rjay
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This old chestnut...
2,437 posts probably says you are... Wallace basically said in his 40 years of football it's always been about who you are, so he has called it out.
He obviously didn't disguise it very well if 99% of the football world knew...
If Mumford plays then we play Preuss and let them go toe to toe... My money would be on Preuss.
We had our chances 'Macca' and should have put WC away. ...but some of the decisions that went against us were pretty average and hurt us. Could well have changed the course of the game. Do the umpires have it in for us? no Were there some howlers last night? yes Could the decisions have effected the outcome? yes The Smith one hurt us, apart from the 12 point turnaround the tackle that forced him from the ground freed up McGoven and he became a real obstacle.
With the new kick in rule the ball doesn't need to be touched before going out of bounds unless of course it is on the full. A lot of our commentators don't know this rule change and should...they're getting paid to know this stuff. The umpire was spot on...
I don't think he's amid 'dazzle'...doesn't find the ball enough but has enough to be tried as a small defender.
Vardy played such a great game, it's the only time I noticed him on the ground all night. What a weak ....
Margetts - FMD Seriously, tonight was a good argument for not allowing umpires from home states to umpire when the opposition are from outside that state. Like in test cricket the umpires must be neutral. Yes we cost ourselves with poor kicking but that Smith decision was a disgrace and probably cost us the game. Forget Rampe climbing up a post that had absolutely no effect on the result and his remark to the umpire had even less. A 12 point turnaround and a player incapacitated. The WC player will be sighted on the tackle & probably get a week but the umpires dept and Shocking will still try to tell us the umpire got it right...
It's a good call 'Macca'... It might also explain his kicking, he couldn't miss last year but struggling to hit the side of a barn this year with his set shots.
I just wanted to readdress some of the issues I made after the first game, and in fact at different stages through the preseason. I think they're worth looking at again now that we have come full circle back to West Coast. We were due to drop off at some stage. Since Roos came on board we had improved our position on the ladder every year, so that was 5 years of steady improvement. Why the drop off this year? Injury has been an issue for sure. The preseason operations, lack of preseason for key players, the run of injuries during the season has been unfortunate. Our coach is in his 3rd year, this is his big lesson year. He either sinks or swims in how he handles this...his reaction to the Prelim loss unfortunately let our players off the hook. We didn't play our brand was a poor answer. My source tells me the players didn't come back in great shape and really thought they were better than they actually are. Making the finals for them was a huge pass mark, wining a few cause for celebration. Goody needed to get them in on the Monday and go through that game whilst it was still top of mind. They needed to know they had achieved nothing...just made up the numbers and it wasn't good enough. They wiped out the gains of making and wining a couple of finals with that performance against a real team. A good experienced coach wouldn't have fallen for this one but as I say it's part of Goodwin's apprenticeship. Let's hope he learns from it. So far he hasn't done much to change things up but I think at the end of this season he will face his Thompson, Buckley, Hardwick moment. He will lose some control and we will appoint new people to the FD, if not we're going nowhere. List management; we improved our defensive stocks but at a high cost. I think we over paid for May and Lever. Not getting any value for them on the park just makes things worse. We have deficiencies with our small forwards and leg speed in general that weren't addressed. The punt on KK to add a bit of class to the team has so far been a bust. Tommy Mac hasn't produced up to expectation to date...will he be able to turn it on? or is he where he was as a defender a few years back and just barely holding his place in the team. If you can do it once surely you can do it again but what is the mental switch that will get Tommy up and running and can Goody find it. I don't like our midfield with Viney and Oliver in at centre bounces together. I much prefer Brayshaw to Viney as I think they work better together. I don't like to see Brayshaw sitting out of the wing, he's being wasted and is better value than Viney. Viney is see ball/get ball and really need to smarten his game up. Should never have been made captain so early in his career. Another novice coaching error. Oliver is getting a lot of ball but wasteful at the moment and he's much better than this. Is it him, is it game plan, is it teammates not getting