Farewell #13 Taylor Adams

bally12 · Post by **bally12** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:20 pm

The kid is all heart, but I'm really concerned he's undersized to be effective at stoppages at afl level. That, and the fact he's a bad kick are his limitations. Yes, I know the same can be said for about 6 players in our side, but saying how I see it.

In saying that, I agree that today he was better..found the ball a bit, and his decision making was improved.

Currently the biggest problem we have is we are getting killed at stoppages. Our mids are losing the stoppages and then spending their petrol tickets chasing tail.
Consequently we don't have enough running power left to turn around and hit teams on the counter.

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:50 pm

AN_Inkling · Post by **AN_Inkling** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:53 pm

We won the clearances by 6 today, though lost centre clearances by 3.

Our best clearance winners:

Beams: 7
Lumumba: 7 (best midfield game he's played)
Blair: 5
Pendlebury: 5
Adams: 4

swoop42 · Post by **swoop42** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:02 pm

AN_Inkling wrote:We won the clearances by 6 today, though lost centre clearances by 3.

Our best clearance winners:

Beams: 7
Lumumba: 7 (best midfield game his played)
Blair: 5
Pendlebury: 5
Adams: 4

The downside of playing a tagger at the centre bounces instead of another pure mid?

On a night he doesn't do his job well enough and contain the opposition player at stoppages compounds the problem as he's not likely to win many of his own.

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:02 pm

AN_Inkling · Post by **AN_Inkling** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:03 pm

swoop42 wrote:
AN_Inkling wrote:We won the clearances by 6 today, though lost centre clearances by 3.

Our best clearance winners:

Beams: 7
Lumumba: 7 (best midfield game his played)
Blair: 5
Pendlebury: 5
Adams: 4
The downside of playing a tagger at the centre bounces instead of another pure mid?

On a night he doesn't do his job well enough and contain the opposition player at stoppages compounds the problem as he's not likely to win many of his own.

Caff did a pretty good job on Sloane though. Kept him to 19 touches.

Breadcrawl · Post by **Breadcrawl** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:15 pm

Bucks cost me my Dream Team season by putting Caff on Sloane.

Damn you Bucks

AN_Inkling · Post by **AN_Inkling** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:18 pm

Caff also had 3 clearances.

John Wren · Post by **John Wren** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:30 am

Breadcrawl wrote:Bucks cost me my Dream Team season by putting Caff on Sloane.

Damn you Bucks

yes, damn him for being so inconsiderate.

damn him for trying to win a game of footy.
damn him for doing what's best for the team and not your supercoach team.

Breadcrawl · Post by **Breadcrawl** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:45 am

John Wren wrote:
Breadcrawl wrote:Bucks cost me my Dream Team season by putting Caff on Sloane.

Damn you Bucks
yes, damn him for being so inconsiderate.
damn him for trying to win a game of footy.
damn him for doing what's best for the team and not your supercoach team.

Exactly. At least you understand mate.

Though it's dreamteam, not that FictionFooty crap where they make up the scores out of thin air.

It's Caff I should be mad at. First he kills Ablett forcing me to use a trade then he shuts down my unique midfield trump card in Sloane.

Damn you Caff

jackcass · Post by **jackcass** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:33 am

Adams continues to show improvement, can't ask for more at this stage in his development.

woftam · Post by **woftam** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:18 am

jackcass wrote:Adams continues to show improvement, can't ask for more at this stage in his development.

At his best in his best position in the midfield. In fact he was clearly our best in & under player around the stoppages.

Flashman · Post by **Flashman** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:09 pm

His attack on the ball is just manic and his in close work and hands are top notch.

He'll be a fine player for us especially when he feels established in the team. I've seen him exhibit good foot skills and feel that a lot of his stuffed up kicks are due to nerves and trying too hard not to stuff up as he feels his spot is always on the line. When he's not worrying about that his kicking will improve.

The grunt midfield role is his now for mine. He offers us more than Luke Ball now, all due respect to Luke.

jackcass · Post by **jackcass** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:01 pm

woftam wrote:
jackcass wrote:Adams continues to show improvement, can't ask for more at this stage in his development.
At his best in his best position in the midfield. In fact he was clearly our best in & under player around the stoppages.

The sad reality of rotations is that everyone will get time out of the midfield. Midfielders now need to learn how they can impact even when not in the midfield and that is all part of his development.

Dave The Man · Post by **Dave The Man** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:29 pm

Flashman wrote:His attack on the ball is just manic and his in close work and hands are top notch.

He'll be a fine player for us especially when he feels established in the team. I've seen him exhibit good foot skills and feel that a lot of his stuffed up kicks are due to nerves and trying too hard not to stuff up as he feels his spot is always on the line. When he's not worrying about that his kicking will improve.

The grunt midfield role is his now for mine. He offers us more than Luke Ball now, all due respect to Luke.

Ball will most likely retire at Seasons end.

Lost a Step and keeps getting Injured lately

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Farewell #13 Taylor Adams