Adam The God

They ended up losing by 4 and a bit goals, but your point stands mate. I don't completely agree with it. I'd much prefer we had the Geelong and then Hawthorn cultures of their dynasties that saw them take unders, so they could continually strengthen their lists.

I suppose the AFL doesn't want a half empty ground for a final. With a capacity of 23,500, they're a chance of filling it.

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.

We talking Bont here?

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

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.

Best midfielder in the game between 2021-2023.

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.

Good call mate.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.