing it might bring Langdon into the game too.

I reckon Clarry is the only one you've got right, picket, and any nuffy could see he was going to be a star.

You reckon? JJ has really struggled since the Geelong game.

Given Carlton's proximity to the city, I find it hard to believe that Carlton was considered an outer suburb. It might have been a distance from the leafy south east, but would have been closer to the CBD and the G than much of the south east. This is speaking purely as someone who has lived in the south east his entire life.

Who does he replace in the forward half? I'm not against it, just wondering. Because I wouldn't call him a pressure forward. He's an opportunist with good forward craft. Another Fritsch if you like. So more fire power, but what does that do to our pressure at ground level? I think we need more pace in the forward half.

I'm glad Rivers is finding some form at the right time of the season. In time, I'd like to see him tried in the midfield, which will enable Bowey to take his spot in defence.

This is King's MO too.

Again, I'm with #PositiveBinners on this one. Fatigue is playing a factor in our ability to contest in the air and on the ground, so the question becomes do you change your system to combat fatigue? Or, do you try to do what Geelong always tries to do mid season and get as many wins as you can at sub optimal performance, to ensure you're in a strong position in the finals race? The difference between us and them is whether their brand stacks up come finals time. This is what Geelong haven't been able to grapple with thus far. Their brand gets them top 4 every year, but then gets them nowhere in finals. Richmond were similar to us in this respect. Its high intensity saw them flip flop a bit during the H&A season, but they blew away teams come the pointy end. Just as we did last year. Our brand is built for finals and is most effective when we're as fit as possible (see Rounds 1-10). So the plan would be to get as many early wins on the board as possible and then load up for optimal performance in the last 2-3 weeks of the year (finals). We've got ourselves in a good position that in some years would already have guaranteed us top 4, but due to the closeness of the top 6, we're on a knife's edge between top 4 and finishing outside. We beat Brisbane and all of a sudden these comments around predictability seem ridiculous. Equally, if we lose, people will hold it up as the reason for missing top 4. If we miss top 4, it will be due to the difficulty of the draw and our inability to run out games, which has cost us at least 3 or 4 wins.

The question then becomes when would you like this change? I'd prefer we don't show our hand until an elimination or qualifying final. Not saying we will change things up, but if we did, there's not a whole lot of use trying it in Round 23.

Might be more gettable if Clarkson doesn't go to North too, but it'd cost us. Larkey would be my number one target, outside of Ben King.

This was a terrific thread early on, but it seems to have descended into people complaining about our predictability. I don't really care whether you find it frustrating or too predictable. As @binman said on the podcast on Monday, these are percentage plays. As a result of this predictability, we're third. Our players need to win contests. That's what our game is based on. The predictability puts the onus on our players to get the job done.

Odd mate because Viney seems to connect with far less players than Max. I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same vis a vis Lever.

Nah, sorry, you can't put it out there (like Collingwood allegedly have) that they'd be willing to pay a significant chunk of Grundy's salary moving forward, up to $300k pa, and then expect to have a leverage position at all. That's out the window. It's a salary cap dump.

IMV we need another natural crumber to compliment Kozzy. Is Bruest that player though? He's certainly crafty.