Second half fade outs

[The Coon Dog]

We've been hammered in second halves since our last win:

Bris 10.1.61
WB 2.8.20

Ess 9.7.61
WB 5.3.33

Fre 10.4.64
WB 4.5.29

Haw 9.9.63
WB 1.4.10

Car 11.3.69
WB 4.8.32

StK 9.12.66
WB 2.2.14

NM 11.4.70
WB 2.8.20

Rich 12.8.80
WB 6.4.40

Syd 16.6.102
WB 5.4.34

9 games
Opp 97.54.636
WB 31.46. 232
37.48%

Doesn't make for good reading. Is it fitness?

[GVGjr]

Re: Second half fade outs

Shocking reading isn't it?
Fitness is a big problem but I think confidence and the want to fight it out isn't helping us.
We also have a problem that our midfield isn't doing enough defensively.

[Hotdog60]

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Maybe a pre season of bulking up and contact drills has left us with little run left at the half way point. That coupled with a young list which will have trouble until they get a couple of more pre seasons into them.

[LostDoggy]

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Horrible to see it in black and white like that. I shall calm myself by believing it is mostly due to young bodies and minds tiring in the second half of the season.

[AndrewP6]

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I think it is indeed fitness. The "we've got a team full of young blokes" isn't it, IMO. Time for changes in the Physical Performance Dept.

[Mantis]

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I think it is indeed fitness. The "we've got a team full of young blokes" isn't it, IMO. Time for changes in the Physical Performance Dept.

Perhaps the phys ed. dept. are only doing what the coaching team want them to do.

[Bornadog]

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GWS and GC are younger than us and they don't have thrashings like we do. As I said in the game day thread, we are the worst team in the AFL for the second half of the season. We have won one from the last 12 games.

[MrMahatma]

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Perhaps the phys ed. dept. are only doing what the coaching team want them to do.

You really don't like our coach, do you?

[AndrewP6]

Re: Second half fade outs

Perhaps the phys ed. dept. are only doing what the coaching team want them to do.

Agreed, but that comes back to the decision to appoint McCartney, and we've been on that roundabout before!

[Eastdog]

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Not very good reading at all. I also think its a fitness issue because I believe we wouldnt have lost it by that much and was thinking we could keep the margin below 40 points today.

[Ghost Dog]

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Shocking reading isn't it?
Fitness is a big problem but I think confidence and the want to fight it out isn't helping us.
We also have a problem that our midfield isn't doing enough defensively.

I would say our forwards are not able to be overlapping defensively enough either.

[Mantis]

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You really don't like our coach, do you?

He hasn't impressed me so far with how he has developed the team/ players, but that has nothing to do with the statement I made.

Why should the phys ed guys be under the pump if they are following the instructions of the coaching team?

[MrMahatma]

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Macca said a few weeks ago he kind of expected these fade outs due to how we ran pre-season.

They're bad, but at least we've put together some decent passages of play in the past few weeks, which is a lot better than a month ago.

[LostDoggy]

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Showing on a larger scale too. Ladder percentage is third worse in the league only ahead of GC by 8%.
Think about that, GC 60% Dogs 68%.

[Nuggety Back Pocket]

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Shocking reading isn't it?
Fitness is a big problem but I think confidence and the want to fight it out isn't helping us.
We also have a problem that our midfield isn't doing enough defensively.

We are also judging a very undermanned team, with flaws everywhere. We have lacked a key forward all year with Lake the only key defender of quality. Ward Hall Morris and Cooney have been huge losses. Gilbee Hargrave and Gia have been very disappointing. Playing 8 first year players has been a huge ask. Cordy Sherman Jones DJ Skinner and Grant haven't come on. Which every way you look at it this is a very poor team with physical fitness just one of the reasons but an important one in our fall from grace.