Always Right Match Committee Thread Round 15, Vs Port Adelaide

[Danjul]

Cordy has not come on as I expected he might. For a tall player I’m scratching my head to re-call him taking an overhead contested mark or intercept mark. Time to give Lewis Young an extended run.

Cordy is simply having a bad spell but he has potential.

The fact that his opponents kicked 20 goals in the previous 4 games doesn’t really mean someone else would have done better. He just needs more time.

And his bad day today probably didn’t cost us the game. He just needs to work on giving his opponents so much separation, something the coaches would be managing.

[westbulldog]

In Lewis Young
Out Roarke Smith

[MrMahatma]

R Smith was ok. He stays.

Agree we need L Young in. I’d drop Williams (who I really like) and get Young in.

[GVGjr]

To be fair, he 'TRIED' to tackle De Goey a couple of times...one of them even led to a highlight real left foot snap/goal.

Tackling 101: Ear to the Rear, Hit and STICK!!!

Yes, De Goey is a powerful unit. But being able to lay critical 1v1 tackles like that is why Easton is captain of the club. He has never been a high possession player, but if he has truly lost 'that' then he can't play seniors.

Did you see him turn his back on De Goey in the last quarter? Awful error by an experienced player let alone the captain

[GVGjr]

Also had 9 handballs, did some great spoiling over the top.

How did you rate his game though? He's struggling in my opinion but rarely if ever gets taken to task
His mistake in the last quarter was shocking in my opinion showing no game awareness.

[Danjul]

Did you see him turn his back on De Goey in the last quarter? Awful error by an experienced player let alone the captain

The error was compounded by the fact that Cordy also had his back to the play and was unaware of the pass coming into the goal square.

[Mofra]

No change.

Changing the 21st or 22nd player won't make a difference and I think Roarke deserves another chance.

Rhylee West close to getting a run.

[Mofra]

To be fair, he 'TRIED' to tackle De Goey a couple of times...one of them even led to a highlight real left foot snap/goal.

Tackling 101: Ear to the Rear, Hit and STICK!!!

Yes, De Goey is a powerful unit. But being able to lay critical 1v1 tackles like that is why Easton is captain of the club. He has never been a high possession player, but if he has truly lost 'that' then he can't play seniors.

Who can actually tackle de Goey? He's marginally behind Stringer as a forward who can break tackles.
On our list I'd back in a fit Dale Morris and perhaps Libba.

[G-Mo77]

So McLean doesn’t play VFL. Makes it hard for him to work on his deficiencies and play next week.

Maybe he's injured? I sort of hope that is the case for the sake of our selectors because it made no dam sense to drop him.

[Ozza]

How did you rate his game though? He's struggling in my opinion but rarely if ever gets taken to task
His mistake in the last quarter was shocking in my opinion showing no game awareness.

I know you're asking bornadog the question, not me. But FWIW - i didn't mind Wood's game yesterday. He isn't having a great season by any stretch, but de Goey is one of the stars of the comp and Wood did a fair job limiting his influence and also peeled off him several times to make towering spoils over Cox and Reid in packs.
His 2 goals were goals that de Goey, and not many other players, are capable of.

[Axe Man]

I know you're asking bornadog the question, not me. But FWIW - i didn't mind Wood's game yesterday. He isn't having a great season by any stretch, but de Goey is one of the stars of the comp and Wood did a fair job limiting his influence and also peeled off him several times to make towering spoils over Cox and Reid in packs.
His 2 goals were goals that de Goey, and not many other players, are capable of.

I agree. He was solid in his defensive work, killed a number of aerial contests and I don't recall any critical disposal errors. He's just about our worst kick so I would prefer that he doesn't get too many kicks. We are much better off with Daniel, Crozier, JJ, etc kicking in our defensive half.

[lemmon]

Is Easton Wood getting a free passage with our supporters?

Once again his possession count was down with 4 kicks, 3 marks and no tackles

Captain or not, he needs to perform better than he has

If you'd have said that Crozier would develop into a better medium defender than Easton Wood, I'd have said you were crazy, but that's the reality.

I really don't see what role Wood actually plays in our backline at the moment. He doesn't get intercept possessions, he doesn't rebound and he's not shutting down man. He might've been dropped already if Morris was fit.

I'd drop him this week and we clearly have an anointed leader in Bont. It was telling that he took the game by the scruff in the third term.

[GVGjr]

I know you're asking bornadog the question, not me. But FWIW - i didn't mind Wood's game yesterday. He isn't having a great season by any stretch, but de Goey is one of the stars of the comp and Wood did a fair job limiting his influence and also peeled off him several times to make towering spoils over Cox and Reid in packs.
His 2 goals were goals that de Goey, and not many other players, are capable of.

He can barely get the ball and doesn't do much with it when he does and on top of that he rarely lays a tackle.
Cordy had twice the possession count and is right on the radar, not so with Wood

It's a great position for him

[Axe Man]

He can barely get the ball and doesn't do much with it when he does and on top of that he rarely lays a tackle.
Cordy had twice the possession count and is right on the radar, not so with Wood

It's a great position for him

Wood had 13 and Cordy had 10 possessions. He's not the player he was but his role has changed, he doesn't need to have 20 touches.

[Danjul]

He can barely get the ball and doesn't do much with it when he does and on top of that he rarely lays a tackle.
Cordy had twice the possession count and is right on the radar, not so with Wood

It's a great position for him

Wood had 13 possessions on a superstar and did a lot of aerial spoilers.

Cordy had 10 possessions and his sloppy work cost goals. He is having a terrible season. Many of his opponents are getting career high bags of goals.

I think Cordy could be a great player, but not the way he is being used.