Peter Dean is champ and would be fantastic with our young backline.

It is not a secret that our defence is untried and not proven. There has been a strong belief that if our mids were more accountable then it will take pressure off our backline. Every critic in the media say that our backline is our weakness. We have a great midfield, one of the best forwards in the league and our backline are basically players (besides Bower) from the Rookie List.

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Melvey, you are a person who knows your stuff. Can I get a bit more insight into your genius:

1. How many times were defenders in a position to spoil Lloyd? Who was it?
2. Who were the back six? (e.g can you please tell me back pockets, HBF's, CHB and FB?)
3. What is a good structure for a back six if you were coaching?
4. Can you tell me the types of tecniques are taught to make defenders elite?

Thanks, your insights really help me dissect our games.

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I didn't bring up his name in terms of he is someone we should get down to the club, i thought he was involved with the bullants and was asking if he works with the carlton listed players. He is an assistant under Eade

He's back and he's wrapped and he's pregnant to himself again.

Is Dale Morris a bad player?

Morris is a former rookie elevation with a good record on Fevola.

Moris has an AA selection in his back pocket after being drafted from the VFL like Jamison.

Delist Jamison.

I like to keep things very simple.

In the first 3 rounds we have played 12 quarters of football:

For 6 quarters Jamo played and Waite was influential; Carlton 34 goals v Opposition 13 goals.
For 6 quarters Jamo is out and Waite is less influential; Carlton 23 goals v Opposition 28 goals.

The MC need to get their heads around this.

We shouldn't forget that with our newly adopted zone approach, the defenders no longer just line up against their respective forwards when the ball is kicked in from the oppositions full back line. Players, such as thornton were pressing up forming the tail end of the zone. As mentioned previously this is the one major drawback of the zone. If the pressure through the zone is not applied the ball will spill out through the midfield and allow a long kick to penetrate the oppositions half forward line. Being at the game, against Essendon*, I saw thornton in particular having to push back numerous of times when he deducted that the zone was non effective!!

The PRO for the zone, is that the defensive pressure is applied by the whole team! Once the pressure foils a turnover, weight of numbers will push the ball forward, spotting players maintaining their zone positions.

Its CON is that if the whole team does not apply the same intensity it exposes your defensive 50.

Clear example is the hawthorn and sydney game 2007. Hawthorn started with a bang, but allowed sydney to push through the zone, hawthorns intensity dropped off and sydney recorded a win against the favoured hawthorn!

The comparisons can be clearly made with last saturdays game against Essendon*.

Keep the faith, we will get there.

Go Blues!!

I think the club needs to look at getting someone like a Jimmy Clement down to the club on a part time basis and work with our boys.

I know your backline is only as good as your midfield but far to many holes yesterday.