Schache’s averages with the Dogs last year: 12-touches, 4-marks ands 1.5 goals.
And he is running around in the reserves ?????
Is the problem who we play or how we play them?
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Whatever's Darling's output he benefits enormously from being second fiddle and having a skilled midfield stuffing it down his throat.
He'd enjoy neither with us.
On paper he's still more credentialed than anything we can boast right now but that hardly means he'd succeed in our setup.
Schache saved the Dog’s year by winning the game against the Hawks.
15 possessions, 5 marks and 4 goals. Without that contribution (better than many of Darling’s) we might be looking at the wooden spoon.
The guy has talent. The club doesn’t have anyone who can develop talent.
you are correct. I don’t see our major problem as being CHF.
The dramatic decline in the club’s performance has been caused by the bizarre manipulation of the ruck, and fixing that should be number one priority. We have rarely seen a hitout to advantage in the last three years.
who wasn’t stunned when we recruited Cloke only to have him running around in the ruck so much. Look at the players who have not reached their potential and see if they have been in the ruck. Personally I was surprised to see Roughead taken from the backline and remoulded as a ruckman where his best performances can only be described as fair.
English might become a good ruckman but he is nowhere near that yet. He should be playing as an agile tall forward and supporting the number one ruckman (who we don’t have).
The last time we had a dominant ruckman handing control to the onballers was Campbell beating Goldstein a few years ago. And that got him dropped. Now we have evolved to the point where two games ago Goldstein destroyed us.
This has been the critical problem for years and any other focus is simply a distraction.
We can afford Darling, I think the questions have been more along the lines of will we get value for money given the likely premium you'd have to pay to prise him away from WCE. No doubt he would make our forward line better, but we need to weigh up the cost versus who we may be able to secure and how our listed players like Schache might develop.
It's unlikely we'll land a champion defender, ruck or forward, not many of them move. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't try, and failing actually landing one, have a contingency strategy for incremental improvement.