Tom and Jack are scragged, punched and blocked every week. Most importantly, their runs are routinely impeded by neanderthal defenders. Jack doesn't get frees because he is a serial whinger. Tom doesn't get frees because he is a thug.
We know the real story. The club knows the real story.
But what to do about it? We are getting flooded, choked, blocked, out-marked. Our entries are massively skewed to quantity over quality.
What is the answer, oh footy gods?!
Well, the answer might be a naughty, knockabout bloke we can't fit into D50 because as a club we are falling in love with a man named Noah. A 15 year key back of biblical stature.
This is not to denigrate naughty boy Broad in any way. He can run all day, read the ball exceptionally well, is team-oriented and has tidied his kicking to adequately neat.
Naughty boy is an asset in any man's language. So what to do with blue-chip surplus?
You mount a finals campaign with a curveball, that's what you do. Towner in 2017. Bolton and the Nank/Soldo tuck combo in 2019. You need a point of difference. Something the oppo won't have time to properly combat.
So why can't Naughty Boy play as a defensive forward? Do what George is supposed to do but with ballistic air control? NB can also take a grab and apply very good ground pressure. Tellingly, he has much greater intensity than Chol, alas.
While we're all fretting about Naughty Boy, I can just picture him being put through a three-week crash course in the Richmond Way, F50 style. To be unveiled against a lesser team like Fremantle and perfected against Geelong and Adelaide.
I for one will be keeping abreast of the situation with great interest. Could end up being one of Hardwick's finest moments.
