Round 17 player focus-Brendan Fevola

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  • ledge
    Hall of Fame
    • Dec 2007
    • 14348

    #31
    Re: Round 17 player focus-Brendan Fevola

    Wasnt Lake known as a forward before he came to us? mmm interesting, maybe the forward we have been looking for after all these years has been at the wrong end of the ground for 5 years.
    We know he can mark contested, he certainly doesnt miss many goals when he has a shot, he has a good build and he seems to be pretty quick on the dash.
    Lake at CHF, I would love to see how he would go, just once and who knows.
    Bring back the biff

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    • The Pie Man
      Coaching Staff
      • May 2008
      • 3497

      #32
      Re: Round 17 player focus-Brendan Fevola

      Originally posted by ledge
      Wasnt Lake known as a forward before he came to us? mmm interesting, maybe the forward we have been looking for after all these years has been at the wrong end of the ground for 5 years.
      We know he can mark contested, he certainly doesnt miss many goals when he has a shot, he has a good build and he seems to be pretty quick on the dash.
      Lake at CHF, I would love to see how he would go, just once and who knows.
      Likewise - though I reckon his set shots are very suspect. On the run from outside 50 he's on the money (nice one last week - he should have kicked 2)
      Float Along - Fill Your Lungs

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      • dog town
        Senior Player
        • Jan 2007
        • 1914

        #33
        Re: Round 17 player focus-Brendan Fevola

        Morris has the closing speed needed to go with Fev on the lead. He has shown this before so I see no need to change it. Lake is better off playing on spuds.

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        • Bornadog
          WOOF Clubhouse Leader
          • Jan 2007
          • 66857

          #34
          Re: Round 17 player focus-Brendan Fevola

          Originally posted by ledge
          Wasnt Lake known as a forward before he came to us? mmm interesting, maybe the forward we have been looking for after all these years has been at the wrong end of the ground for 5 years.
          We know he can mark contested, he certainly doesnt miss many goals when he has a shot, he has a good build and he seems to be pretty quick on the dash.
          Lake at CHF, I would love to see how he would go, just once and who knows.
          No Thanks, he is the best FB we have had for many years. Last week against Geelong, he was thrown in at FF and didn't have a clue.
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          • LostDoggy
            WOOF Member
            • Jan 2007
            • 8307

            #35
            Re: Round 17 player focus-Brendan Fevola

            Originally posted by bornadog
            No Thanks, he is the best FB we have had for many years. Last week against Geelong, he was thrown in at FF and didn't have a clue.
            He was there for all of 5 minutes at the start of the 4th quarter. He got the ball but miskicked it over his shoulder, but he DID get to the fall of the ball and got his hands on it. I think he could make something of a stint up forward. Having said that, he's still a gun FB.

            Dale normally takes Fev because we never had anyone else in the structure to do it, and so he and Hargrave used to play undersized against bigger match-ups. Tommygun exists PRECISELY to do these jobs so that Dale and Ryan can cut up THEIR respective match-ups and not just have to do negating jobs all year. Dale took Riewoldt earlier this year, but if Tom was fit he would be the direct match-up. This is what Tom brings to the team. If he was fit, played CHB, and we didn't play him on their most mobile tall I don't know what he exists for.

            Watch 4.40pm Sunday arvo, Tom Williams will line up on Fev.

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            • Mantis
              Hall of Fame
              • Apr 2007
              • 15476

              #36
              Re: Round 17 player focus-Brendan Fevola

              Originally posted by Lantern
              He was there for all of 5 minutes at the start of the 4th quarter. He got the ball but miskicked it over his shoulder, but he DID get to the fall of the ball and got his hands on it. I think he could make something of a stint up forward. Having said that, he's still a gun FB.

              Dale normally takes Fev because we never had anyone else in the structure to do it, and so he and Hargrave used to play undersized against bigger match-ups. Tommygun exists PRECISELY to do these jobs so that Dale and Ryan can cut up THEIR respective match-ups and not just have to do negating jobs all year. Dale took Riewoldt earlier this year, but if Tom was fit he would be the direct match-up. This is what Tom brings to the team. If he was fit, played CHB, and we didn't play him on their most mobile tall I don't know what he exists for.

              Watch 4.40pm Sunday arvo, Tom Williams will line up on Fev.
              A few points in this don't make sense to me.

              1. You say Lake is a gun FB, Fevola is a gun FF, why wouldn't Lake play on Fev?

              2. Morris is a negater, that's his job. He plays on the most like player to himself (small or tall) and he tries to negate there impact on the game. We don't need to try and free him up like Hargrave as Dale's offensive skills are pretty poor compared to Ryan's.

              3. Williams hasn't played for 4 or 5 weeks. Why would you play him on Carlton's most dangerous forward? You say that if Tom was fit he would have played on Riewoldt some weeks back who is St.Kilda most dangerous forward, but he wasn't and he may have been exposed. Is Tom less un-fit this time such that he can play on Fevola?

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              • LostDoggy
                WOOF Member
                • Jan 2007
                • 8307

                #37
                Re: Round 17 player focus-Brendan Fevola

                Hm.

                1. Good point (But Lakey doesn't punch from behind when FF leads out fast like we've seen Dale do)
                2. Thought of that, but quelled my self-doubts just to make a point..
                3. Thought Tom didn't play against the Saints (thus Dale playing Nick), but just had a quick check, and Tom DID play.. (did he stand Nick at any time?)..

                In any case, I'm clearly wrong and happy to admit it.

                (Just that it's such an obvious match-up for Tom to play on Brown, Fev, Franklin, Riewoldt and the like, and Rocket and others have said the same thing plenty of times..)

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