Can you do the highlight test one as well, as that might make it easier if people want to reply to nackers, and will avoid the massive posts…
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There should be a Doe’s Blitz Users Masterclass thread
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Yeah we can beat Adelaide, it’s in Melbourne. I reckon we will get 5-8 wins, always some surprises in store. Excited by the prospect of some actual home games and hopefully some promising young talent.
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In 1992 we won 12 games, I think somewhere around 6-12 wins is realistic. we need to start well though and bank some wins early,
Super draft 2021. Less wins the better!
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Well this thread turned into the lid off thread quickly
After ~ 9 rounds we went fully youth and won 9 of our last 13 games.
The 4 games we lost were all to the eventual Top 4. That includes the last game of the year against Geelong at Waverley (if I recall correctly) where Sheedy gave Madden, Daniher (& perhaps one other) farewell games when they were both well and truly shot and unfit.
Moment of honesty. I am legit concerned on our slow ball movement so far this pre-season. Not quite sure what their overall plan is with this obsessive short kicking. Cant help
feel defense teams are going to love this. Maybe there is some bigger plan/picture i am not picking up on but the short kicking has been so consistent in drills since December. It requires a lot of precision and i just don’t see our midfield skilful enough currently. I thought it might be more a defensive drill at first but its every session so it has to be offensive ball movement too to some degree.
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Didn’t Sheedy use a similar style in, and I’m guessing here, 2004 or so. I recall a time where we were all about maintaining possession and chipping it around. Without much success
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Every team does this. Retain footy to get it up the field to then attack
Will be times you can get an intercept/turnover and attack quicker on counter however.
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I’ve got to admit that does change my view on our likely wins a bit. Take those 6 games + 1 vs. Adelaide, and I can definitely see us winning 4-5 of them. So pinch one or two others here or there, and we are up to 6.
God the uneven draw is a farce.
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The bulldogs do it and they carve their way through our zone with ease
and skill
The slow ball movement had a number of players displeased last year. As I keep saying, if Rutten Is unable to get the players to believe in his style, we are doomed.
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Lucky we’ve got such skilled users by foot in our midfield to carry out a high possession based game 
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Short kick from defence to mids then overlap with handball back to Ridley or Francis and long kick over the zone to leading Jones.
or to Shiel/Caldwell/McGrath who run forward 10-20m then kick to Jones.
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I found him. It’s Melvin
