(05-02-2018, 11:12 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:Thats assuming Kreuzer can actually run around for 4 quarters. In his 3 games thus far this season, he has played 66%, 71% and 80% of game time, whilst Phillips has gone at 86% and 83% of game time.
It all points to Kreuzer not being fit, and that means you don't play him unless he has proven he is not only right to play, but is also fit enough to run an opposition ruckman around the ground.
Firstly given he was injured Rnd 1 it's not bad.
ToG figures are pretty meaningless without careful cross correlation to intensity, any spud can spend 100% ToG but be sauntering around like a goose!
It would be interesting to know how much ground is covered by various players, which would give you meters per minute or Intensity as the AFL fitness pepole like to call it. I wouldn't be surprised to find Kreuzer pre-injury right at the top of the list of our bigger players.
It's one of my biggest bugbears with SPS, there is nothing worse than seeing a young fit bloke like SPS jogging along in the background as someone like Daisy or Wright sprints past him after the ball carrier.
If my assertion about Kreuzer having a Psoas injury is correct, you won't see him regain full running intensity until next season. He'll be OK as long as it's straight line stuff, but direction changes will be very sluggish by his normal standards. If I was coaching against Kreuzer I'd ask his opponent to weave and zag all over the place, lots of lateral movement and try to get Kreuzer following. If I was coaching Kreuzer, I'd tell him to ignore chasing opponents too far laterally and hold the main corridor to force them wide, let them run themselves into the ground avoiding a contest.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"