(03-01-2018, 09:54 PM)DJC link Wrote:I don’t think any one player will replace Gibbs. We have several new and developing players with different abilities and attributes who will more than cover his absence in a very different midfield set up.
As for Daisy, he played his role and was important at times, but some of his decision making and disposals were woeful. I guess we can put that down to blowing the cobwebs out ...
I feel sorry for Daisy, if he isn't clearly BoG by some margin he gets bagged mercilessly, in that JLT game he was clearly among our best and gets no credit.
The coach wanted creative and it was the old blokes including Kreuzer, Thomas, Wright, Murphy, Plowman and Simmo that got busy creating those opportunities for the likes of Dow, Cripps, Pickett and Garlett that everyone is raving about. The fans focus on the people in the final link and ignore the acts and events that started it all off! But quite often it was the older blokes causing the Aints structures to break down, or the older blokes forcing the turnover. It's not always the case that you have to have your hands on the ball either, some of those runs and leads wouldn't have happened if guys like Wright and Thomas hadn't created space by dragging Aints players away from the ball.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"