Bankers and Anchors: Round 5, 2019 vs Carlton

[Bornadog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors: Round 5, 2019 vs Carlton

Do you acknowledge that he has been carried for a couple of years now and doesn't have the ball getting ability, skills and drive to be genuine half back flanker?

He has one particular skill with his intercept marking but it's been a long while since he's been a good player for us us and if he can't play tall or play forward how do we best use him when we have more damaging flanker types in Suckling, Crozier, JJ and Duryea just to name a few?

All I know is it ain't working playing tall.

He needs to play the role he played in 2016 and prior when we had Roberts and Hamling as talls.

[soupman]

Re: Bankers and Anchors: Round 5, 2019 vs Carlton

We need to address the Key Backs quickly and get Wood in his rightful spot HBF

Do we actually want to do that though?

Wood provides about one decent run with ball in hand a game. Wood's attacking kicks are almost exclusively 45m bombs into our forward 50. The rest of his disposals are kicks down the line or switch kicks to what is generally a safe option. He offers no where near enough to be an attacking half back flanker.

So can he be a defensive player? He is good one on one, in the air he can spoil if not intercept mark, and can play safe if required. All things we ask of our key defenders. Could he play a smaller lock down role? I don't think so. He has lost too much pace and turning ability to go with the clever forwards. So he is locked in as an undersized key defender.

Crozier has taken his spot as the third tall who does a bit of everything, and is doing it far better than Wood has at any point post 2016.

[G-Mo77]

Re: Bankers and Anchors: Round 5, 2019 vs Carlton

All I know is it ain't working playing tall.

He needs to play the role he played in 2016 and prior when we had Roberts and Hamling as talls.

Nail on head mate. We had talls, Wood zones off and intercepts. Like Cordy he is not a KPD and is played out of position for most of the game.

Not playing to our strengths is our motto now. We may as well play him forward.

[boydogs]

Re: Bankers and Anchors: Round 5, 2019 vs Carlton

Wood is good as the third man up, when the ball has been bombed in to their main target with someone on him and Wood comes in with a runup

[Bornadog]

Re: Bankers and Anchors: Round 5, 2019 vs Carlton

Wood is good as the third man up, when the ball has been bombed in to their main target with someone on him and Wood comes in with a runup

Played that role well against Hawks as they didn't have too many talls in the forward line.

[boydogs]

Re: Bankers and Anchors: Round 5, 2019 vs Carlton

Played that role well against Hawks as they didn't have too many talls in the forward line.

And it was wet, so the ball was just being hacked forward with little precision