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I would be more concerned if he was a I would be more concerned if he was a Proctologist......

Well he ain't going in that one, but would take Butters for him. Give you that one...

What month is trade period again....

Shouldn't you be at school? Holidays are over. Next time, I will contact your mother to let her know you are raiding her liquor cabinet.

It's where they get them the game against the dons they allowed them to march the ball passed the wing and then transfered across the ground. Speak English please...

That will come because of a big shift from contested to run style, and I believe it will change again to more man-on-man football sometime in the near future. I saw a bit of that in the Cats v Dogs game where the Cats manned up in the forward line to stop the fullback from finding a loose man. Still not sure about Windsor in the centre, but we have to remember he is still a young man in football terms, and body-wise we still have some players like Lever, Petty, McDonald, Salem who still hang on to the ball for too long before disposing of it, which slows down play. Overall, I still like how they are going about it.

If only they could become like the Krakouer brothers.....

Sooner him than Salem and will improve.

Well, bad luck, I don't live in fantasy land, and I'm free to comment.

What's the name of the post, how about you don't reply then if it bothers you.

4 minutes ago, BDA said:    The win was great but there's still plenty to work on we made school boy errors not knocking the ball for a behind twice. luckily they missed one. We can't be allowing that to happen You are not wrong there. They also need to work on where they are when not in possession of the ball. The Lions, at stages, moved the ball with ease at times. Still, too many long bombs at times, especially on kick-outs. We still have some players who are still too slow to move the ball on quickly and kill momentum. But in saying that, it is still going to take some time for them to get used to the game style, but I like the way it's heading.

If that's their game style, Casey is in for a world of pain for the year. I have said it time and time again: allowing the opposition backline to move the ball around at will and then transfer it up the ground unopposed is just suicide. It virtually happened three goals in a row, you can can say oh there is no depth, and that's fair enough, but it doesn't excuse effort to man up or run hard.

Just watch the game again; it's easy to see that his opponent was never near him, with or without the ball, or standing metres away. The way you play him is to put a running player on him and forget about the ball. It's called negating a player. Langdon did it to an extent and frustrated Dacios. Sometimes, you need to lose something to get something, just like letting sides move the ball out of the backline to the wing unmanned, like last week—just like the Hawks transfer the ball across the ground several times until they get free to run onto it and attack. Sometimes, a little man-on-man coverage works to stop that. The cats did the one thing that will change the game style again: their forwards manned up the backline, which stopped the easy flow of ball movement and forced the dogs to go long on kicks outs, and had forwards remain close in the forward line to allow easy flow. The game will start to move to a man-on-man style around certain parts of the ground.

2 hours ago, Pennant St Dee said:    I acknowledge Langdon was great against him KB, but it’s not as easy as putting a running player on him, Hollands started on him in the last who is a great runner Daicos took him to F50 where his forward craft was too good, Walsh tried to go with him but as you say got caught out hunting the pill instead of just manning up Daicos. I think you’re also under selling how good Daicos was in the last at clearances and CBDs, the game no longer allows for you to body up without trying to win the footy There’s also the fine balance on focusing on your opposition and not backing your own game, Carlton should have been further in front at 3 quarter time based on getting the upper hand at stoppages and winning the midfield battle. The amount of times in the last quarter they spoiled each other and got in the way of each other at the honey pot in D50 whilst the Pies stayed down and held structure was telling, maybe that was panic of de ja vuex or poor defensive coaching but that cost them as much as anything else Expand to Edit  Yes it is not easy and agree with you on his craft, but allowing him space to do that is not the way to reduce his influence you need a player with discipline and you can reduce his influence, tackle hard but not the rough tactics but man on man he does get frustrated.

Just watch the game again; it's easy to see that his opponent was never near him, with or without the ball, or standing metres away. The way you play him is to put a running player on him and forget about the ball. It's called negating a player. Langdon did it to an extent and frustrated Dacios. Sometimes, you need to lose something to get something, just like letting sides move the ball out of the backline to the wing unmanned, like last week—just like the Hawks transfer the ball across the ground several times until they get free to run onto it and attack. Sometimes, a little man-on-man coverage works to stop that.