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Casboult has had a restricted pre-season because of his PCL injury and it was noticeable that he ran out of puff against the Hawks (as did most of our blokes).
A player's ideal weight is determined by the fitness staff and we have seen fluctuations in weight over several seasons. Our fitness staff seem to have decided that players should be lighter and Bolton's zero tolerance of bad skin folds has probably contributed to lighter playing weights as well.
Casboult being 3kg lighter does not mean that he is fitter or has worked harder than last pre-season. It just means that he is marginally lighter and that may have little or no impact on his endurance, strength or dodgy knee.
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(02-25-2016, 12:58 AM)flyboy77 link Wrote:maybe just 15 of the 23 (?) H & A games. Oh, in the GF too!
As long as he kicks six in the second half of the other eight games
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Now, where were we on having a Power Forward.
At the moment I would be happy with a forward line. :
Anything, Something!
Yesterday we had nothing to kick to when we got the ball and at one stage when we broke fast out of the back line the Scum were able to get three defenders back befroe any of our forwards got close to the 50.
We then turned the ball over, they kicked it long into their 50 to an awaiting player who was on his own. Where the Feck were our players?
Tooo many turn overs by just bombing it long into the fwd 50.
Who is our forward coach? Either he is being shafted by the backs and midfield coaches or he has been told not to get too worried about coming up with a plan. :o
No structure, no idea. We must be so easy to read and defend :
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We are going to struggle to score big time this year.
Personally, I don't mind.
You cannot make the mistakes we have made over the last 10-15 years and expect instant success.
Silvagni said a 36 month rebuild and I believe that's conservative.
We need to nurture and develop our own, and bring them through ass a group, over 3 or 4 years.
If we had a power forward and an Eddie Betts we may just win 6-8 games but can we really afford to?
I think we need another 2 years of three or four top 20 picks.
That means we need to go back and trade again this year.
I would suggest Murphy and Gibbs will be moved on, as might a few others if we can get value.
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Temptation is to play Harry McKay in the next NAB game with the view of playing him Rnd 1......thats probably on the basis that Jones, Gorringe or any other fill ins have shown nothing.....
Do we want to give Harry plenty of early experience or will it just knock him about.?...I reckon BB wont want to play him and will go one of his ruckman at CHF with Casboult at FF.....Gorringe is probably the player we would play at CHF IMO and wil also have a run on the ball with Casboult doing less ruckwork and staying at FF.
Dont see who ever we play at CHF expected to kick many goals but whose job will more to provide a marking contest and get the ball down to the smaller/mid sized players...
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(02-28-2016, 11:11 PM)BluePhantom link Wrote:Now, where were we on having a Power Forward.
At the moment I would be happy with a forward line. : Anything, Something!
Yesterday we had nothing to kick to when we got the ball and at one stage when we broke fast out of the back line the Scum were able to get three defenders back befroe any of our forwards got close to the 50.
We then turned the ball over, they kicked it long into their 50 to an awaiting player who was on his own. Where the Feck were our players?
Tooo many turn overs by just bombing it long into the fwd 50.
Who is our forward coach? Either he is being shafted by the backs and midfield coaches or he has been told not to get too worried about coming up with a plan. :o
No structure, no idea. We must be so easy to read and defend :
Could not possibly summarise that any better Phantom coloured Blue......our forward line is an unmitigated mess, non-existent & there's not another team in the AFL who can even come close to 'boasting' the forward structure we've got.
Casboult ran himself into the ground in the first 10 mins of the game yesterday & I said to my mate "That'll be it for today, he'll be too buggered for the rest of it".......and that's exactly what eventuated for the half he played.
*sigh*.......
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