This is our GF
Club seems happy to win this every year.
Got to savour those tasty 1 goal wins against West Coast and North
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Yeah, other than making some supporters feel better. It wonāt make any difference to our performances.
We should beat NM and Richmond.
But I donāt see many, if any, other wins before Rd 16. Weāll be bottom four this year.
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Not if we win those games
Up to 7 wins will have us bottom four as an absolute lock, and depending on how the season goes, we could potentially finish 15th with 8 wins.
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You donāt think getting a coach who has high standards and will hold players accountable would help performances?
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I think Scott does.
The problem is that our player are unable to execute basic skills. You canāt do much as coach, if the players cant kick or handball.
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We suck on big grounds in general
Which goes to player development.
Pick Tsatas knowing he is a poor kick. Do some work on it and then donāt pick him because he is a poor kick.
Pick Caddy as a forward but constantly chokes in front of goal and turns straight forward shots at goal into points.
Pick Jones as a forward. No work done on leading patterns, poor kick for goal so we get him to play on the wing where we have better options than him.
Train Shiel as a running half back in the pre-season against the VFL team. Come the real season it doesnāt work so they fold and put him into the middle where Tsatas doesnāt get picked.
McGrath is an absolute liability. Itās too late to develop him, we should be looking to trade him out but who would have him? Too many poor habits.
Perkins looks lost at times. Does he have a defined role? If I was him I would be angling to go to Sydney or Geelong where he would probably be a super star in a winning team.
So yes, the coach has a real problem but heās had 3 pre-seasons to work on systems, set down expectations and hold the players responsible.
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No.
More talent on the list is the only thing that will move the needle in any meaningful way.
His goalkicking isnāt horrible and I think has already gotten a bit better.
His field kicking, though. I think that is a real problem for Caddy.
But heās 19 and seems to have an enormous work ethic, so Iām not going to say heāll never fix it. He probably will. But he can only hoof the ball in open play. Any nuanced kicking and itās shaky at best.
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Caddy has kicked 6 goals 8 behinds and has the worst, repeat the worst, goal kicking accuracy on our list. 31.6% accurate is terrible. This is an issue that needs to be worked on asap. Jones is not far behind at 40%.
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Nate CaddyKEYF 6 8 1 31.6 19 24 2
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Sam DurhamMID 2 0 6 33.3 6 34 9
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Mason RedmanDEF 2 3 0 40 5 22 6
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Harrison JonesFWD 2 2 1 40 5 18 5
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We should.
But we really shouldnāt.
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No. A prerequisite of being drafted at AFL level is that you can execute a handball above a team mates knees, or hit a 25 meter target by foot.
Unless your an Irish player on the Rookie B list, learning to kick properly should not be part of a player development.
Iām not sure how you can argue against this.
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You know they attend this thing called ātrainingā donāt you?
I did not realise it was that bad. Maybe Iām only recalling the set shots heās flushed this year.
Ok, well, he needs to work on that too. Need better bang for buck from someone trying to be the centre point of a forward line.
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Yeah, to work on a game planā¦ā¦ not wasting time teaching professionals how to kick.
Itās an absolute waste of coaching resources.
Just get your recruitment correct.
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Iām with you on this, recruitment is an absolute key.
There is no point getting your recruitment correct, if the head coach doesnāt know how to use them or develop them properly
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Or if your fitness dept canāt keep them on the park.
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