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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.

14 minutes ago, Pennant St Dee said:    He’s no good and he’s soft apparently yet has just gone in and dominated CBDs to change the game, Daicos is class without question and PF well we all know what he is Oh, he's a good player alright but it's easy when you are allowed to run free I cannot believe how coaches allow that in the first place.

Good post for around a month before the end of the season.

1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:    I’m not one for blind optimism but I have Essendon at the G as a win (assuming we haven’t fallen off the cliff by round 14) Essendon play like men possessed at this Gather Round fixture and I have no idea why? But I reluctantly given them credit for it. Happy to play them again to make up for yesterday’s debacle. It was lost in the coaching box to allow some 100 uncontested possessions, which is a failure on the club to address the lack of pressure on the opposition. It was the same against Freo, and they addressed that to some extent. In that game, they need to stop that, as the top teams will continue to rip us apart in that facet of the game. Their dons made us look second rate for a bottom side at this point in time.

Outplayed and outcoached to allow 126 extra uncontested possessions means you are not picking up an opponent and allow them to move the ball at their speed. One only has to look at the Pies, and I know they have not set the world on fire, but when they don't have the ball in hand, they sprint to the opponent even if it's 10 metres away to apply pressure to the ball carrier. Salem's effort on Kaco before halftime showed that it was weak. There are still a lot of faults to fix, and it looked like players going into old-style plays, but King has seen some good and the ugly today. They will learn to adjust; I'm just not sure they can do it with Salem, McDonald, and Lever in the backline. Howes is still learning, and Turner gives his all. Yes, it was disappointing, and one can hope the coaches learn from it and make the adjustments next week, which will tell us that.

Salem past it if it's not on his terms he is just a plodder that goal by Kaco Salem just let him run on and just jogged behind him, unfortunately we cannot have to many momentum killers in Lever, Salem or McDonald.

Jim and Phil Krakouer best brothers I have seen.

Well past him...

Viney would Take Viney and Salem out...

He's too slow. We are not playing contest to contest football it's all about speed and outside run he is also not a great mark or decision maker if Steele was out, maybe but not now.

Well, I finally got to watch the replay, and what a difference in style and ball movement from previous years. Yes, there were some mistakes from the younger players; it was good to see they were taking the game on, and it was also pleasing that they were not trying to save the game and kept playing it out until the last few minutes. We all know there will be ups and downs during the season, and we will find out then how they bounce back, but at least we are on the right track. I will also say that the way we move the ball with pace, I cannot see Viney getting a game, as Steele covers him in spades with talent, decision-making, and skills.

Spot on more the angle harder the shot, closer to the goal the easier the shot it's not rocket science.

34 minutes ago, upthedees said:    Clearly, I wasn't trolling if I stated it was sarcasm. Champ Love sarcasm but draw the line at the word champ.

He was standing still waiting for the ball and not moving on those easy spoils that happened.

Totally agree on Fritta he can be a lazy footballer at times and then he puts the cream on top when the plays goes our way but it takes all types of players to make a side.