Three things I have learned-round 11 v West Coast Eagles 2019

Alright fire away. Tell un three things that you know now that you didn't know a couple of hours ago...

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1. We are a bottom 4 side

2. Gardner looked OK - maybe something to work with

3. We are miles and miles away from being a good side

1. Gardner is not a ruckman. Not even close. I'm unsure he's a bona fide prospect, but he's not a ruckman. Sorry Bevo.
2. We must hate Josh Schache. How else do you explain rookie listing a VFL player, playing immediately despite a massive talent gap and with less effect. At least Schache would've kicked the goal from 4 metres out. Gardner gave no more, maybe even less, than Schache could.
3. That's it. I already knew most of our horrible aspects.

1. If our club doesn't instigate a thorough review at the end of the year, if not now, we're kidding ourselves. Let me be clear - I don't want Bevo sacked, but we've got massive issues that need to be solved, if we're not to waste the next 5 years
2. We used to have a midfield core that you could trust with your life at a contest. Not anymore. Is it game plan or are players not positioning themselves at stoppages right, because that's where we are getting sliced up. Macrae has been awful, Libba is only just going.. and I'm not sure Lipinski has the nouse right now to be at the coalface.
3. Gosh I can't wait for Morris to come back.... if he has a decent back half of the year. Give him another year, because we smell in defense.

1. Zaine has lost me. Battles hard but is not AFL quality, at least not top 8 quality.

2. Losing doesnt hurt anymore again, premiership what premiership.

3. Bottom 4, nah we are bottom 3.

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Originally Posted by chef

1. Zaine has lost me. Battles hard but is not AFL quality, at least not top 8 quality.

2. Losing doesnt hurt anymore again, premiership what premiership.

3. Bottom 4, nah we are bottom 3.

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l think you are a bit hard on Cordy. He did some good things but he is playing out of position. He just bounces off big key position players, no way he should be on Darling. He is set up to fail. The selection committee does not pay any respect to the opposition talent.

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Originally Posted by Danjul

l think you are a bit hard on Cordy. He did some good things but he is playing out of position. He just bounces off big key position players, no way he should be on Darling. He is set up to fail. The selection committee does not pay any respect to the opposition talent.

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With the loss of Crozier we didn't have an opportunity to put Wood on Darling. We genuinely don't have anyone else who could have played on him.

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Originally Posted by jeemak

With the loss of Crozier we didn't have an opportunity to put Wood on Darling. We genuinely don't have anyone else who could have played on him.

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I would have tried Lewis Young on Kennedy and Trengove on Darling. With Cordy on the flank. Couldn’t have gone any worse.

1. Losing the centre clearances means you have Gowers in there and Libba on HFF...
2. Bont gets away with murder. Missed sitters... again.
3. As much as I hope and want us to be good, we actually are pretty rubbish.

1. The gap between what Bevo thinks Gowers is and what he actually is, is enormous
2. We have to many 6’2 medium sized, medium skilled, medium paced HBFers, and not enough guys with a particular niche talent
3. The coaching staff are so unwilling to utilise good sense over perceived innovativeness, they probably think their stubbornness is actually resilience.

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Originally Posted by Danjul

I would have tried Lewis Young on Kennedy and Trengove on Darling. With Cordy on the flank. Couldn’t have gone any worse.

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Cordy, irrespective of size, is a much stronger all round competitor than Lewis Young. Kennedy would have then become the focal point rather than Darling being the focal point, and would have had at least two or three more possessions and goals than the nine and three he had today.

1. The Naughton forward experiment was fun when it worked. Now it's time to play him BACK where he belongs or is good at.

2. Bevo has obviously given this year up as another learning year (or that was always his plan). He must be playing the long game or whatever you want to call it because there have been some very strange positional and selection choices all year.

3. I'm not really sure what our game plan is but whatever it is it's not a very good one. The players don't look like they know it, understand it, can deliver it, or even like it or believe in it.

We need a specialist goalkicking coach, we should have led at half time. The Club is a disgrace for ignoring this most blatant need.
The assistant coaching staff need a shakeup, bigtime.
The Club seems content to finish bottom 4.

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Originally Posted by jeemak

Cordy, irrespective of size, is a much stronger all round competitor than Lewis Young. Kennedy would have then become the focal point rather than Darling being the focal point, and would have had at least two or three more possessions and goals than the nine and three he had today.

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Cordy has been killed in the 1 on 1 battles for weeks now. Every time he tried to body Darling he simply bounced off and fell, with Darling having an easy mark. similar last week. He got caught out away from his man quite often today. I watched the first part of the Brisbane game again and his opponent took 3 easy chest marks early.

He is good when the ball is on the ground and in the open. He should be used that way.