Depends whether you seek excellence or excuses; whether you tolerate mediocrity or are uncompromising.
Nah you are right we should cut corners again, pay people under the table, trade away draft picks for saviours, hire old out of date coaches, because, we want to win a meaningless game in June.
Early signs say the draft is extremely shallow. So if we can get a good mid early, the 2018 crop is chock full of talls. Maybe to late then, so chucking a high pick at Schache may not be the worst.
I tell you what reading this all our kids were crap and we still hit the lead in the last quarter... Bloody hell, the other 14 or so players must have played their best ever games.
You play 9 kids 22 or under and it is tough, but they are seriously having a go and I think there is a lot to like. I don't care about wins, it is far less important to me that we win games, than to see all players having a go and improving, which I think is obvious.
I want to win, I was screaming at the screen, but there is a lot to like about the way we are doing things this season.
14 Kids 22 and Under
lol at SPS comment.... Stop trolling. (not you MIO)
Kid had 0 Pre-Season --- 0. Draftees don't start till December anyway and have a break come Christmas. He was injured for 4 weeks and played round one. has dropped off a little and running on the spot. Had 10 tackles last week and 5 this week. So he's still impacting the contest....
Why is he like Yarran? Plays a completely different style of game than Chris did. Is this a racial thing? A Pick 6 thing?
Jack, Fisher and SPS need a spell in the twos to find some touch and confidence
Perhaps could have won that game if Jaksch, Smedts and Palmer played.
Yuck... What good will that do. We lost a game of footy Sunday, but will be winning them in 2 years time. Forget the scoreboard this year.
I would have played Smedts for Mcreadie and that would have been my only change.
A Poster mentioned we have been in front in the last quarter vs Melbourne, Saints and North and run out of legs. Could be 5-4... But thats the challenge of playing young kids.
What did you think of Kody Manning?. plays as a medium forward for West Perth but played as a BP/HBF in the state game and looked pretty good in the half I watched. Hard at it. Think Dennis Armfield but with real footballing nous and skills. Bit slower than Dennis, but who isn't. Probably a bit old for us but better than quite a few of the numpties on lists at the moment.
Dont think it was the weather...Freo's best 4 players had the ball around 30 times each, thats why we lost IMO and being caught on the rebound for some easy goals.....Neale had it 37 times...you wont win many games when the opposing teams best players have so much ball....
Definitely not.
Our Centre Set ups were awful and it started with our Leaders. Gibbs, Murph and Cripps in the middle of the ground were pounded. I would love to us have mixed it up with SPS, Charlie or Cunningham in the middle. They couldn't do much worse.
I walked away thinking exactly the same. There better players Neale, Walters, Fyfe, Johnson were better than our players. Ross has been using Walters around the ball a lot and it's a great move, Fyfe was way better than his stats suggested, and Neale just knocks up getting it.
We were smashed around the ball from quarter time and were always on the back foot.
Other notes:
- Small Defender - Small forwards are killing us all year. Matera, Billings, Walters/Crozier etc - Locking the Ball in our forward line - I think our stats had 14 inside 50 tackles to 2. In the last quarter we pressed and had some good looks inside 50, only for it to just hit the floor and bounce back out. So we need to find some pressure forwards as well. - Young - The scoreboard kept flashing stats of some of our players... 19,19,20, 21, 19. We are so young. Plow made some bad errors, but you can live with that as you know these guys will learn. - Jack's Goal Kicking - needs to work on it if he wants to become a forward of note. - Doc was immense.
It's really hard to make too many judgements on individuals in that game. The TV filters out the actual extreme nature of the weather and what looks like a lot of rain can be torrential. Add to that the wind which seemed to be all over the place. (Someone who was at the game could give us a better idea) Sure both sides had to cope with it... but mature bodies probably can cope a bit better, especially when we were down two men in the rotations and others coming off at regular intervals with niggles.
We dominated them early and were still a chance well into the last quarter...although it was kind of obvious we were just hanging on. The effort seemed to still be there. It just became too much to resist
It was an Odd day indeed. It started sunny then at various times it Bucketed down, seriously heavy, before stopping again and the wind drying the conditions out quickly. This cycle happened 3-4 times throughout the day and by the end, early in the last term, there was actual thunder and lightning.
I was undercover, but the flags at the ground, were flying opposite to the End we were kicking to in the first term. We were essentially into the wind. Bascially Daisy's goal, it was blowing directly into his face. You could see at ground level, the ball would hold up in the air, and the shots at goal we took on 50 never looked like making the distance. You could also tell, McCarthy and Walters kicked long goals from the other side of the ground, outside 50 easily.
It was very odd the end into the wind was the scoring end for the majority of the day, except in the third where Dockers took control. They certainly read the ball better off the boot, and Johnson had a filed day, reading the drop of the ball. Levi doesnt work hard enough and our forward setup is awful. Charlie, Levi, Jack all standing in the square waiting for a long bomb... dumb.
Jones has been dominate down back and in the Ruck for the NB's (so i hear). Great stuff from him.
But where does he fit in the Senior Side? Marchbank, Plowman, Rowe and ASOS are all locks. White is the one in trouble maybe, be plays a more of a floating role on talls and smalls, which i don't think Jones can do.
If White went out I would be putting Weiters back to get some confidence up again, hence would have to play Liam forward which i wouldn't do.
