05-09-2019, 03:28 AM
I too like Dow's dare and on a number of occasions he's grabbed it out of the middle, burnt off an opponent, had a bounce....and then put it out of bounds or through for a point or over the head of a bloke on the lead. You'd like to think that if kicking is one of his poor areas then at training he's doing specialist work on that particular element of his game? It gets increasingly frustrating for supporters like us to see it continually turned over because of poor skills. I accept it that they're young blokes who take time to develop and probably sounding like a broken record but we have so few blokes on our list that are elite with the ball by foot. Do we not draft any or do we focus so much on other parts of the game that a basic element like kicking goes out the window? If we haven't got any elite ball users then maybe go after a few in the trade period this year. Someone suggested Tomlinson recently and I think the club was into him a few years back but we went for Marchbank. Tomlinson is good by foot, either side of his body and a good size too. Williamson is one who can kick it so hopefully he can get some games under his belt in coming weeks and we can use that strength in his game.