VFL Practice Match: Blues v Pies, Fri 24 Feb

[LoveNavy]

Sounds like we gonna do the AFL VFL double this year

You're going early!!!!!

[LoveNavy]

22 goal kickers between the AFL/VFL
That must be a record for us!
Only a friendly match but it's against quality opposition. Bring on 2023.

[Gointocarlton]

You're going early!!!!!

always this time of the year, gotta come off eventually.

[crashlander]

I didn't see anything but the highlights, but there are a couple of things I noted:
[1] We have height across the field this year. And the talls can kick.
[2] We appear to be very team orientated. The hand balling to a man in a better spot was really obvious.
[3] We may be (much) taller this year, but we don't look slower. If anything, we look faster.
[4] We may lack experience, but that is probably all we lack. We've got small forwards, talls who can do different roles, and a couple of real goalkickers. I liked what I saw.

[Gointocarlton]

I didn't see anything but the highlights, but there are a couple of things I noted:
[1] We have height across the field this year. And the talls can kick.
[2] We appear to be very team orientated. The hand balling to a man in a better spot was really obvious.
[3] We may be (much) taller this year, but we don't look slower. If anything, we look faster.
[4] We may lack experience, but that is probably all we lack. We've got small forwards, talls who can do different roles, and a couple of real goalkickers. I liked what I saw.

I thought we looked a little slow (if that's the right word) bursting from a stoppage, they looked quicker (or maybe slicker is the word)

I made this note which I included in the post game:

Disposal to players under pressure saw this 10-15 times in just the first half


Ill put that down to being a little rusty.

[LP]

I thought we looked a little slow (if that's the right word) bursting from a stoppage, they looked quicker (or maybe slicker is the word)

It is a bit of a feature about our list that we are dominant in certain areas and deficient in others, the trick must surely be to develop a game style that suits us.

Our better players tend to be our bigger slower players, I realise we have Walsh, Doc, Saad, etc, etc., but they can't be everywhere all the time. We need a bit of a game plan that takes the run out of the legs of the opposition that'll keep guys like BigH, Pitto, Cripps, Kennedy, Charlie, TDK, McGovern, Weiters in the game at the end, so opposition don't run over us late in games like they did several times last season.

Hopefully Akers helps, having Hewett and Cerra fit certainly helped early in the season, but even so we still barely hung on for a couple of wins courtesy of the clock when we should have been able to cruise home.

[DJC]

Luke Power says, "What was most pleasing was a number of times, our players showed a team-first attitude by giving the ball off to players in better positions and looking out for their teammates.  Ultimately, their connection will be what not only helps us as a team, but also gets individuals recognised."

I suspect that Power will be emphasising the team-first mantra.

[kruddler]

I didn't see anything but the highlights, but there are a couple of things I noted:
[1] We have height across the field this year. And the talls can kick.
[2] We appear to be very team orientated. The hand balling to a man in a better spot was really obvious.
[3] We may be (much) taller this year, but we don't look slower. If anything, we look faster.
[4] We may lack experience, but that is probably all we lack. We've got small forwards, talls who can do different roles, and a couple of real goalkickers. I liked what I saw.

The speed of the ball is quicker than the speed of the man.

You can make the fastest team in the world look slow with good quick ball movement.