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B.M wrote: ↑Mon 29 Mar 2021 10:49pm
But it did last season?
What’s changed? One bad game??
Castagna, Arts and Rioli are hardly anything special
IMO
Butler, Lonie and Higgins are dangerous small forwards are dangerous IMO and throw Billings and Gresham through there and you have depth and variety
What Melbourne did well, and teams that beat us do well, is hold there back 6 and not allow us to get goalside
Geelong also do it well against us
Which is where we need to play smart and and adapt to our opponent. Problem is in the main we don't and instead just fritter away scoring opportunities against such set-ups.
Flying the World in comfort thanks to FF Points....
Perhaps our game plan revolves around two genuine AFL quality rucks that can move forward. It has been our glaring weakness for a decade now.
Our list managers fluked Marshall, as a last resort / stop gap. Ryder was an excellent piece of recruitment, just wish he was 28, as he showed how much more of the ruck craft Marshall has to learn.
Desperation has now left us with McKernan and Hunter. Pity we did not get Tom McDonald and Peter Wright.
Our midfield is always playing catch up when our ruck cannot at least break even. We need a solid spine. Ideally
Howard
Carlisle
Ryder
Marshall
King
The rest will follow. We are poor to average with 60% of them not playing.
