3 things learned from Rd 1 vs Melbourne 2024

[GVGjr]

Please list 3 things learned from our R1 encounter vs Melbourne

[GVGjr]

Bump

[bulldogtragic]

1. If this is the most prepared R1 team Bevo has ever produced, its downhill from here
2. Still missing easy shots, from soon to be the highest paid forward line
3. Still picking guys who can’t play at this level

[lemmon]

1. Khamis ain't the second tall alongside Jones. They needed another key back there
2. Laith, McNeil, West and Cody isn't the right small forward mix. West was the only one of those guys to lay a forward 50 tackle.
3. Found one in Bramble, thought he was one of our best.

[GVGjr]

1. If this is the most prepared R1 team Bevo has ever produced, its downhill from here
2. Still missing easy shots, from soon to be the highest paid forward line
3. Still picking guys who can’t play at this level

I heard Brad Johnson say he's run his goal kicking sessions on 6 occasions. I know he didn't start until mid Jan but that seems to be a low number.

[GVGjr]

1. Khamis ain't the second tall alongside Jones. They needed another key back there
2. Laith, McNeil, West and Cody isn't the right small forward mix. West was the only one of those guys to lay a forward 50 tackle.
3. Found one in Bramble, thought he was one of our best.

I must admit I couldn't see how we could play both Khamis and Coffield in the same back line during the training sessions but an injuries to Gardner, JOD and Keath over summer hasn't left us with many other options.

I agree about Bramble, looks like we had him on the radar for a while and jumped in as soon as the SSP window opened.

[Mofra]

I heard Brad Johnson say he's run his goal kicking sessions on 6 occasions. I know he didn't start until mid Jan but that seems to be a low number.

It's a 7 step plan. The last step (kicking) is next week

[Happy Days]

1. There was at least 3 players (McNeil, Khamis, Harmes) that I never want to see play again playing in our first game for the year with a more or less full list to choose from. Not great!

I guess this means I learned that picking “fit” players is stupid where the fit players are also bad players. Bevo, please just pick the best side before another clear best 22 player gets concussed playing VFL for no reason.

2. That’s the worst performance from our midfield without the ball yet. When the turnover at half forward hit you could just sense that 7 straight targets were going to be hit going the other way. It’s like they were too aware of how hot it was and were trying to conserve energy.

3. The back 6 is so close to being not bad for the first time since Al Keath did his hamstring against Melbourne in front of no one late in 2021. I believe in JOD but we need a genuine key defender (threshold for this is someone who is capable of at least not being to be made to look foolish by professional pratfaller Ben Brown) to step in until he’s ready to go.

[Mofra]

1. West busted a gut all pre-season and it showed
2. Naughton got an absolute bath and the magnets moved him maybe 50M for the game? It's pointless not having him run a rotation in the backline or even higher up the field to try and isolate Marra, our only dangerous forward for the day.
3. When our mids get lazy they get very very lazy. Treloar trailed off a lot, and I hate the pot the kid but Gags just didn;t go with his opponent (Windsor) a number of times. Gags will make it I'm sure, but he's not ready yet/

Bramble & Coff started very 'safe' but both got better as the game wore on, particularly Bramble.

[bornadog]

1. If this is the most prepared R1 team Bevo has ever produced, its downhill from here

Bevo never said that, he said the fittest

[Grantysghost]

Bevo never said that, he said the fittest

And he didn't say how many quarters... We were really fit for nearly one whole quarter

[mighty_west]

I heard Brad Johnson say he's run his goal kicking sessions on 6 occasions. I know he didn't start until mid Jan but that seems to be a low number.

Goal kicking is such an important part of the game, there should be AT LEAST a couple of sessions every week imo.

[MrMahatma]

Bevo never said that, he said the fittest

He said “fittest, strongest and most ready.”

We got pumped

[bornadog]

1. Round 1 a very frustrating day with so many errors
2. Bramble better than I thought, and could work out well for us
3. Another round 1 to just forget it happened and hopefully we are better for the run.

[AshMac]

1. Nothing has changed through the off-season. Still playing Bevos favourites, long high kicks into 50, killed on the turnover, killed in the ruck. out marked constantly in defence, players ran out of legs in the last quarter
2. It took 1.25 quarters to concede the first 5 goal bleed
3. We just don?t have a system - guarding blades of grass, slow and stale ball movement (outside first quarter) and never right side of the pack for the fall of the ball