09-07-2024, 02:29 PM
[1] We need to address the structural problems out team has:
(a) a general lack of pace.
(b) lack of a tall, athletic defender.
© Lack of pace in the midfield.
(d) lack of small forwards who can keep the ball in and kick crumbing goals.
[2] Our MC needs to look at the decisions they've made. As was noted earlier, it is hard for them to win a game, but they can certainly go a long way to losing a game by making poor decisions and designing a line-up with major structural issues.
We also don't demote guys who are playing poorly enough, nor are we rewarding good VFL form. We usually promote guys when they've past their form peaks.
[3] Our coaching staff has been pretty good over the last couple of years, but they don't appear to have a lot of tactical brilliance. We need to address that. We need to be able to react quicker when things go wrong. We don't tend to make many positional changes and they generally don't gel, because the players are neither prepared for them nor do they respond as they should.
[4] Our skills need a lot of work. Looking at Sydney and GWS, their skills are better than ours. They don't make the same mistakes twenty times. Their handball is on a totally different level to ours; they find guys when ours don't.
[5] Our fitness level is fine, but we need more of our players on the park more often. Hopefully the new guy can keep our injury numbers down.
[6] Intensity: the fanaticism towards the ball and the man could be seen easily in the GWS-Sydney game, especially. We need that. We've rarely played with that commitment, even at our best. We're not going to win a flag until we can show the same level of commitment and desire to get the ball at all costs.
(a) a general lack of pace.
(b) lack of a tall, athletic defender.
© Lack of pace in the midfield.
(d) lack of small forwards who can keep the ball in and kick crumbing goals.
[2] Our MC needs to look at the decisions they've made. As was noted earlier, it is hard for them to win a game, but they can certainly go a long way to losing a game by making poor decisions and designing a line-up with major structural issues.
We also don't demote guys who are playing poorly enough, nor are we rewarding good VFL form. We usually promote guys when they've past their form peaks.
[3] Our coaching staff has been pretty good over the last couple of years, but they don't appear to have a lot of tactical brilliance. We need to address that. We need to be able to react quicker when things go wrong. We don't tend to make many positional changes and they generally don't gel, because the players are neither prepared for them nor do they respond as they should.
[4] Our skills need a lot of work. Looking at Sydney and GWS, their skills are better than ours. They don't make the same mistakes twenty times. Their handball is on a totally different level to ours; they find guys when ours don't.
[5] Our fitness level is fine, but we need more of our players on the park more often. Hopefully the new guy can keep our injury numbers down.
[6] Intensity: the fanaticism towards the ball and the man could be seen easily in the GWS-Sydney game, especially. We need that. We've rarely played with that commitment, even at our best. We're not going to win a flag until we can show the same level of commitment and desire to get the ball at all costs.
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