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Midfield issues!

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TigerArmySoldier01

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Our midfield got smashed. Would Cogs have made a difference? well mayb but not that much of a difference! So who are our top 3 midfielders at the RFC??? When the game is there to be won who would we throw in 2 win the game?!?
IMO we were out muscled over the footy yesterday. I reckon we got first hands on the ball but could do nuffin with it and coughed it up striaght away for the saints to run away to easily. The saints did alot of sheparding to allow a player to run free to be released. Leigh Matthews chucked Jonathon Brown in2 the guts when Brisbane were struggling... i thought TW could have tried something similar yesterday BUT that would only be a short term fix. We need our players to develop into hard bodied midfielders. Really hit the gym and get some strength through their legs and core.

Back 2 the question, assuming all players are fit and firing who goes into the centre square to win us the game?
Tuck, Sugar, Lidders, Bling, Polo, Foley, Brown, Polo, Meyer, Raines, Newman, Cogs, Rodan, Hyde, Krak ???

There are alot of players that can run through the midfield but who is actually good enough? some are just getting a run because of rotations which a good side wouldnt have!

For me... Brown, Lidders and Polo
 
Tough one at the moment - I would have said Foley a couple of weeks ago but just struggling ATM. I'd go for the kids and just see what they've got - I'd rotate Tambling Deledio and Polo through there with a hard body in Tuck, Johno and Foley to help out.
 
Agree we got smashed. When we actually cleared the ball it was a rushed, choppy kick to no-one in particular (other than St Kilda's loose man across half back). When the Saint's cleared the ball they usually had 3 blokes with 2 shepharding and 1 running into space for precise delivery forwards.

Not sure if there are any short term answers, but further down the track, Lids, Cogs, Polo and Raines all look like they have the lower leg strength to stand up through tackles and other than Cogs, the speed to bust away.
 
well in my opininon in the centre i wood have tuck johnson and foley. foley wood instinctivly get the ball out to one of those 2 bigger bodies to get it out we cood also hav deledio or meyer in teh middle
 
Id have Tuck, Foley, Deledio, Raines, Tambling, Polo and Hyde rotating through the centre and use Johnson as a tagger.
 
Ian4 said:
as i keep saying, we need midfielders more than we need KP backman
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Agree. Our midfield is so overrated its not funny. No real class at all. No COMPLETE onballers. You have Tuck, Cogs & Johnno who are hard at it, but on the flip side don't have quality disposal, pace or vision. Then you have Tivendale (no more needs to be said), Tambling & Deledio who are still developing and aren't rounded midfielders yet. Compare ours to the REAL good midfielders of the comp. and its plain to see that this is an area we need to improve on severely.

GO TIGES!!!
 
Midfields can make backlines look crap! Some of the disposal the saints had basically handed Gherig and Roo goal after goal. For me its time for youth - Raines is a dead set centreman, Lids all class, Bling pace, and Polo - a fututre star! Rotate with Foley and Meyer...as well as the normals in Tuck and Johno...and we r still al ong way off.
 
Deledio & Raines must go into the permanent midfield rotation.Johnson is no longer a top line midfielder.
 
tha8ball said:
Midfields can make backlines look crap! Some of the disposal the saints had basically handed Gherig and Roo goal after goal. For me its time for youth - Raines is a dead set centreman, Lids all class, Bling pace, and Polo - a fututre star! Rotate with Foley and Meyer...as well as the normals in Tuck and Johno...and we r still al ong way off.
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After seeing the result yesterday I'm fairly convinced Aker's not the answer.

If we're going to recruit an expensive high profile 2nd hand player, we should be after a big, battle hardened body to play in defence.
They don't grow on trees unfortunately, but we're desperate.
Even picking some promising kids up in the draft isn't going to alleviate our problems down back.

An aging flanker like Aker(midfield days are over) isn't going to be the icing on the cake that wins us a premiership over the next couple of years, I think we're further away than that unfortunately.

Sorry 8 but I'm off the Aker train. It's too shortsighted.
 
Tigers of Old said:
Tuck's clearly struggling with the extra workload.
He's fallen away considerably on last year.
2nd year blues?

Dissapointing.
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Looks injured to me.

With Coughlan out he hasnt been getting as much time on the bench, and is clearly struggling. Season is over, so give him a couple of weeks off to refresh.
 
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