Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

[comrade]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 9

You think he needs to add the midfield bow? I feel like we have plenty of midfield runners and would prefer if he focuses on becoming a goalkicking machine with strong defensive efforts.

Becoming a consistent, defensive minded goal kicker is obviously the priority and where he'll add the most value but we lack good, intelligent ball users in our midfield. His smarts would be a welcome addition.

[westbulldog]

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True, but they missed ones early. Thought we were lucky to be only 20odd pts down at quarter time.

yep true, but we missed them at critical times.

[westbulldog]

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[QUOTE=always right;271408]Not Patty's best game but a bit rough isolating those two incidents. The kick to Chapman was perfect and he was inlucky to be opposed to Hawkins when Lake was delayed getting onto the ground.

Vespremi has shown some good form lately but tonight was ineffectual imo and was subbed.

[jeemak]

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Becoming a consistent, defensive minded goal kicker is obviously the priority and where he'll add the most value but we lack good, intelligent ball users in our midfield. His smarts would be a welcome addition.

I tend to agree. We need him to turn in to a player similar to Chapman (though from where he's starting from, if he becomes three quarters of the player then I'll be happy), and to do this he must have a big preseason and stay injury free.

There are going to be days when our midfield mix isn't balanced or competitve and we'll need to mix things up a touch to change the course of a game.

Dickson's required to add value to the forward line and develop his game this year, and next year and the year after he's going to need to be versatile enough to fulfill the requirements of the team.

[jeemak]

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Damn right jeemak. Not to put too fine a point on it but supporters like that can piss off back to Richmond.

On another note, I've enjoyed reading your posts of late. Keep up the good work.

Appreciate that, thanks.

[G-Mo77]

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Vespremi has shown some good form lately but tonight was ineffectual imo and was subbed with a hamstring injury.

Edited.

Not disagreeing with you but he was subbed due to injury.

[Bornadog]

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Bankers

*Wallis and Libba - a bunch of 19 year olds showing Geelong how to win the ball

*Roughead - Great last quarter, too bad he missed three gettable goals.

*Jones- I thought he started to get some of his confidence back with his marking. Maybe being dropped and having a reprieve is the kick in the backside he needed. Must learn to kick the ball.

Anchors

I will pick some bad plays here.

*Roughead - After Murphy ran 10o metres bouncing handballing and creating play, Roughead handballs into straight back to Geelong who take the ball all the way back to where Murph ran.

* Cross -Austin has the ball in the third quarter on the wing, looks up and nowhere to kick, so turns around and handballs to Cross. Cross looks up and nowhere to kick, again looking towards our goal, so what does he do, he kicks it anyway. Straight to Geelong,k bang turnover and they take it down into their forward line.

* Hitting the post from 30/40 metres out - you know who you are.
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[jeemak]

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*Roughead - After Murphy ran 10o metres bouncing handballing and creating play, Roughead handballs into straight back to Geelong who take the ball all the way back to where Murph ran.

* Cross -Austin has the ball in the third quarter on the wing, looks up and nowhere to kick, so turns around and handballs to Cross. Cross looks up and nowhere to kick, again looking towards our goal, so what does he do, he kicks it anyway. Straight to Geelong,k bang turnover and they take it down into their forward line.

The above annoyed me a bit as well, though I was bitterly disappointed with Cross's non-shot on goal in the first quarter, moreso. Most midfielders in the AFL would have relished the chance to kick a goal in that situation, and nothing frustrates me more about him than his unwillingness to take responsibility for kicking goals when clear opportunities present themselves to do so. To avoid kicking the goal, he actually attempted to execute a much tougher skill. Anyway, his overall performance wasn't too bad.

The Roughead handball was a shocker wasn't it, I can't wait for him to iron these aspects out of his game as he becomes experienced.

[LostDoggy]

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Bankers

Will Minson: Solid as anything, put in a very honest and tough performance tonight. Did the simple things very well and intelligently.

Mitch Wallis: Becoming very consistent and has improved his kicking incredibly from last year in terms of penetration and accuracy.

Mark Austin: Couldn't have asked for a better performance from a rookie in the absence of 3 first-choice key backs. Probably ahead of Tom Williams already.

Anchors

Justin Sherman: Needed a bit more from the Shermanator tonight. So few touches AND tackles doesn't cut it for a mid-forward.

Liam Jones: Presented very well and clunked some decent marks but needs to improve his kicking. Feels like harsh criticism because he's still such a young key forward, but misses like the one in the 3rd quarter kill you in the end.

Jordan Roughead: See above.

[SlimPickens]

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Bankers-

Mitch/Libba- The future is bright.

Jones- good game by the kid, his marking was exceptional. Let's not forget he was playing on Harry Taylor.

Minson- another vey good performance by big Will. Still would like some impact from him up forward but his first ruck duties have been excellent.

Gia- had a crack about his lethargy in the first half last night. But really lifted in the second, leads very smartly and really helped the young blokes.

Anchor
Murphy- I feel like a broken record but his foot skill for the last 3 weeks have been terrible.

Roughy/Jones- need to convert.

Sherman- looks tired, needs a spell.

Whoever was playing on Johnson- given way too much time to use the ball. We needed to shut him down and didn't.

[Bornadog]

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The above annoyed me a bit as well, though I was bitterly disappointed with Cross's non-shot on goal in the first quarter, moreso.

Forgot about that in the first, yes that was worse than the anchor I mentioned. How can he not have a shot from less than 40 metres out.

[Bulldog4life]

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BANKERS:

Minson- We are now seeing the best of big Will. Consistent every week, looks after our small guys and getting touches around the ground. Let's hope we re-sign him.

Wallis- Has come on in leaps and bounds. Kicking has improved and his decision making.

Libba- Getting better all the time. Along with Wally will be the cornerstone of our midfield engine room for many years.

Anchors:

The easy misses for goal. This aspect of our game must become a priority at training. It kills you. History has shown us that players can improve this aspect of their game but time must be put into it.

No other anchors. The team busted their gut and only class and better kicking for goal cost us the game. Every player on the field tried their guts out and that part I was happy with. Certainly a lot of light at the end of the tunnel.

[Bornadog]

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Murphy- I feel like a broken record but his foot skill for the last 3 weeks have been terrible.

What is going on with Murphy's kicking. Since that shocking pass against Collingwood, he has been a shocker.

[azabob]

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Forgot about that in the first, yes that was worse than the anchor I mentioned. How can he not have a shot from less than 40 metres out.

Griffen also missed a gettable goal from his set shot, Griffen didn't even make the distance.

[Bornadog]

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Griffen also missed a gettable goal from his set shot, Griffen didn't even make the distance.

Some of the kicking was pretty bad last night. Dickson who is a thumping kick didn't make the distance with one of his shots from inside 50. Yet Geelong were pinging them from outside 50.