05-19-2019, 10:51 AM
(05-19-2019, 10:38 AM)kruddler link Wrote:Very little positives to come out of the game, so i'll try my best to provide some.
1. The obvious one was Harry McKay. Big bloke who can take a grab, but good on the move too. Looks very comfortable running with ball in hand. Very good kick at goal, despite some yips he's experienced recently. Harry is back, but this version is 'the modern day dinosaur'!
2. How well GWS played together. How well they worked as a team. Why is this a positive? Because not so long ago, they were a rabble that were getting flogged week in week out and they had little hope apart from a talented list. Connect the dots and we see not all hope is lost. The difference is they have played 100+ games together and understand how eachother work. How many 'no look' handballs and kicks just happened to find a teammate today? Are they the luckiest team around or do they know how eachother play.
3. Cripps is probably leading the brownlow. Is definitely leading the coaches votes....and probably a whole lot of other votes as well. He was bound to have a bad one. Thankfully(?) it came against a side that we were no hope of winning against...at least not after the first quarter. Its best we don't 'waste' his good games.
4. We have played 31 players so far this year. Will be 32 when we bring in Kennedy next week. Should have been 34 with Pickett and Docherty unavailable for the year. We are finding out plenty about our list and plenty of kids are getting games in them. This will help long term. Players like Obrien and Stocker are not meant to be playing as much footy as they have been given the stage of their development, but it will help them long term in terms of what is required at AFL level. Short term pain, long term gain. The downside of going so deep into you list, and playing so many kids is what you see today. Too many indians, and not enough chiefs. A balance that will be restored when we get some more players back from injury.
So thats about all i got. :-\
Cripps didnt have a bad one...DeBeor did a number on him and we had no plan to counteract that expected move apart from bringing Obrien in who would struggle to win a contest at Auskick level.
Kennedy should have played as both you and I discussed pre game.....our off field scouting, planning is horrendous, Hawthorn made GWS look weak and soft because Clarkson is master tactician and
has a feel for the game. Our blokes looked up and saw Mumford and decided it was time to check out...think we had one tackle for about 25 mins into the 1st quarter and that was Cripps who had the tackle.
I get your positives ie Harry but that was lack off effort today, we pushed Hawthorn with Cripps leading the way but today he was let down on and off the field..