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[crashlander]

Kicking is not 1AWs strong suit, I have no idea why we keep playing him back!

Andrew has probably played his most disciplined and consistent football in defence, which does say something. Probably his best year was in attack. But that year his kicking for goal was statistically the best in the competition. He took the most marks of his career, including his highlight mark against Essendon. Our mids had a lot of confidence in him and picked him out by choice, and, with Betts and Garlett picking up the tag, he managed to get a few crumbs as well.
Since then his forward play has been poor to non existent. When played there recently he simply hasn't worked hard enough and had a minimal number of possessions. His kicking for goal has been unbelievably bad and his team mates haven't had any confidence in him at all. He hasn't got any crumbs because he hasn't been close to the contest and he hasn't had any marks at all.
I am not sure that it is just a confidence thing either. I am sure that our forward structures and general forward movement would make things difficult for God if he were in our forward line.
As a result he has been played where he concentrates best: defence. Alas, he hasn't shown any run and he has been completely reactive. But that is where Andrew is at the moment. He is so far from his best form that it is hard recognizing him as the same player who destroyed Milne a couple of years back, or who kick about 50 goals in a season.

Over the years lots of supporters have bagged the blokes we tried to turn into KPFs, but the reality is with the delivery they get from our team(Our team the worst kicking team in the AFL by some comfortable margin) they had virtually no hope of developing as forwards!

Our delivery has been pretty ordinary this century. We were complaining (and rightly) when Fev lead out and the ball went just about anywhere except to his advantage. We have a handful of truly skilled players and even they are butchering the ball at the moment. About the last one who could reliably hit targets was Houlihan!
I am sure our delivery will get better when we are not under so much perceived pressure. I am sure much of our game plan will look better when we get the ball out of the middle with ease instead of under the pump (the norm at this time). I am sure it will get better when we have more talent in our lineup and I am absolutely certain our delivery will be better when we have the forward structures and game plan to maximize what we have instead of minimizing it (the bomb and hope plan we presently 'enjoy').