Everything posted by demon3165
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NON-MFC: Round 06
Well, I must admit I haven't seen a lot of Collingwood games, but it appears they have changed the gameplan again. One has to be impressed with it .......
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Recruiting - where did it all go wrong
It all went wrong when Goodwin failed to see the changing trends of football in the 22 season and onwards Stevie Wonder could see we needed outside pace in the midfield and move the ball with quick pace and skill instead still wanted to play the inside contested ball down the line football and blind faith that it would work. Our forwards line has struggled by this ball movement and will continue to do so until they get some help on how to get separation skills running patterns and body use against their opponents, they also need to stop allowing the backmen to easily transfer the ball out of the back half with ease thus allowing the transfer of the ball across the H/B line while everyone is on one side of the ground, it is damm frustrating to see the ball move towards the forward line and all you see is opposition numbers by 2 and 3 players. Max unfortunately cannot jump at centre bounces anymore and is unable to give advantage to most of the time and therefore is a libility but he is great around the ground he needs help and not just JVR, Viney, Oliver gets shown up when it's not contested all the time and are just chashing stops now does Goodwin go for broke and introduce a new midfield and forward line and stay the course or just go the same i guess we will find out tomorrow
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Time to go Goody?
Sorry, it is a lack of talent if the club is serious hard decisions need to be made on senior players by dropping them, Viney is a liability in the midfield Oliver just jogged around chasing stops we have players who lack football smarts, and we were in the right spot right time for a flag and it's gone downhill since, Goodwin mentioned the problems with the forward line in 22 onwards and it's been the same thing and we haven't solved it now.
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Time to go Goody?
Sorry you are wrong it is a lack of talent and skills and run, as I said in an earlier post decisions on senior players need to be called Sorry, it is a lack of talent if the club is serious hard decisions need to be made on senior players by dropping them, Viney is a liability in the midfield Oliver just jogged around chasing stops we have players who lack football smarts, and we were in the right spot right time for a flag and it's gone downhill since, Goodwin mentioned the problems with the forward line in 22 onwards and it's been the same thing and we haven't solved it now.
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Time to go Goody?
This was easy to predict what was going to happen the game changed we didn't you cannot keep going to the well year after year with a one paced poorly skilled midfield and a dysfunctional forward line now the club has to make some very hard decisions on some senior popular players, the question is do they have the balls to do it.
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My 3 word player analysis V Essendon
17 minutes ago, VNightCityLegend said: Agree with the Windsor sentiments. Goodwin is trying turn him into Jayden Hunt which is laughable. The way we are set up with no clear exit does him no favors. Hope to god we end up with Longmire before Windsor gets destroyed. A lot of similarities with Gulden in the sense he was drafted as a an agile wingman with great agility with little experience as an inside on ball player. Longmire turned an already elite outside player who can hit the 45 degree kicks with ease into a crucial piece of the Swans on ball brigade. If Windsor can become half as good, I’ll be happy. Well funny about that there were people on this site thinking that was going to work never was going to work Windsor is an outside player with a run
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PREGAME: Rd 06 vs Fremantle
Years wasted under Stafford he has no clue on body positioning where to lead poor hand and arm positioning, time to get Jonathan Brown, even Fev who is still doing it to teach these guys 34ba813fef5bfe0cd7e7d5a1da46d56b.mp4
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POSTGAME: Rd 05 vs Essendon
Their young kids are progressing ours haven't.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 05 vs Essendon
We had one of those this year
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GAMEDAY: Rd 05 vs Essendon
He is a witches hat tonight not even bothered to run flat out.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 05 vs Essendon
I imagine a lot of supporters will passover tonight to watch.
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NON-MFC: Round 05
Well, knock me down with a feather. ANB has improved his skills, and here is an idea: all our players do a pre-season with another club before the season starts.
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Kicking Inside 50
1 hour ago, Earl Hood said: I think Viney has to go as a mainstay of the midfield. He has been a great warrior for us, but the game has evolved and he hasn’t, either because he can’t or he won’t. I find it difficult to understand how a footballer at the elite level hasn’t got the peripheral vision and poise to pick out targets around them. I know not every mid can have the vision of a Pendlebury but surely you can try. And that’s the worry for me, that Viney doesn’t even try and fail but continues to just blindly throw it on his left boot to nobody in particular. It’s been an issue for some time. I still have flashbacks of that last dumped kick against Carlton with 30 seconds to go, straight to Walsh? while Tracc was running loose on his inside calling for the handball and us going out in straight sets in 2023. Can he play the defensive small forward role with brief stints on the ball? I believe he deserves the chance. I agree with you, except for his playing as a small forward. He simply does not have the smarts, and Backman would simply run off him. He has been a great player for the club, but sometimes you have to make hard decisions for the team.
