Blues2005 wrote:
grrofunger wrote:
Blues2005 wrote:
Disagree, although admittedly I haven't seen the incident again since seeing it live at the game. I don't think he was passing the ball but Waite's reach made it look like a pass and had he marked he would merely have saved Walker's blushes. In other words Walker nearly got lucky. But either way he should not be passing in that situation, he should be shooting for goal and nailing the goal every time. No excuses.
nailing it from 40 out on the run on an angle everytime
thats hilarious - not even everyones jesus reincarnate chris judd does that
your just being silly now
He was running into goal on a relatively small angle with little pressure on. 30-40m out. Sorry but there are no excuses. Clearly, as the angle increases/distance lengthens so does the degree of difficulty and that is when you can cut players some slack; then it would be unrealistic to expect a very good strike rate. But anything within say a 30-degree angle less than 40m out at AFL level has to be a goal.
But yes it's all Denis Pagan's fault that Walker missed anyway.
When he kicked to the square, which is what he appeared to do from the replay (and I have it on pause as I write this), he was at 40m on at least 60 degree angle.
The comment is not silly, just realistic. Odds on that kick from that position being a goal would lie well under 50%, by no means a certainty.
The real point is he could have run in closer and nailed it, and probably should have, but instead he kicked tio the square. It says everything about player confidence at the moment.
However, the other thing the commentators ignored is that Carrazzo failed to provide any kind of shepherd for Walker which allowed Edwards, the only threat, to run in from the side while Carrazzo watched flat footed. Another instance of lack of discipline wrt to the 1% off the ball work which the Blues do not do.
Of course, Waite misses with a shocker from 35m set shot in Q1. Other players (Blackwell, Bentick) fail to spot open targets inside 50 in Q4, Simpson and others kick poorly to Fisher a few times ... players behind the play were not working to cover rebounds ...
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. We have promising young blood that will lead us to greater success in years to come. I would rate our young talent superior to most teams but where we fall behind on is in relation to the middle tier of experienced players where there is a huge vacuum created by poor recuiting, short sighted trading and to a lesser extent the draft penalties, The burden placed on our youngsters to get us out of this mess is staggering. We do not have the capacity to nurture our young but we instrad throw them in the deep end and leave them to fend for themselves such is out lack of senior leadership.
Spot on. Most people don't understand the problem we have in that we don't have many 100 plus games/25 -27 year old players (particularly midfielders) who can take the pressure of our young players.
