I think the problem is that group does work against quite a number of sides which is why various coaches have probably persisted.
when it doesn’t work though…it really doesn’t work.
I had to laugh at the stupid commentators saying that Stringer made a difference when he was moved into the middle in the second qtr. I was yelling “he was there from the start you ■■■■■■■■”
1 Like
I didn’t think setterfield was that bad? Had a poor first quarter but fine after that. Wasn’t up to his usual standard but I don’t think anyone was yesterday.
He didn’t go to a centre a bounce until we were down by 6 goals. We immediately won the next centre bounce albeit through a holding free to stringer, neutralised the next one and win the third. They won 6 in a row to that point. Thereafter we won 19 to 9
8 Likes
There’s a stat somewhere (cant recall where) which talks about our total midfield rotations (in terms of players) this year vs other clubs. Up until the Farmers round, we’d used the least amount of players in midfield rotations - this might have been too taxing on the centre square mids. Rotations have mostly been across DP3, Junior, Setters and Shiel. Stringer coming into the season late has impacted his centre square time but he’s moved in more the last couple of weeks. Outside of that we’ve seen little of Caldwell and Perkins and Hobbs has only made his way back in this week.
It does seem that for either player availability or game style, we’ve not rotated much through the centre square mid set up vs others. Has that impacted us - probably. Is Brad trying to find the right midfield mix? Yes.
I’ve said for a while that our midfield is too unbalanced and with Setters coming in it has helped us. It’s also freed up THE Langford to move into a more swingman role - arguably winning/keeping us in games.
The Pies game showed us we need more midfield types and the Cats showed us what we’ve always known which is that we need more strength at the contest. Setters has helped, Hobbs will get there but is it Perko or Tsatsis that will emerge to balance us out? Do we still lack spread outside of Junior and Shiel? That may well be one oft he Davey boys…
4 Likes
Tottally agree he is not hunting the ball or being positive in his actions almost like he is worried about where his opponent is.
1 Like
All year we’ve asked him to be accountable to our opponents biggest body in the centre or their most dangerous ball winner. He hasn’t played pure tagging roles but has been accountant to that man at stoppage.
He’s gone (predominantly) to Newcombe, Miller, green, Oliver, de goey, Dangerfield (after quarter time).
Can’t remember who he lined up on in the saints game.
He’s made a lot of room for parish and the other smalls in the process.
We haven’t had him playing as a ball hunter because that’s what we ask parish to do.
He’s been a super important part of the midfield this year and every time we’ve flirted with his positioning we’ve got rinsed around the ball. I don’t think that’s a coincidence
13 Likes
I find him quite;
2 Likes
Yeah not as many tackles as in previous game though 
.
1 Like
I suspect my opinion here will be unpopular, but I can’t help feel Parish hasn’t been impacting games as much as I’d expected/hoped, despite his good numbers. Maybe I’m wrong?
Makes me wonder how we’d go if we did actually try and play Will in his best position? Not saying we go all chips in straight away, but it would be nice to trial him out there for portions of games and see how he goes.
3 Likes
i think we will try to target stringer more going forward with setterfield continuing in the containment role.
the last 2 games have been pretty poor from the coaches.
the collingwood game there were generally only 2 players who could win it for collingwood, daicos or moore.
we spent the whole day kicking it to one, and letting the other do whatever he wanted.
against geelong there were 3 players who could rip us a new one, dangerfield, hawkins and cameron (technically he’s doing it to everyone)
cameron took a back seat cos he could and pretty much admitted so at half time.
If as others have said stringer on dangerfield in the first qtr, yikes. and zerk on hawkins with no other tactic to help him.
again these people are getting paid multiple of 100’s of thousands of dollars a year, and they can’t come up with any way to curb opposition players influence, even with the knowledge that this guy did it against oliver just 2 weeks prior.
unless they actually think he failed his task against oliver cos he got 40 by the end of the night, but surely they dont’ think that do they ?
3 Likes
Many changes were made during the game. Sometimes your original set-up and plan doesn’t work. You do have an opposition full of people paid similar amounts of money.
If we go with the same plan when we play them later in the year, then you have reasonable grounds to have a crack at them.
i think it’s fair to say as soon as we saw hobbs lining up next to blicavs we should have changed something
3 Likes
Maybe Scott noted how EFC tolerated Worser’s shithouse coaching for years without any problems, so decided he may as well relax on game day too.
1 Like
Can we farking get this guy into the guts
He’s not winger
13 Likes
Was coming to post this exact thing.
1 Like
He fumbled a lot today
1 Like
Dropped off last 3 games
Yes he is meant to be our inside bull 
He hasn’t dropped off so much as had his role taken, arguably by Stringer.
6 Likes