(07-24-2018, 01:12 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Cripps is a bit unit and a great player, hard to stop, but I'd still tag him ..Jacobs from Nth beat him, Buckley use Pendlebury in an effective manner on him IMO, even a 25% reduction in Cripps capacity is worth it IMO.
To leave Mitchell on his own was inexcusable as Roos suggested....
I think that game supports my claim even more, Cripps won plenty of football but basically had nobody to hand it off to and he couldn't hurt Norp on his own. Our little mids were bullied by Norps big bodies on the outside with players like Ziebell, Cunnington and Higgins having field days!
Tagging Cripps is like trying to push the Titanic into dock with a straw, tagging a spreading player like Martin is more like hanging an extra tonne of weight on an F1, maybe it slows him down a little! But even then if it takes two or three to slow Martin that leaves Nthmond's speed free on the outside! We should be like Nthmond, let Cripps dish it out and have some speed to receive it on the outside!
I suppose our problem at the moment is that players like Dow, Polson, SPS, Pickett, Garlett and Fisher are easily slowed by a single opponent.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"