(07-05-2018, 12:15 AM)laj link Wrote:Spin!
If you tackle someone they're not running off you as you've caught them. He was taking a contested mark or two most weeks and hitting the scoreboard. He hasn't been around like Kennedy or Reiwoldt yet. How was Kennedy in his first 3 years here? All he lacks is confidence. Not sure he'll be getting that playing VFL. I'd give him a bit more of a run in the ruck than we do just for the sake of him of letting run around freely, following the ball and taking a few marks. Touches give confidence. It was something that worked alot better for Levi, and probably others at other clubs, so I suggest we do the same here. It's a damn tough gig before a forward on our forward line if you're stuck there so more runs on the ball can only help. Fraser does that more in the VFL than the AFL.
I'm arguing why McKay isn't getting a game now, and you are telling me how good he might be in the future, but at an immediate cost!
It might work better for Levi, running around being free in the ruck, but it doesn't work out well for the team and just half a game of Rowe doing the same job highlighted that a couple of weeks ago! An uncomfortable fact for some but it was blatantly obvious to many!
As a club, and a club is made up of many players, we can't keep flogging the team for the benefit of one! We will end up losing too many players, and we won't attract the the types we need! As Spock said,
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few!"
Pick one Levi or McKay, we cannot carry two!
btw., You must be aware that in the VFL they mostly ruck Kerr not McKay, and for that matter they ruck De Koning ahead of McKay as well, because Kerr and De Koning are far more effective! In weeks past that put McKay in 5th place for the ruck rotations, behind Phillips, Lobbe, De Koning and Kerr!
So you want the guy traveling in clear 5th place in the 2s ruck to come up and be the 2IC ruck in the 1s, it would be faster to just go out there and kick Kreuzer and the mids in the face than have them die by a thousand cuts!McKay deserves his run in the 1s as much as SoJ deserved his run in the midfield, and how long did that experiment last, now SoJ is a HBF! Talk about pulling the trigger early, that's about as positive as I can get! :o
Like SoJ in the midfield, McKay needs months or even a season in the 2s to sort out his KPP problems, anything less is desperation and rolling the dice! To me it borders Carlton on being unprofessional! McKay has had a taste of AFL, but I haven't seen him doing the team things consistently, he doesn't have to play AFL to learn that!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"