There's no reason we can't be kicking 20 goals a game. It looks easy enough on paper.
Midfielders, backs, forwards... if an opportunity is up, go for it.
Flooding is so 2000.
If you're going to play a game of stoppages, make sure that you have the ROVERS to back it up. Our arses are being wiped in clearances. Stop handballing it back into the pack. It's boring.
Make sure a forward stays around the goal square. When the WHOLE team is at the opposition end, it makes it hard to kick goals when there's no one to kick it to... it also takes a defender out of the mob.
Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.
Can we appoint you to join the huddle to give the pre-game motivational speech on Friday night Annie?
Perris isn't particularly quick. No quicker than Parker, I'd say. He can win his own ball though. And while his skills aren't silky by any means, he has a good footy brain. I'd liken him to someone like Buchanan in terms of attributes.
I don't think foot speed is an issue in the team. I reckon we have as many genuinely quick players as most sides and I doubt our foot soldiers in the middle are, as a group, any slower than their peers in most other sides. They just seem inconsistent, particularly this year, particularly after half-time, in their desire to put their head over the ball and win the ground ball. Even when playing well over recent seasons, I don't think we've ever been strong at centre clearances but in contests around the ground the "Good Swans" have been pretty reasonable. That desire has been very patchy for much of 2015.
IMO there's too much stock put in players actual pace.
I agree with Liz, our team has just as much pace, if not more, as most teams.
When teams are in form and confident, moving the ball quickly and efficiently ...Port last year...they look fast.
When teams are out of form and lack confidence....Essendon this year....they look slow.
Pace is not our problem. It's speed, and efficiency, of ball movement that we lack at present.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect... MT
Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.
Just watched a replay of the first half and wanted to highlight a pet peeve of mine:
Lloyds marks in the forward 50. Straight in front. 45 out. TRIES TO PASS IT OFF TO THE TOP OF THE SQUARE. Ball is easily rebounded.
This should be a regulation set shot every single time for an AFL player. Goodes is one of the worst offenders for these 50/50 pulled kicks (due to his knees I assume) and is just so wasteful of a hard won mark in the forward 50.
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