
Everything posted by binman
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Toby Bedford, Kade Chandler and Bailey Laurieā¦
Yeah, that's a fair point. We don't have an obvious replacement for fritter. I suspect a medium size forward with the skill set of fritter is not an easy player to find. Back in rhe day there were plenty such players, but the days of such specialisation ate probably largely gone. I wonder if rosman could be an option?
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CASEY: Rd 03 vs Williamstown
Or should that be dee bate?
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CASEY: Rd 03 vs Williamstown
There isn't a brown v weed debate is there? I haven't read anyone suggesting bb isn't straight backnin next week. It's a tmac v weed debate.
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Toby Bedford, Kade Chandler and Bailey Laurieā¦
Makes you wonder why professionals, whose careers depend on such decisions, elected to cut one and keep the others. Jokes. Lockhart was cut because he wasn't AFL level, as evidenced by the fact another ub didnāt pick him up. Bedford and Chandler ARE AFL level. As evidenced both are close to getting into the starting 22 of a premiership side.
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Toby Bedford, Kade Chandler and Bailey Laurieā¦
No, would be my view. Bedford and anb are not really small forwards as such - not in the traditional definition of a crumbing, goal kicking small forward. Both play that high half forward role that involves running up and down the ground all game. Nibbler is only behind langdon in kms coveted each game. Laurie is a mid or half back. I don't think he has ever played as a forward, either in his junior career or at Casey. Spargo and kozzie also both do a fair bit of up and down the ground running but are certainly more the traditional crumbing small forward. But you need coverage for both, so two playing tbst role at casey Chandler is a forward, but is also being trialled as a mid But can cover them. And AMW is the other.
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CHANGES: Rd 05 vs GWS
Agree, must be very tough for Casey Demons and the AFLW team to be playing down at Casey
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CHANGES: Rd 05 vs GWS
According to Buddhism, everything in human life, all objects, as well as all beings whether in heavenly or hellish or earthly realms in Buddhist cosmology, is always changing, inconstant, undergoes rebirth and redeath (Samsara). Goody is not a Buddhist.
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Toby Bedford, Kade Chandler and Bailey Laurieā¦
Watching live, Bedford looked a class above VFL level last night. Quick, smart positioning, hard at it, clever ball use and brilliant lateral movement. Played quite a few minutes in the middle, as did Laurie.
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CASEY: Rd 03 vs Williamstown
By the by on Brown's game, I watched him pretty closely too. Had a very quiet first half, but was vocal and involved. Worked really hard all game and got his desrved reward with a couple of goals. A couple of things to note. One, the ground is small and he hardly any space at all to lead into or fly for marks. Very crowded forward half. Only once did he get a decent leading lane and Andy MW hit up a nice pass for his first goal. The willy defender played tight man on man on him all night, and took every opportunity to bump and scrag him as did their huge ruckman who was into him all game. I had to laugh, I sat in the beautiful old stand for the second half and there was on old fella, a willy fan, giving it to brown non stop.
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CASEY: Rd 03 vs Williamstown
Not sure of tog %, but was on the ground in all 4 quarters. Played well, moved well and doesn't look too far away to my eye. Class above VFL level. Beautiful hands. (I went, and had my binos on him quite a bit)
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CASEY: Rd 03 vs Williamstown
Anyone know where I can thr numbers of all players (ie including the afl listed ones) for this game?
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CHANGES: Rd 05 vs GWS
Brown's issue wasn't intensity. It was fitness. He was dropped to get fit, did a preseason like block of about six weeks of high intensity training. Lost weight, got much fitter and came back into the side - as was always going to happen. Has maintained that fitness level and is 100% best 22 lock.
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CHANGES: Rd 05 vs GWS
That's my biggest knock on weed in a nutshell. Second efforts are seemingly not instinctive for sam, which is a big worry. I wonder if as a junior he played most of his footy as a lead up, true full forward who was a cut above and took plenty of marks out on a lead. So perhaps never really had much need for second efforts? Like all dees fans, I hope he makes it. And it is hard not think (hope?) tbat somehow the penny will drop one day as his weaknesses are more seemingly psychological in nature. But as you say he us a fair way into his career to still have to get his head in the game and play with elite intensity 100% of rhe time. He has signed a new contract, so there is no real downside for us to give him time at Casey and the ones when needed.
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CASEY: Rd 03 vs Williamstown
That's exactly was i just thinking. I'm going, so looking forward to seeing some stars in action.
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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Port Adelaide
Sure, made some mistakes, but I agree, I thought he was terrific. Again, people should actually listen to what goody says in his pressers. After the game he emphasised we are happy to make mistakes, they are part and parcel of our game plan. As goody says, we are not looking to play perfect football.
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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Port Adelaide
He's good value i reckon. Knows his stuff, particularly drawing and trading related. He and Kane corner do a 20 min show on afl.com called the round so far, which I really like. Both are good actually. Will make for interesting viewing this week, as cornes will mo doubt have strong views on the Port game.
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Spargo also only had one tackle, to kozzie's six. As you say no chance he'll be dropped as he has built up a fair balance in rhe bank of goody, but 2 or 3 matches of low tackle counts and low pressure acts will eat away at that balance and give Bedford his shot.
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CHANGES: Rd 05 vs GWS
I honestly think some people still can't quite get their head around the fact that players can have very low possession numbers, and if a forward limited scoring, and still play great. This is true in spite of our coach and players taking about playing the assigned role being the key performance metric all last season. And in spite of the fact that goody continues to select players like kozzie, spargo and tmac even after stretches of low possession, no goal games. You don't need the coach to tell you what the role of such players is - it is obvious; pressure, contest and work rate. All three of those players did so much up and down the ground running last night it was insane (check out their vision on afl staystpro for evidence of that). The equivalent player at Port to spargo and kozzie was amon. How often did you see him in our forward half? How many goals did he create though his pressure? I don't think weed worked as hard as tmac, but that might be confirmation bias on my part. What he definitely did do was screen and block really well for Max and tmac. Watch tmac's goal - weed puts a great block on to give him protection to take the mark. (which by the by is why, seemingly to the frustration of some, our talls so often fly for the same ball - that and having two or three genuine talls fly for a mark in our forward line means if not marked it almost certainly comes to ground) Applying the role playing logic, it is possible goody was happy with weeds game.
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CHANGES: Rd 05 vs GWS
Tmac worked harder than weed. And weed dies himself no favours with his lack of second efforts
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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Port Adelaide
Goody in the presser; 'I couldn't be prouder of the group' tonight DL posters: "They plsyed like rubbish'
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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Port Adelaide
Spot the f on. I mean c'mon, that is the sort of win the great hawks sides during their premiership run and the lions in theirs strung together. They deliberately tried to suffocate the game, as did the bombers last week. Because they both clearly felt thst was their only chance of being close to competitive. Two finalists from last year start a game of football knowing they have zero chance of beating us with THEIR OWN game plan. That is the mark of a great side. And please, if I read one comment along rhe lines thst the lions will destroy us playing like that my head will explode. The goal is top 4. Percentage does not matter when you win as many games as we will this season.
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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Port Adelaide
But won me a pineapple as I backed them to win in the 25-42 point range Swings and roundabouts
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My 3 word player analysis V Port
Super professional win
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GAMEDAY: Rd 04 vs Port Adelaide
I backed the dees to win in the 25 - 42 range. C'mon port