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    Re: New Dogs skipper ready to lead from the front

    Quote Originally Posted by Axe Man View Post
    Wood can't play on monster forwards though. Adams and Trengove are the only two in the likely round 1 side capable of taking them and Trengove appears to be a forward/ruck at the moment. Naughton will get there in time but isn't physically developed enough yet.
    Agree, we once more have to deal with Patton, Cameron and Lobb when he is down there.
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    Lindsay Gilbee kicked a bag once. Who knows!
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    Re: New Dogs skipper ready to lead from the front

    Quote Originally Posted by Ghost Dog View Post
    Lindsay Gilbee kicked a bag once. Who knows!
    He of course did that finding the ball more times than Easton has in two games.......interesting stats sheet, Minson with four and Grant with three:

    https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/...=5206&sby=4#t1
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    Re: New Dogs skipper ready to lead from the front

    Quote Originally Posted by jeemak View Post
    He of course did that finding the ball more times than Easton has in two games.......interesting stats sheet, Minson with four and Grant with three:

    https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/...=5206&sby=4#t1
    Amazing that we only had 4 future premiership players in that game from 2011 whilst the tigers had 8.

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    Re: New Dogs skipper ready to lead from the front

    I don’t understand the timing of the Easton experiment given we’ve lost huge amounts of experience in the backline with the departure of Boyd and Morris’ injury..while at the same time we have a surplus of tall though rather lumbering forwards.
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    Re: New Dogs skipper ready to lead from the front

    Quote Originally Posted by Ghost Dog View Post
    Lindsay Gilbee kicked a bag once. Who knows!
    Give the ball to Gilbee within 50 in any sort of space and he'd more than likely kick it.

    Can we say the same for Wood?

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    Re: New Dogs skipper ready to lead from the front

    If our idea is to randomly bomb the ball forward, then Wood reading the play and floating through to take some marks, or at the least, nullify the opposition from having it their way and hurting us with turnover transition footy, may end up OK.

    We won a flag with Cordy up front and Wood should be better at the role than Zaine was.

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    Re: New Dogs skipper ready to lead from the front

    Quote Originally Posted by Go_Dogs View Post
    If our idea is to randomly bomb the ball forward, then Wood reading the play and floating through to take some marks, or at the least, nullify the opposition from having it their way and hurting us with turnover transition footy, may end up OK.

    We won a flag with Cordy up front and Wood should be better at the role than Zaine was.

    Cordy is a bit more physical, tackles better and Wood holds more marks. Fair to say Zaine is a more natural footballer than Easton. Wood brings more experience to the position though.

    It's going to be an interesting first few weeks. We will have 3 players from outside the club (Trengove, Naughton and Crozier) find places in the team so we will be finding their best positions. The Wood to attack move has to be bedded down and a couple of guys who would be spending most of their time in the midfield will be playing forward mostly. We will have a fairly unsettled team for the first few weeks.
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    Re: New Dogs skipper ready to lead from the front

    With Adams going down, maybe Wood goes back again.
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    Re: New Dogs skipper ready to lead from the front

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    With Adams going down, maybe Wood goes back again.
    Possibly or Roberts or Young might come in.

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