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(07-20-2024, 12:38 AM)crashlander date Wrote:I do understand your thinking, but playing with your form can be lethal. It has happened to us too often in the past. It has also happened to other teams this year. If you underestimate an opponent, you may live to regret it. It is why I always want us to go for the throat. Winning form is good form. Sorry [member=58]crashlander[/member] , got me before the edit was done.
When your list is deep and strong and performing sure I get it, but we've had patchy form over the last few weeks from several of our prime movers so our list isn't, so the accusation of playing with your form is wide of the mark. If anything we've recently returned to our old patchy qtr by qtr efforts, which isn't great.
This season, excluding a short segment of games, we've frequently limped across the line, which is a nice counterpoint to the last few seasons of falling agonisingly short. But it's still far from being on a roll!
We have some glaring holes that a single injury or opposition tactic might turn into a gaping chasm. Hope isn't going to get us across the line.
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How much of our selections this week have the 5 day break in mind??
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Vossy wants to fix our defence and reward VFL form:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/c...f6de53d4f1
Pretty simple really …
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(07-20-2024, 02:37 AM)DJC link Wrote:Vossy wants to fix our defence and reward VFL form:
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/c...f6de53d4f1
Pretty simple really …
Doesn't explain why he dropped Hewett.
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I get the impression that they couldn't accommodate both Hewett and Cerra, and decided to include the latter and omit the former. He states that Hewett has been " in great form throughout periods of this year" and went back and played well in the VFL, which to my reading sounds like a consistency issue, but it's not clear exactly what Voss means.
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(07-20-2024, 03:25 AM)PaulP date Wrote:.................. but it's not clear exactly what Voss means. [member=64]PaulP[/member] I doubt Voss will let too many cats out of the bag at this time of year, he is a calm and cool operator now.
Although as fans we are easily triggered, we must always default to "In Voss we trust!"
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(07-20-2024, 03:25 AM)PaulP link Wrote:I get the impression that they couldn't accommodate both Hewett and Cerra, and decided to include the latter and omit the former. He states that Hewett has been " in great form throughout periods of this year" and went back and played well in the VFL, which to my reading sounds like a consistency issue, but it's not clear exactly what Voss means.
I think that's right Paul; we omitted Georgie to fit Cez in. However, they're not like for like and we have missed Hewett's defensive work and physicality at the contest. He has played well in the VFL but I suspect there's just a little "we got that wrong" subtext.
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(07-20-2024, 05:00 AM)LP link Wrote:[member=64]PaulP[/member] I doubt Voss will let too many cats out of the bag at this time of year, he is a calm and cool operator now.
Although as fans we are easily triggered, we must always default to "In Voss we trust!"
No doubt. His words occupy an ambiguous space, located somewhere between a "kernel of truth" and "take every word as fact." My best guess is that Hewett's omission is part form, and part selection squeeze.
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(07-20-2024, 05:13 AM)PaulP date Wrote:No doubt. His words occupy an ambiguous space, located somewhere between a "kernel of truth" and "take every word as fact." My best guess is that Hewett's omission is part form, and part selection squeeze. I went back and watched some replays, both in relation to Kemp and Hewett, for me (subjectively) they had a common trend. It's about not taking on the hard target, opting to play it safe as the default, which causes a loss of time and space forward of the footy. That one disposal too many is costly, they need to pull the trigger.
They have both been playing it safe and avoiding mistakes, but it's costly in other areas of the ground. I'd bet Voss wants them to take the game on more than they have, and we need that in the absence of McGovern and Williams.
I think Kemp in particular could push harder to get up the ground, especially if Weiters is at home, and be aggressive with ball use. Given our Midfield is a tad slower than most, the small delays from too many safe disposals sideways / backwards are highly costly on turnover and the delay makes turnover more likely.
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(07-20-2024, 05:11 AM)DJC link Wrote:I think that's right Paul; we omitted Georgie to fit Cez in. However, they're not like for like and we have missed Hewett's defensive work and physicality at the contest. He has played well in the VFL but I suspect there's just a little "we got that wrong" subtext.
No doubt it's possible, but if so, the club seems a little slow on the uptake. He played a few minutes as the sub against Richmond, then omitted from the GWS and Bulldogs games. Seems a rather long time to notice a selection error IMO.
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