Trading...Tanking

[bulldogtragic]

Everitt, 1st rounder, 3rd rounder = Vez, Djek and Sherman = all not in the side. Why play the trading game?

[Bulldog4life]

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Everitt, 1st rounder, 3rd rounder = Vez, Djek and Sherman = all not in the side. Why play the trading game?

Two of those have what we are lacking too.... leg speed.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Two of those have what we are lacking too.... leg speed.

Yes, but it seems that the midfield ethos favoured by our coaching departement favours having 8 midfielders in the team who can swarm and crack in at every ground contest, so they can win the contested ball and shovel it out quickly to one of several unattended opposition midfielders who have sat outside the contest.
Sadly Vez and Sherman aren't that type. outside run and carry is out of fashion at our club.
Sorry for being so cynical, but I am fast losing my patience with our style of play, and am just not able to see how such an unbalanced gameplan - that seems to be based around attacking the contest to the exclusion of everything else - is a sound tactical plan.
Maybe I just can't see the big picture.

[ReLoad]

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I don't think I've seen a slower side than what we fielded today.

[Bulldog4life]

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Yes, but it seems that the midfield ethos favoured by our coaching departement favours having 8 midfielders in the team who can swarm and crack in at every ground contest, so they can win the contested ball and shovel it out quickly to one of several unattended opposition midfielders who have sat outside the contest.
Sadly Vez and Sherman aren't that type. outside run and carry is out of fashion at our club.
Sorry for being so cynical, but I am fast losing my patience with our style of play, and am just not able to see how such an unbalanced gameplan - that seems to be based around attacking the contest to the exclusion of everything else - is a sound tactical plan.
Maybe I just can't see the big picture.

Unfortunately I'm starting to think the same way. Hopefully we don't draft more plodders.

[ReLoad]

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Yes, but it seems that the midfield ethos favoured by our coaching departement favours having 8 midfielders in the team who can swarm and crack in at every ground contest, so they can win the contested ball and shovel it out quickly to one of several unattended opposition midfielders who have sat outside the contest.
Sadly Vez and Sherman aren't that type. outside run and carry is out of fashion at our club.
Sorry for being so cynical, but I am fast losing my patience with our style of play, and am just not able to see how such an unbalanced gameplan - that seems to be based around attacking the contest to the exclusion of everything else - is a sound tactical plan.
Maybe I just can't see the big picture.

I think the thing is, and it took the cats 18 months, they learnt contested footy first, then added/drilled/trained/pre seasoned for leg speed. the fact they had players capable of doing both; bartel, selwood, kelly, ablett etc all of course meant that it worked, us on the other hand.........

[Remi Moses]

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I get the bang and crash, but we need run spread , link play. Need to be smarter going into the 50. Got a few talls but no point in bombing it in!

[GVGjr]

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Everitt, 1st rounder, 3rd rounder = Vez, Djek and Sherman = all not in the side. Why play the trading game?

Other clubs have done OK with it so it's certainly not the problem. Rocket had a different approach that didn't nail it for us but hopefully Brendan McCartney can make the right decisions.

[KT31]

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I think the thing is, and it took the cats 18 months, they learnt contested footy first, then added/drilled/trained/pre seasoned for leg speed. the fact they had players capable of doing both; bartel, selwood, kelly, ablett etc all of course meant that it worked, us on the other hand.........

Agree, even Swabb made sure the Hawks could play defence before they learnt to attack and had a tilt at a flag.
Admittedly they did have Buddy.

[azabob]

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Sadly Vez and Sherman aren't that type. outside run and carry is out of fashion at our club.
Sorry for being so cynical, but I am fast losing my patience with our style of play, and am just not able to see how such an unbalanced gameplan - that seems to be based around attacking the contest to the exclusion of everything else - is a sound tactical plan.
Maybe I just can't see the big picture.

I recall when Eade first took over we were full of attack and very light on for defence and hunger for the physical contested ball.

This time around McCartney is addressing the contested ball first.

I guess you can't implement everything at once.

[Bumper Bulldogs]

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I guess you can't implement everything at once.

Why not its called a game plan,

[Missing-Dog]

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Time to tank!

[GVGjr]

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Time to tank!

Agree the tank is calling get on board. The lower the better in a great draft.

[Remi Moses]

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That was the only positive .
Think we're going to finish 14 or 15

[Max469]

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someone to put through the middle of the big sticks would most definitely help.

too many weeks - too many points.

other clubs make it look so easy.