Without your first rotation midfield available coaching won't make much of a difference
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Game Day - Tiges V Eagles
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Without your first rotation midfield available coaching won't make much of a difference
Personally never thought we'd win this given our outs so got really excited at quarter time. The odds pregame were way, way off.
Sure WCE are a fiasco but missing Ross/Taranto/Hopper from the midfield meant we didn't have an inside engine given the development status of the others, plus no effective talls up front. Lefau surprised me in this regard in a good way.
Not concerned by this result at all - no finals so this is a development year with draft picks to look forward to.
Sure WCE are a fiasco but missing Ross/Taranto/Hopper from the midfield meant we didn't have an inside engine given the development status of the others, plus no effective talls up front. Lefau surprised me in this regard in a good way.
Not concerned by this result at all - no finals so this is a development year with draft picks to look forward to.
Yep, and first rotation key forwards and first rotation key backs. Only first rotation we have left are wingmen and we wish they would be dropped.
If we had Taranto and Hopper then that takes the heat off the young guys to match it physically against the likes of kelly and Yeo.
Yes yesterday was very disappointing, but im not wiping the previous 4 weeks of positives bc of one very bad performance, especially being as undermanned as we were
I think he started on the wing then when Shortie went off he replaced inthe backline
Yeah he did... and when they moved Hugo from wing to half back, they moved Sonsie from half-forward to wing... which impacted ability to transition the footy from the backline as neither Hugo or Sonsie are strong with contested footy... they do best when others put them into space... so that Hugo can use his wheels and Sonsie can use his skills.... so losing Shorty wasn't ideal. Tresize would have been handy to fill some of those holes... it's not just the injuries to senior players impacting.
Agree with all that: my reply to Red was just saying that Tresize was probably not going to help us much in the centre if he was even available. Yes, we needed Taranto and Hopper.
There's a bit of Viciousness about him too; doesn't mind some aggro.
Nor does Harley Reid, who alreedy has the umpires for friends when he does his 'Ginnivan' moves.
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Tall enough but still pretty light from what greets the eye. We can't check their weight any more of course, since it may induce a mental breakdown. Reckon he looks about 84/85.
Yeo is 189cm and probably 90kgs or more. But it's worth a thought to try him sometime but looks more like a tall flanker to me; handy overhead. Trouble is your quality mids need those fast-twitch muscles. Can't react fast enough otherwise.
You don't need to remind me! I have been going on about this defect of our drafting for the last few years. Or you can go back to picking Fiora ahead of Pavlich (must be why he despises us so much going on his nauseating, biased commentary yesterday).
'Too many flankers and midgets' has been my refrain. I'm so glad Clarke has gone after his recent failures to address our greatest needs in big-bodied mids or KPF. We may not have been in position to get A graders but there were some useful types overlooked that could have avoided the lurch at Kosi and Hopper as well as TT.
yet just 2 weeks ago we beat the Swans in these areas. Reckon our injuries have a little bit to do with these numbers...
In my day I was a low possession straight kicking full forward... but that was 50 years ago. Osteo pubis put an early end to it all. (never hear of it now) Good knees and hamstrings though so that gives me an outside chance of selection if this keeps going. Just have to find the old Jenkins... they're around somewhere. Can you fit into size 11, Chook with 2 es?
Could be a by product of younger midfield getting bashed around by bigger bodies in Yeo, Kelly and Reid.
Also with younger mids like Dow, McAuliffe etc so early in their careers form seems to swing around violently week to week.
Can have a good week then up against diff mids/bigger bodies they get smashed.
We have to take the good with the bad.
The games they are getting now (hopefully) will reap benefits later this year and way beyond.
Watched the game quite unemotional about the result. Was purely looking for positives, and what kids can be a part of our next run at it. And in that regard, it was a tough watch. Not a great day.
