Milton66 wrote:You really are obsessed with this whole Sydney /Ross Lyon /defensive thing aren't you.
Well, not really: Dempster is a highly defensive player who, like Ross Lyon, came to the club from Sydney. So there is a degree of relevance, I would have thought. Lyon continues to think highly of Dempster because of what he saw him do at the Swans: and what Dempster did at the Swans was bottle up opponents.
Have you considered that Dempster may be a better match up for a player?
Which one?
Gee, Armo played what... 3 games. So let's risk him in a GF.
Dempster only played a handful more than 3, there isn't much in it, surely
Dempsters form has been ok and equal to Armo's or Eddy's.
Eddy was pretty poor in the last two games but, before that, I would have said his form was marginally better than Dempster's: remember, Dempster was dropped and Eddy wasn't.
Armo's form was way better in the first and third game he played (he was a bit ordinary in the second).
Go with experience.
I thought Lyon was going with form. Otherwise, why is Zac playing instead of Max?
And who's to say that swapping Dempster for Eddy makes us more defensive? Like for like.
Except that Eddy goes hard at the ball and the ball carrier and, except last week, usually makes lots of tackles and gets some turnovers.
And you know that it's a leap of faith for a fact do you? Did Rosy call you and tell himself?
A selection of a player for a GF on past performance rather than recent form - something that happens not infrequently - is always a leap of faith. In my recollection, such selections in GFs come off less often than not.
All that said, I still think Dempster for Eddy is a reasonable call: better than Geary and marginally better than Gwilt.
I just think Armo would have been a better call: a more attacking, aggressive sort of call. That's all.
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