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Haven’t see todays game but generally his Stats are getting padded by kick ins. Kicking and decision making still seem a bit off for an afl half back. Good run and really strong aerial work for his size tho. Improving nicely

Play the game in Adelaide would probably be the biggest factor. Eagles seem pretty keen to show up every second week, good strategy really.

It stalled out in the late second quarter but the impressive thing was showing a propensity to move the ball with some flair and dash. A proper commitment to midfield Nibbler, midfield Kozzie and the big one Langdon high half forward. We finally got a midfield that was prepared to run and make options! Seems like we finally got the drive we’ve been wanting from Salem, Rivers, Bowser and McVee. Looks like we abandoned dropping a half back in to a nothing spot and actually got them up around the ball thank god. A whole lot to work on and St Kilda were truly dreadful but the plan was spot on.

Tomlinson is a very rare pack mark, almost all his marks involve out positioning/bodying a forward and usually are going backwards for the ball, or occasionally out marking a small with reach. Let’s see how Petty is and let’s see how Tommo’s backline form goes with Lever out - 2 or 3 more games like today would be excellent. But there’s nothing yet to say Tommo forward, if anything you’d roll the dice with T Mc again now he has more confidence in his body

Yeah to me he has the size, athleticism and skills to easily be on an AFL list, so I was surprised he was delisted and no one took him, which might mean something especially as he's had injury concerns too. Port needed to bring in 2 established and healthy rucks and had young Visentini and it's hard to devote 4 list spots to rucks, especially when they have Dixon, Finlayson etc. The question I'd have with Teakle is are the injuries a sign of a guy who doesn't put in the work to build his body and rehab effectively or are they just bad luck which might change? He wouldn't give us much this year but I'd like to get him and hopefully sure up the back up to Max for a couple of years rather than kids or non ruckman types in Fullarton or Schache.

Tracc can bullet the ball 60m and create great scoring chances from nowhere, but he’s hit and miss. The thing Nibbler does is play on or receive the ball in space, run with the ball, balance up and hit a target. He’s predictable to leading forwards. And his run at a good speed combined with his ability to be patient and take a late hit if needed creates the targets he missed regularly earlier in his career. Move quickly, with a purpose but without rushing is the lesson from Nibbler

It’s a lot to ask of a second gamer but what if we bring Kolt in and give him the Nas match up? He has a good tank, he’s a good tackler and he seems coachable. I think our players could really rally around a young kid coming in and doing a team first job and doing it with a bit of passion, energy, mongrel even. We are in desperate need for some mongrel. Let’s go small with Pickett, ANB, McAdam, Chandler, Kolt all forward at times and try to bring some hunt and aggression. Let’s concede that we will be out-marked at times no matter what and embrace a proper aggressive physical pressure game.

If Jeffo was a Casey player he would barely be talked about as a mid season draft prospect. He might be starting to turn the corner but he’s still a long way to go

I’m sorry, maybe our team was just load managing after a loss yet again

A hip and shoulder bump delivered to the body is a valid form of shepherd, in fact I wish some Melbourne players would learn this. Especially all of the softies like Billings, Howes who are afraid of contact Our team is starting to resemble our fan base again.

The Full decoy has to be the plan. Fullarton’s a leading forward and has to be told to just get on his bike at CHF and drag a defender. Any kick to him has to be out in front, don’t ask him to contest long bombs. Fritsch, Trac, JVR, McAdam, Pickett are the real targets. Plenty of firepower if they can function together and on the same page and the mids and forwards

Brown. And it was appalling. No idea why he wasn’t playing 80% wing with Langdon out, because it’s now clear as day he can’t get a kick in our forward line. Adds little to nothing defensively and is afraid of kicking goals. He was worth preserving with for a while as a forward/wing but with McAdam in forward we can try others through the flanks and some wing minutes

Correct. And Petty looks great last year and even the first few weeks this year, now is sick of the ball sat on or over his head so stops leading. Lost all confidence. Exact same thing happen to T Mc. I’d swap Stafford and McQualter at the bye. McQualter is cooking our midfield putting them in useless defensive positions and taking away from their strengths. And Stafford seems to have no idea what to do with this forward line, he never has.

Soft as butter but at least he’s young and soft with potential to improve rather than our previous efforts of picking 28 washed softies

Parker is in position to attack the ball or receive a handball, not wanting to clean up his own team mate he waits for the handball receive, his team mate gives it a gentle soccer so he goes to shepherded for him. Nothing about that is running passed the ball. Parker never skipped over the footy. You and the footy media can’t just use terms that have football meanings when they don’t apply to make it seem more than it was. Smith has zero awareness of a basic shepherd hence why his head and neck are floppy because there’s no brace for contact. It’s basic under 12’s stuff but we are degrading the fundamentals of footy by teaching players to run around without a care in the world. If he didn’t have tunnel vision he’d have ridden the bump shoulder to shoulder. But nope, completely blind to the act of a normal shepherd.

