bondiblue wrote:
Great post sidex. Much appreciated, but...
Those numbers are not the numbers they've produced in last 5 losing games. My focus is our losing form over the last 6 weeks.
My point is to not look at stats from the past or from the beginning of the year when we were tripping over wins against weakened opposition.
What is happening now and Durds and Mots is that they are not happening. Whether its coaching or not, they have not been involved in much at all. Hence, they seem to be part of the problem. I'd drop Motlop at the very least, not just to stretch Swans with height but because the addition to our bonafide form small forward in Owies, we shouldn't be risking games by selecting 2 developing players, unless they are all in form and winning their positions and performing the roles we need from them, and they aren't imo.
Our smalls are not asked to drag out their short opponents from our roosters. That's my educated guess is Vossy wants the smalls at the feet of the big boys collecting crumbs, furthermore this forward pressure game, which has been lacking a 6 weeks (excl WCE) is the role of the smalls. I do know they are running up and down with their opponents to provide opposition and fill leading lanes, but their primary role is in the forward line. Coaching vs Form? I think ts a bit of both. I love the pressure Owies puts on the opposition for no stats, plus he kicks goals.
Like Fisher, I dont think Motlop is in form to warrant the spot. If there's no pressure for spots or a next soldier like there was for Honey who was 5th in line, such was his luck, then Mots stays, but I think with cottrell at HF, Owies at FP and 3 talls, the other positions can be covered by others...who? Ed or Durdin, or both.
Correct they are their season numbers (except the pressure acts, I stuffed up and used career, but the season ones are better).
I didn't realise we were only talking about the last 5 games, AFL.com doesn't have the last 5 games as an option so I can only display what is available.
I know you are saying they are not asked to drag out their opponents, but if you look at last weeks game Durdin spent 50% of his time in the Defensive half of the ground and Motlop spent 45% of his time there also.
So it's pretty hard to have a forward pressure game or be at the feet of the talls if you aren't even in the F50.
As an educated guess I'd say Voss is 100% getting them to clear their players out of the F50 anticipating the long bomb as well as playing his whole team defence strategy.
This strategy obviously doesn't require all 3 smalls in there so they left Owies in there, who as a result spent 87% of his time in the forward half and kicked goals.
As I've stated and I'm unsure why you don't want to rest blame on them, but our issues are the midfield and wings not playing their roles offensively.
For me, the issues with the smalls are at the end of the chain, not the start and until we change the start we can't expect the end to change.
I guess we will have to agree to disagree based on a what comes first, the chicken or the egg argument.
As for Cottrell at HF, I'd rather him either on a wing or tagging.
At HF you waste his running power and speed, unless we keep the 2/3 smalls in the F50 and he does the defensive work for them instead.
Chicken or the egg. I get what you're saying.
Yeah Im looking at current form not stats. The form of the 3 smalls Fisher Mots and Durds has been off for a while and Fisher was rightly dropped.
Cottrell at HF is never stationery unless you want to tag a Sinclair or a Hill from the Saints. He is a running machine.
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