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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: In Game Attitude: Carlton vs Brisbane
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 on
Spotlights on the drafting Jim...we lack talent, we cant compete with VFL standard players with poor skill levels....
Coaching is poor but SOS is under the pump IMO...GWS list hasnt lived up to the hype and our list rebuild looks like it either stalled or failed.....
The buck stops somewhere....I know we have injuries but we have no depth and a over reliance on two players....

Some blokes can do no wrong!

Lang lies on the ground while Rayner sprints away from our mids unhindered into F50 and hits a target!

Commentators blame the defenders, but the defenders can't fix that problem!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: In Game Attitude: Carlton vs Brisbane
Quote from: jeza on
We insist on standing 10m off our opponents at all times no matter what. Brisbane have kicked the ball well and simply cut us to pieces as a result.

We've no leg speed Jeza.

Our smalls and mids cannot keep up with play and cannot apply pressure to the ball carrier.  It leaves our tall defenders guessing about which way to go, so they have no choice but to stand in no-mans land between opposition forwards and hope the kick is not accurate! But with a lack of pressure on the ball carrier the kicks rarely miss the target!

When you see the Lions ball carrier pick off a target inside F50, and the tall defender arrive late, you need to look at who was applying pressure to the kicker! You won't see it on TV though as the camera follows the footy, and our mids and forwards aren't near the ball carrier! But their absence from the picture is the real tell!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: In Game Attitude: Carlton vs Brisbane
Quote from: laj on
They've near all shown something, you know it, I know it. It's up to the coaching staff to get the best out of them, which they are not. Be the same if any of those other good picks at other clubs came to us, We'd turn them to crap. We could turn Dustin Martin to crap.

When an opposition ruckmen runs circles around your small and medium mids in traffic you know you've got a problem.

Our mids and forwards do feck all, the defence are being swamped and there is no effort to press into defence by 2/3rds of our team! Compare that to Beams or Zorko saving goals on the last line!

Of our defenders only Weitering and Thomas are actually making an effort to get to the football, the rest are just spectators and finger pointers guarding turf!

Jones takes a thousand intercepts marks but does feck all else, he offers no support for team-mates, he is taking his craphouse F50 efforts and recreating them in D50!

Marchbank, first game back looks soft and unwilling to do the hard stuff.

Rowe is having a bad day, but he's being used like Inspector Gadget!

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: In Game Attitude: Carlton vs Brisbane
Quote from: laj on
Coach issue. Our drafting has been way better than it used to be. Every player we've picked in the last 3 years has shown ability. Just poorly drilled.

Nah, cannot agree.

They have "shown" something because they get a game in a dud team, most of them wouldn't get a game at another club!

Not making excuses for the coach, but he's only part of the problem, our fastest are matched by their slowest!

As far as coaching goes, this team and effort has the smell of a whiteant!

Who is left to kibosh?

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: In Game Attitude: Carlton vs Brisbane
Quote from: laj on
We have a fist full of them. We need to change the people coaching them. Bolton's going to be yet another coach who hasn't played at the highest level to have done no good.

Coaches are one thing, but how slow do our recruits look, faster than SoJ no doubt!

That is a draft / trade problem!

I'm starting to understand why certain past players have socially exiled some of our club's greats!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: In Game Attitude: Carlton vs Brisbane
Quote from: crashlander on
There is actual talent out there, but they are not performing. Not performing for themselves, not performing for their team mates, not even worrying about the club: this sort of non-effort is the sort that will destroy careers.

I've been arguing this for some time.

Players don't recover from too much of this, they are damaged goods and need to leave our club before they can come good!

This accelerated smashing being good for players is bullcrap, ignore the spin!

What we did last year made sense, this year makes no sense at all! We've folded under AFL and membership pressure by trying to play a game plan that doesn't suit our situation.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: 2018 Rd 15: In Game Attitude: Carlton vs Brisbane
Quote from: LoveNavy on
Our most recent no 1 pick just stood 2m behind the goal during a shot on goal.  That's it. He just stood there....  :o

He's not the problem today, commentary is bagging his fumbling and skills but at least he's getting his hand to the football and getting to the contest, others around him haven't looked like touching it!

I'd be disheartened as well, we are rubbish!