We’ve been badly beaten in ‘sprint efforts’ the past 2 weeks (see tracker feature on AFL app).
When Ross took over they spent all pre season on running and getting fit. A few saints players have said its the hardest they ever ran
Thats whats need to happen this year
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I partly blame the coaches. Setterfield in the middle at all clearances except for bench time. We should never have Merrett, Parish and Shiel at a centre bounce.
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At least Brad amitted he stuffed up
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Don’t mind it. He needs to play out scenarios/match ups. He’s accountable not the ■■■■■■■ nonsense from Worsfold and Rutten.
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Our mids inability to get a centre clearance after the opposition kicks a goal is really worrying
Thought our rucks should have started to just smashing it fwd in ruck contests as Danger and Holmes were sharking the taps while our mids were trying to run plays. Meant our players were second to react every time.
Last few weeks sides have put a big body on parish and pushed him into the ruck contest. Taps have gone over his head and they have sharked them.
Yesterday we started similarly with stringer going to danger and parish being Draper’s target. From the second quarter onwards setterfield took danger and stringer became the tap target with parish and Merrett buzzing around for handball receives and lose balls which is their strength
It looked a million times better against a good side who was dominating us and it’s part of the reason we didn’t get blown out of the water.
I’d be curious to know how often stringer was targeted but I feel it happened a lot more after the first quarter.
In the round the ground stoppages stringer would not be there as much and we had trouble controlling those contests as a consequence. I’d use langford There a bit more fwiw but he got parked in the hole in front of Hawkins.
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Normally people get angry at you; I’m actually going to try and add value, but it’s up to you if it means anything.
As I see it you have three choices:
- Accept it and move on
- Accept it for now and set a timeframe when to stop investing time/passion
- Don’t accept, move on and use that time to do something that makes you happier
You’re in no man’s land; somewhere between Essendon tragic and completely over it. It’s okay, you’re not the first and you won’t be the last either. You suggest that you left the game 10mins into the 1st quarter claiming that you don’t care, but the next day you’re still venting about it - at some point you have to move on, one way or another.
I get what you’re trying to say, you don’t want fans accepting mediocrity, because we’ve been mediocre at best for ages. That’s fair man, set yourself a target date when you expect to see certain output from the club and if they don’t meet your expectations or if it makes you too angry, distance yourself from it.
For me personally, I found the Collingwood loss infurtiating because I felt we were the better team all day and let it go. Collingwood yesterday have put some perspective on that game, showing that they can comeback against anyone, not just us. The loss to Geelong is tiring because we keep losing to them, but you need to put into perspective that they’re are the reigning ■■■■■■■ premiers; their job is to dismantle anyone trying to take their prize; which they’ve done substantially worse to a young team in Sydney multiple times now too.
Dunno man, wish I could help you more. Sorry if this is just word soup.
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Its ok i appreciate the words
From now on i will be only attending games against crap sides or that are lower on the ladder to us. Every time i atended games against good sides they disapoint
There’s no doubt Geelong rope a doped us a bit after quarter time. When we came at them in the third and got it to 4 goals they responded by having the next 10 or so inside 50s and kicking the next 3.
That said, we invited them to retake the momentum with that terrible handball error at half back from Martin. He had a guy outside him on the wing and that ball should have gone forward for a goal scoring opportunity. It didn’t and it seemed to totally take the wind out of our sails for about 15 minutes.
But you’re going to get that at times from young players and a young side. Rachelle failed to give an easy handball on the wing with 20 seconds to go and it probably denied the crows an opportunity to win that game as another case in point.
That we were able to work our way back into that game at all, in part due to some positional changes, and land a few punches is evidence of significant amounts of progress from last year.
That doesn’t mean we should be patting ourselves on the back for losing by 5 goals but I don’t think anyone, least of all Scott, is doing that.
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I feel like it’s a mental thing we need to shake. We showed up the Dees in Adelaide which was good.
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We won the contest after quarter time.
Just gave them too much lead in the first quarter 38-0 at one point.
But cats probably had another gear if they needed it.
Good thing for me was that we had some winners on the ground.
I’m sorry, but this is irrelevant.
It was like the tall kid holding the small kid at arms’ length while the small kid wildly throws haymakers which don’t land.
The game was over in 15 minutes and Geelong knew it. They had another gear, which they didn’t need.
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Club should hire a full time psychologist
Richmond did it pre flag and the ended up winning a flag in 2017 Dusty thanked his psychologist for turning his career around
On Anzac Day BT intrevied an army vet who’s been working at the Pies the last 12 months been teaching Collingwood players about leadership and how to create the next batch of leaders
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Yep Cats took the foot of gas nothing to take out of the game we were beaten all day convincgly
Game goes into the bin and focused on beating Port
Will take that any day than a coach sitting in the box with a a smile on his face because he has no clue what he is doing.
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True this … and seeing Shiel doing good stuff at HFF tells me he can rotate from there more regularly with Calders say. Hobbs is a contested beast and wants to be in the guts, always. Let him.
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Leigh Matthews had a great theory he uncovered when he coached - teams will often start the first quarter the same way they played the last quarter of the previous game.
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Hopefully asking Gia (midfield coach) WTF was that putrid ■■■■■ you dished up in the first Q?
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This. Good spot Nino … our game is a team game and any great mentor who’s been involved or led incredible sitiations are awe inspiring.
Had an away day with a UK Bank client many years ago in London where the keynote speaker was Pete Goss … the British sailor who rescued the French sailor sinking in the single handed round world Vendee Globe 1996 sailing race. I’m a blue water sailor so was triple incredible in nderstanding what he did and endured.
But I digress. However you add military, extreme sport, personal or other inspirational peoples to the messaging which the coaches drive home in trainings … and you get what the Pies are achieving today.
Never give up. Always believe.
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