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So the only comparisons we are making is that they have coach for the same period.   Fair enough.  Makes sense.

Mick was hamstrung?   How?   He didn't get his Captain?   He got everything thing else.   Coaches.   High Performance Team.   Players he wanted.    Hamstrung?   Please.   You are grossly over valuing the role of the Captain.   There are no rules stopping anyone else provding leadership.   

I think you are overrating the guys running around for the Bullants getting beaten most weeks by 8 goals.    No magic solutions there, unless you want to take a backward step like Flyboy and play Graham and Kerridge

AFL legends blast ‘deplorable’ skill level

Footy legends Wayne Carey and Paul Roos have taken an axe to the current game, describing what they’ve seen this weekend as a disgrace.

Carey said outside of the rematch between last year’s grand finalists Richmond and Adelaide, the skill level on show had been “deplorable”.

“St Kilda couldn’t hit the side of a barn,” Carey told Triple M.

He also criticised Carlton for missing targets with two metre handballs and dropping chest marks. “Some of the skill level this weekend has not even been at VFL level, below that,” Carey said.

“Players today cannot kick on their opposite foot. A lot of people applaud when they’re running straight at the goal and they’ve got no left foot and they do a checkside and everyone says what a great goal. What a load of crap. He should have kicked it on his left foot.

“That’s what astounds me. These elite, professional players are no good on their opposite side.”

Roos said it was the long-term effect of the increasing amount of time kids were spending doing their homework and playing computer games instead of kicking a footy.

“If you’re a kid now you’re doing half, a third, a quarter — whatever it may be — of the kicking (we did),” Roos said. “When they come into the game at AFL level they haven’t had the background of skill ... it’s a numbers game.”

https://www.triplem.com.au/sport/afl/news/wayne-carey-and-paul-roos-reckon-the-current-skill-level-in-the-afl-is-no-good?station=Sydney

I'm sure kids spend less time with the footy than in years gone past. But other factors surely must play a part - rule changes, faster, fitter players, which means the ball carrier executes under greater pressure.........I'm sure there's others.

Anyone watching the Dogs vs Wet Toast game today would have seen a pattern very similar to our own game.

The comments from Leigh Matthews about the Dogs were accordingly ultra-relevant to Carlton. The attacking run without defensive accountability, the frequent sight of three or four Wet Toast forwards goal side of Dogs defenders left floundering up the field after a turnover.

I've never seen a season like this, the tactics are at best junior, the skill sets match it up.

It's the most unaccountable football I have ever viewed at AFL level. Maybe it's good for TV, but it's rubbish to watch at the ground, and pathetic for professionals to dish up!

Is this some AFL version of the AFLW directive?

Fev is adamant it's because too many new footy's are being used. I suppose his career spanned both era's of football. One with a single ball used for a full game and the other with bags of balls at each end of the ground.

Hmm, Interesting. I never thought of that.

I don't think his kicking skills suffered too much though.

So the only comparisons we are making is that they have coach for the same period.   Fair enough.  Makes sense.

Mick was hamstrung?   How?   He didn't get his Captain?   He got everything thing else.   Coaches.   High Performance Team.   Players he wanted.    Hamstrung?   Please.   You are grossly over valuing the role of the Captain.   There are no rules stopping anyone else provding leadership.   

I think you are overrating the guys running around for the Bullants getting beaten most weeks by 8 goals.    No magic solutions there, unless you want to take a backward step like Flyboy and play Graham and Kerridge

I haven't called for Graham, or Kerridge.
I'm calling for kids ahead of them.
I'm calling for blokes who put in, Jack.

Were you happy with our team selections leading up to that (before and after the Kreuzer stuff up)

i never mentioned Graham Shakin.

Kerridge was ripping it up when given the chance late last season.....and had better DE than both Smurf and Gibba.

Makes no sense to have Dow running around in the 1s like a headless chook when you know Kerridge will get you 25+ decent possessions.

Dow and Polson need to earn their spots.

Quite frankly, would prefer Sam to Murphy right now.

i never mentioned Graham Shakin.

Kerridge was ripping it up when given the chance late last season.....and had better DE than both Smurf and Gibba.

Makes no sense to have Dow running around in the 1s like a headless chook when you know Kerridge will get you 25+ decent possessions.

Dow and Polson need to earn their spots.

Quite frankly, would prefer Sam to Murphy right now.

Fev is adamant it's because too many new footy's are being used. I suppose his career spanned both era's of football. One with a single ball used for a full game and the other with bags of balls at each end of the ground.

After the first couple of years of using bags of balls I believe the AFL required the manufacturer to artificially kick the balls in, they use some sort of giant tumbler to do this. But even so the bags full of balls still means that each ball is shiny new and slippery as all get out when they first enter play, they never really get scuffed up enough to become easily gripped!

I suppose the lack of mud and dirt also impacts this, the games are basically played on carpet with little on no abrasive particles!

Were you happy with our performance against Gold Coast?
Were you happy with our team selections leading up to that (before and after the Kreuzer stuff up)
Are you convinced we are heading in the right direction?