thats saved for monday to wednesdays during the week DJR, keep up.
But we played DAYS ago!
Since the unspeakable Carlton game our midfield has been our unlikely savior. We have been beating team almost by flooding our own forward 50. The issue comes when teams like the Hawks reduce that inside 50 differential. Then we become dependent on the efficiency of the forwards.
Myers has been great. And is slowly bring that left foot weapon to bare. Even last year we could see that the coaching panel were encouraging him to have shots from outside the 50. He has been pretty good, could be better, but he’s been pretty good. He has certainly been that big bodied midfielder we have been crying out for the last couple of years.
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yeah yeah…but that’s almost all this board has talked about for a couple of years now. Now we have what we want. We should recognize it. Next week will be a bid test, though. The three losses we have had over the last 10 or so weeks are to sides who have been able apply pressure on us and slow the rate the ball has gone into our forward line or reduced the quality of the entries. That is what we have to improve on. And Myers will be at the core of the improvement in that area.
my two thoughts:
- v v happy for Myers. I had a quiet one with one of the lead characters in the Saga a couple of years back- he told me he was most sorry for Myers out of the group - as he is such a quality person and great guy. Sheds light on the high esteem he’s always held in the inner sanctum.
- I hope he can be as effective against a team with better pressure (this Fri night would be great…) where there is less time to get on to the preferred left, spot up players etc.
Do shots at goal count as metres gained?
I’m curious to know his metres gained per kick average.
David Myers breakout season?
Maybe there’s a lesson here vis-a-vis Laverde?
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Well Dave, against the Hawks you went missing but excelled against the Swans so you can perform against the big boys. Need another 25+ possie, 2 goal game to give your team any chance against the Tiges.
Don’t tell me, this should be the base line for any of Myer’s games going forward & if he doesn’t achieve that, he has failed miserably.
Probably has been said how fourteen zillion times this year in this thread, after any number of games where Myers has had a few kicks & clearances.
This is the base line, don’t fall below it- What a crock of shitt
Or ‘Myers best game for the club’.
The thing about Myers game that struck me more in this game than any other I have seen him play was demonstration of a number of instances of the football intelligence that people have long been saying he posesses. We are used to Hepp and Zerret finding space at critical moments . Myers did exactly that and his 29 disposals were a lot more damaging than Seb Ross racking up numbers doing triangular handball drills on the flanks while our defence set up to intercept them.
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This is Myers time to make his name. A massive 6 weeks of footy that he’s had inside him for all these years.
I liked seeing him yelling at Hurley and a couple of other defenders at one point to say hey, there’s no point switching the ball again, you have lots of options, move it forward
One thing about Myers that’s really obvious is that he’s our most vocal player around stoppages outside of BJ.
Hepp is good at the quiet stuff but Myers is more of that general type, barking orders, hyping people up. Makes a massive difference on field, as dumb as it sounds that sort of stuff really lifts a team
Great to see him up and about and great to see that he’s using his hoof as a weapon again
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Point 2 has always been the big issue though. Can he be damaging against well drilled defences that know (and actually execute) to shut down his left side. Against the really top pressure sides he seems to slip back to the “grab ball and hoof it 45m blindly downfield” mode which doesn’t help.
That and injuries have robbed him over creating consistency through a season, never mind over a career.
Our two best patches of “team form” over the last 10 years have both been when this guy is up and firing… which either shows he is an x-factor, is just that good OR how desperately we needed an inside mid. I like to think a little of each.
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Potentially a breakout game coming up, as Dave channels Joey and hoofs some sausage rolls from the edge of the centre square.
Just woke up. Dreaming again.
Hey, what did I do?
Sweet. Only seven more years before we can get some value out of Lav!
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