And some conveniently ignore the fact that when we play top 4 sides, we get plenty of the ball in defense and in the midfield, but we don't score because we have no one forward of the ball. When we play "lower ladder sides" the coach is prepared to play a forward line and we kick goals.
. A forward line containing Waite and Brown has at other times struggled to score. On those occasions, it seemed to me that Waite and Brown were getting possession backwards of the wing, not in the forward line. You fellas refuse to acknowledge that sides kick goals and win games because they play a forward line. Your argument is that sides win games because they win the ball in the backline and midfield. Look at Freo's stats in games against top sides. We win plenty of the ball. But not in the FORWARD LINE because we don't have one.
DBTS, I am referencing the Hawks and Cats good years of the last decade, because they won GRAND FINALS. You have not answered my point about their midfielder skills looking good because they have time and space to execute those skills, due to the fact they don't have 5 or 6 forwards clogging up the midfield, and the fact they are able to follow their footy instinct when they get the footy. The instinct to get the ball forward to a teammate.
Flag, a big reason why we dominated the clearances is because we had options forward of the footy so players didn't get caught looking sideways, backwards, or to the heavens praying for a miracle. They got the footy on the boot and forward.