(07-24-2018, 01:02 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Not sure they would......Mitchell is vastly under rated, he has little class help either other than OMeara...if he stinks it up so much why did we try and make a play for him?
Cripps is tagged every week and subject to intense rotating pressure from different players, I'm sure Clarkson is happy for dummies like Bolton to ignore Mitchell and let him pick up 40 plus each week....
If those Cripps tags are worthwhile how can it be that he leads the AFLCA voting?
It's a mugs game, Cripps like Judd before him wants the opponents to come to him, opposition have the maximum effectiveness against Cripps when they run off him not when they try to tackle him! They hurt us more than he hurts them by ignoring him, they know he won't run and spread, and he rarely pushes forward. If he starts pushing forward more they have to look at him in far more detail, he even stated that is his goal for 2018, and it's sound thinking!
A few weeks back I argued against SoJ getting a mid-field run. One of the reasons for this was I could see SoJ shows his inexperience by going to his inside team-mate to help them, that counteracts players like Cripps and Kennedy, they want the opposition to come to them so they can release to someone like SoJ on the outside who can move the ball on quickly by hand!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"