Em: [44] Francis Evans [25] Jaxon Binns [27] Marc Pittonet
I wonder what Frankie Evans knows that keeps him in the picture? I can't see any other reason that he's that close to a game. Binns: I guess he deserves a try. Pitto: Yeah, he has to be close.
I think with Evans its a case of a senior body ready and some I need who doesn't need time in the vfl to develop. I'm hes reached his ceiling and its not good enough. Makes a good travelling emergency for that reason.
Binns.... im not sure he makes it past 2025.
Pitto....he's not in the team simply because we don't want him there now. It's no longer form or fitness keeping him out as he dominated last week. We just don't need 2 rucks in the senior side. Simples.
An interesting observation from the bench cam footage.
Charlie had moved himself into defence late in the last quarter. Carroll was on the bench and Greaves instructed him to go back on, tell Charlie to go back to the forward line, and ensure that all seven defenders were in defence.
While Charlie’s ability to go back and pluck a mark in defence has been game saving, our priority was to have the seven defenders working together as a unit and as they have been drilled.
It’s interesting that Aaron Greaves is the bench coach now.
Another side of that same story.
There was on the ground footage of weitering and charlie chatting on the ground (may have been after the siren?) As best as i can tell from the footage, it looked like Weitering was telling charlie to get out of there and push up the ground. Charlie was giving him a shrug of the shoulders look as in "but i'm just trying to help".
I noted that at the time, without any of the above, which basically confirms what i picked up from the gesticulating on TV.
Probably a bit early to do this again.....yet But if the last three weeks have caused a bit of a rethink on a few players the next time we do it some selections could be a little different.
I nailed the timing of this one. I figured it would be our 'trough' so would be interesting, even if it was ear
I don't think we've hit our 'peak' yet despite the 180 in terms of form, fitness and results.
Next one is technically due halfway through the year, and this one was due now.
King for mine is a very good analyst, right up there alongside the best. I definitely think we handballed too much to stationary players in the first few weeks which teams cottoned onto use it to their advantage (ie tackled and stopped us in our tracks). I guess we practiced wave running and receiving (no disrespect intended) against WC and NM and applied it against a good side on Sunday. Make no mistake, our kicking lets us down and we need to recruit some elite ball users by foot. The run and HB somewhat covers for that deficiency by as you say, giving the person on the end of the chain more time to execute a good, more measure kick. It also compensates for the lack of real break away leg speed by putting our blokes ahead of the chaser quickly. If you look at some of the kicks into the F50, many were poor and if we tidied that up, we would have one by plenty (yeah I know, grandmother/balls/grandfather).
Same page here, GTC old son.
King seems to actually think things through, not just take situations at face value... and he was right about us, but it was pretty apparent in our first 4 outings - defensively strong (great foundation), but offensive game was soft when confronted with real pressure... handballing to witches hats, panicked sky-high disposals into forward 50, etc.
It was great that the Pussycats hit us with real, quality, sustained pressure -- especially at the beginning of the 3rd and 4th qtrs -- forcing us to 'face our demons' and we responded in the best way possible... and that's the road to being mentally tougher, offensively as well as defensively.
King CAN put together a very much well thought out pressentation into a deep dive of a particular club / player / trend. However, there are also times where he gets players names wrong, positions wrong and abilities wrong.
This, IMHO, is all down to the pressure of coming up with something new each and every week for TV shows/radio etc. Sometimes there isn't anything 'huge' to report on, but you don't say that, you throw together 10 seconds of vision and spit out an explanation that will get the most people talking. Calling for Cerra to be moved to half back to essentially help our kicking out of defence is an example of the latter.
After watching that again on TV, what stood out to me was our handball game. No more hack kicks straight to the opposition, chains of HBs to players running by (not stationary players like the first 4 weeks). Every possession had some thought to it. Also, players barking instructions to the person with the ball were all consistent as opposed to 5 different players pointing to 5 different options. These are the little things I noticed.
I may be getting my wires crossed, but i believe it was an Adam Simpson interview that said he couldn't work out how the cats always got an extra number behind the ball and basically gave up on trying to work it out. Crediting Scott as a coaching genius.
Fast forward to our game, commentators stated something along the lines of cats are giving up on their +1 and moving the extra into the contest.
Now to me, that says vossy and co outsmarted a coaching genius by forcing them to change from what was a successful game plan.
Now how did we do that? Exactly as described here. Running, handballing, linking up.
The +1 always sits a kick behind the play. So if you want to avoid the mismatch, run at him with linking handballs (which is faster than he can run back) and kick it over his head.
You take them out of the game as the ball movement is quicker than the +1 movement.
He grabbed his groin multiple times towards the end of the match. Once on the field, once on the bench and once after the game. Each time with an 'ouch' face as he was attempting to stretch it out.
I didn't see the debate, but i think these questions are asked for a variety of reason, least of which is to get the right answer.
You ask it to see how someone does under pressure. You ask it to see how honest someone is. You ask it to make a fool out of someone if they don't do well with both of the above.
Well just watched the Chris Scott media conference post match... and... you'd have thought we were lucky to win, and we only really won because the Pussycats just had 'one of those games' where their mistakes and failures allowed us in.
I see it a little differently, Christopher. If you apply enough effective, sustained pressure to just about any club, they just might make uncustomary mistakes. And if you've got some serious talent on the paddock who can capitalise on those errors...
Rather disingenuous post game summary, Christopher! Scoreboards seldom lie.
I just finished listening to that too, and i can see where you got that from, but i disagree.
He gave us some kudos. Talked about our pressure and inside ball winning ability. His issue seems to be the errors that came under no pressure. There were plenty of turnovers that he can be referring too. He also eluded to some players in the guts that were sub-par, unusually, that hurt them.
I actually didn't mind what he said and was pretty honest without being revealing.
Cats were pretty efficient and made the most of their opportunities - kept them in the game for sure. It's definitely something we can learn from and definitely an area of improvement for us. Other than that, it was a pretty dominant performance. All the key stats are in our favour, and we even got the rub of the green from the umps. A good day all round.
Agree except for the rub of the green with the umpires.
There is no way they were lenient our way. Danger is and always will be a protected species and elbowed saad in the head. Ran straight through him. Play on the call, cats goal.
I thought the umps were pretty good. A prime example was the weitering/dangerfield one on one close to goal. Plenty of free kicks could've been played, but the umps let it go. Didn't even fall for the dangerflog flop at the end of it.
