Playing Gram In the Middle

cam_buttles · Sat 12 Jul 2008 1:22pm

I have always been a fan of gram, and I have always thought he would be a lot more valuable to the team if he was played in the centre. He has pace and is good a getting forward and kicking goals, not only from inside the 50. i think ross lyon has made a great decision by playing him nearly all game in the middle and i would like to see this continue.
thoughts?

SaintWodonga · Sat 12 Jul 2008 1:27pm

I agree, hats off to RL for the move. Also like to see more BJ in the mid feild too...

Dan Warna · Post: # 601797Post **Dan Warna** » Sat 12 Jul 2008 1:28pm

we looked a lot more dangerous when we cough cough kicked it long cough cough, than playing chippilotto with backwards kicks and tempo football.

bombing it long created opportunity after opportunity for us.

SaintWodonga · Sat 12 Jul 2008 2:12pm

Dan Warna wrote:we looked a lot more dangerous when we cough cough kicked it long cough cough, than playing chippilotto with backwards kicks and tempo football.

bombing it long created opportunity after opportunity for us.

Fully agree. Rather watch us playing attacking footy. We have the tall timber + Milne so get it down there. Also we are using the corridor more. Earlier in the year we were going too wide.

esaint66 · Post: # 601840Post **esaint66** » Sat 12 Jul 2008 2:14pm

all i can say is ... ABOUT BLOODY TIME

supersaints · Sat 12 Jul 2008 2:16pm

SaintWodonga wrote:I agree, hats off to RL for the move. Also like to see more BJ in the mid feild too...

Agree, but Ross should have been playing them both through the middle all season, I guess it was not done because of injuries in the backline?
Most forget BJ was a number 1 draft pick as a top line junior midfielder.

midas_touch · Sat 12 Jul 2008 2:30pm

Good to see Gram play a great game in the midfield. Looks like he will be spending more time in the middle now.

Also it was refreshing to see us play predominantly attacking footy last night. I hope we keep it up for the rest of the season.

aussiejones · Sat 12 Jul 2008 2:30pm

Gram was good of HB but it exposed his weak defence ....In the centre rotation he can be more creative.

BJ also seems more 'comfortable'.

Could it be both the players and the coach have somehow come to a "comprimise of views' as players seemed not to respond too well to indirect play and now RL is seeing what more direct style achieves : more goals for US.

One concern Last Night was hesitance of players to have a shot for goal .

ie DalSanto

fonz_#15 · Post: # 601885Post **fonz_#15** » Sat 12 Jul 2008 3:34pm

i thought we saw a little bit more physicality out of grammy last night as well.
he looks comfortable and fit enough in the middle.

rixxo · Post: # 601894Post **rixxo** » Sat 12 Jul 2008 3:54pm

I thought grams effort on judd was unreal he deserves to play in the middle more often .I'm not a big fan of ross lyon but his coaching effort and player placement is getting better .By the way i think Armitages return has been excellent ,hes getting back in the swing of things and is slowly becoming a benny cousins style player .

m_m · Post: # 601901Post **m_m** » Sat 12 Jul 2008 4:16pm

rixxo wrote:I thought grams effort on judd was unreal

judd was probs (with gibbs) our best player. he had 30 touches. not unreal

Mr Magic · Post: # 601906Post **Mr Magic** » Sat 12 Jul 2008 4:22pm

m_m wrote:
rixxo wrote:I thought grams effort on judd was unreal
judd was probs (with gibbs) our best player. he had 30 touches. not unreal

And Gram had 25 disposals, kicked a goal and had 2 goal assists, playing on Judd.

Would we have been better off putting a 'hard tag' on Judd and restricting him to 15-20 disposals and our 'tagger' getting 5-10 disposals?

Who do you reckon got the better result out of the contest last night?

milney044 · Post: # 601908Post **milney044** » Sat 12 Jul 2008 4:26pm

Hats off to Grammy for keeping up with Judd for 3 quarters, certainly no easy task and i was a little doubtful of the match up when i saw it. But Ross seemed to know what he was doing and to he and Grammy's credit, Jase held his own and played a major part in our win.

Judd did manage to break free in the last, but to be honest i had been expecting that for 3 quarters, the man is a freak, full credit to Grammy for finding plenty of his own footy.

remboy · Post: # 601911Post **remboy** » Sat 12 Jul 2008 4:36pm

It seems as though in recent years coaches have had such an obsession with having run out of the back line that they keep playing midfielders on the half back line (Gram and Goddard are classic examples).
Hopefully Lyon is starting to realise that players cause more damage if they're kicking it into the forward 50 rather than to the wing.

mick13 · Post: # 601956Post **mick13** » Sat 12 Jul 2008 6:15pm

6 tackles as well. Great pressure.

Remember he used to get 0 tackles a few weeks back.