07-30-2017, 01:44 AM
When a full squad is up and running everyone has a job.
Cripps has one, Gibbs and Murphy have one, Curnow usually takes a tagging role on one of the opposition midfielders.
A player like Cripps draws a lot of attention from the opposition.
If he goes down that attention switches to the next most dangerous tier....Gibbs and Murphy.
If Curnow goes down a dangerous opposition midfielder also enters the equation.
Gibbs and Murphy now not only have to do their own jobs but they need to pick up the slack left by the absences....and they have to do it under increased opposition scrutiny.
One soldier out, another in....but our problem is the replacements are still in cadets.
Cripps has one, Gibbs and Murphy have one, Curnow usually takes a tagging role on one of the opposition midfielders.
A player like Cripps draws a lot of attention from the opposition.
If he goes down that attention switches to the next most dangerous tier....Gibbs and Murphy.
If Curnow goes down a dangerous opposition midfielder also enters the equation.
Gibbs and Murphy now not only have to do their own jobs but they need to pick up the slack left by the absences....and they have to do it under increased opposition scrutiny.
One soldier out, another in....but our problem is the replacements are still in cadets.