07-03-2017, 06:30 AM
We haven't kicked 100 pts this year and are the only team who hasn't. Our scoring is exactly the same as it was this time last year, but we had won 1 more game [6] at this point.
Until we recruit some goal kickers i fear we are going to remain in the rut we have been in for coming on 3 years now - an inability to kick goals. Our lack of players forward of centre who can find the ball, create problems for opposition backmen, lay tackles and kick multiple goals per game is IMO our biggest structural problem. If you can only have 20 scoring shots per game and average 70 points you will be lucky to win 6-7 games, even with a good defence.
I understand the game plan given the players we have, but our personnel is a major issue and nothing we have tried this year has made any improvement when you look at the numbers. Maybe we keep playing Fisher [as an example] but he can't kick goals, doesn't win enough ball, and doesn't lay enough tackles. At this point he is a liability to the team and the game plan, mainly because other players can't cover his lack of output. Jack tries super hard [which i love], but his output as a forward is still pretty poor.
The idea that we will just 'naturally improve' our scoring has proven again this year to be a fallacy, as it has been for the 2 seasons prior. We are still rigidly stuck to the bottom of the scoring stats due to a long history of poor recruiting, list management and prioritising defence over the need to kick goals in order to win games.
We had the same number of i50's on the weekend as Adelaide, but they generated 7 more scoring shots and kept the ball i50 much better than us. Our repeat entries and retention i50 was poor, the ball bounced back out easily too many times, which ultimately cost us at the other end of the ground. I see more of the same on the horizon over the coming 8 weeks unless we try something different up forward - close games but a majority of losses due to our inability to generate bigger enough scores.
Until we recruit some goal kickers i fear we are going to remain in the rut we have been in for coming on 3 years now - an inability to kick goals. Our lack of players forward of centre who can find the ball, create problems for opposition backmen, lay tackles and kick multiple goals per game is IMO our biggest structural problem. If you can only have 20 scoring shots per game and average 70 points you will be lucky to win 6-7 games, even with a good defence.
I understand the game plan given the players we have, but our personnel is a major issue and nothing we have tried this year has made any improvement when you look at the numbers. Maybe we keep playing Fisher [as an example] but he can't kick goals, doesn't win enough ball, and doesn't lay enough tackles. At this point he is a liability to the team and the game plan, mainly because other players can't cover his lack of output. Jack tries super hard [which i love], but his output as a forward is still pretty poor.
The idea that we will just 'naturally improve' our scoring has proven again this year to be a fallacy, as it has been for the 2 seasons prior. We are still rigidly stuck to the bottom of the scoring stats due to a long history of poor recruiting, list management and prioritising defence over the need to kick goals in order to win games.
We had the same number of i50's on the weekend as Adelaide, but they generated 7 more scoring shots and kept the ball i50 much better than us. Our repeat entries and retention i50 was poor, the ball bounced back out easily too many times, which ultimately cost us at the other end of the ground. I see more of the same on the horizon over the coming 8 weeks unless we try something different up forward - close games but a majority of losses due to our inability to generate bigger enough scores.