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Training For 2023
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This is great to read mate. I'm assuming doing all physical work? Tackling etc.?
Ta as ever.
Not a lot of tackling or heavy contested stuff by anyone today but Dion pushed off a few bodies here and there and looked fine to me.
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Seems fair. Grimes and Balta had worse year in a while and our defense leaked.
Misses how our lack of midfield depth hurt our defense. Without stats to support, to my eye we were defending centre clearances more than most other sides I reckon.
To do a fair comparison of defenses you would want to compare the defense of teams PER centre clearance of opposition (clean or dirty) and then also in general play per entry to neutralise the effect of possession domination by opposition. Same for offense - which is why I reckon our offense was off the charts. Once we got the ball we scored a lot.
Anyway proof will be in the pudding - we should see the defense improve with improved midfield performance.
He ain't slow and has terrific acceleration. I can't imagine they'd consider him to help/accompany Junior in the role if he was a cart horse:
Who said he was a cart horse ?
Happy to give him a go up forward, but yet to see any evidence of genuine speed in the few years he’s been with us. Not slow, but not super quick either a la George who was regularly tracked as one of the fastest runners in the AFL. As somebody else said, 2.96 for that size is ok but not anything special.
Tigertim.s stats call out stoppages and clearances but not centre clearance differential. Seems to me that if we were bad at centre clearances it would be included as a con.
We win a good share of cc, but we'd lose them late in the game.
Think overall we'd be middle of the road.
It doesnt help defenders, especially the easy clean clearance be by the bad guys
And yet they're trialling him as a defensive small forward. Which was my point. They must think he's quick enough to run blokes down and apply defensive pressure.
Williams was a very good player at GWS.
He was initially a key part of the Blues plans to rebound off half back.
He was initially a key part of the Blues plans to rebound off half back.
Carlton had a spectacular drop-off last year.
They were third, with eight wins from 10 games, then only won another four games.
They were third, with eight wins from 10 games, then only won another four games.
Camera angles can be confusing is what I'd say and that Dow has probably looked quite reasonable in the practice matches but disposal still an issue.
I’m hopeful. He showed a lot against a dominant Melbourne in a little over a half.
