Jade Gresham

[Yorkeys]

I think if you bank on Small Forwards to get you to finals and win premierships- you are not building your list or team very well…

Small forwards are role players, if the get 10 possessions kick 1-2 goals, lay 3 or 4 tackles - they have done their job

How many small forwards have won B&Fs?

Melbourne won a premiership with Spargo and Neale Bullen

Richmond with Aarts and Castagna

& Butler

But mainly Dusty

[B.M]

Dusty is a power mid-forward

The most valuable commodity in modern footy

Martin, Petracca, Bontempelli, Fyfe, DeGoey, Dangerfield, Cripps

Pure explosive athletes

[Vortex]

Dusty is a power mid-forward

The most valuable commodity in modern footy

Martin, Petracca, Bontempelli, Fyfe, DeGoey, Dangerfield, Cripps

Pure explosive athletes

They all have a wingman that they train in unison for set plays, can you name their wingman, I believe each club as different names for the combo but essentially the partnership works the in a similar way. Dustys wingman retired this year.

[shanegrambeau]

What is deferent about the 2018 Gresham now?
Did he really kick 30 odd goals as a small forward and part-time on baller.

Higgins and Butler kicked how many?

He is obviously injury prone.

If Higgins can calm down and get it together he could still be good. Misses a lot of getties..with the King on that one

Gresh is good at sharking goals. And by the way, how about Jones as a small forward? Part time mid?

We could have a team like this.

Jones King Gresh
Higgins Sharman Members
Butler Hill McKenzie
Webster Wood Wilkie
Coff Fish Fingers Paton

Marshall steele Crouch
Ross, Battle, Highmore, the next Jason Blake

[B.M]

Kane Lambert allowed Dusty to play the way he did

Only time Dusty ever runs towards opposition goals is jogging back to the middle after a goal. His idea of defence was the thing that went around the ground!

The biggest (and best) cheat in the AFL
- he even runs forward when the opposition has the ball

[Impatient Sainter]

I think moving Gresham to a full time small forward role would be a good move for him and the club. If we can get a full season out of him we will be a much better side. We will have a number of players who go through the midfield to save Gresham, but I would still use him on occasions particularly if he is struggling forward.

Midfielders: Steele, Crouch, Ross, Sinclair, Jones, Clark, Windhager, Owens, Byrnes, Bytel, this years draft picks and possibly Stocker.

Wingman: Hill, Wanganeen-Milera, McKenzie, Wood possibly Peris.

[B.M]

Problem is

Gresham is perhaps our most dynamic stoppage and CB player

He, unlike our other mids except Zak Jones explodes from stoppage

He is clearly a burst player, as he doesn’t have an engine or a defensive bone in his body!

Also
I don’t get this idea that playing in certain positions protects a player from injury.
You can get injured in any contest, in any part of the ground in every aspect.

Forwards are explosive and have a defender hanging off them - so it could be argued they are at greater risk than the aerobic beasts covering the whole ground?

[Impatient Sainter]

Thats exactly why I would move Sinclair to the midfield. Gresham might be explosive but his use of the ball out of the centre is ordinary. Sinclair gives that assured ball use.

[B.M]

Doesn’t moving Sinclair from a position he won a B&F and was AA

A little strange?

Not every good player has to be in the midfield

[Scollop]

Problem is

Gresham is perhaps our most dynamic stoppage and CB player

He, unlike our other mids except Zak Jones explodes from stoppage

He is clearly a burst player, as he doesn’t have an engine or a defensive bone in his body!

+1

[Goose is king]

Gresham needs to be used like Papley. A forward who occasionally goes to the center bounces and attacks the ball dangerously with no real care about his opponent

[SAINT-LEE]

Problem is

Gresham is perhaps our most dynamic stoppage and CB player

He, unlike our other mids except Zak Jones explodes from stoppage

He is clearly a burst player, as he doesn’t have an engine or a defensive bone in his body!

Also
I don’t get this idea that playing in certain positions protects a player from injury.
You can get injured in any contest, in any part of the ground in every aspect.

Forwards are explosive and have a defender hanging off them - so it could be argued they are at greater risk than the aerobic beasts covering the whole ground?

I don't know...As a forward....Paddy concussed everytime a stiff breeze blew...chuck him into defense he literally crashes packs leading with his head.