DeeZee

Our game plan has been superseded it’s now old , and teams have gone right past us , and the Swans , who coincidentally had the same Roos type foundations. We don’t have a plan B , so this year is almost a right off until we have another preseason to work out something new and have a crack next year. Eerily similar to the Daniher years.

Tall but too young, and just a skinny kid really.

It looks like we are getting our hands on the ball, but fumbling it, not using it to our advantage and turning it over. If there was one thing we have to fix it is this, as it has a snowball effect which gives our connection with the forward line no hope whatsoever.

For Jordy Lewis to suggest that maybe we need to change the way we play tells me that the players do not have 100% iron clad confidence in our game plan. He days we are being beaten the same way every week. On the spread. Goodwins number one ethic of win the contested ball is no good luck bless you have the run and skill to use it.

Fitness also looks like a real issue. In the first half we were keeping up with them and stopping the spread. You could see our players start to tire as the Tigers got some separation and space to do their thing

Why have we not recruited speed when it’s desperately obvious we need it? We recruit the same type of player big bodied slow mid, Sparrow and Jordan case in point? Wheres the excitement factor? The run?

Not only is our confidence and skill level down on last year, but our energy is very flat . We we’re a brutal team last year, where is that? Somethings not right behind the scenes.

Out - Weideman In - Gary the midget ( better chance of marking the ball than the 700k man)

Tim Smith is a better mark than Weideman,so does that mean Weed is a Casey seconds player?

How did we lose our skills overnight?

Look at Richmond, they play like a team, for each other. We arent doing that. Too many trying to do things on their own.

The amount of times we punched the ball when unopposed shows our complete lack of confidence

I thought we might have a chance of pinching this game as our efforts were good up till half time, but we kept wasting the ball with poor disposal and no forward connection again. Richmond just opened us up and played like the well drilled machine they are. Preuss tonight may have helped , but for some reason we have lost our skill overnight.

6.Oliver 5.Gawn 4. Hore 3. Frost 2. Jones 1. Stretch

Proud of their effort so far. I love the positional changes. We are in the game. I just wish Weideman would take a mark.

Richmond with no Cotchin or Rance and Harmes on Dusty. We have to be very hard at it for four quarters as the tigers do not stop . I think the players are hurting and will give it everything tonight. Can we connect with our forwards and can we defend well enough? Time will tell, but I’m hoping like hell.

Ive got a feeling the coach won’t drop Lewis or TMac but rather throw down the gauntlet . Garlett and Lockhart should come in for speed and maybe Stretch. Love to see Petty or Kielty get a go too. Outs would most likely be Spargo both Wagners and Jetta

Is he capable of inspiring the team, and is the team starting to get tired of the same simplistic robotic messages?

It would be nice if a forward made a lead

There’s a lot of things breaking down with us and fitness is one of them

If we don’t win the contested ball, especially at centre bounces our game plan is stuffed. Opposition have worked out this is our main strength so they put more work into limiting Oliver Viney and Gawns influence , then they get it to the outside quickly and beat us with run and making sure it’s as many uncontested marks as possible. Been happening since the prelim.

6.Salem 5.Frost 4.Hore 3. Oliver 2.Preuss 1. Harmes

It’s either A. The Coaching B. The players not following the instructions properly. C. The cattle- No outside run with a lot of ball getters but ordinary ball users. D. No connection with the forwards E. Fitness F. All of the above

We can’t continue to pick players on reputation or what they did last year so TMac, Hibberd, Lewis and Spargo have to go. The Wagners have added nothing so we have to give others a go. Petty and Kielty to replace TMac and Hibberd. Lockhart, Garlett, Stretch and Baker to replace the others and finally give us a bit of zip.

I was watching very closely yesterday, as it’s my bug bear that our forwards don’t lead at the ball carrier . What hope do we have if they don’t move and create space and demand the ball. How often did we kick it sideways for the ball only to be whisked away. Even if they constantly kicked it straight to Pruess we would have had a better result. What the hell do they work on in the preseason and at training if when we get the ball we don’t know where to kick it?