If Fraser continues on his winning ways I just don't think he could stay at the club next year if he's not the senior coach. A new coach will have a new approach. One that will differ from what is currently having success. If Voss has created a foundation and Fraser is continuing it as many argue, with success. How is it possible for a new coach to come in with the spectre of a successful Fraser in the background. An experienced coach like Longmire might get away with it. A new inexperienced coach with the teething problems that entails won't have much of a chance if they don't notch up wins from the start...and Fraser is waiting in the wings.
Maybe give him one more week, but it's probably time for Ison to have a week or two back in the VFL. Just as a developmental thing. He's struggled a bit the last few weeks. Let him go back and get a bit of confidence and a few possessions.
For the second week in a row we won without playing great. Both weeks we've played worse than we did against Brisbane, but the difference in opposition talent/performance made the difference.
Is that the same Brisbane that had 14 goals kicked against them in a quarter by the very outfit we beat today. The result today flattered them. Time to let go of the comparisons.
I have to bow to the criticism because I didn't see much of the game
But looking at good old stats.... If I was just looking at the stats 19 disposals isn't bad. He only had two marks, so much of the ball would have been earned in contest. And he had more clearances than anyone else on the ground...that could just be volume.
Riley's getting plenty of the taps but seriously...he's not rucking to Cripps, Walsh, Smith and Hewett . He's not even rucking to all our second string extractors with Ben C missing.
Will this be an indicator to the senior game. We'll know in a couple of hours, but making judgements on the AFL team who haven't even played and the VFL team missing quite a few is probably a bit harsh.
When you win the tap so often, even by dead chance you should be able to influence the next contest 50% of the time, he's not even going at chance!
He wins the tap, at least sometimes he taps where he planned to tap, and yet he is effectively zero in the follow up efforts. At least a few times he should have been first to the footy, or at least lay a tackle when GWS sharked it! 53 Hit Outs, we are smashed in clearances and Riley had 0 tackles, you can't even do that by accident. Was he coached not to touch anybody?
That's not a comment about him long term, but it's a clear statement about how far off he is and how foolish it is for fans to be calling for him to play seniors!
As I've said I haven't seen a lot of the game...but 53 touches to 5 by the opposition means that he's winning half the battle....he's getting first touch. It's probably more of an indictment of our lack of midfield depth and support. However "follow-up and impact"...seems to be an area where he was lacking today. That's funny because one of the things I first noticed about him 'back when'....was that he did do that follow up work. It's what got me first interested. It may have been something that has drifted out of his game...and he needs to regain it before decision making time. I'm not sure we'll hang on to four ruckmen. I'll have to try and grab a replay.
I missed a lot today. Moir seemed to be playing in defence. The question is are we doing that to add extra strings to his bow or is it an attempt to see what else he offers prior to putting him on the trade table.
He's contracted until 2027 but I reckon there might be a club who would pay a reasonable price thinking that they could make a better fist of developing him. South Australian... so one of the Crows or Power might have an interest.
Riley's getting plenty of the taps but seriously...he's not rucking to Cripps, Walsh, Smith and Hewett . He's not even rucking to all our second string extractors with Ben C missing.
Will this be an indicator to the senior game. We'll know in a couple of hours, but making judgements on the AFL team who haven't even played and the VFL team missing quite a few is probably a bit harsh.
Only just tuned in but one thing I didn't expect to see was the leading possession winner is Ashton Moir The big question is "Have they been impactful?"
"Cuba is offering to come to the negotiating table and accept 300 billion dollars for Nuclear weapons they are not developing."....we should do the same.
Trump has been done like a dinner....but I'm not sure it registers or if he even cares anymore.
[2] Flynn Riley as Emergency? Has he gone past Reidy? Looks that way, but we have lost drive with Reidy out. I think Riley has more upside, but I'm not sure that he is the one at the moment.
Much better by Gout Gout last night. In a 150 metre race Gout finished 3rd behind Noah Lyles who set a new world best over 150 metres (14.67.) Gout's time was 14.96 which was a new Australian best and just shy of the old world best of 14.92.
