And did they blossom/reach new heights at any other club? That's the reason I left them out. No accident about it (nice try, though). Newnes, Longer and Mav obviously reached their ceiling, Richo (and the development team under him) got the most out of them. They also played the bulk of their AFL ga...

Well, we saw a linear progression of our youngsters under Richo. Ross, Steele, Roberton, Membrey, Battle, Bruce, Clark, Webster, etc... Our current "development" department is a misnomer. Playing youngsters does not constitute development. Yes….Richo developed the shyte out of that lot…he...

Well, we saw a linear progression of our youngsters under Richo.

Ross, Steele, Roberton, Membrey, Battle, Bruce, Clark, Webster, etc...

Our current "development" department is a misnomer.

Playing youngsters does not constitute development.

3 goals wins would be enough, ... no-one is expecting a rate of knot improvement. And expecting a year by year development (vs a stagnation) of our young players is not an unreasonable expectation.

David King had us improving this year based on our finish last year and the assumption that our youngsters were going to improve/develop further ... but it hasn't eventuated.

Are we going to blame all our youngsters for that?

Owens, Phillipou, Windhager, King have stagnated and/or gone backwards. Do a footywire comparison of these players- their stats this year vs their stats last year, and you'll see that what I'm saying and what Cornes is pointing out ... that is in fact true. These players are not only stagnating, mos...

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It's not just Max King, though ... our young players stagnating and not developing, that's our main problem.

We have no system ... we don't link up, we're not playing/gelling like a team.

We're locked into a negative, reactive mindset and low scoring game style.

It's not just Max King, though ... our young players stagnating and not developing, that's our main problem.

We have no system ... we don't link up, we're not playing/gelling like a team.

We're locked into a negative, reactive mindset and game style.

Port has their deficiencies outside of their midfield.

We are stronger in other areas.

We only need 1 or 2 more topline midfielders to move past them.

Swap midfields (and coaches or adopt a more attacking game plan) and we win by 10 goals.

He should be tried in defence.
He's not a natural forward ... that's why he's trying to play in the style of a big-bodied, one-grab forward, which he's clearly not.

His stats were actually better last year ... Phillips was averaging close to 19 possessions and 200 metres gained. But his handball to kick ratio, even though it was better last year, it was still weighted more towards handballs. It doesn't sound like a player who takes the game on? Anyway, 19 posse...

and only 95 metres gained ... Most overrated stat ever! It's a defenders stat. How many average metres gained do you think Milne had over the journey? I reckon Plugger's metres gained per game would have been less than his actual points contributed. Well, I can't access stats that far back, but Jer...

He's averaging 3 kicks and 10 handballs (that's quite a lopsided ratio) ... and only 95 metres gained in his 4 games this year.

Was the last quarter an anomaly?

We made scoring look easy.

A game you can enjoy for a change ... we released the shackles. We managed to score when we were dominating ... Henry, Marshall, etc.. everyone lifted at once. We were linking and running in numbers and enjoying our football. More of this, please. However, we lost, less of this please. Well, if we ...

A game you can enjoy for a change ... we released the shackles.

We managed to score when we were dominating ... Henry, Marshall, etc.. everyone lifted at once. We were linking and running in numbers and enjoying our football.

More of this, please.

Good score for a change.

We are capable of this.

We have the players, our overall strength is there ... Schoenmaker is another good addition.
We just need to play attacking football, and get the scoreboard ticking from the word go.

We have the players, our overall strength is there ... Schoenmaker is another good addition.
We just need to play attacking football, and get the scoreboard ticking from the word go.

That's better.

saintbob wrote: ↑Fri 14 Jun 2024 9:51pm Can our forward line coach, ROBERT f****** HARVEY, please stop them spinning the f****** ball in their hands as they walk in for a set shot!!!

It's RTB's fault ... Rotate The Ball's fault.

Winx Higgins!

So much for the importance of clearances.

Higgins, well done.

They've already kicked our ave. score.