Adelaide Crows 2018

[mighty hounds]

Our inability to go from D50 to F50 this season stands out to me as our area of biggest decline. Its been a strength previously using smiths ability to break a line and generate quick FWD movement without having a side with quick leg speed. We haven't covered Smithers lost impact on our game style and paying the price! Even more frustrating is the failure to move away from the style that isn't working/dont have the cattle on the park to deliver.

totally agree with this. After we lost to GWS I worked out our avg for and against for this year and last year. We're scoring 4 less goals a game this year and conceding 3 more points. We need a Plan B that can restrict opposition teams scoring while we're not scoring as many goals as last year.

[Booney]

Our inability to go from D50 to F50 this season stands out to me as our area of biggest decline. Its been a strength previously using smiths ability to break a line and generate quick FWD movement without having a side with quick leg speed. We haven't covered Smithers lost impact on our game style and paying the price! Even more frustrating is the failure to move away from the style that isn't working/dont have the cattle on the park to deliver.

Where to then for Seedsman and Mackay?

Seedsman was being spoken of a month ago as being in career best form, Mackay just seems to get picked every week so not sure what's happening there.

Laird, Lynch, Brown all back after the bye and reports Sloane is too, surely Sloane plays at least on in the SANFL?

[Footy Smart]

Our inability to go from D50 to F50 this season stands out to me as our area of biggest decline. Its been a strength previously using smiths ability to break a line and generate quick FWD movement without having a side with quick leg speed. We haven't covered Smithers lost impact on our game style and paying the price! Even more frustrating is the failure to move away from the style that isn't working/dont have the cattle on the park to deliver.

Where to then for Seedsman and Mackay?

Seedsman was being spoken of a month ago as being in career best form, Mackay just seems to get picked every week so not sure what's happening there.

Laird, Lynch, Brown all back after the bye and reports Sloane is too, surely Sloane plays at least on in the SANFL?

Seeds has been great, but his impact is different IMO to that of Smith. The field position has the footy is different, if that makes sense.

Both for me play the wing rather than HB.

The fluency of smith/laird out of D50 to Lynch and walker up to the next line of Betts, Jenkins etc isnt there and we havent worked out a way of getting good inside 50 footy. Its been rushed and or we are out numbered.

Frustrating, but that's footy!

[MW]

Seedsman is only as good as the inside mids are at getting it too him.
MacKay baffles me as much as the next supporter...his time is up

[Booney]

Seedsman is only as good as the inside mids are at getting it too him.
MacKay baffles me as much as the next supporter...his time is up

Well then you've got real problems because Jacobs, Gibbs, M.Crouch, Douglas and Greenwood should give you something to work with.

35 I50's, would have to be close to a club record low?

[MW]

Seedsman is only as good as the inside mids are at getting it too him.
MacKay baffles me as much as the next supporter...his time is up

Well then you've got real problems because Jacobs, Gibbs, M.Crouch, Douglas and Greenwood should give you something to work with.

35 I50's, would have to be close to a club record low?

Not when it's left to them alone to do all the work

[Booney]

Who's out then if Brown, Laird and Lynch come back in?

[HH3]

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[Brodlach]

Who's out then if Brown, Laird and Lynch come back in?

Just put the team board from the last game against the wall and throw some darts. The three it hits are the three that are out. Not many deserve their spots

[Gozu]

I think it's clear this year is all but shot now and we look towards 2019. I would like to see us rest up a few of the senior blokes and just start blooding kids and hopefully lose as many games as possible in the process.

The problem with our club is we've always been too conservative and not willing to bottom out so when all of the guys out are ready to come back I suspect we'll just keep going to try and scrape into the finals and if we do sneak in it will be lauded as some sort of great achievement despite the horror run we had with injuries this year.

[Booney]

You're one game out the 8 with 9 games to play!

[Gozu]

You're one game out the 8 with 9 games to play!

Seriously? Someone mentioned the Big Footy stuff so I read a fair bit of that and one guy who was posting a fair bit said we're currently 10th on the ladder plus big percentage out of the eight, effectively making us three games out of the eight with nine games to go. I don't think I've seen a ladder all season so just took that as gospel.

[The Bedge]

They've also won 29-48 quarters - that's more than Hawthorn, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Collingwood and GWS who all sit above them.

Panic stations at Crowland over stuff all.

[bennymacca]

1 game and 18% behind north so yeah basically 2 games out.

[cracka]

Plus we have a bye this week & all the teams above us have relatively easy winnable games.

[Bum Crack]

1 game and 18% behind north so yeah basically 2 games out.

Plus a pretty tough run home. Will only be making up the numbers if they are lucky enough to get in anyway.

[Gozu]

They've also won 29-48 quarters - that's more than Hawthorn, North Melbourne, Port Adelaide, Collingwood and GWS who all sit above them.

Panic stations at Crowland over stuff all.

The difference being we were playing pretty good footy earlier in the season now we look like garbage. I didn't see the Freo game but assumed after the humiliation of that loss we would stand up and be counted against Hawthorn but that was one of the more listless and gutless performances I've ever seen from the club. I was actually shocked at what I was seeing. That's not the performance/response of a premiership contender probably not even a legit Finals contender. That was a white flag.

[Gozu]

1 game and 18% behind north so yeah basically 2 games out.

Plus a pretty tough run home. Will only be making up the numbers if they are lucky enough to get in anyway.

Agreed the run home is tough enough anyway. I know it's all about hope there's always next week etc but I think it's pretty clear we're done this year.

[Corona Man]

1 game and 18% behind north so yeah basically 2 games out.

Plus a pretty tough run home. Will only be making up the numbers if they are lucky enough to get in anyway.

To be honest I think at the moment there are only 3 maybe 4 teams who can win it this year. There are 14 clubs making up the numbers.

[am Bays]

You're one game out the 8 with 9 games to play!

Seriously? Someone mentioned the Big Footy stuff so I read a fair bit of that and one guy who was posting a fair bit said we're currently 10th on the ladder plus big percentage out of the eight, effectively making us three games out of the eight with nine games to go. I don't think I've seen a ladder all season so just took that as gospel.

Surely that is a banning offence.

I mean reading and posting based on what's written on Big footy, makes what morell did look insignificant, really....