Adam The God

7 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Is it at the SCG or the Giants' home ground (whatever it's called this week)?

Giants home ground.

Now we just need Geelong and Hawthorn knocked out and I'll be happy.

Isn't Newman a brilliant kick though? Sets up so much of their play. We need more kicks at half back like that.

Just now, Sir Windsor said:

Go Hard. Hard as absolutely possible. 

We would have cap space for sure. Would he be a free agent ? 1.5M over 5 years? 

We talking Bont here?

47 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

For all those praising Bontempelli's loyalty:  frustrated-superstars-future-in-doubt

"However, it is the understanding of Gullan that his continued faithfulness to the club that drafted him at Pick #4 in 2013 is no longer guaranteed, should cultural differences between key personnel and team success not be positively rectified.

“He’s very loyal Bont obviously – he wants to be there – but this is a reality, and if things continue to go down this path, and he get to the end of this year and he still hasn’t re-signed, that is trouble".

It is now the end of the season and he hasn't signed. 

Team success is what the uber professionals like Petracca and Bontempelli work so hard for.  They want the rest of the team to lift to their standards.  They want their club's to be culturally strong. 

If folks reckon Bontempelli isn't checking other clubs they have their heads in the sand!  

The media has said little about Bontempelli.  Lets wait and see if he signs beyond 2025. 

Oooh. You know who would be handy in our midfield? 🤣

10 minutes ago, Nascent said:

He should go high next year.

Ah, I didn't realise he was an underager, but that makes sense given there's no talk about him in the 2024 crop. Derps. 🤦

Moves a lot like his bro last year. Classy, clean, makes good decisions. Surely will be top 10 next year, unless it's the greatest class of all time or something happens injury wise.

37 minutes ago, Heart Beats True said:

When was the last time Clarry hit anyone lace out in our forward line on purpose? 

Best midfielder in the game between 2021-2023. 

36 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

The way he judges the ball in the air and leaps is pretty rare for a young tall. 

Duursma was best on ground for mine. By quite a way. 

Hogan, Cadman, Greene and Jones are a handful and are going to be hard to stop for the next 2-3 years.

Just now, Jaded No More said:

Minus Clarry but plus Gus. 
Gus stepping in was the main reason we didn’t miss a beat with Clarry out. 

Good call mate.

55 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

 

I couldn't watch it today. Can you both give a quick run down how the NGA players went?

Riak did quite well 1v1, his defensive positioning is still a little rusty, but he's clean at ground level and a neat kick. He was solid.

Ah-Mu is just a big boy, but I like his tackling intent, he's a good mark and he's a good kick. Kicked a ripper that ended up being the winning goal. I do worry about his pace at AFL level, but maybe he's not much slower than a McLean from Sydney.

11 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

app has ah-mu as the leading goalkicker with 3 for stingrays in a 6 point win, and hynes 2 goals 2

langford another dominant game i presume, judging from the stats?

Interesting. I missed the first quarter where it said Hynes had 2. He then kicked the first goal of the last quarter. Since I didn't see the first quarter, I can't confirm. 

Good goal from Ah-Mu. 3 for him now and 3 for Hynes.

44 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

just looked at the play hq and all it shows tairon ah-mu with a goal in q1 as the stingrays tear the power apart

Did you notice who had two goals in the first quarter? My mate Hynes. 😘

1 hour ago, Return to Glory said:

Wish him well should he go. Don't think he has displayed anywhere near the same level of tactical nous as Yze and we have been poorer for it. 

The stoppage set ups were not good enough at times, but Yze never had to deal with a midfield minus Trac and Clarry, only minus Clarry. And to be fair, he did an excellent job with the midfield minus Clarry.

25 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

If Rivers can stay back then Riv, Judd, Bowey, Howes and if he gets fit AMW can be backed in to transform the backline. But we need at least 2 ready to play mids (or half backs) to make that viable. So I doubt it will.

I'm still holding out hope we manage to land two first round mids in the draft, and I think we should target a Will Brodie and players of his ilk that give us that James Jordon, James Harmes contingency if needed.

26 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

You still play under 12’s? Aren’t the other kids a bit suspicious?

Yeah, they are. A big tall goon running around and taking kids out.

Ma-lady. *tips hat*

The under 19 ammos might play man on man, no zone, but even my under 12 Euro handball team plays a zone.

28 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Yep that’s crazy.

We have tweaks to make. Our wingers often just guard too much non dangerous grass and the handovers between wings, half forwards and half backs has been really poor at times.

But the biggest factor is our mids and half back aren’t spreading to get in position quick enough. Our half forwards don’t drop outside 5 enough either. Plus a lack of energy and movement in the zone in general. 

Overall tho the Hawks are rolling out a very similar zone to us and doing it very well.

A further point on the zone defence, I think our wingers could be more attacking if our key backs were more agile in attack.

Don't get me wrong, our zone defence is great and all our key backs and half backs are masters of knowing when to roll forward and back, and trusting each other. Chaplin has done an excellent job for many years now.

But I think your point about our wingers, DS, is in part because May and Lever, whilst they're not slow to join in on attack, they're a more moulded as traditional defenders.

This is why I'm really excited by the likes of Riak Andrew and even Kalani White if he stays back.

You've got explosive, agile defenders that naturally want to take the game on.

I think if Petty takes the lockdown role that May will vacate in 2-3 years, and Lever will still be around too, but I'd want to get more explosiveness from the third tall, and the back pockets and half backs.

If you're backs are more attacking, it forces your wingers forward or potentially even in behind your defenders to cover the space that has been vacated by an aggressive counter attack from our backs.

I think what we need is a new ball movement line coach that utilises the zone and trust that Chaplin has built within the defensive system, to gamble more with ball use off half back. This then requires some guys who we think can play the distributor roles. 

If we kept McVee and Rivers behind the ball, tried to draft two mids in the top 20 (say Langford/Lalor and Hynes) and added some experienced depth from other clubs, we'd then have some good explosiveness off half back, but adding a Houston to that mix would be incredible.

If it was FIFA, you'd consider trading Salo, but I think what we'd get in return is limited and potentially undermine team harmony (further). So maybe Salo, McVee and Rivers are enough.

My sense is that we're not actually going to be too aggressive with our trading, and perhaps we should be?

1 hour ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Dees were guarding grass and hoped their zone would cause turnovers.  Hawks applied pressure to the man at the contest and tackled to cause turnovers.  Simple game footy.  Wish Goody sat next to me so I could point it out.  The zone defence style is dead.  Watch the Freo games x2!!!! 

You're kidding right? Absolutely no way zone defence is dead.

4 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Dandenong Stingrays play Gippsland power today in the quarter finals at 2pm.

This match will feature a bunch of current Melbourne NGA listed players in Tairon Ah-Mu, Riak Andrew and Marcus Prasad (underage) from the Dandenong Stingray.

Gippsland will have Ricky Mentha running around for the Power.

This will also feature potential top 5 propsect Harvey Langford and Cooper Hynes who's expected to go somewhere inside top 20.

Yeah, must watch. Is it available on the AFL ap or anything mate?

Derps, thanks to all above RE Coates Talent League ap.

We need to bury the hatchet and move on now, otherwise 2025 will amount to nothing.

It's good Trac is there.

21 minutes ago, Ted Lasso said:

I don't know the details of contracts and so on with this, but Steven King is known to be an incredible tactical coach, i think if Mini goes to the Eagles and i suspect they'll get either him or King, we should try to prize King out of the Cats to be our next senior assistant and manage our offense. 

How likely is it we prize a Geelong great from Geelong? 

When do we get a thread about Luke as head of footy?