Observations.
We over possessed the aggot at times.
We continued trying to hit up a forward against the best defender on the day (Collins) rather than actually try and pick our way through an opposition defense.
Charlie and Mckay need to stop playing from behind so much.
Our mids actually did ok, but failing to capitalise on momentum in the middle part of the game (2nd and 3rd quarters) when we had it was really problematic. Particularly Charlie and Harry missing key set shots.
There were some real face palm moments, and it appears as though the Suns used the tactic hawthorn did last week to beat us (big X for the coaching panel there).
Touk Miller probably reserves his best footy against us, which is quite telling of where we are at. Not sure why you would go with Boyd over Dow as the medi sub, but Boyd is still very much an enigma. He was better this week, but still not really up to it and will be an also ran. I suspect for Dow to be out of favour again, he is halfway out the door.
[member=153]LP[/member] Fisher, Boyd and Fogarty are quick enough. The issues are that we have a lot of blokes wasting the footy and choosing harder options than keeping it simple.
Ironically, our captain has ironed out this factor from his game, and has gone up a level, and the rest are all trying to do too much. An additional side step, a fend off, too cute with the kick, biting off more than they can chew, etc.
We over possessed the aggot at times.
We continued trying to hit up a forward against the best defender on the day (Collins) rather than actually try and pick our way through an opposition defense.
Charlie and Mckay need to stop playing from behind so much.
Our mids actually did ok, but failing to capitalise on momentum in the middle part of the game (2nd and 3rd quarters) when we had it was really problematic. Particularly Charlie and Harry missing key set shots.
There were some real face palm moments, and it appears as though the Suns used the tactic hawthorn did last week to beat us (big X for the coaching panel there).
Touk Miller probably reserves his best footy against us, which is quite telling of where we are at. Not sure why you would go with Boyd over Dow as the medi sub, but Boyd is still very much an enigma. He was better this week, but still not really up to it and will be an also ran. I suspect for Dow to be out of favour again, he is halfway out the door.
[member=153]LP[/member] Fisher, Boyd and Fogarty are quick enough. The issues are that we have a lot of blokes wasting the footy and choosing harder options than keeping it simple.
Ironically, our captain has ironed out this factor from his game, and has gone up a level, and the rest are all trying to do too much. An additional side step, a fend off, too cute with the kick, biting off more than they can chew, etc.
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Paul Hewson
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