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i guess if he does miss ... we have harry, martin and williams.

it plays into the hawks hands bcos they're undersized in defense. but we should still enough to kick a winning score.


could even move boyd into the starting back 6 and move kemp forward. we got options

He's still named.

As long as they don't dump Young up there. Forward out, forward in.

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Left wing moralists
In self serving denial
They shit me no end

We would be better off bringing Lemmey in and have him second ruck. Let Harry play permanent FF.

Lemmey is a baby, and whilst he kicked 3 goals last week in the VFL, I felt he made too many mistakes and what looked like too many half hearted efforts to be promoted to the big time league.

He had 5 shots at goal and took a few marks, and that might be enough to be selected. He's a big boy. Only 20yo.

If we are to reward form, then Young was easily one of the best last week, and the best game I've seen him play for a couple years.
He looked confident. Hit the contest hard and held his marks. He's much quicker and more experienced than Lemmey.

I hope Charlie plays. I can feel his ankle getting better by the minute.

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Looks like Lewus Young is the player held back from the VFL.

I hope he doesn't play tomorrow because that would mean Charlie is out.

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Young and Carrol both. Binns played.

IF Charlie doesn’t play, we KNOW Young forward doesn’t work. He plays back and Kemp goes forward.

Obviously hope Charlie is good to go. If he isn’t and Young starts forward, we’ll know all we need to know re our coaching panel.

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We are on our way back...

I just had a look on ticketek and there are no more reserved seats or GA tickets for sale.
Look like it is going to be a big crowd.
This is a huge game for us. Win and we will likely make the 8. Lose and we will likely be out of the 8 after this weekend.

If Charlie is out, and we play Young as a forward... someone needs the sakc

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i think one of our problems is that our midfield struggles to play a defensive game and an attacking game which suits transition and forward entry at the same time for the length of a full game.

we need the midfield spread, run and carry and handball chains that look so good when we are doing it at elite level (which surprised me when i saw it against Geelong and one other game), but seems like when they do that they aren’t getting back to restrict opposition ball movement between the arcs. either our midfield lacks for a bit of talent other than Walsh and Cripps, or running power/fitness, or ability to play multiple roles depending on who has the ball and where on the park the ball is moving to.

we need the midfield running in packs and one or two of them providing fat side options so we aren’t bombing it up the lines all the time. bc when we go up the lines with long and slow kicks then for the 1 in 6 times that gets from deep in our defensive half to just short of the forward arc, we invariably bomb it again in to Harry and Charlie (and anybody else y’all who happens to have wondered down there eg a resting TDK).

is it implausible that or mids can play above average defence and elite forward transition and switch between the two as required and for a whole game? or elite defence and above average forward transition for a whole game as required against teams when we are behind or trying to stop momentum?

i would love to know what AFL coaches say about these questions when behind closed doors! i’m just a mug punter but it feels like 3 or 4 of our mids have to play blinders for us to play at our best (or even scratch out a win in the current ugly patch).


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Hope makes a really poor substitute for faith in your team mates, faith in your coaches and game plan, faith in the systems and training it.

if players have faith in teammates winning contests they can take risks making position ahead of the ball. if they don’t have faith they have to back team mates up and make sure they can mark their opponent (or someone else’s opponent) if the opposition win the ball back.


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maybe he was dropped because he was getting tired or carrying an injury?

or maybe just Boyd forced him out with better kicking?

worth a try, games are often won and lost in the middle and we’ve lost five games now by not much with the mids getting pants for much of the game.


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i like this idea.


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in seasons past i’ve wondered if we need a third genuine tall, a more mobile one. Like Fredricks at freo or i used to say Jamara at Dogs but this years he’s moved on up to become an elite first KPF. there’s a few young guns running around at GC, North and elsewhere.

but when we have no JSOS, no Martin and now we can say no Williams, it falls to Owies to play tall and he’s not taking a tall KPD out of the opposition’s defensive mix, so doesn’t work as well from that perspective. Owies plays the role well though.


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if that happened it would be the coaching master stroke of 2024! agree we desperately miss a Liam Jones quality tall defender who can lockdown and win marking contests or a swing man even)


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Dow was dropped this week.


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This has to be a carlton win. Carna Blues!

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Outside of the eight now .. hopefully this puts the rocket up them that they need .. it's flower real now, and we are in a fight to stay in the 8