There is also Smith. But he should not be rushed considering his previous injury as well.
But genuinely agree with your point, slim pickings at the moment to replace Marlion even if we wanted to.
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But genuinely agree with your point, slim pickings at the moment to replace Marlion even if we wanted to.
The easiest way to make a case is look at the available replacements.
Also with the way we are going it would be doubtful he could even get through the year with no injuries.
His next court case is on the 8/05 as well. Sure plenty of time to get back for our game on the 11th but missing from training for the main session that week you would think.
You mean with about 10 unavailable injured, and because the back-up wing selection drafted was Ralphsmith, who is clearly worse it seems?
We won’t have a choice. It will be him or Cumbo eventually the way we are going.
The time has come to be looking to the future and I think this is closer to it than what we are running with at the moment. Put Marlion into the middle essentially as a defensive tagger on their best mid. We should have done this yesterday to Yeo, he threw Dow around like he was a rag doll.
Give Banks or Hugo a long run on the wing, possibly Coulthard too, they deserve a run of games like anyone. We've tried it with Dow, 6 games in a row. Only once has he potentially looked AFL quality (against the Swans). Take that game out and he has won 1 centre clearance from 77 attended and its not even just not winning the clearance, its that his direct opponent is then monstering us out of the clearance.
Even if they did that, they would include 'must play at least 2 games in a premiership year' in the fine print.
One component of why we love footy is romance. I love the romance of this sub plot to our season. In terms of his form, he's a polarising player, always has been. He can play 5 great games, then if he puts in a poor one the haters are baying for blood, quicker than they are for more conventional players, thats footy. I think his form this year will be fine, he'll have an OK year at worst, and for the medium term at least the cupboard is bare. The almost zero margin for error injury or suspension-wise is more likely to kill the fairytale.
Led the team for ground ball gets (we were smashed in ground ball), fifth for contested possessions. According to the official AFL ratings points (they used to recognise how good Shedda was when few others did), he had a better game than Dusty, Dow, McAuliffe, Sonsie, Nank, Kosi, Young, KMac, Brown, Campbell, Short, MoJu and Hugo. That puts him in our top-10, on an off-day, with seven fit players outside the team. Do the maths.
Really want him in the middle. Somehow whenever he goes in there (even as a ruck) we seem to do pretty well. Need a senior body in there at the moment.
