Goaltracker

[Thryleon]

Of course this is largely subjective, and everyone is perfectly entitled to their opinion. My position is based primarily on stats that I think are often overlooked.

If people think that being second last in inside 50's and 10% lower than this time last year is 'getting the ball in enough' then I'll go heave. Our conversion of inside 50's into scoring shots and goals is about  the league average. Where I disagree with many though is the assertion that we will 'naturally improve' or the coaches will suddenly switch tack and we will suddenly become much better in attack, despite a 60 game trendline that shows no improvement at all. There is a bit of potential in a few of our youngsters, but we individually and collectively we have delivered very little in attack all year.

A competent forwardline begins with having a bunch of good forwards on your list, with a mix of experienced and developing players - just like we have with the defence and midfield. Until we get more AFL standard forwards onto our list, or start playing the ones we do have, then I can't see how we improve!

I don't necessarily expect we will flick the switch and kick more goals.

What I expect is that we will look at our forward entries, analyse what we are not doing well (turning it over when entering forward fifty, because we are bombing long too frequently) and concentrate on better leading patterns and lowering vision to spot up free targets.

Our forward fifty entries are focusing on quality over quantity yet we still revert to bombing it in from time to time.

I think we'll fix this when Samo,  fisher, Cunningham and Polson are another year older and more able to compete more frequently than they can currently.  Likewise having some better targets to hit up (Curnow and Jack sos next season) plus maybe another emerging player (McKay?) might get us much closer to kicking whatever target you think we need to be to win more games.