I’d rather send Bruce back when JUH is ready. Schache will end up at Hawthorn after a trade for essentially nothing and prob doing ok there.
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I’d rather send Bruce back when JUH is ready. Schache will end up at Hawthorn after a trade for essentially nothing and prob doing ok there.
More likely Shaq will be playing at Seymour next season than the AFL
His only chance at carving out a career at the Bulldogs is a change of role. The odds are slim that it’ll work but the odds of him becoming a long term AFL caliber forward with us is zero.
Bruce would be destroyed at CHB. The only redeeming feature Bruce has as a forward is his ability to act first to create separation on a lead. If he has to premeditate how the ball is coming in and react quickly to the movements of a young CHF he'll be cooked on the lead every time. He reads the flight of the ball ok 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time is the concern.
Moving Bruce to the backline is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Schache either makes it as a forward and forces the issue or he doesn't. Trying him as a defender is a good idea, but to me between Keath and Lew Young he is again going to struggle to get a place unless he demands a spot with form.
Take out Bruce's performances against the 2 bottom teams he's actually having a pretty average year and his efforts in the 2nd half on Friday night, when we needed our experienced players to stand up, were extremely poor.. like how many times can you actually run under the ball??... and it's easy to kick Schache, but it was his first game in a year and he landed into a fierce contest against a strong & experienced defence.
Well I guess I might as well put my 10 cents worth in.
This is in regards to moving Bruce to the backline, and giving Schache a bit more of a chance to get back in to the swing of things at senior level.
Some players seem to get a free pass to perform poorly and contribute very little in tangible terms but get named week after week after week. I believe this approach to team selection may be somewhat of an Achille's heel in Bevo's personal approach to team, and man management. His refusal to play a back up ruckman for Tim English in the St.Kilda final last year killed us. His refusal to give Trengrove a game even though he was what we were screaming out for. A back up ruck/key defender, possibly. (and in my opinion probably) cost us any chance of winning that game.
Some stubborn part of his make up just refuses to budge on his personnel assessments. Anthony Scott, Ryan Gardner, Lachie Macneal were all given so much leeway and support. Lipinski plays one bad game and he's out. Schache plays one game for the year and he's crap. Get rid of him. He's useless. (I haven't heard Bevo say that, but I'm hearing this from woofers)
I would also like to address the 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' logic when discussing moving Bruce to the backline.
Please understand this.....PAUL NEEDS TO GET PAID SOMETIMES!!!! Imagine being Paul. And every time someone suggests Paul might need some help. or maybe a pay rise, or he's doing the work of 3 men and he can't be expected to labour under these conditions etc etc. But everyone keeps saying you can't rob Peter to pay Paul. And there's Peter, dripping in jewellery, driving the latest Lamborghini chariot, with a roving retinue of staff giving him foot baths and back rubs, and anointing him with precious oils, and having self affirmation sessions...... And Paul keeps being told..........well, we can't rob Peter to pay Paul.
I'm gonna flip that saying. Here's the new version.
"You can't keep starving Paul to pay Peter"
Could we please pay Paul. He needs some help right now
Yeah but Paul is just a bludger who spends all his money on ciggies and booze........hang on, I thought for a moment I was trolling the Sky News Facebook page comments section for kicks. :)
We don't know if Bruce can actually play in defence. What we do know is he takes a tall up forward and if left alone becomes a threat. He's been playing OK in a potent forward line that still is only seven weeks old in a very long season. I'm not sure there's value in moving him.