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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 9:20 pm
by bally12
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.
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:50 pm
by Dave The Man
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:53 pm
by AN_Inkling
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
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:02 pm
by swoop42
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.
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:02 pm
by Dave The Man
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:03 pm
by AN_Inkling
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.
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:15 pm
by Breadcrawl
Bucks cost me my Dream Team season by putting Caff on Sloane.
Damn you Bucks
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:18 pm
by AN_Inkling
Caff also had 3 clearances.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 7:30 am
by John Wren
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:45 am
by Breadcrawl
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
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:33 am
by jackcass
Adams continues to show improvement, can't ask for more at this stage in his development.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 11:18 am
by woftam
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:09 pm
by Flashman
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:01 pm
by jackcass
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:29 pm
by Dave The Man
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