spirit of norm smith

Dees treated like rubbish once again. Pert and Bartlett to speak up. They are irrelevant. Earn your very large $$$$.

Gold. Obvious things we have SCREAMED about for a long time. Goody should have analyzed this for the past 5 years.

Yes Oliver’s last clanger was perfect example

Misguided really. I worked in the building profession for 10 years before moving to design work. I know lots of young blokes with good intent but lacked the tool skills. I also had blokes with talent but were lazy. Who is easier to fix? It was often the ones who had the attitude issue that I developed. I think many of our blokes already have effort and intensity. They do play and compete. But a lot of our players haven’t got the core skills. It will take real coaching and development because it’s been ignored for years. Viney and Oliver and even Brayshaw don’t value their possessions. They give it away too easily. I’d invest in intense skill training for the whole club.

Thanks Dr. This saved me 30 minutes of typing. It’s so clear. Why don’t our footy special coaches get it. Why does it take the weekly footy media to raise it !!! It’s been 18 months of poor execution, dumb footy and poor team structure.

Goodwin needs to have the blowtorch applied

Agree. Frost had a clanger or two but had 7-8 more defensive efforts than ANY of the current key defenders. His pace and size was excellent for a key defender but another Goody scapegoat!!

No sugar coating. It’s going to be hard. But like the Power did, you have to be positive *** Demonland - can we merge with Demons Winter adventure post. Perhaps change Sydney adventure.

Trac had another very very good game. Not excellent. I’m tough. You have to be. He is now a bona fide mid imo. Who can also rest forward. He can try to copy Dusty and be dangerous wherever he is His first quarter was A grade. But then he fumbled a few and handballed too often. With such kicking ability, he needs to burst and kick. He created about 5 of our goals yesterday. And we only kicked 8 !!

Caught the plane with the Cats yesterday. Selwood ducked all the way down the aisle !!

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Spot on. He’s not damaging. In fact he either turned over the footy or put his teammates under pressure. One kick to the forward line went at 45 degree angle out of bounds. His handball to Smith cost us a goal. His final clanger killed off any momentum we had. He needs a mentor or special coaching. He has the ability. It’s the execution of delivery that is missing.

I agree. He appears restricted. Definitely not as energetic or at the contest as I would like to see. Not capable of a creative midfield role right now imo

Yes. I think we will see HB this week v Suns. We need his skill. It will be interesting versus his former team. At least some theatre.

Thanks Demonland for posting. This is what we have been screaming out for years. We win the contested footy against virtually every time. Only the Lions beat us last year in contested footy. But our football skills - kicking and handball are shocking. And the overhandballing is as bad. Often to a teammate under more pressure.

Gawn was our best by a mile. Hit outs. Marks. Contested marks. Disposals. Efficiency. Tackles. Blocks. He did his very best.

Btw Riley Beveridge in AFL Website gave Clayton Oliver as our second best player behind Gawn. Was he even watching the game !!!?!?!?!

I can’t see how Salem gets votes. He was getting handball receives but not often in the contest. He has also been a culprit of a slow slow style. His delivery is often short 15 metre kicks. I held high hopes for him as a Houli type running half back but he’s not quite there. He was not the worst yesterday but not deserving of votes.

I agree that on TV it’s hard to know where our players went sometimes. I miss watching the game live at the ground. You get more perspective on why and how

Surely we need capitals JUST GIVE WEID OR BROWN A GO IN THE FORWARD LINE for a few weeks. Not just 1-2. We brought in Brown. We need to give either of them 5-6 weeks. Here you go. Yes. It’s not just a fling.

May was a forward as a junior and first two years at Suns. Can mark. Great kick. I’d try the Weid first but if all is lost by round 10, I’d experiment with May going forward.

Demonland. Can we start a post on this. It’s been obvious for years and years. Not just the past bad 18 months. It does “kill us” and the players. There is no skills development coach clearly. I just posted about forgetting about trades etc. Fix the skills of the 22 that play right now. Skills and decision making are CRITICAL

SNAP. BINGO. EUREKA!!! Yes even this is so simple. We don’t get back or quickly enough to take our mark or free kick. We play dumb and this is one of the 5-6 most basic easy to fix things. Trac, Viney, Oliver, Harmes. Plenty of examples. I’d fix it in 3 minutes to the list with a short video. Surely Goody!!!

Couldn’t agree more. Intensity is not just physical. We need mental intensity. Concentration. To kick it properly. To make the right decision. To use handball creatively. That’s seriously lacking. It’s not lack of confidence. It’s the foundation skills and decision to then execute it.