Midfield positions?

[Inspector]

Just want to clarify who is considered a midfielder small/mid forward small/mid backman etc when picking sides some players are hard to put into a catagory like White is he a midfielder small forward or backman Polo Jackson etc Edwards who you pick him as a small forward or center line player? Could Shane Tuck play the Pike role as a strong body half forward hard to match up on aggressive allowing a Collins Thomson etc to play midfield?

 

[chaz]

starting to get options, at least now if plan a dosn't work u can go plan b

 

[chislop]

starting to get options, at least now if plan a dosn't work u can go plan b

Kick it to Richo?

 

[chaz]

that was the whole origanal playbook wasn't it

 

[TigerMasochist]

Just want to clarify who is considered a midfielder small/mid forward small/mid backman etc when picking sides some players are hard to put into a catagory like White is he a midfielder small forward or backman Polo Jackson etc Edwards who you pick him as a small forward or center line player? Could Shane Tuck play the Pike role as a strong body half forward hard to match up on aggressive allowing a Collins Thomson etc to play midfield?

Midfielders........ They're the guys that start inside the centre square at the bounce. Everyone else nowadays is just a run and carry link player.

 

[Inspector]

Midfielders........ They're the guys that start inside the centre square at the bounce. Everyone else nowadays is just a run and carry link player.

You would put Cotchin Foley Tuck Coughlan Cousins Johnson Deledio in this catagory but how about Thomson Hislop Polo Edwards Tambling Jackson etc

 

[TigerMasochist]

You would put Cotchin Foley Tuck Coughlan Cousins Johnson Deledio in this catagory but how about Thomson Hislop Polo Edwards Tambling Jackson etc

All of them capable of playing in the middle of the ground as a rotation at some time or another during a game.
With the speed and the run and carry in football nowadays, coupled with about a hundred player rotations a game ruckman is just about the only genuine position left on the ground.
Most of the other players barely come under a couple of categories and most just run around a bit, somewhere, out there on the field.
There'll be a defensive group with one or two who generally stay down back and a bunch who can run right through to forward fifty or even take a rotation into the midfield.
You can print the same for the forward structure, except they might run as far as the back fifty.
You'll have a starting mid group, a secondary relieving mid group, just to mix things up at stoppages and give the first bunch a breather.
If thats not working to well you can generally pluck a " flanker" or " tagger" out of somewhere to throw into the mix and hopefully generate something.

Modern football is a bit like real estate. It's all about rotation rotation rotation.