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K 



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:09 pm
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^ I think if you look at any side (except GWS, the Frankenstein team on draft steroids) there’ll be some good ordinary players who just make the standard. 1990 - a truly outstanding side which pissed a back to back chance up against a wall - had Kerrison and Gayfer and Turner and arguably Starcevich, all ok players but not the type to put fear into the opposition week after week.
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I think you've undersold some of those players. I think Manson comes to mind before them, surely.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:35 pm
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If you want numbers to back it up, go read this: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/the-equation-that-proves-afl-preseason-form-doesnt-really-matter/news-story/1a02f4bf8bf97dbb57ed3ca30b6b5f47
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The accuracy of that article is way worse than our kicking. Something to cheer about?


I'll leave it to the mathematicians to judge the soundness of the analysis, but you raise a point about kicking accuracy.

Kicking accuracy is so overrated. It gets far too much attention.

Go have a look at the stats for Collingwood last time they won a flag. Disposal by hand and foot was atrocious for the whole season. I was watching the replay of the last H&A game of 2010 recently (against Hawthorn) and the commentors bemoaned Collingwood's poor disposal (14th at that late stage of the year). But they were at the top of the ladder all year and went on the take the flag.

The problem with most respondents to this thread is that they have been brainwashed by the media, particularly TV commentators, into thinking that ugly footy is bad footy. TV networks and the AFL don't like ugly footy. They like pretty footy because they think (wrongly) that pretty footy of clean passages of play, high flying marks, and accurate goal kicking will win more viewers. Witness that abomination of a game called AFLX that is meant to showcase the prettier aspects of the game.

The team that relentlessly plays hard, ugly footy will always be more successful than teams of individually talented players that try to achieve success through skill ahead of grunt. And Collingwood in 2010 is a stark confirmation of that. It is the Collingwood brand, and it is more important than skill execution because it works.

If you want to be entertained go watch a movie. If you want pretty sport go watch that no contact game called soccer. Plenty of pretty moves there with the better teams. But if you watch Aussie Rules don't expect pretty boys. Watch 18 men relentlessly punishing any opposition player who touches the ball. That is what is in store with Collingwood in 2018. Buckley understands this brand of footy (and explains why the much maligned Blair is nearly always selected - because mistakes aside he plays with 100% grunt). But you won't see this grunt in a JLT game that does not win the club those 4 premiership points.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:42 pm
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You made some interesting points until you brought up Blair...and then you lost me.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:59 pm
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The other issue with using practice matches as a form indicator, is that every club has different ideas and agendas as to what they want to get out of it.
Unless you’re inner sanctum, nobody knows on here what the clubs priority was at the selection table.
Some clubs genuinely set out to win ( usually the ones who struggle for memberships ) Other clubs just want to put miles into the legs of particular players. Some clubs want to look at juniors and others want to experiment with positional changes or structures. There are even occasions when opposition coaches get together and discuss match ups they want to see unfold that could work for the benefit of both teams young players.

If Buckleys focus on that game was to win it, then that isn’t a good look.
If he had other priorities, then I just don’t see the need for any concern ....yet.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 12:36 am
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K wrote:
Mugwump wrote:
^ I think if you look at any side (except GWS, the Frankenstein team on draft steroids) there’ll be some good ordinary players who just make the standard. 1990 - a truly outstanding side which pissed a back to back chance up against a wall - had Kerrison and Gayfer and Turner and arguably Starcevich, all ok players but not the type to put fear into the opposition week after week.
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I think you've undersold some of those players. I think Manson comes to mind before them, surely.


He was next on my list, agreed. I think we’ll all agree that none of these guys were bad players, just good ordinary. I think it is the relative quality of your top fifteen who probably make the difference.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 1:14 am
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K wrote:
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The accuracy of that article is way worse than our kicking. Something to cheer about?
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Kicking accuracy is so overrated. It gets far too much attention.

Go have a look at the stats for Collingwood last time they won a flag. Disposal by hand and foot was atrocious for the whole season. I was watching the replay of the last H&A game of 2010 recently (against Hawthorn) and the commentors bemoaned Collingwood's poor disposal (14th at that late stage of the year). But they were at the top of the ladder all year and went on the take the flag.

The problem with most respondents to this thread is that they have been brainwashed by the media, particularly TV commentators, into thinking that ugly footy is bad footy. TV networks and the AFL don't like ugly footy. They like pretty footy because they think (wrongly) that pretty footy of clean passages of play, high flying marks, and accurate goal kicking will win more viewers. Witness that abomination of a game called AFLX that is meant to showcase the prettier aspects of the game.
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No. The goal-kicking accuracy was a concern, although we had the advantage that opposition sides couldn't clear defensive 50 after our many points. But the disposal efficiency wasn't especially good or bad.

The AFL website gives the following stats (2010).

Goal acc. %
1. Geelong 51.7; 2. W. Bulldogs 51.3; ... ; 13. Collingwood 47; ...

Disp. eff. %
1. Geelong 76.2; 2. St. Kilda 75.2; ... ; =7 Collingwood 73.1; ...

Clangers Ave.
1. Sydney 43; 2. Adelaide 43.1; 3. Collingwood 43.4; ...

Thus, comparatively, bad goal accuracy, middling disposal efficiency and good clanger count.
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The Cats today had the right idea. Do not risk your best players to a meaningless game in FNQ. Hawkins aside who probanly didn't run flat out for more than 10 metres the majority of players were VFL players. The new players get a taste of the faster pace and also things like preparing for interstate games. What to take, how long it takes to get to and from the airport and away from the adoring fans at Kardinia Park.

