malbi wrote:
Sidefx wrote:
What I would like to see without looking at their possible team.
FB: O.Hollands Weitering Saad
HB: Newman Haynes Dean
C: O.Florent Cripps Carroll
HF: Ainsworth McLovin Hayward
F: Evans McKay F.Young
Following: Pitto Walsh Smith
Bench: Williams Cerra L.Young E Hollands Lord
In: Weitering Dean Saad F.Young Hayward Lord
Out: Boyd Byrne Derksen Kemp HOK Cowan
That's pretty close to how I would like it.
Our lowest ranked players last week according to Supercoach were Byrne, Derkson, McKay, O'Keeffe, Cowan, Boyd and Kemp. I'm not sure if you were looking at that. You have got rid of six of them and kept McKay. Let's hope he turns his form around.
I'd like to see Wilson over Saad. Hewitt hasn't done much wrong, but they could bring in Lord as you've suggested. It would be nice to see Flynn in and a more dynamic forward line.
That's six changes. Vossy tends to only do two. So let's see what happens.
We need a solution for when Cripps is resting on the bench. We went to water last week. Jagga needs more midfield time.
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Interesting, I don't usually look at those rankings.
My reasons were based on eye test, stats and the need for more firepower in F50 and better defenders.
Byrne needs a rest, he was a bit absent last week.
Derksen needs to settle into the team a bit more, he's a good stop gap but when Weiters and Dean are available he's out.
McKay, as he probably knows he's not that replaceable.
HOK had a stinker.
Cowan, this was a tough one as he had 400+meters gained but he still made costly errors (55% DE), plus Saad can be much more damaging off half back.
Boyd, not sure what is up with him but his kicking let him down a few times last week, ultimately he just had no impact.
Kemp, although he had 2 goal assists and he was a bit of a decoy target, he is just not damaging at all as the 2nd or 3rd banana. Maybe a rest in the 2s might redirect his focus.
I would've liked to bring Ison in for a run, but not this game.
Hewett unlucky again unless we take a leaf out of Essendons* book.
Last week the cheats* showed how a contested game with chip kicking and maintaining possession can shut down the fast running teams.
They had 100 more disposals, 80 more kicks, 60 more marks, with similar handballs and i50s.
But where it counts they had 13% more efficiency and 4 more tackles i50.
Because our transition is so slow at times we really need to focus on keeping McKay in F50 as well as McLovin and have the mids, wings and half forwards just chip it around with the backs if necessary until they find a target or a better chance for the smalls to crumb at the feet of the McKay or Pitto/L.young.
The players need to be able to asses when they can push forward at all costs and when they should hold the ball up and chip around.
Something they have seemed to struggle with a fair bit the last 2 years.
The only downside to this plan is our players inability to kick the ball to each other and hit them lace out.
It is defiantly a way to dismantle them and plays into our 1 wood.
Something to consider either way and I'm not sure if it will work with every one of the faster teams.
But it is definitely worth taking the chip kicking possession game on a little more when the flow is against us and the opposition is having their usual run on us.
We might be able to stay in the game a bit longer in those lull times.
Great summary sidey. I like your team. I share same thoughts re Cowan. He was a good accurate long kick, and has become a desperate bomber of the ball. There's the metres gained. He hasn't been playing well this year. Not even in the VFL. I think jis timing in the air is improving; he was a bit off previous weeks. Sadly, I think he's lost some pace. I'd take Saads pace and elusiveness to find time to hit a target than Cowan's reckless kicking.
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