Isn’t a bad coach just a coach with a bad team? Alistair Clarkson and Damien Hardwick are exactly the same Just without the champions Same with Ross A coach is only as good as their team. Richo - and I'm going to be controversial now - at least knew how to develop players, as in get the best/most o...

On the other hand (continuing on from my previous post) he's virtually the same age as Steele, and was used as a forward/midfielder last year and only given 67% game time.
So, I can see both sides.

If you do a series of footywire comparisons of Jackson Macrae vs his performance the year prior, over the following years .... namely: comparing 2024 with 2023, 2023 with 2022, and 2022 with 2021 ... you will see a steady and progressive decline year after year. You would logically expect this decli...

Well said, scollop. High impact forwards don't come in extra-large sizes only. The ball spends more time on the ground in the finals ... you need classy ground-level players or even a team full of B and C grade hard-nosed, hard-running players all over the ground, playing as if they're all midfielde...

Sicily will get 46 possessions, Battle 28 possessions and Barrass an em"barrass"ingly low (comparatively speaking) 20 possessions against us next time. They will mark everything in sight. But we will still win. Our new, improved midfield will prove too much for theirs. Keno numbers, next.

If the forward line (which was starting to kick ass, the last few games) can kick even more goals overall with Max playing as a permanent forward, with the conversion rate climbing even higher, then yes, I would play him forward next year. It remains to be seen if this can be achieved, next year. Th...

See next post ..

Players/forwards who can impact games win finals and grand finals (or at least help their teams do it), and they come in all shapes and sizes ... Rioli for Hawthorn, Bartlett for Richmond. Steve Johnson for Geelong. Shanahan couldn't keep up with Darren Jarman. He would have preferred a power forward.

Of course.
Hopefully, he does the right thing by his St Kilda family, too.

You have to consider his age, durability and his elite status.
He's holding down an important position.

I thought the footy adage says that good, solid defences win finals. Battle is in his prime, and in the right age bracket. He's not "our 7th best player," he's elite in his position ... and ranking him behind our midfielders and other players approaching their twilight years is simply wron...

Again, it's not as cut and dried as we think. Crudely speaking, but just to illustrate the point ... Let's say out of our 45 (forty five) F50 entries, on average , if 15 were being directed to King - in other words, we were looking for him on those 15 occasions, and the result was 2.5 goals were bei...

It's never that clearcut. Let's say Jessie Hogan"s 3 goal average came from 6 passes on average directed to him (while he was inside the f50), while Max King's 2.5 goal average came from 7.5 passes on average directed to him. This would show straight away which player has the greater impact ......

Our conversion rate ... our scoring per forward 50 entry is a good indicator of forward efficiency, and it's improved ...it has climbed markedly... over the last few weeks. This is a welcome, new trend (and it seems to coincide with King missing ... maybe our approach changing?). If we improve our m...

No doubt, a 30% physically fitter and stronger King would be formidable, especially if he started wearing non-slip gloves. :? But, our forward line needs to be multi-faceted. With Henry, Phillipou and Wilson, we'll be kicking 3-5 more running goals per match, from what will be a relatively new sourc...

Max King can still become an important player for us, maybe a ripper defender? Our forward line is functioning better now, with more goals, a better spread and more forward pressure being applied. Our conversion rate has improved ... we beat Carlton with a couple of more shots at goal (than them) co...

Well, I guess that's why they call it/them the Blues.

Interestingly, we ended up winning the contested possessions and losing the uncontested possessions, when it was the other way around I thought, to HT.

Hopefully, Freo will seal the deal.

We still could lose pick 7, you beauty!

Draft pick 7 is becoming a possibility for us, thanks to Criippa.

Bad positioning by Marshall.

The Frockers would be biting their nails.

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The_Dud wrote: ↑Sun 25 Aug 2024 5:12pm I think Curly’s lost his drink bottle

i shouldn't...but have a like!

Well, I guess that's why they call it the Blues.

Yes, but it's the approach that I'm getting at. No more "key" forwards (just because they are extra tall or extra athletic or whatever) - instead, spread the goal kicking around, kicking it to the best mobile option, whichever forward is clever enough to find themselves in free space, at a...