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Considering that Ben was up against Jolly (who destroyed him last Year), I would rate this as Ben's best every game for us.
Prior to last night I would have been concerned that Pies had a real edge in the ruck....and given their "Roman " Press on the ball carrier this is a vita part of combating the Pies.
Ben was better than Jolly last night.
...and Ben's contested marking around the ground is now actually the best in the AFL...no mere feat for one so young.
Why we lost last night was poor ball use:
* a lot of shoddy kicks
*some poor decisions on where to kick too
More specifically the Pies has Davis and Daisy being very creative out of their backline, whereas we had Gilbert and gram literary kicking it to the Pies rather than to some advantage to a St Kilda team-mate.
How often did we see Gram on the fly...with a team-mate in space upfield ....only to see Gram pass the ball over his team-mates head to a Pie opponent.
Congrats also to Peake who time and time again last night ran and created space and and option to pass too.
Peake could have racked up 10-15 more disposals if his team-mates could have passed better to him.
Prior to last night I would have been concerned that Pies had a real edge in the ruck....and given their "Roman " Press on the ball carrier this is a vita part of combating the Pies.
Ben was better than Jolly last night.
...and Ben's contested marking around the ground is now actually the best in the AFL...no mere feat for one so young.
Why we lost last night was poor ball use:
* a lot of shoddy kicks
*some poor decisions on where to kick too
More specifically the Pies has Davis and Daisy being very creative out of their backline, whereas we had Gilbert and gram literary kicking it to the Pies rather than to some advantage to a St Kilda team-mate.
How often did we see Gram on the fly...with a team-mate in space upfield ....only to see Gram pass the ball over his team-mates head to a Pie opponent.
Congrats also to Peake who time and time again last night ran and created space and and option to pass too.
Peake could have racked up 10-15 more disposals if his team-mates could have passed better to him.
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historically our club is guilty of destroying players like Ben by pushing them too hard
we really need to re-stock our ruck at years end
Currently all we've got is:
McEvoy
Gardiner (on last legs trying to get fitness up)
Stanley (appears a long way off)
Archer (appears even further behind that)
Kosi + Blake to pinch hit
IMO we really need to move heaven and earth to get a player that could take Ben's spot if he went down or force his way into the team to be his partner
Would love to get Mitch Clarke
we really need to re-stock our ruck at years end
Currently all we've got is:
McEvoy
Gardiner (on last legs trying to get fitness up)
Stanley (appears a long way off)
Archer (appears even further behind that)
Kosi + Blake to pinch hit
IMO we really need to move heaven and earth to get a player that could take Ben's spot if he went down or force his way into the team to be his partner
Would love to get Mitch Clarke
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