bondiblue wrote:
Both posts above remind me that there's always salt to be thrown at a Carlton wound....coz it sells papers.
They can't break us.
Stay the course.
I'm guessing that we should shake the Assistant coaches who have control of their zones.
I don't know how the forwards coach (Teague) and Midfield coach (Barker) could not have devised a plan and some tricks over the preseason.
The style of play may be up to the Head Coach.
Once the midfield zone has possession, they head forward, and may even be delivering into F50.
It is pretty straight forward who the next zone in contention and connection will be. Forwards,
We have McKay Casboult, Curnow and McGovern: 2 Talls Mobile talls.
Commonly called TARGETS. Where's the coordination between Barker and Teague?
Barker is a qualified senior coach. FMD.
I have said it for a couple of weeks in a row.
Harry takes his marks running at the footy and jumping.
He has to play out of the square and run at the ball carrier. Lynch played a stay at home role in a team with five of their best out and kicked 6, three of them from inside the square. That's the issue right there.
How on earth can we have three tall forwards and not ONE of them inside fifty when the ball goes inside, leaving Gibbons to be the target?
If that's the level of Teague's ability to plan a forward system, I'll go in and do it for nothing.
Put Charlie at high half forward and tell him to hunt the footy on the F50 arc running across the ground like a soccer striker for the shallow entries.
Have Harry for the deep entries playing from the square.
Let McGovern play leading into space to a different side from Charlie.
Anything different from all the forwards high and nothing for the mids to kick to.
We will NEVER win a string of games kicking 10 goals a week.
We need to be kicking 90 points every week. That way we will win 10-12 games a year.
Here's something for next week. Dogs are #1 in the comp for rebounding through the middle into their F50.
What do we do about it?
On a different note, I am disappointed the club saw Dale Thomas's mark on the wing as the mark of the week. It was the prettiest and the highest but to me, Walsh's, where he waited for what was coming and still stood under the footy was way ahead of it. Well done Thomas but for me, not motw.