[5] Who do we play on Daicos? We really need a guy to shadow him into oblivion. Letting him run around on his own, and we're doomed. Who?
I know he's short of a run, but i'd love to see Cottrell get a gig and tag Nick.
Cottrell likes it rough.....Nick doesn't. Cottrell (when match fit) can run all day and match anyone. With a bit of luck, Cottrell could hurt him by drifting forward too.
I doubt we'd be so bold, but i think he's played 2 games now. I'm tipping it would catch Nick by surprise to say the least.
When i started doing the [coach] objectives i included our record against individual teams. We used to be in front of Collingwood head to head over our history. Recent history has flipped that. The only other teams we have a poor all-time record against are the interstate teams (excluding Sydney and Gold Coast which we have a winning record against)
One thing i heard during the broadcast on Kayo, and i had to rewind to confirm i heard it properly was that....
1. Pittonet is ranked the 3rd best ruck in the game thus far - Behind Gawn and Grundy 2. Pittonet is ranked the 9th best player in the league thus far.
Now they didn't dive any deeper than that, but that is super surprising to even me, and i've been a fan of his work for a while.
In what has been a terrible year for most of our players, Pittonet has been a shining light in what could've been a huge issue (losing TDK) and its turning into a strength.
Because I'm right in my calls more often than not when it comes to young players and I'll back my own judgement over yours. Anyone who pumped up Jack Martin's tyres has very little credibility in my eyes.
I'll agree to disagree on how often you are right.
I'll also point out that malcolm blight said jack martin had the best highlights package he has ever seen. Ignoring where he was drafted, and traded to us, the all conquering cats who are very shrewd at the draft/trade game and are the gold standard IMO saw enough in Jack Martin to waste a list spot on him. If that is you claiming a victory them in not surprised you think you get it right now often than you actually do.
All im saying is that you don't have a bad thing to say about any of our kids, which simply isn't realistic. So when you pump up an individuals tyres, you need to take off the prof pump up tax to get to the actual value.
I think Billy is a lot better value than you make out EB, at least he has pace, something out list has very little of. That puts him ahead of plonker like Boyd et al
You think every player is better than people make out. Every player that gets delisted at seasons end was a good player that year in your eyes.
How come all these players are playing vfl and our afl and vfl teams are largely crap?
Suggested in the in game thread he probably should have gone back to help stem that 6 goal run. Stopping that sort of crap is a team defence thing though.
We do have to get the bench rotations right though, at one stage we had Pitto, Harry and Gov on the bench, created turnovers on our HBF but had nobody to distribute towards.
I'm gobsmacked some of the media is still going on about Cripps bench time, they must think about as deeply as a sheet of paper, I bet this week Sam McClure or his ilk will try to make an issue of it. We have a team that has been overrun 4 out of 5 games, finding some way to make the likes of Cripps and Walsh more competitive over 4-Qtrs is going to be down to player management and a big part of that will be appropriate bench time. Even possibly bench time against their will. Now someone will carry on about "appropriate", as for them the best solution would be an inhumane never!
2 things...
1. I suspect all the talls on the bench was a deliberate strategy, potentially used to make sure we had more runners on the ground to potentially stop a run. More smalls = more running = more chasing = more tackling. So i don't hate that idea. Of course we went in with an extra tall compared to last week and dropped a starting mid, so perhaps didn't need to be that way with better MC selections.
2. Cripps off the ground MAY actually be an issue, however its not for the reason being highlighted. IMO, Cripps off the ground is as much about missing his leadership/direction as it is his actual skills. He would help with telling people where to be, when to go, when to stay. If he's not there, that might not be getting done as required, hence a run on. Potentially a system breakdown by a group that is still learning eachother and the game plan due to high changeover.
Someone bagged Kemp but praised Harry because 'at least he kicked 1 goal'.
The goal he got was setup by Kemp who could've had a shot himself. I wonder if the opinion would've been completely flipped if Kemp was more selfish......which is the opposite of how it should be.
If I squinted whilst looking at the TV, I could have sworn Curnow was still out there, it was McGovern though. Three times I saw him just drop off like Curnow used to, gave up on the second effort.
Equal leading goalkicker both tonight and for the year. Got 4 tackles tonight which was in the top half of Carlton players.
He's given everything he has over the journey but he's now banged up and spent.
He doesn't have anything more to give.
I've suggested similar.
I reckon he is carrying a knee injury and hurt his thumb tonight.....may have a hurt wrist as well. This is what we can expect from him until the end of his career. We've used him as a battering ram his whole career and its starting to take its toll.
Let him go home to WA and lets get something for him while we can.
