Thats why paying up for Reid would be worth it.
Coaching staff must see it as well. Maybe our runners canāt be farked passing on the messages to spuds anymore.
Itās why heās been big on process, rather than results.
Because the teamās mental application is so poor, itās easier to have them concentrate of tick box scenarios in their heads.
As we have seen its not working.
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If Midtable Brad bought into the mentality that this list was capable of contending and was only just āhimā away from getting there, then he clearly didnāt watch any football during his time at the AwFuLā¦
Agree
I bet we did well in most of the coaches metrics against the suns.
Except for kicking accurately and winning.
If I remember correctly he did lay out some kind of longer term plan, involving a couple of years to assess what we had.
Perhaps he wants to stick steadfastly to a timeline, in the face of results.
But even then, a lot of decisions in regards to team selection, positions etc have been baffling.
Bradās biggest mistake so far is keeping experienced heads from losing culture, rather than try to play kids to build their own culture.
most Blitzers would have been giving game time to massimo last year on the wing/half back, but Brad was running with Heppell. Massimo might have taken us places. Heppell was jsut a position we had so replace in a year or two.
Playing Weideman over Voss, when we needed a harder edge to the side.
Playing laverde over Baldwin when we needed better ball use out of defence.
last year it was playing Phillips ahead of developing Bryan
This year it was playing Goldy ahead of developing Bryan
Holding back Roberts when he was ready.
giving games to Shiel over Hobbs or Tsatas.
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Any game plan will expose our weaknesses. Itās a game of rock-paper-scissors regardless of which game style we play.
Open up the forward line and kick to leading forwards? Our lack of skills are exposed. And weāll get burned on the rebound as we have in previous years. Weāve also historically had problems with the loose man dropping back into the leading lanes.
Lock it into our front half (as weāre doing more often now) by kicking long to packs? Donāt have crumbing forwards and our pressure from the talls can be a problem as often as it isnāt.
Play free flowing rebound of the backline footy and go through the middle? Lack of foot skills and decision making. A turnover will cost a goal (see Redman on Saturday night). High scoring free flowing games, which we donāt have the firepower to keep up with.
Play safe around the boundary line? Our rucks arenāt dominant and contested footy isnāt our strength. We have a midget midfield to work with.
Play slow moving footy (like we did more often last year)? Works to minimise our weakness (we donāt have to run as far when we have the ball), but it exposes our lack of foot skills, decision making and lack of fitness (you need your teammate to hard lead off their opponent to create a target.
No matter what we do itāll expose our weaknesses. Thatās competitive sport. Itās whether or not you are concealing enough of your weaknesses and utilising more of your strengths. We have not been able to strike that balance.
Itās a coaching issue. As well as a list issue. As well as a fitness issue. As well as a mental issue.
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The biggest issue coaching wise is forward cohesion and forward makeup.
Menzie - slow
Gresham - average pace
Guelfi - been decent, done good jobs.
Wright - is a leading forward needs to lead up to the ball, and crash through whoever is in his way.
A Davey - pressure forward, still not doing enough.
J Davey - Scott wonāt give a chance too. HAs best pace and finishing skills of whole forward group.
Stringer - selfish and gone away from doing team things, still getting opportunities.
Langford - looks like has lost a step is hampered, or other clubs worked him out.
El-Hawli - has pace, needs to be given chance up forward, as can cover other areas of ground - wing half back etc too.
hf: (resting mid) Caldwell/Hobbs Caddy El-Hawli
f: J Davey Draper Stringer
Maybe he thinks he is that damn good?
El-hawli is certainly an interesting prospect. Think he could fill gueolfiās role but with more pace and a few more tricks
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Long term he could be a half back or winger or half forward, but just get him in the team. Has pace, defensive intent, can take a mark (good mark for size) and kicks goals regularly. Easy upgrade on any of Menzie, Gresham, Davey, probably add Cox and Jones too.
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Yep, Iād debut him this week without hesitation
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The hesitation has to be is his body ready, heās only one game back from injury. We donāt want the sugar hit of playing him if it leads to another broken down player.
he has all the offseason to recover.
But would get the benefit of knowing the difference from AFL and VFL level.
plus add some excitement to the team.
positives easily outweigh the negatives.
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I mean Iād prefer he didnāt develop chronic hamstring issues that limited his pace or prevented him from reaching his potential. Weāve had enough of those players over the years.
Wowā¦thats a ā ā ā ā collection of Forward.
In the future Iād like to see:
Kako - Caddy - J Davey/Wanganeen
Langford - Jones - El-hawli
Got suspended for 4 weeks for doing just that. Has never been the same since.
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he just needs to get hands on the ball next time.