VFL Round 11: Northern Blues vs. Frankston

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Sorry this has taken so long, but things have been busier than expected.

Thanks, RR, for your report. Always appreciated.

My 2 cents worth:

As a number of posters have identified, this was not the best representation of where our guys are really at. It is, however, one of the great demolitions and a record breaker in a number of ways. It also tells you how ordinary Frankston were as an opponent on the day.

One of the things it did suggest is that the new confidence and freedom of play that the seniors have discovered has filtered down somewhat to the NB's. For almost 3 quarters we attacked incessantly and moved the ball much better than we did only a few weeks ago. In the last quarter we played a more Malthouse sort of style and went round and round the mulberry bush. With Frankston playing their best footy, we really lost momentum.
However, you cannot be anything but pleased by the result.

The players:


[10] Kristian Jaksch
I didn’t think Jaksch was that bad. He needs to work on his movement as a defender, as he doesn’t have a huge amount of closing speed. His marking was good. He would make a better forward, I feel, as he doesn’t react as quickly as a defender often needs to, and he needs to work a LOT on his body work. He is much better when he is proactive.

He did recruit him to play forward. McKay said over summer he would learn and develop initially as 3rd tall defender before going forward eventually. Heard the interview myself on SEN.