yes, very good
This is fun. My noms above.
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Yuk, straight past⌠terrible pizzas
Thatâs a given for a team that lacks good foot skills and even has suspect decision making. We are at our best when the game is more simple and in chaos. It suits our skills. But as soon as the opposition get the ball, our pressure canât keep up.
I suspect there are different results in different parts of the field with contests.
Which is the info that clubs would have.
I think weâre actually good at balancing the defensive aspects and offensive aspects of a stoppage on the wing generally closer to centre than each arc.
Where I think we drop off more than preferred is when the stoppage is 40m to 70m from our goal and anywhere in the opposition forward 50 and up to 70m.
I think a lot of the issues are our ruck (even with Bryan) and the midfielders at the contest. Iâd love to know the data of how we fair (both attacking and defensively) when Merrett, Caldwell and Durham are there versus when Merrett, Caldwell and Setterfield. I think these combos work best. Once you add anyone else (even Martin) I think itâs more of a âchange the way the game looksâ kind of thing than do it on repeat for a full game.
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Melk is a good nom
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something different
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Now you are asking too much. I very much doubt that will ever happen. Letâs wait and see if anything happens. I wouldnât place a bet on it.
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Iâll summarise the last 500 posts.
Nothing Brad Scott and the coaching group are implementing looks any good because we have an over-abundance of middling plodders across an injury-stricken playing list.
~fin
Woosha is 100% Orazio Fantasia.
The peaks and troughs of Raz almost directly align with those of Woosha as coach.
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Credit to @The_New_Coleman for that one, but yes, he absolutely was. Hard to think of too many times in the Woosh era where we looked good and Raz didnât.
I have been at times hard on Brad, but he is the first coach since the early 90s with the swingers and gravitas to turn over this list and do an actual rebuild. Sheeds lived on the smell of the baby bombers, Knights continued with Sheedsâ dregs, Hird tried to refresh the list, Bombers brought in Geelong has-beens, Woosha shat the bed and brought back the drug cheats, Rutts continued Wooshaâs weakness, but Brad went whack whack over 2 years, got an extension then said surprise, weâre doing a rebuild and has played more kids than Gerald Ridsdale. Love him or hate him, he has done what none of those other B, C and D grade Essendon coaches had the guts to do.
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Have a look at the Dees ins/outs this week. They have omitted Lever, Van Rooyen and Windsor.
Just imagine BDB having the balls to drop three senior players⌠We donât even see one omission after getting smashed by 10 goals.
0 selection integrity.
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My turn.
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The quotes from both are also similar too. Will be paraphrasing here, but orazio mentioned how much of an achievement it was to make finals. Woosha on the other side mentioned how the board said it wasnât good enough to get into finals, we needed to win one.
Both of them definitely mirror each other
And you wait until next week it will be a raft of senior players in and swag of young players out
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No he wont
Brad said he wants the young guys to stay in the side. Said might not be a good idea to bring in up to 7 players.
Redman,Ridley,Durham,Reid should be the only ones in
Lever yeah. Windsor is a 2nd year player & Van Rooyen is another kid (whoâs having a mare of a year).
Iâll give Brad this: heâs not Michael Voss.
Yet.
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You wait and see within the next two weeks every senior available player will be back in the team
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Itâs nice to read that our forward development coach has had his passion reignited. I guess if we can find a Caddy in every position weâll have a coaching department firing on all cylinders and just excited to be there. I hope old Clokey remembers to develop Nate positively rather than negatively when the excitement calms. The trend has been toward the latter approach.
â However, Cloke urged fans to keep perspective on Caddyâs development, stressing patience over short-term expectations.
âLike every person in footy we put a lot of expectations on these young kids to win games,â Cloke admitted.
âHeâs been able to do it some games, not so other games.
âBut Iâm really looking forward to seeing his development over a five-to-seven year period of linear growth.â
In fact, Cloke revealed that working with Caddy has reignited his passion for AFL.
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