Another run of 5 goals against!

Add another to the tally!

At least Bolton was playing the kids (maybe too much).

7 goal streak now!

Mickstar, I was a junior coach till 2 years ago.

I wasn't Rabs but I was tough on them.

In the Eastern suburbs of sydney where all the expats live a privelged life whilst the nannies in fur coats (they have no idea what cold is) sat in the cars. I didn't put up with bad behaviour. We had 90 minutes of training per week because of a severe shortage of Aussie Rules grounds, and no time to watse. Not one parent thought I was too tough. My son who was the best player in the team copped most of my heat (planned) and some parents asked me to take some heat off my child and put it on there's. Parents in other teams (because were te biggets club in Sydney) wanted their kids in our team for some old fashioned discipline.

Who knows what kids want?

My best buddy who is a Sports Psych (Swans, Aussie swim team, Aussie Tennis) got his son in my team and his feedback was you can cotton wool kids or you play a straight bat telling them the truth, without abusing them "little shits". Without moving them emotionally you can't create a fire in the belly. Without improving skills you can't execute a plan. Without being emotionally invested, you miss the purpose...bla bla bla.

Who says you can't be tough on players, playing a physical game for keeps these days? Go on...find me one....not a misfit.

Piss off the nancy boys out of Carlon whoever they are and get me some warriors who have the killer instinct and can run all day....Robbo was good. Did we replace him? If so, with who? Dow? Nuff said. HTFU flower There's thousands of kids who would give a left nut to be where you are, and would walk through brick walls.

SOS changed....he sent his kids to OLD Xavs... hung around those new age types OF PARENTS.... I think. Became all sophisticated.

Hodge came from Colac.

According to my maths teacher, a run of 7 goals constitutes three runs of five goals in the one game!

47% win loss ratio about what he had last year

wat is saving teague is winning 3 games that we could have lost easily cats,freo,ess on the other side beaten port and swans had 4 good players out just fell in.David defence this is his first full time year as coach ,bucks,horse little toad clarkson,truckload of experience

47% win loss ratio about what he had last year

2019 11 games 6 wins - 54.5%
2020 15 games 7 wins - 46.6%

Ergo, if we win next two he'll be a shade under 53% which is Not an improvement on last year.

Yep.

You don't have to prove your point to me.
I understand where you are coming from.
He had 2 big games with a lot of average ones, but he was only 19 and 20.

I did have a look at that clip of all his possessions. Out of respect to your request for an opinion, plus I love his game that day, plus we win.
I know what he can do, but I'm looking for the other stuff that he doesn't do that was said about him pre draft.

1. He had a BOG game = Positive. Negative is that he didn't show that form again in the midfield. Blame it on age.
2. He won contested balls = Positive. I thought the usually mad attack on the ball, the frenzied desperation to win contested ball by Dogs was missing this game.
3. He received a lot of ball and distributed effectively. No one took an interest to play on him, even when he had 23 possesssions and Healy makes the remark too.

I don't mind those dinky small kicks of his because he hits up targets in congestion: an underestimated skill. Furthermore, I know he can kick long and straight, and posters don't gve him credit for that.

BUT

The most important thing I've looked for every game he has played, and in this game is the Express Pace he was said to possess in his Pre Draft Profile. In this clip there is not one instance he shows any speed by foot. And, my fear is that if he's played close, he hasn't got the speed to make things happen. Dow has the speed and doesn't make it happen. Not once did I see speed in his midfield work, Not once did I see him make play, give it off and make the second play. He gives it off, dusts his hands, and is happy with that.

At the 3.13 min mark he does get the ball back after he made the first play. BUT he gets the ball to Walsh a metre ahead, Walsh goes sideways to Kreuzer who handballs to Gibbons then the 4th link of the play was back to SPS. SPS didn't make the play. He didn't sprint to make the 4th. The ball woul've travelled 10-15 minutes from his first handball to his receive. So I can't call that anything but followed the play and happpened to be in the right place because he didn't have to sprint.

I'm looking out for weaknesses, and see if they are fixable, coachable, then next season see if they have developed, sharpened their sword.

He plays like an inside mid. Has success against midgets, but how will he play against bigger mids (most are) like Fyfe and Mundy (every team has a couple), and the answer is, perhaps because he was still young, skinny, undeveloped, he struggled against bigger bodied mids.

I love him. I love Dow. I love the boys we drafted and gave us hope, but I haven't pencilled them into my first 18 in 2021. I did, along with Willo, now I have none of them in my team, until they show some real highlights consistently to prove they are will be elite.

I'm not writing him off, but maybe Teague and co see the same weaknesses.

Diesel would tell him to toughen up, as he did about Dow today.