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I thought he was sort of a hb/utility, then mid, then wing - but you could well be right rjay. Either way my point stands - Cullen never consistently played to a level that demanded senior selection, even in the weeks before he debuted.

Are you any good at comms?

#Goodwin myths Facts contradicting the narrative Goody was 'stubborn and never seemed to want to change up the team despite excellent VFL form': Round 1 dees had 5 players making their debut, including two players we drafted explicitly because of their excellent VFL form - AJ and Henderson Jefferson was selected in round one, unfortunately injured and when he finally put together somewhere close to a decent block of games in the VFL was given another shot at cementing his spot in the seniors and did not take it - that cycle was repeated later in the season Howes was selected in the ones after a decent block of games at Casey Culley basically played as mid at Casey, and whilst ok was never banging the doors down - Goody moved him the wing at Casey and as soon as he put a couple of better than average games together put him on the wing in the seniors (great development) The reality is no other player played well enough, long enough at Casey to demand a spot in the seniors That includes Adams who has been average at best all season at Casey and was only selected because May was out Further to the above point the only players who showed sustained 'excellent VFL form' is Billings (probably Caseys' best, most consistent player this season) and Laurie - and it seems both have had their cards stamped Goody dropped Tmac Goody dropped Fritter Goody dropped Lever Goody dropped JVR Goody dropped Kolt Goody dropped Windsor Goody dropped Langford Not selecting Adams, Kentfield or Jefferson in the last 3 weeks can hardly be blamed on Goody - he was no longer coach On the decision not to select Adams, Kentfield or Jefferson in the last 3 weeks i see the logic of not doing so as them playing at Casey increased our chances of Casey making finals, which i think is really important, and is great for their development. That said i would have preferred they 'managed' May and kept Adams in the team as May look cooked.

Yep, fair calls. On being hard at it, i hadn't really noticed that but i see your point. Perhaps more time as pure mid might help, though if it's not instinctive he'll never be a bull like Viney. Agree on Lindsay - i watched a few hours of junior vision after we drafted him and his intensity and preparedness to go hard is 100% instinctive. Fearless. And played a bit as a pure in and under mid it seems (which would be ironic if he becomes an inside mid and Langford outside runner) Linsday barely had a preseason - once he has a couple more preseasons under his belt he will be one tough bugger.

And Langford isn't, and irs that upside that makes me so bullish on him. Or should I day bisonish.

I add that in additional to heart and soul that void includes leadership too. And it's a void that was exacerbated by nibbla going. On field, and i suspecy off field, too much has been left to Maxy and Viney in terms of heart, soul and leadership this season. Langford seems a natural leader, and has a come with me boys energy. I think we saw that enegy against the pies - best on ground, his highest rated game of the season in front of 60k fans against the old enemy.

I wouldn't say disappointed, but I agree he's got some areas to work on. There's no doubt he lacks a little speed off the mark, which has become so critical in the last 3 years. Yes, his footy iq helps, and yes he can improve his speed with training, but he'll never be super quick. His overhead marking hasn't been as impressive as I expected from the vision I saw from his junior footy, though I suspect that's partly a function of not being able to monster opponents in the same way. That might change as he gets stronger. My other knock on him is, seemingly like most lefties, he can't kick on his right. Melksham, koz and even fritter regularly demonstrate the value of bring able to kick well with both feet. Langford seems a driven young man and I suspect he is type of player who can improve areaa weaknesses thri work and effort. @Gator what do you see as his areas for improvement?

63rd rated player in his first year of AFL footy - wow. The scary thing is how much more upside he has compared to other ready made midfield guns like Rowell, Wines, Daicos and Harley Reid. By that I mean those players of course got stronger and fitter after their first season. But not a hell of a lot bigger. Langford almost has the build of a key position player, and will fill out quite a bit over the next 2-3 years and like most bigs take a while to get to optimal fitness. As a comparison, Bont, who I've read Harvey based his game on as a junior, is 2 or 3 cms taller but was the same height when drafted as Harvey was drafted. Give Harvey two more full AFL preseasons and he will be taller and significantly stronger and fitter than he is now. And we shouldn't sleep on Lindsay as I suspect he'll be every bit as good the bison. If, as seems to the case, Buckley is really keen on the coaching job, I can only imagine a big part of the attraction is the opportunity to build a team around two generational talents.

Did his head in.

I'm not good with the trade stuff, but I'd be surprised if we can't get at least a second rounder. But let's say you're right and the best we can get is a third rounder. In that scenario, assuming we can trade him and don't have to pay part of his salary, it doesn't matter that we extended his contract.

