VFL Rd 2: Northern Blues vs. Geelong

[PassIt2Carrots]

Did Jammo play?

Great news about the win, it will be interesting to see what happens with selection next week. The club needs to reward 6 goals to Jones especially when we can't score at senior level. White has done jobs on Fyfe before and is a good match up, a BOG should get him a gig.

Jaksch non inclusions have never been about talent, it's more about effort, how did that look?

Jamo didn't play Ray.

Agree on Jones, might I add I was scoffed at when I suggested he may improve under a different regime lol.

[LP]

I think what this result shows is the importance of getting blokes on the park. Especially Armfield and White.

Our club lacks depth, we lose one player and structures turn to poo. But get them all out there and all of a sudden clubs can struggle to match up against us. Armfield for example means Smith gets a lesser opponent. White gets the best opponent freeing up Jaksch and Jones.

I'd love to see what the 1s could do if you add Armfield to the mix, all of a sudden blokes like a Boekhurst, Lamb, Wright or Sumner get a lesser/slower opponent.

If we get defensive players like Weitering and Plowman in form and playing together blokes like Casboult, White can have a impact forward because they aren't busting guts to fill holes.

An in form Jones makes Kreuzer / Phillips look like poor and slow forward options and also frees up Casboult.

Lots of good signs.

[cimm1979]

Good report Bags.

Cheers

[laj]

Jamo didn't play Ray.

Agree on Jones, might I add I was scoffed at when I suggested he may improve under a different regime lol.

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For some reason I thought i saw him for 15 min out there from thee other side of teh ground but when I changed my seating position iI realised he wasn't. eyesight failing in my old age..haha!

[laj]

I think what this result shows is the importance of getting blokes on the park. Especially Armfield and White.

Our club lacks depth, we lose one player and structures turn to poo. But get them all out there and all of a sudden clubs can struggle to match up against us. Armfield for example means Smith gets a lesser opponent. White gets the best opponent freeing up Jaksch and Jones.

I'd love to see what the 1s could do if you add Armfield to the mix, all of a sudden blokes like a Boekhurst, Lamb, Wright or Sumner get a lesser/slower opponent.

If we get defensive players like Weitering and Plowman in form and playing together blokes like Casboult, White can have a impact forward because they aren't busting guts to fill holes.

An in form Jones makes Kreuzer / Phillips look like poor and slow forward options and also frees up Casboult.

Lots of good signs.

Yes, play Jaksch and Jones and let Levi 2nd ruck/3rd tall so he can use his marking around the ground as well as take the 3rd defender up forward. He  can stretch them with his marking on the forward line without taking the bulk of the defenders. Still, like anything playing forward, it won't help if the movement off the ball going in is slow and haphazard.

[PaulP]

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Our club lacks depth, we lose one player and structures turn to poo. But get them all out there and all of a sudden clubs can struggle to match up against us.................

I know this is the NB thread, but imagine losing Cripps and Weitering at the same time. Yeesh........

[Baggers]

One of the really pleasing aspects to last nights win was how you could really see a united side. So it aint just spin from BB, there was proof. Also, first time in a long time that I saw Preston listed blokes and CFC listed blokes playing together with the same game plan. And the Preston boys made a significant contribution to last night's win. In that second qtr when we rested control of the game from the Pussycats, Wilson, Jones and White were significant.

I also love that there is now real pressure (as I mentioned in another thread) on a few senior blokes from the NBs. Phillips had better have a blinder tonight because there're a couple of blokes who should be in front of him. Jaksch and Jones are, IMHO, in front of Everitt.

It might be prudent to temper enthusiasm from last night just a whisker as it was the Pussycats first hit out for the year... but it was on their dung hill and they did take control early but a few of their blokes did look underdone. The crowd was very disappointing... seemed like only about 500 or so folks there and most were Pussycat supporters... but the 75 or CFC supporters made plenty of noise, especially in the last qtr when the game was in the balance.

Early days I know but gee Fraser impresses, especially in comparison to Webster... the difference in communication skills is a chasm. (Though to be fair to Webster, the players he was coaching were getting the MM mixed messages, whereas BB/senior side coaches and Fraser/NBs coaches are clearly all on the same page).

[jeza]

Jones kicked 5 and Jaksch 3... I'd still select Jaksch ten times over before Jones.

We'll look back at the end of the year and think what could have been if Bolton hadn't done exactly the same as our last 3 coaches and taken 8 weeks to work out you only pick 1 ruck.

Add Jaksch forward and you can run levi as backup ruck.

[cookie2]

Thanks for your report Baggers - good reading!

[laj]

One of the really pleasing aspects to last nights win was how you could really see a united side. So it aint just spin from BB, there was proof. Also, first time in a long time that I saw Preston listed blokes and CFC listed blokes playing together with the same game plan. And the Preston boys made a significant contribution to last night's win. In that second qtr when we rested control of the game from the Pussycats, Wilson, Jones and White were significant.

I also love that there is now real pressure (as I mentioned in another thread) on a few senior blokes from the NBs. Phillips had better have a blinder tonight because there're a couple of blokes who should be in front of him. Jaksch and Jones are, IMHO, in front of Everitt.

It might be prudent to temper enthusiasm from last night just a whisker as it was the Pussycats first hit out for the year... but it was on their dung hill and they did take control early but a few of their blokes did look underdone. The crowd was very disappointing... seemed like only about 500 or so folks there and most were Pussycat supporters... but the 75 or CFC supporters made plenty of noise, especially in the last qtr when the game was in the balance.

Early days I know but gee Fraser impresses, especially in comparison to Webster... the difference in communication skills is a chasm. (Though to be fair to Webster, the players he was coaching were getting the MM mixed messages, whereas BB/senior side coaches and Fraser/NBs coaches are clearly all on the same page).

Exactly! The huddle was`a real eye opener. That was tight when Fraser spoke. The players made`a great verbal contribution with the coach too and really encouraging, instructing each other. Bolton was great taking aside the forward group at 1/4 time and the defence 3/4 time, teaching and instructing. Like I said earlier, you could tell at 3/4 time they weren't going to lose no matter how close Geelong got.