Bankers and Anchors - Round 11

[Ozza]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 11

Bankers:

Libba - Does it all. Most possession (incl. most contested), most clearances, most tackles, equal most pressure acts and score involvements. He even was the only one I noticed getting into Crowley a bit.
Wallis - good to see him back in and having a mostly positive game. Think he lifts our ferocity and urgency at the stoppages....although I'd like him to cut out that handball from his game that is fired off too quick without looking, and to a man standing still.
Morris - does some brilliant work one on one....saves us so many times.

Anchors:
Williams - unfortunately looked really bad in contests. Worked into space ok a few times up the ground, but inside 50 was just taking up space.
Howard - again, unfortunately he really struggles to reach the appropriate intensity. It sounds petty, but even in the warm up I find he is just cruising around in drills a bit, giving no look handballs, looking fairly laconic kicking the footy. Out on the field his disposal let us down, and he spectated around the contests.
Cooney - Just for a bit of lack of care with the ball, and lack of creativity for someone of his stature - just belting it forward 45 metres....and thought he lacked urgency below his knees at times.

[ratsmac]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 11

Bankers:

Libba - Does it all. Most possession (incl. most contested), most clearances, most tackles, equal most pressure acts and score involvements. He even was the only one I noticed getting into Crowley a bit.
Wallis - good to see him back in and having a mostly positive game. Think he lifts our ferocity and urgency at the stoppages....although I'd like him to cut out that handball from his game that is fired off too quick without looking, and to a man standing still.
Morris - does some brilliant work one on one....saves us so many times.

Anchors:
Williams - unfortunately looked really bad in contests. Worked into space ok a few times up the ground, but inside 50 was just taking up space.
Howard - again, unfortunately he really struggles to reach the appropriate intensity. It sounds petty, but even in the warm up I find he is just cruising around in drills a bit, giving no look handballs, looking fairly laconic kicking the footy. Out on the field his disposal let us down, and he spectated around the contests.
Cooney - Just for a bit of lack of care with the ball, and lack of creativity for someone of his stature - just belting it forward 45 metres....and thought he lacked urgency below his knees at times.

This is what infuriated me the most. I can handle some errant disposal in his first game of the season against one of the best pressure sides in the comp, but I hated how he wouldn't put his body in the contest like every other player (both teams) were doing.

BANKERS

Morris- As dougie would say "he's the Rolls Royce" Opponents must hate it when they see him walking towards them at the start of the game.

Libba - Tony must be as proud as punch with the way Jnr carries himself on the footy field. He never ever leaves anything in the change rooms. Thank you Tom.

Wallis - Fantastic effort to take his medicine and come back in the team and play on one of the best players in the AFL and beat him on the day.

ANCHORS

Losing - Friggin sick of losing.

Griffen - Had his colours lowered by Crowley. I actually expected a big game from Griff coming of a good game against Gold coast. He had his side step back last week, this week he couldn't get a sniff.

Not being ready for freo's fast break - Hello MC. We played this mob in a practice match and they did the exact same thing. Did we not have a plan in place to counter this? Or was it the cattle to carry out the plan? Dunno. I thought we sucked their zone up the ground better in the NAB than we did on Sunday allowing our forwards space to lead into.

Williams - Not a forward, forwards can mark.

Howard - ?? I don't know what to say. He is just an anchor.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 11

Bankers - the kids Macrae, Hrovat, Bonts Wallis. The future

Anchors - defending the slingshot. We just don't defend out of the contest
No more plodders please! Run carry, didn't see it
Adam Cooney. Not good enough for a senior player! Spectating
The forward line. It's a debacle

[F'scary]

Re: Bankers and Anchors - Round 11

Bankers: the 18 of the 22 selected who played really well and got the ball into the 50m zone so many times.

Anchors: the way all 22 selected players just can't seem to team together with any panache.