05-18-2018, 02:53 AM
(05-18-2018, 02:48 AM)laj link Wrote:Tapouts i'm not interested in. We won the clearances and he was brilliant around the ground. Gawn has won the tapout counts easily at times but for Melbourne to be thrashed in the clearances. Gawn's strength is around the ground too. GWS lost the tapout count 47-4 against Brisbane but won the clearances by 20.
Got much more important things to address.
Yes tapouts are a rubbish stat if they are not clearly to advantage and most are not. Jacobs is a great example of this, he can rack up 40 or 50 taps and barely have a noticeable effect, but have him take a dozen marks around the ground and he is a match winner.
Kreuizer can ruck solo provided nothing happens to Cripps, and we do have Jones who most of us would like to see get an AFL run in the ruck, not just a minute or two at the end of games.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"