Agreed
Matt Kennedy has been slaughtered. He just needs to look in the balls direction to be pinged. Ridiculous rule change.
The only bloke who bothers to pick up the damn pill is the bloke pinged. It goes against everything they have been coached to do throughout their career.

How long before someone pops a shoulder with the way players are now grabbing an arm in the tackle to get the easy HTB?

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interesting convo with chris scott last night about it. coaches are now coaching to not get your hands on the ball first in a stoppage, wait for them to get it, tackle them and get the HTB free.

the whole game is cooked right now. brown was going off how the whole fabric of the game is under threat. he's not far from the truth, imo

Agreed. Players are just twisting arms around now and basically chicken winging. They're still dangerous tackles, just in a different way.



I wonder if the double byes have any influence on the evenness.

Yep , an upmarket version of the chicken wing sling .

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The move of Elijah into the midfield is killing us.
He has attended 108 CBA for 6 Clearances and only had 4 post clearance take away
Averages about 1.1 stoppage Clearances
And to make matters even worse of all our midfield he has the lowest tackle numbers.

He is a silky player when he has time and space and there is a place in the team for him but it is not on ball as a midfield player

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i didn't see elijah in the midfield on the weekend?

i think they were using him as the outside runner when walsh, cripps/ hewett were in the middle?

Elijah's been in the midfield rotation the past few weeks. I mentioned my concerns a couple of weeks ago. He's a classy finisher and good decision maker but he doesn't have the defensive accountability. I recall a centre bounce against GWS where he was next to Coniglio and ran off him as soon as the ball was bounced. Coniglio won the clearance with no one near him. Not good enough.
Our midfield operates best when they are brutal and accountable. IMHO that's why we were effective when our rucks were out last year. We had to man up and win the ball of the opposition.
IMHO Cripps liked Pitto in the team previously because he believes Pitto is more chance of getting the ball to him. But it's not about Cripps. It's about a functioning unit and winning games.
That's the bonus of TDK, he isn't a great tap ruckman yet but he provides ground support and an aerial presence around the ground.

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exactly, re cripps. there was media around voss in a presser saying cripps has been into him about getting pittonet in the team

like you say ... it's not about him, its about the team. charlie has been playing for himself and his coleman for a while now. for a team who isn't the fastest or most skilled; our advantage was we were sacrificing personal goals and glory for the better of team success.

i think these last 2 weeks (losses) we've strayed too far from that team ethos, and we're being lit up bcos of it.

I think you’re taking it a bit far. Anyway, if selfishness gives Charlie ten shots on goal every game I’m all for it.

I think one of the reasons we’re being smashed at clearances is not because of selfishness, it’s because of rule changes. Our game (and Pittos game) is built on first use of the ball, but the rules now favour being second to the ball and we haven’t adjusted.

charlie played a bit more selflessly on the weekend. also helped, that his opponent was 5'11 and not very strong.


but his 2nd efforts and chasing and tackling for most of the season has been super selfish. i'm starting to wonder if your eyes are actually painted on

We allowed the bulldogs to put an extra at stoppage nearly all game and we still didn't take a defensive mindset to any of it.

Of course they either scored easily in our D50 from stoppage, or broke away for easy inside 50 in general play from stoppage.

We were actually pathetic.

Hewett is a must to return immediately and we only need 1 ruck.

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Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.

I'm looking forward to seeing a few absolutely necessary tweaks to the side against North.

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the player we recruited specifically so the inside mid work wasn’t all on Crippa and to offer the Captain the occasional chop out. Ditto Kennedy to lesser extent.

I understand rushing Cerra back but he’s clearly not found his top form or anything close to it yet, dropping both Kennedy and Hewitt thinking Cerra has it covered against the Dogs and GWS midfields was blind in hindsight. Wishful thinking or arrogance.


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Well, you said the team has been too selfish the last two weeks and highlighted Charlie, but now you say he was ok this week but it was actually the rest of the season you were talking about?

Is your brain actually painted on?

Luke Hodge did something on the big forwards bombing from outside 50.
Daniher is going at 19%
Harry at 21% but he is less likely to wheel and go more a set shot
Charlie at 23%

He drew the comparison of a midfielder running out of the middle and ignoring the leads of forwards and how annoying it was for forwards particularly when they miss so why should it be different if a midfielder runs forward into space and is ignored by the big forwards.

He has a valid point

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lol ... you're incredible. and not in a good way. you would argue black was white. it's so tiresome.


the mids have been selfish, and charlie too. charlie has been really poor this year. i've lost count of the times he's completely given up on a play after he drops a mark (or is fouled) and the ball is still in contest.

he gets blasted in the media, gets a favourable match up and gets 10 shots on goal. a complete outlier on his season. you have to go back to last year for the last time he had 10 shots on goal.

after the finals he had last year, i guess i was expecting more from him, but at times he only seems to care about his coleman.

I don't understand this sentiment about Curnow, what makes you say he seems to only seems to care about his Coleman?

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I see you ignored my evidence that you keep changing your mind.

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Good question .

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