He didn’t run passed the ball, his team mate who got their first kicked it away from him. There’s a significant and important difference. Running passed the ball to make contact with someone is often a cheap shot as they expect you to contest the footy and you don’t, as well as a bad play. He also didn’t hit a tall player in the head. Not from the angle I can see. Looks like the contact is well below the top of the shoulder but the big fella is completely unaware and his head flops around and they clash heads. I’d love a player like Parker on our list, and I’d be alarmed if any of our afl players couldn’t see or ride a straightforward bump.

It won’t and probably shouldn’t happen but we could have a midfield of Viney, Tracc, Salem, Sparrow with some ANB and Pickett rotations. Oliver has played a lot of bad quarters/halves, so many of his handballs go to no one and his kicks are worse. He’s rarely driving his legs though the contest and taking on tacklers. He’s still a long way from his best

Big body? He’s built like Tyrion Lannister with half the physicality. Assuming Langdon is back we don’t need an experience wing for positioning, especially not one who isn’t winning the contests at Casey and is super slow. What we need is more hard running, attacking the contest and quick ball use. Its time to give Woewodin an extended run of games either at half back or as the third winger, rotate all of Windsor, Woey and Langdon across half forward for pace. Or if Woey’s back we use ANB as 3rd wing and play another mid forward.

You can’t predict the bounce of the ball or know where everyone on the ground is, but when you’re around the ball and someone is clearly coming in to shepherd you it’s basic stuff to see them and react. I’d be worried about Smith’s ability to walk down a busy street yet alone play a high level of footy.

Parker isn’t aware of how far the ball rolls from the kick off the ground or the defender coming up inside 50 but it’s a 1 on 1 with the ball on the deck and 2 other swans running after it. Blocking a Frankston player gives Sydney a numerical advantage of players running inside 50. It’s a smart and fair play.

I’m serious. The choose to bump thing is nonsense. I mean, I get it if you go high in any way with your shoulder, but there’s always going to be collisions, it’s a collisions sport. Parker didn’t pick him off from behind or the blind side, he was in full vision. We’ve dumbed it down to such an extent that players have no awareness of a simple shepherd. It’s a great part of our game and you just can’t do it any more? Ok, one less contact here but there will be a heap more collisions in the rest of the game. If Smith braces half a second earlier he rides the shepherd no worries at all. Instead his head flops around and the head clash leaves him injured.

0 weeks, perfectly fair hip and shoulder shepherd easily below shoulder height, slowed up and didn’t even hit him hard. Feel bad for the big chippy but you can’t keep allowing blokes to run around at (semi-)professional level with the awareness of a deer in the headlights.

Moniz - yes, forward or back he’s worth a go soon. Personally now we have defensive options with Salem, Bowey and Woey we should chuck Moniz forward at Casey and see if he can produce some 20 touches, 5 tackle, 2 goal games Jefferson, Adams, Verrall - no way, not physically ready and losing their match up most weeks at vfl. They’d get smoked at afl level. Kolt and Kynan Brown - maybe soon, but absolutely no rush with either, they are working on their craft as mid/forwards at Casey. Sestan - no for now. He can earn a debut in the back end of the year if he’s consistent at vfl level but I don’t think he’s a medium forward at afl level, he’s a high half forward/mid and that means building that tank, a lot!

JJ’s mostly tagged half backs hasn’t he? Only a couple of mids? And Goody ended up tagging Walsh with ANB, although it was a reactive move not proactive. Interesting the Swans don’t trust JJ an a centre bounce on baller yet. He rotates in after the centre bounce. But with his huge tank he’s doing a great job just eating workload. Exactly what we need to take the load of Tracc especially and Clarry and Viney. Goody just doesn’t experiment enough especially in wins or the occasional bad loss. Almost no Rivers on ball this year. Chandler’s never had a centre bounce that I’ve seen at afl level despite being good as a vfl mid. We’ve only seen Langdon forward the last couple of weeks, never seen Windsor anywhere else.

We didn’t play slow or overly defensive tonight, in fact we played too quick. And the set up is too defensive for mine with a defender back but the ball movement isn’t at all. We have a skill and cohesion issue. the forward line cohesion problems have spread to the midfield. We are getting no value from Oliver or Viney’s possessions. Jack holds it too long and burns options. Clayton panics, he’s scared of fighting through contact so dishes bad handballs or hacks it forward. Tracc is the only mid who provides genuine value for disposals but he’s so far off the pace defensively at times and is needed forward. Sparrow can’t win it or use it, sadly Pickett fresh airs the ball too much to a midfield. The mids are killing our forwards and the few times they get it in nicely the forwards run in to each other or offer no resistance on the deck aside from Chandler and Pickett. It’s not all doom and gloom. Salo played a good midfield game at times. ANB the same. And Pickett was at least a little more reliable in the contest and fantastic at times outside it. McAdam displayed pressure and forward instincts. If he can kick set shots from 50 he could’ve had 3 or 4 But we have to fix or replace Oliver, Viney and Tracc. And Gawn’s horrendous centre bounce efforts too. We are nowhere in there right now