(04-30-2018, 05:46 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:re: Weitering...Rance didnt run around trying to avoid contact or have the coach trying to hide him on the field and find a soft opponent for him either.
That's not quite true though is it EB1.
My Nthmond friends tell me Rance's early career was actually quite like the way Liam Jones plays at the moment, A-Grade chook runner trying to fly high and spoil marks everywhere was one description I got! He came good towards the end of his 3rd year, and they put that down to the arrival of Martin, Grigg and Houli that year or before, because they pushed back hard to clean up Rance's spoils.
What Nthmond didn't do, was waste trying to turn the kid into a key forward!
My big question over our club this year is the same as Deags, when we switched to attack we deserted the defenders and it made them look very ordinary, we didn't have the players coming off the HBF or Wing pushing back very hard at all! We still don't, watch the weekends game and closely monitor SPS, Marchbank, Dow and Simmo. It's not about top speed, because they seem to run half speed on the return journey. It leaves us looking outnumbered everywhere!
In fairness to Simmo, he must be full up to pussies bow with it, he looks tired and it's only 25% of the way through the season! But that doesn't mean he gets a free pass to butcher the football, he's got to be much better than the kids, not just the equal of them!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"