I think it will be Pittonet. Voss mentioned the second-ruck at the end of his press conference. It could be Young but Pittonet would seem a better option given the oppostition.
We are being told we changed a few things up due to injuries. But in fact the course of the match pretty much mirrored a lot of our performances this year.
I think you are putting a lot of stock into what Charlie said.
He is the one that said we changed things up due to injuries. He also said the small forwards did well after he went off kicking a couple goals. Pretty sure we only kicked 1 since he went off and that was Mitch McGovern.
So don't take his words as gospel.
Voss in his presser and Cerra and McGovern in post matches ...all spoke of changing things up.
We are being told we changed a few things up due to injuries. But in fact the course of the match pretty much mirrored a lot of our performances this year.
Doesn't sound like I missed much; I was in hospital with a cracked rib and didn't follow a second of the game. I'll look at the replay today as I recover, but it sounds like the only thing I missed was Charlie's injury.
Recover quickly... Just watch the first quarter. ...and stay away from the footy shows this week.
I understand the need to experiment. I'm all for going full bore on experimentation once our season is out of reach. Play kids, or fringe players who may be on one last chance. Play around with structure Try players in different positions. I'm not sure in a senior match where you are still a finals chance though is the best time or place.
If it was in fact a deliberate move... We didn't gain much from changing things up, if anything... -For a start the side we put on the field (and ended up on the field) is probably well short of our best 22 so any learning opportunity only applies to those playing> -we lost an opportunity to improve on our percentage. -we may have re-inforced doubts amongst our players about our ability to play out a game. (that's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy...if they doubt... when one or two things go wrong it can get into their heads. Maybe that's what is happening already -it didn't work, and a team labelled as pathetic by their coach at quarter time is suddenly competitive. -it may work against a West Coast. Try it against a Collingwood and they'll run all over us. Different opposition-different tactics.
We are in a situation where if we did happen to make finals it may very well depend on percentage.
If it was a deliberate tactic...(which for the life of me I can't understand, given the injuries were not to players where speed was a huge factor) Why slow play down and dry up the scoring in one of the best opportunities we have left to improve our percentage?
Surely it's not a fitness issue. If it was happening 15 minutes into the last quarter you could guess at that being a part of the reason. But 15 minutes into the second quarter....
Curnow in a post match suggested they slowed things down a bit once they copped a few injuries. Cant see the reasoning behind that given the injuries were to two tall forward/ruck
Nope it's a 'mental' issue. And strangely it's one that affects supporters as well as players. As well as we were playing, who amongst us watching on didn't feel that we would struggle to maintain the effort. It was almost expected it would turn around. I'm guessing it gets into the players heads too. A silly mistake (and we had a few last night) can cause a momentum shift and when we lose it we almost always find it hard to get it back. It becomes a case of 'holding on'.
We desperately need a couple of games of four quarter effort to break the trend, but looking at the draw, options for that are running out pretty quickly.
Wilson is probably close to earning a game, and they seem to be working on him as a HBF I'd like to see him given a try. A word of caution though, while he has 25 possessions half way through the last (and Boyd has 28) a lot of those are passes between the two of them.
A lot of Boyd's are kick ins ... but he still played a pretty good game!
They are... Something similar was happening when Docherty was playing VFL to what happened today with Wilson and there was a fair bit of short passing between him and Boyd.
The contested possessions show this Boyd 5, Wilson 3 Nothing wrong with it. Makes sense to share it around rather than just blast it out. It just needs to be considered.
I'm just wondering the best use of Wilson, and areas where he may be found out when he gets a senior chance. At the contest is probably one.
