We had a plan.
We want to cultivate "effectively a first year player" Maurice's ball winning, his ball use. So we dropped MoJu.
We had to rush him back to AFL level because injuries. And now can't even use him as a sub. Because injuries.
We're rushing this guy. He's not failing but he's not blooming.
We could not get the month of development for him at VFA level. And then there was the personal leave matter. He missed a week of development there.
MoJu got only one week as sub. Injuries, so rushed back to senior full time again tonight.
And now we have the same MoJu we had seven weeks ago when he was dropped.
With the great clubs (you may have heard of RFC) they need time to implement plans.
Two weeks in the reserves for mine. Let's see this through and unleash the remodelled MoJu in September.
Ball winning. Ball use. Clean.
I don't think so.
He's not playing because of injuries. We went in to the game last night with only Dusty and Grimes unavailable. We will always have at least two of our 22 unavailable, which means he's effectively best 22.
And he didn't come in as a key back or mid.
He's in because he's the best pressure forward at Richmond. He's in because we are a substationally better side with him in.
He's the anti Aarts.
We drop him for two weeks to retool, and we are dropping him for the summer, because we won't make finals.