03-01-2018, 07:15 AM
(03-01-2018, 12:52 AM)mateinone link Wrote:In a post I done a couple of months ago and based purely on last seasons form I had him only slight below Marchank and Plowman for the season and I had him ahead of all the other Under 21 players except Curnow and Marchbank. I rated him a 69 on the season with Plowman a 72 and Marchbank a 73.
For a 2nd year player, his season was still good and still better than a lot of our other players, including 3 of the Rising Star nominees (imo)
....and where was Jones? I'm tipping above all of them as well.
Which is my point. The other 3, are all in good form and held down the major defensive posts down back.
You can have your 3 best players rated 99, 98 and 97....but if they are all ruckmen, then you can't fit them all in the side.
Nobody is saying Weitering isn't talented, or couldn't perform at AFL level. Just saying that it is possible, that the blokes we have currently playing a similar role to him, are playing it better than he has/will and we may be better off for team balance (getting more mids into the side) not having him in it.
Bolts wanted to play the kids last year. So many debutants, so many rising stars. Yet even he admitted that he played too many in 1 game (port??) and said he got it wrong. Team balance was all out of whack and we got flogged. The same is possible for key backs.
Hell, Setanta and his little helpers gave teams all sorts of grief because it we were so small and would run off/around/through their 'excess' key defenders when played against us. I think the game is heading a little bit towards the way we played it then, with Richmond being the obvious point of reference.