08-05-2024, 03:47 AM
We've tinkered too much with what we had that was good and broken it, without fixing what was fundamentally wrong.
You don't weaken one area of your game to make another area strong, trying to do that is a losing strategy, it has been since Sun Tzu was a boy. The winning strategy is to either look at what your opponents strengths are and make them weaker, or make your own weakness stronger, but never by weakening yourself in the process.
We've been weakening our strengths to try and patch various weaknesses, it's a dead end stat driven nightmare.
We have a monster F50, quite possibly the best in the AFL, a monster A-Grade loaded Midfield, and two genuine A-Grade ruck options, and we've burnt all 3 areas of our strengths trying to patch a defensive and ball use weakness.
We win(or at least were winning) plenty of stoppage footy in our D50, in fact we win plenty of stoppage footy across the whole field, but we turn it over with largely un-forced disposal errors either by execution or decisions.
Leave the F50 strong, leave the Mids strong, leave the Ruck strong, stop the basic errors and we win.
You don't weaken one area of your game to make another area strong, trying to do that is a losing strategy, it has been since Sun Tzu was a boy. The winning strategy is to either look at what your opponents strengths are and make them weaker, or make your own weakness stronger, but never by weakening yourself in the process.
We've been weakening our strengths to try and patch various weaknesses, it's a dead end stat driven nightmare.
We have a monster F50, quite possibly the best in the AFL, a monster A-Grade loaded Midfield, and two genuine A-Grade ruck options, and we've burnt all 3 areas of our strengths trying to patch a defensive and ball use weakness.
We win(or at least were winning) plenty of stoppage footy in our D50, in fact we win plenty of stoppage footy across the whole field, but we turn it over with largely un-forced disposal errors either by execution or decisions.
Leave the F50 strong, leave the Mids strong, leave the Ruck strong, stop the basic errors and we win.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"