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Kicking Inside 50
See Fev even shows how easy it is. 34ba813fef5bfe0cd7e7d5a1da46d56b.mp4
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Kicking Inside 50
Max is a liability at centre bounces now he unfortunately cannot jump and just trys to body his opponent and opposition sides have worked that out, and I will say it again we have a one paced lack of skills midfield and that's being found out against sides that will transition the ball with pace. Some serious questions need to be asked: can you continue to play Viney in the midfield? How does one change Oliver's role because all he is doing is chasing stops, giving him a hard tag, and he cannot cope? The next 4 games might dictate what direction the club takes.
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Kicking Inside 50
I agree about burgess he was a bigger loss than we think.
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Kicking Inside 50
To be fair, a few were saying it, but the majority thought everything was OK until now.
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TRAINING: Monday 7th April 2025
Just fix JVR hand position when marking the ball that would be a good start.
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Recruiting - where did it all go wrong
We had one of the best midfielders for our game plan. The game started to change in the 22 and onwards. We became stuck in the belief that our midfield could do the same thing over and over, and now we are struggling. I don't know if losing Burgess was a bigger loss than we expected. And it's just not on the midfield; the decision-making by players is slow, and the skills by hand and foot are at an under-15s standard. Now, I'm sure somewhere along the line we will play better football, but it might be better to burn the house down and start again, and that includes moving seasoned players out to get to where you want to be.
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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Geelong
Well last night again showed up the lack of forward craft and positioning of when to hold your opponent under the ball and then move and how to use your body, only fritta knows how to do that but he needs to be the third banana so to speak, JVR has cricketers hands when the ball comes in hard and fast and by that his hands face outwards and arms bent to far back the forward players always seen to let their opponent with them instead of sprinting for the ball the backline is to slow in movement and again out to the left again and the cats were smart they let us have that one then manned up thus stopping the run however we allowed loose players for the cats to switch the ball at ease because we push into the contest all the time, the same going forward we have to wait to kick into the forward line and the cats always had 2 to 3 defenders on their own. And the midfield is again slow and predictable like bears to a honey pot unfortunately Max is becoming a libility at centre bounces he just can't jump anymore to give us first use, Oliver is a shadow of himself sides have worked him out, Viney went back to s rugby player and got caught again, langford just a kid but there is a lot to like, forget Windsor off the H/B and back on the wing. The game plan is a mess it seems Goodwin and the skills are comparable to under 15's football by hand and foot, and they seem slow, but then again when you are always second to the ball, it appears that way.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 04 vs Geelong
Time to bring out more soccer balls.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 04 vs Geelong
And that's different since 22?
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TRAINING: Wednesday 2nd April 2025
8 hours ago, Go Ds said: No, kicking a soccer ball and practising torps, bananas etc and kicking short and long distances and when fresh and when exhausted , with a breeze, against a breeze, with a waterlogged ball yada yada yada all help overall with kicking skills. No one's gonna try kicking bananas with a soccer ball. I'd wager the huge majority of AFL players could kick 20m since puberty and if suddenly our players can't that's more likely due to lack of confidence or morale, maybe complacency and maybe lack of fitness. The shape of a ball won't fix those things though maybe a break from a Sherrin,while still practising everything else , may help slightly. I'm all for doing things differently and being inventive to change things up but when you cannot execute the simple things then you keep practising until you get it right, as for the fitness part you may be right there when Burgess was there you still went hard even when sore attitude and we ran out games hard but that was when we played a contest game the game has changed for us.
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TRAINING: Wednesday 2nd April 2025
Simple when you struggling to kick a ball 20 metres with an oval ball i suggest you practice with that first as seen in our last two games a soccer ball won't help that and as for you saying helping to kick tops, banana, flat punts kicks it's not even close kicking a soccer ball now if the were learning how to curve using the inside of the foot well yes but we don't do that.
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TRAINING: Wednesday 2nd April 2025
Well, he ain't slow either.