04-15-2019, 10:44 AM
(04-15-2019, 09:50 AM)Jack Burton link Wrote:Been surprised watching Charlie this year, is still moving well and getting to lots of contests, but seems to be dropping what for him are easy marks way to regularly. I suspect he may have a finger/hand injury that we don't know about
I reckon he might be suffering from Nick Riewoldts problem.
Spends too much time running around in circles to get the ball, by the time he does he's stuffed and makes silly decisions because he is mentally and physically exhausted.
Not sure if it was the 1st game or 2nd game, but they flashed up km's run and Charlie was top 3 on the ground, and it was late in the 3rd quarter or even 4th quarter. There are like 15 mids on the ground, and he's running more than them.
I know its from yesteryear, but how good of a kick was Plugger? How many kms you reckon he ran?
Short bursts, lead, mark, kick a goal, repeat.
Our forward line has the best hands in the league. Why do we need them to run so many kms? Let them stay at home more, fly for marks and whatever they don't take have the little blokes feed off them.
If we want Charlie to be receiving the ball up around the wings as a hitup forward, just play him on a wing instead. He'll be in the same position of the ground, but doing less kms to do the same job, thus less fatigued. Yes, he's an athletic beast, but that doesn't mean we need to run him into the ground in every game!