Well the Pies look close to cooked for season 2024 with new injuries on a weekly basis and my predicted ladder (which is changing almost every game at the moment) has them in 10th and missing finals.
It's looked like they've just been off the pace for most of the season and Fly has this to say in his post-game press conference Friday night which I'll paraphrase:
"...When you're unpredictable then you look out of energy which is from a disconnection on the ground...to bring the energy back into the group you need to go back to being predictable..."
I think this pretty much sums the Pies up for this season.
At the start of the year they were still using their surge off half back, but at times handballing into teammates' backs!
At this point of the season the injuries and games missed by their top tiered players and teams putting a pretty hard tag on Nick Daicos has really stalled their cohesion.
I'm not saying they can't make finals but with currently being 9th and with games against an in-form Geelong, bogey team Hawthorn, Carlton, Sydney away, Brisbane and an I-don't-know-Melbourne, they'd have to turn their form around very quickly to get to 8th from here with that injury list.
Anywho - here's some things that peaked my interest from the Pies/Bombers game, with a bit from both teams.
- 2 videos highlighting De Goey pretty much playing corridor-only in an offensive manner which looks great in a win, but not so much in a loss
- Collingwood trying surge through the corridor off a boundary throw in like they have done 100 times n the last 2 years
- Pies instantly looking corridor from the back half
- Essendon getting deep to become a forward 50 target and what allows him to do this with confidence
- Pendles in a picture perfect center bounce clearance and inside 50 entry
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