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I still have nasty memories of Batch being carved up by Waite, bring this kid in for round one. Lovely height to play tall & short, good overhead and has a bit of dash.
diff league i know but his WAFL stats are supperior to Batch at AFL level in most catagoriesPlatinum member said:
Batch's stats in the WAFL would also be superior to batch's stats in the AFL... Only thing is batch has been too good to play wafl in 2015.Jonesracing82 said:
those stats would be handy, would be able to compare them both at WAFL levelPlatinum member said:
From the little that we've seen, could he take the 3rd tall? Something that Batchelor has never been able to do effectively. Would Broad have shut down Waite better than Batch in the EF last year? If he can do that then Batchelor's days are numbered.
CarnTheTiges said:
i would like to see Batch replaced as the 3rd tall, perhaps by a Broad/Grimes combo.
but for most of the year Batch played on talls, as he has done for the last couple of years, and did his job. it is not correct to say he has never played that role effectively.
Batch was good in 2015 but he is probably the most vulnerable. Where Grimes has it over him is that he has the pace and is good enough on the ground to take smalls and talls and therefore offers us great flexibility. Batch is a very good intercept mark however.Brodders17 said:
choices and depth, good thing
Sintiger said:
agree. i would prefer Grimes as the 3rd tall, but I also prefer Grimes in a role where he can play tall or short, as he did last year.
so to bring it back to Broad, if he can play a similar role to Grimes, playing either tall or short depending on match-ups Batchelor may find himself without a position.
year of the tiger said:
Not sure I would play Rance, Chaplin and Astbury together. it might be ok, but it might be a little top heavy.
Horses for courses.
Waite is a bugger of a third tall to have to play on - he was a pain when he was Carlton's No. 1 fwd. Astbury if fit and agile on Waite when playing North with Broad/Batch in the 2s for a week is a scenario I could certainly live with.
Waite is a bugger of a third tall to have to play on - he was a pain when he was Carlton's No. 1 fwd. Astbury if fit and agile on Waite when playing North with Broad/Batch in the 2s for a week is a scenario I could certainly live with.
Sintiger said:
Agree that Batchelor is the most vulnerable. The problem is his inflexibility. The stuff he can do, he can do very well, but the problem is when he comes up against more than a relatively immobile medium sized forward. If they are either too tall, small and therefore quick or a tall with a bit of pace on the lead (think Waite) then he generally loses the battle. He has to be one of those towards the bottom of our best 22 and is therefore very vulnerable to others coming in, whether thats Grimes going on the 3rd tall and someone like Yarran or Hunt picks up the smalls, or maybe Broad who could give us some real flexibility in our defense having Grimes and Broad able to play on smalls and talls.
The only way Astbury comes in is as a replacement for Rance or Chaplin imo. He is not a like for like replacement for Batcheloryear of the tiger said:
It depends on the opponent sinner.
A fit *smile* added to rance and chappy(if he was capable of playing man on man) agin nths side show boob, Peetree n waite a minute he has slaughtered us again! makes sense.
A fit *smile* added to rance and chappy(if he was capable of playing man on man) agin nths side show boob, Peetree n waite a minute he has slaughtered us again! makes sense.
ninjahaha said:
I disagree. Waite didn't smash Batchelor because of his height, it was due to the speed on the lead. Batchelor didn't have the speed or the footy nous to realise where he was leading to until he was gone. A quicker or smarter player (either Grimes if we can find someone else for the smalls, or Broad) would probably counter thaat. I'm not sure Astbury would have been any better on Waite personally. Grimes was the matchup but we couldn't move him as Batchelor would have been destroyed by their smalls too.
