Needs to kick better & offer defensive pressure to be an AFL player. Give him the rest of the season to see.
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Welcome Noah Cumberland
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Not a bad effort although looked a little out of his depth at times. Still better than George. Mind you Cotch played a better game today than George and he wasn't even playing
Was ok on debut. Shot himself (& us) in the foot with a couple of costly misses early. Should have finished with more than 2 goals.
He played tall and was soundly beaten in every tall contest by a real tall.
Reckon he gets found out against teams with a backline
agree. Our players need to kick to ball away from him, use his pace to get it. last 3 weeks, his opponent were taller and bigger body, gets outmarked when his parked underneath. Come on players, kick to space, let his pace win.
There is no doubt that MRJs elite skill is his defensive pressure. He had a team high 27. Aarts had a respectable 16, Castagna 11 and Cumberland 9 which are probably on the lower side of what you'd expect. But as some stage you have to ask what a player brings from an attacking point of view. This is very important because if you present no danger your opponent will run off you as much as they can. I watched MRJ a bit. He has a bit of bulk but seems to get pushed off the ball a lot and struggle to break free from the pressure of others. Definitely doesn't get into the best crumbing spots. Early days but he just doesn't seem to have the awareness and skill and appears to have no leap you often get from these pocket-rockets. I'm just not sure, but as I said early days. I think ideally he needs VFL time to get a lot more consistency and work on a better balance between attack and defensively mindset.
If you get through training this week, you're ahead of Castagna & Aarts
Flag winning Morton?
I've wanted to have a look a Noah C at AFL level. Not a perfect debut but a lot to work with. Out of contract this year, Personally I'd play him all year but I the selectors don't rate him over Aarts and Grorge and MRJ. He's probably out the door at years end.
With only Riewoldt as the only tall marking option in the forward line Cumberland copped the tall defender
