I think thats filling your half glass full cup up with someone elses water.
Edwards always showed that he had something that was above average, speed being the big one. Dow is a different player to Sheds, he's in and under but is too small to play it, doesn't have the pace to play a similar role to Butters, and doesn't have the vision or ability by foot. Sheds got the nickname of Shank, due to taking difficult kicks and not getting them right, ie. those errors stick in the mind. A bit like Campbell yesterday, the 2 turnovers where he didn't get the penetration to go over the top in the 2nd quarter stick out, but out of his 17 disposals, he had 12 that were efficient, so only 3 of the remaining 15 were inefficient. I don't see any aggression from Dow to take the game on.
He just looks a dime a dozen VFL midfielder to me.
DRAFT ANALYSIS: "Dow is an athletically gifted midfielder with great inside-ball winning abilities and can hit the scoreboard."
central.rookieme.com
Interesting going back to his draft profile. The issues he had were foot skills (still there), strength (still there) and consistency (still there). The reason why his consistency is down and why we constantly see him with 14-19 disposals in so many games, is he doesn't link up. If you are a midfielder that can't link the game through the midfield then you won't make it. His contested possession rate is fine, but his uncontested possession rate is so far below average in the AFL. This should be the easy bit but it isn't and hasn't changed since he was drafted.