Whether they are capable or not has little relevance to how hard they are trying, I'm arguing the assertion that they aren't making an effort is bullsh1t, in fact it's an insult!
Someone like Evans tries just as hard if not harder in the AFL, he wants the gig desperately, but he is competing against a whole other level of opponent.
The solution to last Thursday was Saturday night. Keep running forward, keep moving forward, don't go in your shell when you make mistakes, trust your team mates will keep having a go, and try and kick and handball the ball to your team mates, and finally, don't give up.
Send them a note.
Do you genuinely think the AFL team aren't trying to do this?
I think it's easy to confuse a perceived difference in tactic with an inability to implement a tactic. Structurally I can't see any real difference between the AFL and VFL game tactics from last weekend, but the tactics are significantly easier to implement against Port Melbourne in the VFL than they are against even a weaker AFL opponent. We can do it in the AFL, but not for 4-qtrs.
Anyone watching Evans and Durdin struggle in the AFL should be acutely aware of that.
Could Cowan and Carroll do in the AFL what they did in the VFL for 4-qtrs, possibly, but most likely only partially, certainly it would be to a lesser extent. Without Cowan and Carroll breaking lines and hitting those targets forward of the contest, Evans, Durdin and Camporeale would find themselves in heavy traffic and the outcome would be very different, they would lose effectiveness. That surely seems familiar.
If it was as easy as moving into the AFL and repeating the VFL procedure everybody would be doing it!
Glad Luke Power seems to value the modern more expansive style than the 1960s game the seniors play.
I think our VFL game tactics Saturday night were closer to the AFL teams tactics than they have been all season, which against Hird's group make the game a shoot out.
The difference Saturday night was basically that we had Cowan and Carroll who both played 4-qtrs and mopped up in defence to kick things off on the attack with plenty of rebound.
There will be a lot of fans boosting Evans, Durdin and Moir, but they all really only played 1/2 a game, they can't do that at the next level and get away with it like they did Saturday night.
Austria was probably the best first 5 or 10 laps of the season, the racing between Norris and Piastri was as good as it gets before the team orders put the kybosh on it.
I felt sorry for Piastri, he suffered a bit from his past with Alpine doing it's best attempt at a trip pitting cars twice to send them out in front of him on fresh tyres while he was trying to close the gap between himself and Norris. In effect F1 politics robbed us of a grandstand finish, but that's F1.
The only thing that was a bit unsavoury was in the late stages Norris started begging the team for help as Piastri was 0.5s per lap faster and closing rapidly. Norris has a big weakness relative to Piastri, Norris burns tyres faster and is nowhere near as neat and tidy around the track.
One thing not being discussed is thast modern footy's extreme running style tactic has a significant impact when teams have a short break. We went from playing to the death against Norp to being run over by Port on an interstate trip just 5 days later.
This week we have 8 days to prepare for the Filth's who have only 6, let's hope WCE front up and push them to the death tonight.
He has become a topline defensive powerful mid who hits the scoreboard. Kicked 21 goals to this point (only 4 behinds).
Be great if we can snare someone like that in the offseason...... hang on a minute.
Fans still can't tell me with any valid justification, who it is Kennedy displaces out of our four frontline Mids, Cripps, Walsh, Cerra or Hewett.?
Because that's the reality, he wanted more midfield time and he was clearly in 5th place at our club, maybe with the arrival of Jagga they thought he was going to be 6th!
At the Dogs he's either starting Mid or lining up at CHF, he wasn't going to get either gig at Carlton!
The senior players sacked the last coach led by the Captain....the club had no choice but to move Teague on.
I've always stated we sacked the wrong people, you can't have the tail wag the dog, and handful of old boys not getting the roles they prefer isn't good enough grounds to sack a coach. Tactically I thought Teague was OK, his problem seemed to be a core group refusing to accept anything but a headline billing.
Back then I thought Teague's problem was most likely that he wasn't far enough removed from the senior players, they still viewed him as a peer. But now when I see what is happening with Voss, I fear we might have a bit of a cancel culture developing across the playing group, and the moment they are challenged by the coach they switch off.
It's quite possible that the solution is the same, keep the coach move a player or two on, but it's like a game of Jenga, you have to pick just the right one and as a decision it will probably not be related to footy.
