Revealing Our Hand

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Johnny Member wrote:

Does Richardson have more than 1 offensive strategy? When we play Carlton next week and they camp 8 blokes in the D50 arc and play tighter on our small forwards after seeing what we did last night, will we find other avenues to goal?
I think we can say the answer to this is a resounding 'no'.


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meher baba wrote:It was already difficult for me to take Mr Member seriously by dint of his name.

This thread sure doesn't make it any easier.

I think the gentleman's argument goes like this.

1). We're no good and can't win a flag because we don't have enough A grade players on our list.

2). But we've started to do a bit better, so our list is better than suggested in point 1)

3). If we continue to improve and do end up winning something, it will turn out that we actually had enough A grade players after all.

4) But it might all turn out to be a false dawn because we've "shown our hand", which apparently means good teams will start trying to beat us rather than whatever it is they've been doing up to now.

With the greatest respect, let me say that perhaps you should consider leaving the commentary to someone with more expertise. . Like David King...

My 'argument' is simpler than that. And I wouldn't even really call it an 'argument' as such - it's really just an opinion.


I don't think we're going to get any better, in terms of our current list, than what we do this season. We should improve on last season, but then I think our list will have reached its ceiling.

I don't think anyone on our list will get better than what we see from them this season - except for hopefully Billings, McCartin, Acres and Carlisle. And, I think that will mean that we're simply not going to be a good enough to team to win the flag.


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Fortunately they run the draft every single year.


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dragit wrote:Fortunately they run the draft every single year.

?

Do you think a first year draftee will be an A-Grader?


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I'd hope that Gresham, Sinclair and McKenzie are also better next year. Who knows, maybe even Dunstan will improve.


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Winmar wrote:I'd hope that Gresham, Sinclair and McKenzie are also better next year. Who knows, maybe even Dunstan will improve.
Yeah, Gresham and Sinclair show promise.


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Johnny Member wrote:
dragit wrote:Fortunately they run the draft every single year.

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Do you think a first year draftee will be an A-Grader?
We might even trade or get a free agent.


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dragit wrote:
Johnny Member wrote:
dragit wrote:Fortunately they run the draft every single year.

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Do you think a first year draftee will be an A-Grader?
We might even trade or get a free agent.
Not to mention some of the Sandy blokes maybe coming on?


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dragit wrote:
Johnny Member wrote:
dragit wrote:Fortunately they run the draft every single year.

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Do you think a first year draftee will be an A-Grader?
We might even trade or get a free agent.
Agreed.


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Posting 20 years of holey crap!
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Johnny Member wrote:
Johnny Member wrote:

Does Richardson have more than 1 offensive strategy? When we play Carlton next week and they camp 8 blokes in the D50 arc and play tighter on our small forwards after seeing what we did last night, will we find other avenues to goal?
I think we can say the answer to this is a resounding 'no'.

Still looking like a 'no'.


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Interesting thread....


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