It’s gotta be worth a try. He can’t play with Naughton and Bruce. He just looked lost. I’d love to see him succeed, but please don’t pick him to play forward again.
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It’s gotta be worth a try. He can’t play with Naughton and Bruce. He just looked lost. I’d love to see him succeed, but please don’t pick him to play forward again.
I'm on board. I am a fan of the Shack and actually thought his last 10 minutes or so were not bad - he was continuing to present and create an option, which is where he does his best work on the lead.
In a 1v1 contest though, he is absolutely horrendous. I don't see that improving as a defender. But hey, let's give it a crack.
Surely he can play the Lever role of standing on his own deep in defence?
You need height and aerial prowess in defence. Besides Keath, who has his hands full most weeks, we have no one that can mark the thing.
I've been advocating for this since JUH's arrival. Lets face it even if he starts performing we know we will pick the Naughton, Bruce and JUH ahead of him as key forwards and English is now one of them as well.
He lacks the intensity to be a proper key forward, I'm not sure key defence plays to his strengths (he is medicore in the air and lacks assertiveness) but he isn't gonna be a key forward with us, or a ruck, so we might as well try it.
To anyone with eyes that function the very concept has strong "Easton to the forward line" vibes.
Josh will positively terrorise EDFL backlines in due course though.
Liam could always attack the ball in the air and its this ability that has allowed him to become a good spoiler and a good interceptor. Schache has neither of these traits.
Also when he went to Carlton he played half a season at CHB before being tried in the 1s in that position. Its not goona work, but if we're gonna try it he needs to start playing there in the 2s now.
Lacked confidence tonight in his first game, opponent had it all over him and he ran out of ideas
It’s time. Jones, Moore, Naughton - probably more - made the switch to the other end successfully.
CHB until EOY in the VFL or bust
Shaq doesn't have the toughness to play as a defender. I think he has basically no chance of making it in defence.
Question: How do you think he would have gone against Lynch last night? I think we all know that answer.
Schache was on a hiding to nothing yesterday without the support of English missing and a poor game by Bruce and then to be played as the second ruck which he clearly isn’t. The ball hardly came into our attack after half time due to Richmond’s ability to stifle our midfield, which didn’t help his cause.
I would prefer to see Bruce tried in defence where he had played with St. Kilda rather than Schache. I am yet to be convinced that playing 3 talls on the forward line is the best structure. The stronger teams use two key forwards only which works a lot better
I agree its time to pull the Liam Jones move in the sense that it’s time to stop playing him and trade him to Carlton for Caleb Daniel.
At the very least it might teach him how to compete physically. Defenders have to get their hands dirty, it's part of the job, so maybe just maybe he might learn what it takes to defend and develop the physical side of his game he obviously lacks.
How can you send a bloke to defence that can’t even win a one on one when leading in the forward line, Jones could at least take a grab.