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Disagree. Sellar can play that role better and offers stronger depth. However, if we add another tall down back, we're too top heavy. The three lynchpins are Frawley, McDonald and Garland. We need an elite user by foot, say hopefully Strauss. That's how Josh Hunt played in premierships. Soft as butter one on one, but if the defence work together, they allow a rebounding player of Strauss's apparent elite disposal to set up attack from defence. Obviously the other three have rebounding ability too. I think we also lack another small defender with pace and an ability to run with speedsters like Rioli and Gartlett. I think I've probably digressed far enough though.
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Our only chance would be to restrict scoring, hence Nicholson's inclusion as a running defender.
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Howe?
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Yeah, we were leading the competition before last week. Adds further credence to the fact that if we improve our midfield, we start to look dangerous with increased forward fifty entrances.
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Well done, Col. Beating his man as well.
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Work rate. It's work rate. I feel like a broken record. If you've been to those matches, you would have seen players walk and jog. It's the way we lost both of those games that was so appalling and highlights where we're at.
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That's because they were only having to run one way. Everyone loves being able to just attack and not put in the hard yards at the other end of the park. But at elite level you have to work both ways.
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Do you actually watch our midfield on game day? We let players waltz through the corridor by themselves, we barely lay any tackles. I can cop the lack of experience card, but there's also a lack of work rate not intrinsically linked to experience.
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The answer to both of these questions is competitiveness from the MFC midfield. If they work hard enough to gut run both ways, they'll get more of the ball and find themselves in goal scoring positions. You can't tell me that we couldn't find five goal kickers from the midfield if we were working hard. And change our stoppage set ups for starters. That will improve the centre clearance deficiencies. If we are switched on and adhere to viable midfield structures, we can at least break even with opposition midfields. Royal is a hopeless midfield coach and Neeld is just as poor for not picking up on it. What are they doing during the week? Do they not have opposition analysts? Do they not analyse these basic fundamentals? The way we set up at stoppages is flagrantly pitiful. Our list could improve across the ground, no doubt, but it's not as simple as saying we don't have the cattle. There's no work rate in the midfield. There's barely any work rate across the entire ground. But every time we're involved in a stoppage, our abysmal set ups mean we're already behind the eight ball.
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I'd be inclined to agree if we showed any semblance of work rate on game day. We don't.
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Lazy coaching. Try and replicate a situation the players might face on game day. Intensity. Pressure. The things we clearly don't cope with. That way on game day, when faced with the same situation, they might improve.
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Well that pretty much highlights why most of the time our players handball to static team mates. I'm a coach and I've gotta say that sounds like a drill you might get away with in primary school. A disgraceful lack of innovation for AFL standard.
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Some light at the end of the tunnel
Binmans PA replied to Dwight Schrute's topic in Melbourne Demons
I don't buy the time angle. This is merely an excuse to ward off attacks stating that because we're young, we can't put in basic footy fundamentals like chasing, tackling, manning up. Things turn around quickly in footy. If we can recruit two A grade mids, I can see our fortunes turning quickly. -
I agree that if our midfield can become competitive, we'd be starting to look a lot better. Cotchin and Martin are genuine midfield talents though. That's two more than we have. I think players like Trengove, potentially Grimes, Viney with games under his belt and say a Matt Jones could take the step up if they had a Cotchin next to Nathan Jones. We have to get that Cotchin and fast.
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Admittedly, the slightly cynical side of me says, well, we're going to have at least one top 3 pick to trade come season's end. That'd have to go into somehow wrangling an A grade midfielder from another club. With money in the cap (Davey retiring at year's end for example), we could truly chase an A/cusp of A grade mid OOC or in FA. When you look at it this way, our list isn't too bad. Neeld and our recruiting team have shored up our forwardline for the next 5 to 10 years. It's the players' input on gameday that we're so abhorrently lacking. If a coach can harness that, well, who knows.
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The thing about Richmond is they found a midfield. We're not going anywhere this season or next unless we unearth/trade for some genuine ball winners. If we can, then I've got genuine hope that we can turn this around, given solid structures and work rate.
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I'd be [censored] if Sylvia walked away from a club who's persevered with him across close to ten seasons. He's shown us very little. Glimpses. He also doesn't deserve to hold the club to ransom come contract time either.
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Didn't we play Port at Adelaide Oval in the last game?
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Close enough though. Our work rate under Neeld has been astonishingly non existent. I just can't see why you'd want to keep a coach who is clearly not getting results and his players are not even delivering on the basic fundamentals of the game. I'm not saying with a new coach we'll shoot up the ladder, but right now we shouldn't be keeping a coach just to maintain stability. Nothing is particularly stable about the way we're going about our footy. We're a train wreck on the field.
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What's worse: keeping Neeld until the end of his contract or paying him out and getting a coach that can motivate the players to actually have a dip? I know which one I'd choose.
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If you were to get Roos, I don't think he'd have a problem with his former colleague Dave Misson.
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Some light at the end of the tunnel
Binmans PA replied to Dwight Schrute's topic in Melbourne Demons
Dal Santo wouldn't bring leadership, but he knows where to go to get the ball. Unfortunately, a lot of it tends to be on the receiving end. An outside mid. Still, he could be that second mid we need outside of an absolute gun A grade mid. -
We'd better be scouting for a new midfield coach right now too.
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Whilst some of it is cultural, the biggest issue we've failed to address until recently is a lack of resources in the FD. Now that it has been addressed, this will crush the cycle of poor development IMO.
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Clarkson didn't have the cattle. But he had clear "buy in" from his playing group. They didn't walk between stoppages or completely give up chasing opponents.
