Everything posted by Adam The God
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2024 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch
Good goal from Ah-Mu. 3 for him now and 3 for Hynes.
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2024 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch
Did you notice who had two goals in the first quarter? My mate Hynes. 😘
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Andrew McQualter - Appointed coach of the West Coast Eagles
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.
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Hawks Rebuild
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.
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Hawks Rebuild
Yeah, they are. A big tall goon running around and taking kids out.
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2024 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch
Ma-lady. *tips hat*
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Hawks Rebuild
The under 19 ammos might play man on man, no zone, but even my under 12 Euro handball team plays a zone.
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Hawks Rebuild
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?
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Hawks Rebuild
You're kidding right? Absolutely no way zone defence is dead.
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2024 AFL National Draft prospects: The next batch
Yeah, must watch. Is it available on the AFL ap or anything mate? Derps, thanks to all above RE Coates Talent League ap.
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Christian Petracca
We need to bury the hatchet and move on now, otherwise 2025 will amount to nothing. It's good Trac is there.
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Andrew McQualter - Appointed coach of the West Coast Eagles
How likely is it we prize a Geelong great from Geelong?
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NON-MFC: Finals Week 01
When do we get a thread about Luke as head of footy?
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Mac Andrew
Yeah, in those clips @ChaserJ provided above, he's way more involved in the play than I expected, in a very CJ way. Run and carry. I'm salivating at the prospect of a backline in 3-4 years time with Riak, Petty and Lever, and a JVR, Turner, White and Mac down the other end.
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Ken Hinkley - Head of Football
I'd put him in the skills over toughness category personally.
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Mac Andrew
That link up through the corridor and off half back. 🤩 Exciting. Ceiling could be anything. What's Riak's decision making like as a rule mate?
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Kate Roffey Steps Down
I wouldn't say I am a pessimist. I'd say I'm an optimist. Get things right off the field and we're a huge shot at a flag in 2025. As for Green, I'll get banned if I say what I really think of him, but let's just say our views align on him.
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Ken Hinkley - Head of Football
The first bit is definitely spot on. But his midfield has had Wines and Drew for a while. Neither fit the skills over toughness review
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Kate Roffey Steps Down
I reckon if Mao was President of the MFC you'd be clapping along, Saty.
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Ken Hinkley - Head of Football
Can you have 12 years of not addressing holes and not even a GF?
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Ken Hinkley - Head of Football
I'd be going for someone to balance Goody, not another people person. We need someone in the role that can have tough conversations hold the top standards. Judging by the last 12 months, that's not Richo.
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Kate Roffey Steps Down
Will we? The board is reviewing itself. Green has been on the board since November 2020.
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Pert and Roffey - The Review Thread
Let's hope so.
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Pert and Roffey - The Review Thread
I've only read the statements on the club website, but it's pretty clear that you're spot on. Green will review the board and Pert will review the FD. So who reviews Pert? Get PJ in to do FFS. Let's be serious about this.
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Pert and Roffey - The Review Thread
Pert is responsible for setting the culture of the club. Not only do we leak like sieve, we have clear discontent within the FD and playing group. Under PJ we did not leak. Surely, you can see the commercial impacts of continued leaks.