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Okay a couple of days have gone past and I refuse to totally concede that we are stuffed for all time.
All we need is some silk....all the good teams have some, why don't we?
Particularly midfield silk.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't teams need five midfielders?
Three of them need be solid, tough and reliable
Two of them need to be fast, powerful and SIIIIILKY SKILLED!!!
Another two midfielders are needed on the bench, one outside, one inside.
How far off are we?
Added to this a great team in 2005 needs a VERY creative player distributing play from half back. At the risk of pissing off the traditionalists (who have won us so many flags lately) a team needs a designated quarter back....PARTICULARLY if a loose man is played in defence. He must be the third man up...or first to the fall in the D50, but also fast and skilful enough to direct the following attack.
Over the last few weeks we have been embarrassed by MacLeod and Johnson. Obviously this player should be Tadgh Kennelly. To do the job he must be explicitly freed from being a DEFENDER.
In the midfield we have Kirk, Bolton and Ablett doing a satisfactory job. Good enough to win a premiership if the silk is around.
The silk should be Davis and Goodes. Davis' hands, vision and kick are exemplary. Goodes has wonderful hands, is very strong with ball in hand, great vision and...really importatntly, is unpredictable.
On the other side we need a quarter forward, nominally a HFF who actually is an outside midfielder always presenting in space, making the delivery from in tight that much easier for the lesser skilled in tight midfielders, and then creating or scoring goals from his possessions.
Williams
That's it, really. Problem solved.
Bench midfielders would be from Silks in training (McVeigh, Willoughby, Sundqvist, Fosdike) or Solid Reliables in training (Buchanan, Bevan, Fixter, Schmidt, Malceski, Potter)
I cannot see how Spriggs can fit into this at all. He is an outside player with appalling skills. He did get a few clearances against the Dees so maybe he could become an in and under with clean hands...as long as he has easy options for disposal.
Schneider can't play midfield at all. Mathews cannot play outside and though tough inside cannot get to the ball first let alone get it to a team mate. At least we know that Fosdike can deliver a good kick... as long as he doesn't have to win his own ball or pick up a bouncing ball! Or handball out of defence!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMO we need to play 2 of Willoughby, Schmidt, Moore and Malceski next week to begin the process of seeing who can handle the pressure.
We lost by 40 against the Roos, 50 against the Eagles, 30 against the Dees, 40 against Adelaide and were down by 30 at 3/4 time against Brisbane.
So far the players dropped have been....
Actually none. We haven't dropped a single player this year. Spriggs and Dempster were selected ahead of Schneider and McVeigh after the Roos (from memory). But they came straight back in with injuries. That's the only change that could be considered a player being omitted.
That's beyond extraordinary is it not?
All we need is some silk....all the good teams have some, why don't we?
Particularly midfield silk.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't teams need five midfielders?
Three of them need be solid, tough and reliable
Two of them need to be fast, powerful and SIIIIILKY SKILLED!!!
Another two midfielders are needed on the bench, one outside, one inside.
How far off are we?
Added to this a great team in 2005 needs a VERY creative player distributing play from half back. At the risk of pissing off the traditionalists (who have won us so many flags lately) a team needs a designated quarter back....PARTICULARLY if a loose man is played in defence. He must be the third man up...or first to the fall in the D50, but also fast and skilful enough to direct the following attack.
Over the last few weeks we have been embarrassed by MacLeod and Johnson. Obviously this player should be Tadgh Kennelly. To do the job he must be explicitly freed from being a DEFENDER.
In the midfield we have Kirk, Bolton and Ablett doing a satisfactory job. Good enough to win a premiership if the silk is around.
The silk should be Davis and Goodes. Davis' hands, vision and kick are exemplary. Goodes has wonderful hands, is very strong with ball in hand, great vision and...really importatntly, is unpredictable.
On the other side we need a quarter forward, nominally a HFF who actually is an outside midfielder always presenting in space, making the delivery from in tight that much easier for the lesser skilled in tight midfielders, and then creating or scoring goals from his possessions.
Williams
That's it, really. Problem solved.
Bench midfielders would be from Silks in training (McVeigh, Willoughby, Sundqvist, Fosdike) or Solid Reliables in training (Buchanan, Bevan, Fixter, Schmidt, Malceski, Potter)
I cannot see how Spriggs can fit into this at all. He is an outside player with appalling skills. He did get a few clearances against the Dees so maybe he could become an in and under with clean hands...as long as he has easy options for disposal.
Schneider can't play midfield at all. Mathews cannot play outside and though tough inside cannot get to the ball first let alone get it to a team mate. At least we know that Fosdike can deliver a good kick... as long as he doesn't have to win his own ball or pick up a bouncing ball! Or handball out of defence!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMO we need to play 2 of Willoughby, Schmidt, Moore and Malceski next week to begin the process of seeing who can handle the pressure.
We lost by 40 against the Roos, 50 against the Eagles, 30 against the Dees, 40 against Adelaide and were down by 30 at 3/4 time against Brisbane.
So far the players dropped have been....
Actually none. We haven't dropped a single player this year. Spriggs and Dempster were selected ahead of Schneider and McVeigh after the Roos (from memory). But they came straight back in with injuries. That's the only change that could be considered a player being omitted.
That's beyond extraordinary is it not?
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