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    What does the ladder show us?

    Wins:

    We were a mere 3 wins off contending for the top 4. We dropped games against GCS, Carlton, St Kilda & North all at Marvel.

    Perhaps with consistency against lower/poorer sides, next year we can contend. An area we can improve no doubt.


    For:

    We are third for scoring. Just 43 points off Geelong and 63 points off Brisbane.

    If we managed to improve our goal kicking accuracy by even 2 goals a game, we'd be 180 points higher than Brisbane this year (the only team to crack 2000 points). We pound on the pain, but there's still a lot of improvement to increase our pain giving. Hopefully the footy department spend some coin to fix this.


    Against:

    We are sixth last for scores against. Not great.

    The questions here are whether newly acquired personnel in key position defence can help? Is it a new defensive coach with new ideas? Is it the structure and personnel further up the ground? Or something else again, or a little bit of everything?


    Playing finals and with so much obvious growth to come!
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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    It shows we have beaten the first, second and third best teams this year.
    They will all be looking over their shoulders if we beat GWS.

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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Wins:

    We are sixth last for scores against. Not great.

    The questions here are whether newly acquired personnel in key position defence can help? Is it a new defensive coach with new ideas? Is it the structure and personnel further up the ground? Or something else again, or a little bit of everything?

    It will be interesting to see where we rank on points against since the bye.
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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    Quote Originally Posted by The Doctor View Post
    It will be interesting to see where we rank on points against since the bye.
    After round 11 we were second last with 1001 points against (Melbourne worst with 1004). Ended up on 1810 so 809 conceded in the last 11 games. It's hard to tell exactly but looks like around 8th

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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    Quote Originally Posted by bulldogtragic View Post
    Wins:

    We were a mere 3 wins off contending for the top 4. We dropped games against GCS, Carlton, St Kilda & North all at Marvel.

    Perhaps with consistency against lower/poorer sides, next year we can contend. An area we can improve no doubt.


    For:

    We are third for scoring. Just 43 points off Geelong and 63 points off Brisbane.

    If we managed to improve our goal kicking accuracy by even 2 goals a game, we'd be 180 points higher than Brisbane this year (the only team to crack 2000 points). We pound on the pain, but there's still a lot of improvement to increase our pain giving. Hopefully the footy department spend some coin to fix this.


    Against:

    We are sixth last for scores against. Not great.

    The questions here are whether newly acquired personnel in key position defence can help? Is it a new defensive coach with new ideas? Is it the structure and personnel further up the ground? Or something else again, or a little bit of everything?


    Playing finals and with so much obvious growth to come!
    Apparently you have to tell coaches by August if they are staying , we didn’t “delist “ any so I see no changes in coaches.
    Bring back the biff

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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    1. 2. 3. We have beaten the top 3 teams

    4. We lost to Collinwood by 14 and 9 points. Should have won the second time but kept missing goals.

    5. Lost West Coast

    6. Beat GWS

    8. Beat Essendon

    So, only West Coast really belted us.
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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post

    So, only West Coast really belted us.
    Was that in the West?
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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dry Rot View Post
    Was that in the West?
    Yep in Perth at Optus Stadium we played them.
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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    I think it shows we had a great draw and we can mix it with most teams

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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    We were a much more settled team in the second half of the year. As a result we became more predictable too each other which meant we could score more freely and defended better as a team.
    I don’t think too many changes are required, just a tweak here and there.
    More of an In Bruges guy?

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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    We need a key back that can compete with monster forwards (who is reasonably agile).

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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    Quote Originally Posted by azabob View Post
    We were a much more settled team in the second half of the year. As a result we became more predictable too each other which meant we could score more freely and defended better as a team.
    I don’t think too many changes are required, just a tweak here and there.
    We also had real forwards playing in the forward line.
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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    For me, two huge changes in the second half of the season.

    One was that the team was far more settled - forwards as forwards, mids as mids etc.
    Secondly our defensive positioning seemed far better after the bye - and that helped limit the scores against.

    Add that to young players developing more consistency as the season wore on, and Bontempelli, Dunkley and Macrae playing their absolute best footy - and the recipe was there.

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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    It shows me that Josh Schache's final quarter from the gods against Hawthorn, and Sicily's brain fade, got us into the finals ahead of the Dawks. 30 points down 7 minutes into the last quarter, turned into a 19 point win! We can bemoan the ones we lost, but how important did those four points end up!

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    Re: What does the ladder show us?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dry Rot View Post
    We also had real forwards playing in the forward line.
    Even Bevo said this in his presser after the Giants game.

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