I'm not good with the trade stuff, but I'd be surprised if we can't get at least a second rounder. But let's say you're right and the best we can get is a third rounder. In that scenario, assuming we can trade him and don't have to pay part of his salary, it doesn't matter that we extended his contract.

It's weird though - perhaps I'm misremerbering but it feels like his field kicking has gone backwards this season, in large because of those strangle little dinky kicks that look too cute by half that he does at least one or twice a game now. Perhaps it's just that he's playing way more time on the ball but those kicks seem like a new thing. There's no reason why he shouldn't be an excellent field kick - he has a good technique and evidenced by his goal kicking accuracy.

Indeed. For example, Tmac staying provides key defensive coverage if we trade out May. And if we do trade May out having Melksham as forward option means we are better placed to move Petty back to replace May

No Bowser in the squad - that's ridiculous.

It does give us leverage in any trade negotiations.

Petty can take his place.

Personally if we can get a decent return a trade to the dogs could be a win win. They need a KPD to take the oppo's key forward (Lobb is a decent zone off intercepor but rubbish one on one) and have enough fast defenders to offset May's major weakness - his lack of pace. And we need some players with above average foot skills and good pace, and need some draft capital to get a decent one via the draft (i doubt they'll give up such a player as that's robbing Peter to pay Paul). Going forward I have more confidence in Tmac as a key defender (is May going why we re-signed tmac?) but we can't play him and may in the same side - both are too slow. And we have a ready made replacement for May - Petty. I think it's clear pett's best position is key defender and he'll slot right into May's position if May leaves (potentiallyat TMac's expense but he'll know Casey is a possibility whereas I can't see May being cool with playing twos).

Yep, that's where it can be of some use, particularly KE. That said, even then it has limitations - eg statistically what's the meaningful difference between say an 80% or 81% fie say a half back flanker. Bur like most stats they are often not that useful in isolation, which is how they are often used. For example comparing a half back flanker whose role is to initiate transition triangulating say KE, score involvements and clangers would give a good sense of their skill set and a foundation for comparison to other like players.

Of course they do. And we all instinctively know it as in out day to day lives few of us make better decisions when tired and/or fatigued. We make more mistakes at work, we lose concentration when driving, we make sub optimal decisions, we take longer to work out stuff etc etc etc.

Like raw hitout totals, only useful as a guide, and then not a particulary useful one. The issue with DE and Kicking Efficiency is they don't differentiate between positions, for example a half back flanker has way more easy sideways chips than an inside mid, whose possessions are alwayss ndet pressure. Similary if one team us putting on a lot more pressure, lower DE might be a function of that pressure. Or not. Better measures to get a sense of realise kicking and hanballing skills are turnovers, scores from turnover, goal kicking accuracy and clangers.

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Interesting wheelo - ta. On pressure, Clarry had one of his lowest ratings fir the season I suspect, accruing only 27 points against a season average of 49.7.

As ive noted before, personally I would have stuck fat with goody if the choice were mine. But, iassuming they have a new coach (*buckley*) 90% locked in, i also see the logic of some of the arguments for going another direction, in particular a reset and the benefit of a new voice. For me the last quarter highlighted the latter point. One of the challenges of implementing a new method is that method becoming instinctive. We played good transition footy for big chunks of the match, but under pressure in the last quarter many of our senior players reverted to elements of our previous method, in particular going for territory and kicking it long to a contest, which would have ok if we were winning them bur we weren't. Conversely, the pies leant into their transtion method. A reset and a new voice might help players, particularly senior players break that tendency to revert to the down the line, territory-based method when under pressure. A reset also creates the opportunity for the team, and individual players to change the mindset from what appears to be a fear of losing. The last quarter also exposed issues we have had all season - poor fitness, poor decision making, poor skills, panicking (the latter 4 impacted by the first) and outside of koz not having a gun who impacts the scoreboard when a clutch goal is needed and/or burst of sustained excellence that creates goals like Ed Richards against us (though, gee Langford wasnt far away from doing so - remarkably, given it was our final game of a long season, was our highest rated player). On our performance, as entertaining as it was in parts, i rgought it was pretty average - we were very lucky the pies were not accurate in the first quarter. I actually thought our performance was better last week against the Hawks, including in the first quarter. Both team's pressure was woeful all game and the pies defence, which was pushing up ridiculously high, and all team defence was pathetic. If, as looks likely, the pies finish top 4 they will be one of the weakest top 4 teams in recent memory. They'll almost certainly play the crows in Adelaide week one and get hammered and I reckon any team they then meet will be a better team (with the possible exception of freo if by some miracle they, one, make finals and two make the second week of finals)