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Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
Our blueprint is and has always been to build a team from the inside out. That means constructing a midfield that wins contested footy. I think that box is ticked. Our contested footy stats stack up. The remaining parts are, as WTLF points out, ball carriers and forwards.
Unfortunately, to land good forwards, the odds increase dramatically with early picks. Either that, or with trades where you actually have to give quality to get it.. (This is why I bring up the bold option of trading Griffen and a pick for a proven young key forward).
We've taken the safe route in recent drafts. We've played percentages and drafted the higher probability versatile midfielder types. Again, building our game plan from the inside out. What this means, however, is a glut of similar players. There are certain clubs who lack inside mid grunt, yet have a healthy depth of KPP's and ball carrying mids. We need to start trading to balance up our list.
Remembering, too, that by finishing towards the bottom of the ladder, we're in a good position to access players via the pre season draft. I'd expect us to begin filling the missing places via the National Draft, Pre Season Draft, free agency and trading this off season.
Next year, we'll begin to take shape. We won't make finals, but we'll have a more functional and balanced structure. Unfortunately our list was a mess in 2011 and Jesus Christ Himself couldn't have coached a glut of U23 inside mids to finals.
I'd just implore everyone to remember that this is the blueprint we've been told about from day 1 by McCartney. The only BS we were sold was the "It's a refresh, not a rebuild" guff that came from another bloke.Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
Agreed.
My frustration isn't with you or your post. Rather, it's with highly paid experts with no accountability telling us what we already know about ourselves without being accountable to providing tangible options to remedy the issues we have.
Football analysts in our code get paid money for jam.TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
I must have missed that bit. What was the hypothetical trade?
Although I agree on the whole, King is one of the few who is very articulate with his analysis.
From what I saw on this occasion, they didn't analyse why we were difficult to watch - it more of a passing comment.W00F!Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
Which seems to me to be a real issue with the way we're discussed in the media. Part of it is a commercial reality, the other part for mine is there's no magic pudding for analysts to hang their hats on, apart from the obvious. Webby (who's contributions have been excellent these past months) suggests hitting the PSD to try and secure midfield talent who are outside oriented. Numerous posters here can think of avenues to improvement but all we get from mainstream media is the same shit we thought about a year ago.
There's just no depth in football analysis.TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
I agree. But also assume David King goes to a production meeting and says I want to spend 3 minutes talking about the dogs, what does the exec producer say?
There's no Cinderella story, no brownlow fancy, sexy port like resurgence, a returning coach taking a rabble to competitive, etc. I can't think of one narrative or story that we have so far this season that is worthy of spending air time on. The only way I see any media is like last year or more likely if we keep losing and it ain't going to be good for anyone. And when one TV program runs it, all of them do and that's when people get nervous about itchy trigger fingers on people's careers to stop the media. Gunga galunga.Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
Contested ball is way down this season compared to last, so the inside out approach to our rebuild has already hit a snag before we've even worked on phase 2 of the rebuild. Also our tackling numbers are well up but only around the stoppages - we are 18th in the competition for tackling outside the stoppages.
A key forward is not going to be the panacea to our problems if we don't address other elements further up the ground."Look at me mate. Look at me. I'm flyin'"Comment
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Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023Comment
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TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
I actually believe, that due to our weight of possession, a contested marking forward would have made a big difference last week. This does not mean that this is the panacea for all our problems, however in last week's game it certainly would have helped. Whether we would have won the game is a mute point.Comment
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Re: Pack your bags McCartney...
The other guy Mark McClure (sp??) sounded like he thinks McCartney is all talk to me.
He also suggested we should offer Griff for Jeremy Cameron which i kind of agree with.
BTW any chance we can rename this thread as with its current name i hate clicking on it. The discussion inside is great but awful name.Comment
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