Unless Malthouse has some magic spell that can make players tougher and make is so they dont accept losing then nothing will change
These players curl over and take it from behind as soon as anyone applies any pressure
They are the softest bunch of players in the competition outside of the demons

That pathetic little display by walker against milne yesterday just somes up the whole team . Milne was taking the piss out of him

I think if he does come in there will be a few front running favourites that will be playing for northern and if Sticks and co think the list only needs a little tweaking to win a flag he is dreaming

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Mick's priority will surely be our backline. He has big problems to sort out there or we wont be competitive against the big boys next year.

It would be fair to say we only have one proven quality defender in Jamison (completely injury prone)
Promising players - Laidler, McInnes (injured) and Touhy
Developing players - Bootsma and McCarthy look a couple of years away
Servicable - Duigan and White
Question marks - Watson, Bower, Thornton, Joseph, Russell, Bower, Davies
Players forced to backline to plug holes or team balance- Yarran, Henderson, Gibbs all maybe better off in other positions?

I reckon we will chase a big quality natural defender in the trade period.

I reckon we will chase our arses in the trade period.

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'Malthouse' will have more pulling power this year, I'm confident we will land a couple of handy players. Laidler is a good example. Fingers crossed.

We know what Malthouse does so here are a few things I think we will see if we get him:
Less emphasis on tagging.
Less use of the centre corridor, although it has been one of our strengths on those occasions we have run through it.
Low risk use of the footy. Malthouse is a fan of the "one of the best ways to get a score is from a turnover" theory.
One ruck on the field at a time.
More set plays when the footy is in motion, in other words, players running to set positions when we have the footy so players WITH the footy know if they get into trouble, player 'x' will be in position 'y'. It is a trait of the good teams that they handball into what used to be a space only to find one of their players has filled it. It is not an accident.

(Edited because since my daughter spilled glue down the space bar, it has never been the same.)

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Malthouse is going to have to reinvent himself he has only ever coached sides that play on big open grounds
Bulldogs - western Oval - Eagles Subi and Pies - MCG

He will have to re think his make up and devise something different for a team whose games are split between the G and the Dome

Has he got it in him

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I thought that was one matchup we actually one. Walker was damaging with ball in hand, and Milne was pretty ordinary.

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I think our defence is an issue, however I still think that our strength is in our run and carry and spread. He cannot take that aspect out of our game.

a feature of all Malthouse teams is that when a player was in trouble there was another player there to support ... it all gets down to the team thing with Malthouse.

Also, I would like him to bring over his recruiting team from the pies.

Agreed, Walker killed him. Sadly the little turd got to have the last laugh, and carrying on as if he'd won the game on his own was totally undeserved.

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Generally speaking he prefers to play 3 talls and 3 smalls forward.
One of those talls is the relieving ruckman, usually a forward who can pinch-hit. He likes blooding young mids off half-forward.

Down back he only plays 2 talls and an array of medium-sized players who play tall or get / give a chop out. He likes at least 2 runners off half-back.

He prefers a single ruckman, and doesn't really play tags.

That's an interesting thought. I wonder if there's any decent Pies available who liked things better when Malthouse was in charge?
I know he's not playing well at the moment, but Dawes has played some good football, (under Malthouse).

Goodbye AJ and Curnow then.

Army will be the interesting call, needs to spend time in the midfield rotation I feel to be a regular, his field kicking skills would need to improve.

Noone plays tags thesedays much except Ratts....

Anyway.. im expecting players to blossom.

Tags dont allow development.

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I hope Essendon* folds.

Yes but they dont play with a half a dozen......

and besides theyre in another country.....

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Now don't exaggerate and I won't.

We didn't go anywhere near 6. Usually one outright tagger and one (Carrots) just more disciplined.

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Synbad exaggerate....

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