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The quick movement of the ball by hand from defence really stood out today, as did the licence that the coah has given the players to take the game on. Armfield, Buckley, Cripps, Murphy, Simpson were great at this today.
Henderson hands were back today and I loved Casboult's game, with the exception of the kick on the full on the run and the smother in the goal square.
Good to see Kreuzer make an impact, because that didnt look very likely in the 2s last week.
Great day at the football.
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(06-06-2015, 11:29 AM)JonDorotich link Wrote:Love Armfield's passion and endeavour as a forward and he plays with heart, something we have lacked this year - defence is too much of a risk. I'd retain him.
Walker on the other hand is really having a poor year and his disposal is deplorable at the moment. +1
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06-06-2015, 12:16 PM
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The first thing I noticed re today's game was the attitude of the boys. We took risks. It's been a long time since I've seen our players CONFIDENT to risk.
Today we attacked... It's been a long time since I've seen our players CONFIDENT to attack.
Like many I am perplexed as to how our boys can play so devoid of confidence under the universe's greatest ever coach for the past 2 + years, yet finally display BlueBagger boldness and risk under a rookie coach????.
Forget the bullsheissen in relation to the week 1 artificial spike under the new coach... Today our blokes in week 2 under JB, displayed an attitude that said, thank f*ck I can now enjoy playing footy."
Really, I mean really, when was the last time you saw our blokes be involved and competitive for 4 continuous quarters?
Be honest, how many were waiting for us to fold and Adelaide to take over and bury us at various stages throughout the game? How many were amazed we reeled in a deficit and hit the front... in this season!
Folks, today I do not care that we won or lost. Today I saw a glimpse of the BlueBagger spirit for 4 quarters.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17
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(06-06-2015, 12:16 PM)Baggers link Wrote:The first thing I noticed re today's game was the attitude of the boys. We took risks. It's been a long time since I've seen our players CONFIDENT to risk.
Today we attacked... It's been a long time since I've seen our players CONFIDENT to attack.
Like many I am perplexed as to how our boys can play so devoid of confidence under the universe's greatest ever coach for the past 2 + years, yet finally display BlueBagger boldness and risk under a rookie coach????.
Forget the bullsheissen in relation to the week 1 artificial spike under the new coach... Today our blokes in week 2 under JB, displayed an attitude that said, thank f*ck I can now enjoy playing footy."
Really, I mean really, when was the last time you saw our blokes be involved and competitive for 4 continuous quarters?
Be honest, how many were waiting for us to fold and Adelaide to take over and bury us at various stages throughout the game? How many were amazed we reeled in a deficit and hit the front... in this season!
Folks, today I do not care that we won or lost. Today I saw a glimpse of the BlueBagger spirit for 4 quarters.
Yep...today you could watch the football and enjoy it...the players looked like they were enjoying playing and the fun was back, they knew they were in the game and could play with freedom.
Playing with freedom was great for the confidence and the skills which have been eroded through the defensive/negative tactics of the previous coach were starting to come back..might take a few weeks but the players will re -learn the skills needed to match the more attacking free running style..
Its more of a return to the Ratten era....what we need though is a balance somewhere in between but I would rather a full attacking style than a full defensive approach like we had under Mick..
(06-06-2015, 12:16 PM)Baggers link Wrote:Really, I mean really, when was the last time you saw our blokes be involved and competitive for 4 continuous quarters?
Round 16 2014 
While we were all pleased to see the improved effort today it has to be remembered that our back half of last season wasn't too bad.
On the basis of that it's the first half of this season that's inexplicable.
Yes there were definite differences and improvements today but it's not form that is in our long ago past.
Rattenesque maybe....
I suspect our style of play today is more in line with those latter matches of 2014 than our first half of 2015
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Nuh. There was no authority or flair in those games.
Today we looked like if we'd had the blokes we'd have won rather than been honourable losers/competitors.
The real test for us will be after the break when we have near our best side to pick from (minus Juddy ... :'()
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17
(06-06-2015, 12:52 PM)Baggers link Wrote:Nuh. There was no authority or flair in those games.
Today we looked like if we'd had the blokes we'd have won rather than been honourable losers/competitors.
The real test for us will be after the break when we have near our best side to pick from (minus Juddy ... :'()
The St Kilda game was probably a poor example....they were terrible that day.
But I think we showed a bit in some of those other games.
I actually remember times when we moved the ball through the middle at speed similar to today and the commentators were questioning whether Malthouse had changed it up or the players had taken control because it seemed like a return to pre-Malthouse times.
I'm as happy as anyone with that performance today....but there are a few contributing factors which is why we need to ensure we back it up.
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(06-06-2015, 11:19 AM)MosquitoFleet link Wrote:Thomas is finished. ...keep him in the reserves for the rest of his contract
jamison is finished ...his shoulders are gone.....keep him in the reserves for the rest of his contract
carrozzo is finished at years end
armfield is finished
yarran is trade material
gibbs is trade material
warnock is finished
white is depth for the reserves until we build the list up
Jammo makes us better in the backline, bad shoulders or not. We do need him badly at least until we develop someone else.
Gibbs now I want to see play under Barker to see if we get a return to last season, as we did with Murphy today. Same with Daisy seeing he's on this huge contract. Don't want to pay 750k for him to run around with the NBs unless we really have to.
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(06-06-2015, 11:29 AM)JonDorotich link Wrote:Love Armfield's passion and endeavour as a forward and he plays with heart, something we have lacked this year - defence is too much of a risk. I'd retain him.
Walker on the other hand is really having a poor year and his disposal is deplorable at the moment.
Walker started late and has missed two lots of games. Probably not that fit. Prefer him out of the backline.
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(06-06-2015, 11:36 AM)JonDorotich link Wrote:The quick movement of the ball by hand from defence really stood out today, as did the licence that the coah has given the players to take the game on. Armfield, Buckley, Cripps, Murphy, Simpson were great at this today.
Henderson hands were back today and I loved Casboult's game, with the exception of the kick on the full on the run and the smother in the goal square.
Good to see Kreuzer make an impact, because that didnt look very likely in the 2s last week.
Great day at the football.
Yes, don't the forwards love it when the ball comes in quickly. Makes so much of a difference to their confidence and hence their form.
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