If Ed’s desired position is half back, then why the need to recruit an abundance of half back types. This only causes Ed and the like to have to play wing/half forward to get a game and they aren’t being developed in their best suited role.
If Ed’s desired position is half back, then why the need to recruit an abundance of half back types. This only causes Ed and the like to have to play wing/half forward to get a game and they aren’t being developed in their best suited role.
I will never see #16 the same!!
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12 months ago, the consensus here was that we had struck the right balance in the playing list with our mids, KP (we recruited KP bookends) and ruck mix etc however, given Richards was played through the season does that now question the depth and quality of our playing list?
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Interesting that Richards, Naughton and Dunkley all come together here.
In the elimination final Dunkley had his equal worst number of possessions for the season. He equaled the 13 he got when playing second ruck against the Cats Another close loss, where rucking took him away from his natural game.
Naughton had 2 possessions to 3/4 time ( because Bruce was simply crashing the contests?) and Richards with 7 possessions was also very close to his worst game for the season. At least 3 others had their season worst number of disposals in that game.
And still they lost by less than a goal. St Kilda wasn’t very good. Who does that fiasco reflect poorly on?
Precisely. It's reasonable to assert Richards (and a gaggle of others) mightn't have been doing enough to retain their spots but we can only be as ruthless as the calibre of depth we can confidently call upon.
Not to mention dropping blokes this season was doubly problematic given no reserves tier competition.
Still, if you spell Richards a spell, who comes in?
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Based on the ones that did come in they were mainly rookies.
I just struggle with the concept of having all the playing list up in the Hub and we couldn't locate a couple of players to replace the ones out of form. 4 games between Trengove Schache and Lewis Young, Hayes played just a couple of games and West, Greene, Lynch, Cavarra sparingly used if at all and Dale and Lipinski cycling in and out.
Given we had a close look at the group this year and obviously didn't rate a high number of them I will be interested to see who we shop around and let go from the group.
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Specifically on Richards I'd view his output differently if he tidied up his kicking to the extent I think most of us believe he can with some concentration and attention to detail.
He does run hard and does try to run at the defence which is exactly what we need, though without using the ball well enough to hurt with the limited touches he is getting at present he's not effective enough. I wanted him spelled throughout the year because there's actually some merit in dropping players for repeated execution issues, but it didn't happen which tells me he has to be doing a body of things without the ball that I can't see that the coaches like in order to have kept his place.
Time is definitely on his side and I would not be moving him on until given the chance to mature. However, I would like to see some improvement in execution and production pretty quickly to keep the faith.
TF is this?.........Obviously you're not a golfer.
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