Adam The God

A very good job interview this evening. He bossed the game.

28,000 people. Outnumbered by the 18th team and a minnow of the competition. Our supporters drop their bundle very, very quickly. And yes, we played some very ordinary football, but are you a supporter or not?

Kozzy is the only natural crumbing goal sneak we have on our list. Chandler is fringe IMO, Spargo is a half forward and McAdam plays mid sized. If Stengle is available, I'd be throwing our hat in the ring strongly.

So the crop this year is much stronger than last year's (minus Reid)?

Really? His dad is fanatical Melbourne.

It's not like Melbourne would be an extremely unattractive place to come and play. He supported them growing up, we play a large chunk of games at the MCG, we're one of the traditional clubs (unlike GWS), his best mate Howes is already at the club, we have been consistently top 4 for the last few years. So I think the biggest stumbling block is probably "a".

Quite happy to change my mind when things change. But righto.

Slow entries are a fact of modern footy if you're playing a forward half game. It's being able to take a contested mark or bringing the ball to ground and then being dangerous from the ground ball.

A yes to Stengle for mine. He'd be ahead of Chandler. If we do what I think we should do and revert to a forward half territory game, we need more x factor at ground level. It means slower entries become more dangerous if we get them to ground and repeat stoppages inside 50 would also face a better chance of being converted with more x factor. Which is why I hope we also target Rachele. IMV we've had a style that suits x factor smalls, which is why Kozzy has shone in our system. Problem we've had is we don't have any other x factor smalls.

As well as two on the fulls. Absolutely butchered our scoring shots. And I don't buy it was because Collingwood had all their shots from 30m directly in front. It's factually not correct. Both their rucks kicked ridiculously acute angled goals.

We kicked 7.11 to 9.6 in the qualifying final (+3 scoring shots) and 9.17 to 11.7 in the semi final (+8 scoring shots). Our mids aren't great ball users by foot, but we had more than enough supply to win both finals. Our forwards failed to get the job done. Like KB last week, Fritta missed two gimmes he would normally nail from very gettable positions against Collingwood and that was the QF. That's not on Goody. He can't kick the goals for the players. But I assume your mind is made up.

It's very strange because Fritta is a beautiful kick, but he's a key offender.

They did kick straight though. Both their ruckmen kicked ridiculously acute shots from the boundary that pretty ordinary players shouldn't kick, but did. IMV, it's our ability to execute forward of centre that is the single biggest weakness of ours and has been for 3-4 years.

Really good post. Agree with all of this, except it is hard to know about Choco and Stafford. From the outside looking in, our forwardline is our clear weakness. That said, our midfield has been terrible defending stoppage as of late.

This is it for mine, by a country mile.

To be fair, Collingwood's system enables them to be a bit plug and play, but they were lucky our goalkicking was so abhorrent today.

That's a function of the forward half territory, repeat stoppage game. That said, Collingwood constantly kicked goals from everywhere, where Kozzy and Fritta missed very regulation shots at goal.

Rivers was terrific. Kozzy tried hard but his inaccuracy like Fritta's really costly. The younger players weren't disgraced, McVee, Howes and Windsor all serviceable. Our midfield was shocking, led by Viney who was a liability. Max was intent on grappling all game and was completely nullified by their rucks. The backline misses Lever's leadership and instruction, but I think it's time to work out whether we want to play slingshot and it probably means we need some list changes or revert back to the forward half game style of 2021-2023 that we appeared to play today. Goody isn't getting the sack, nor should he, so we need to look at other ways to improve. Season most definitely shot though.

I'd play Trac out of the goal square and push the other forwards up the ground. Protects his body and back him to win it 1v1 deep.

Collingwood have scored 6.0 from turnover, we've scored 2.5 from turnover. That's the game right there. Season over IMO. But the fall within the space of 3-4 weeks is breathtaking.

Lol, mate, you do the exact same thing.

What, like last week when we looked completely on in the first 10 mins then proceeded to [censored] the bed for the following 3.5 quarters? :P

Exactly, the ruck position is overrated. Look who won the last two flags.

No, he's at a club that has three very good KPBs. He's shown he can basically only play lockdown defender, which means unless there is a third tall match up for him, he's not required. If you've seen Collingwood's forwardline lately, you'll know that they barely have one let alone three tall forwards. We need to go shorter.

Would love that if he has the kms in his legs. Has better goal sense than Chandler IMO. Can't see them making this move given The Age article.