Cost would kill it but I can see a lot of sense of either havibg 2 shortened games with top ups from academies etc or one game with 6 period and a cap of 4 periods per player with the whole healthy list playing.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:02 am
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Disappointed yep and if I look at purely a practice match then lack of our key
players could right the ship come real stuff

I mean praccy match-really,the list Geelong fronted up with same same with hardly a key mid and got rolled 29 to 85 so Geelong would say we will be right
come the real stuff

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That's OK, as far as it goes - the difference is that Geelong played finals last year, so they know that their team is around the mark. We, on the other hand, need to find out, urgently, if a few more of our guys can play to the requisite standard.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:40 am
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Pies2016 wrote:
The other issue with using practice matches as a form indicator, is that every club has different ideas and agendas as to what they want to get out of it.
Unless you’re inner sanctum, nobody knows on here what the clubs priority was at the selection table.
Some clubs genuinely set out to win ( usually the ones who struggle for memberships ) Other clubs just want to put miles into the legs of particular players. Some clubs want to look at juniors and others want to experiment with positional changes or structures. There are even occasions when opposition coaches get together and discuss match ups they want to see unfold that could work for the benefit of both teams young players.

If Buckleys focus on that game was to win it, then that isn’t a good look.
If he had other priorities, then I just don’t see the need for any concern ....yet.


The concern isn't whether we won or lost. That is irrelevant.

Apart from not being able to move the ball down the ground and not being able to score, the concern is the continual basic skill errors from players that are in our best 22. That those errors continue to occur, even in a slow paced practice match, is a problem.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 8:44 am
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Pies4shaw wrote:
That's OK, as far as it goes - the difference is that Geelong played finals last year, so they know that their team is around the mark. We, on the other hand, need to find out, urgently, if a few more of our guys can play to the requisite standard.

As I keep saying, assuming the talent is evenly spread amongst all the AFL clubs, to play at the requisite standard there is no substitute for games of AFL experience to play at that level. So for us to play well this season, it depends so much on our senior players being fit on the field in order to carry the younger players who make the senior team and how quickly those younger players can learn the structures and set plays devised by the coaching staff in order to play winning football. There are no quick fixes. There are no magic solutions to playing winning football in a competition where the AFL uses an equalisation scheme to spread the talent. So to say after one meaningless practice match that the sky is falling in and that we don't have the team to make any progress into the 2018 season is understating all the hard work the club has put into the preseason.
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Except that I didn’t watch the practice game and am just saying what I’ve been saying for a couple of years about our lack of competent AFL-standard players. Nothing seems to change.

The sky is not falling because of a practice match. Rather, the roof has caved in because of a series of compounding poor decisions since 2012. Collingwood has brought itself back below the rest of the pack.
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5 from the wing on debut wrote:
Pies2016 wrote:
The other issue with using practice matches as a form indicator, is that every club has different ideas and agendas as to what they want to get out of it.
Unless you’re inner sanctum, nobody knows on here what the clubs priority was at the selection table.
Some clubs genuinely set out to win ( usually the ones who struggle for memberships ) Other clubs just want to put miles into the legs of particular players. Some clubs want to look at juniors and others want to experiment with positional changes or structures. There are even occasions when opposition coaches get together and discuss match ups they want to see unfold that could work for the benefit of both teams young players.

If Buckleys focus on that game was to win it, then that isn’t a good look.
If he had other priorities, then I just don’t see the need for any concern ....yet.


The concern isn't whether we won or lost. That is irrelevant.

Apart from not being able to move the ball down the ground and not being able to score, the concern is the continual basic skill errors from players that are in our best 22. That those errors continue to occur, even in a slow paced practice match, is a problem.


Absolutely a valid comment and I don’t think anyone is shying away from the fact that we looked very ordinary on the day.

For me, I refuse to get caught up in practice matches because much more often than not, the outcome isn’t about the need to win.
As long as players remain aware that winning isn’t everything, you will never get a team that is 100% mentally switched on towards winning and playing theirr role as best they can. Sure there will always be a winner and a loser on the day but it means nothing.

Currently we are a list that has to many bad ball users but we still produce the odd good , great win against the odds a couple times a year.
We do this by applying manic pressure and simply force the opposition into mKing more errors on the day than we did. It’s a hard brand of footy to play week in, week out and if that is going to be our brand in 2018, then I can guarantee Buckley isn’t going to ask for that type of effort in the opening practice match of the season.

You may yet be completely right and that we prove to stagnate yet again but for the above reasons, I’m not quite ready to throw the toys out of the cot yet ( and that’s not a direct crack at you )
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Pies2016 wrote:
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Currently we are a list that has to many bad ball users but we still produce the odd good , great win against the odds a couple times a year.
We do this by applying manic pressure and simply force the opposition into mKing more errors on the day than we did. It’s a hard brand of footy to play week in, week out and if that is going to be our brand in 2018, then I can guarantee Buckley isn’t going to ask for that type of effort in the opening practice match of the season.

You may yet be completely right and that we prove to stagnate yet again but for the above reasons, I’m not quite ready to throw the toys out of the cot yet ( and that’s not a direct crack at you )


It's unsustainable over the course of a whole season. Also, people seem to think that pressure and good ball use are mutually exclusive. Logically, that's not the case and even practically it's probably not the case.

Certainly, it's possible (at least in these impoverished times) to win a premiership with a team of bad kicks (if the players' strengths compensate for it), but Eade (for example --- I'm sure lots agree) implies that the reality of bad kicking is ignored in our game plan and certain players' decision-making.
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I never thought we were a very skillful team back in 2010. But the game plan suited the list we had. We certainly weren’t conceding 5-6 goals a game with back half turnovers. Mick coached to the strengths of the list he had.

Even if we just concentrate on minimising those f$&@ing turnover goals from the back half or when switching the ball through the corridor we will win a shitload more games.

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