to better positions...probably a bit of everything. Max is not holding his grabs and needs to. He's dropped off just enough to make a bit of a difference, he's been worked out a bit. Trac is treading water...I don't think his form has been as poor as others say but he has a lot more that he needs to give. I think he may be being over coached and needs to be let loose, have his shots from outside 50, have a good run in the guts... Now for Frosty... Frost has been ok, I'm a Frost knocker but concede he is at least worth a place on the list (not a good call by me) & has played some good games and is good depth. Stanley was a great athlete very average footballer a few years back and has turned the corner so maybe there is some hope for Frosty, we can certainly use his athleticism... but I shudder every time he tries to take on a dinky little pass or to cross the ball, please keep it simple Frosty. So we head back to Perth...would be a mammoth effort to win this one, I don't think we can do it but stranger things have happened. I will be looking for improved form from Tommy, see him lead up at the ball and hold a few marks, kick straight. Has Baker got something to work with, I didn't think so but he did a couple of nice things last week that showed some promise. Maybe he can make it, if he's half the player of that other redheaded Qld Brownlow winner he will be ok. I want to see Trac come out of his shell and just play footy. I want to see Viney do the team things, Clayton get back his great vision and decision making. I want to see Viney do the team things and be a real captain. I would like to see Brayshaw back in the middle. I want to know if Petty can make it, my observation is he might be a little too slow. I would like to see us change up the game plan...more of the same would be insanity. ...and to my poor mate on here who thinks I'm being too negative, well I think I'm trying to take an objective view and take my fans glasses off. Just make some observations from the cheap seats...
We're not playing Port 'Lucifer'...the earliest WC could get Lycett in would be next year if he gets a transfer back from Port, a very late in. Hardly names that would strike fear into Simpson or give him more than a moments thought.... I think Harmes will go to Yeo & if we must play Viney in the middle then he should mind Shuey... I do expect Preuss to play, can't see us going with Oscar & Petty. It would make us slow as treacle in defence...
Petty is no quicker 'bin'...probably on a par with Oscar and Preuss may have them both covered or at least break even.
Oscar was sore last week so you might be on the money there. I couldn't see both him and Petty in the same team, we would be way to slow if that were the case. ...but then again selections have been a bit baffling this year.
This is why I keep banging on about playing Sparrow back. He's got some leg speed, good in the air, tackles hard and is strong over the ball. Kicking is a bit hit and miss at the moment but biggest problem for me is he doesn't find enough ball as a mid. They should run him in defence at Casey as he is the only one that looks like he could be a replacement for Jetta. Jetta didn't find a lot of ball as a forward/mid but was reinvented in defence. Sparrow might find it easier with the ball coming at him and he could turn out a quicker version of Nev... Jordon is another at Casey now starting to find his feet at that level, still very young and developing. A good kick and with more time he could step up. A bit early for him yet but a spot will open for a good kick from the back half...
Not at all. ...but our dysfunctional forward line along with the primitive game plan we are using need to carry a fair bit of the blame.
That's rubbish 'Graeme'... Everyone was calling for him to kick more last year. I've seen Clayton hit some great passes to moving forwards. I'm not seeing forwards moving to the right spots at the moment and we seem to have a game plan to bang the ball in. It's obviously not a great game plan.
It's a bit of a nonsense stat... Unfortunately our forwards move like statues and lets face it on form our forward line is the worst in the comp so it's no wonder the ball isn't retained. We have next to no forward half pressure, Tommy Mc can't catch a cold and we don't have anyone better but let's blame the kicker. I've seen Clayton spot up and hit targets when they move to the right spots, our forwards rarely go there. Game plan? Forwards not up to the level?
Hard to tell form watching some video last night but to me he looks more a Sam Lloyd type forward than a quick small forward with tricks... Not that fussed by the highlights but he looks a neat footballer, not sure it's what we want or need.
Even last year those players you mention were only getting numbers in the 20's on a good day... Stretch this year for example, even ANB although apparently he had been told to focus on tackles. When Spargo plays he only gets low numbers, they should be racking up possessions or goals to get a promotion.
