I was pondering this before the season even commenced:
We have too many of certain types of players, but not enough of others.
So is there an innovative way to structure our team, that plays to our list strengths?
Why does everyone in the industry list their team in the same way each week? You know, in lines of three?
We have no midfield depth, so could we change our thinking to have deeper back/forward lines? Like 7-4-7 or something? (in fact maybe that would unleash some superpower for the Bombers or something)
Maybe defense has to be rigid, because you have to respond to what the opposition is doing, but mid-forwards?
Ive thought for a while that our best style, based on what we have is a modern version of the slingshot.
We need to protect an average midfield, we have mobile and x-factor forwards who can work into space, we have players with extreme speed for quick rebounding and having extra numbers back helps our average defense.
You’d use Hooker back, Daniher and Stewart as release talls who can quickly get into position, overlapping speed with half backs mckenna/saad/mcgrath and forward smalls to further break lines on lightning transition. Stringer can be used a forward in this setup.
The 2018 game is to apply frontal pressure pushing right up and keeping the ball in your forward half - not good for us as any breakdown of these sees our average mids and defenders exposed on the rebound like freo and footscray showed us.
Basically setup opposite to how teams are breaking us down. I have little faith in the club doing anything that isnt vanilla.
