(07-01-2020, 11:14 PM)DJC date Wrote:I reckon Setterfield does a solid defensive job each week and is winning more of the ball with each game. I think that he will be a very good player for us for many years to come.I think guys like Fisher and Cuningham are both too small and light to be expected to perform in traffic to a high level week in and week out, it is just too tiring for them even if they survive the brutality of the contest.
Fisher’s best is very good but he goes missing too much. If he can become more consistent (like Cuners) he could be a very important player. Perhaps he needs better players around him :-\
We’ll see tonight and I hope he has a ripper game!
Setterfield is different, he's a different size and weight, he's got to get his head around not being an outside receiver ever, he cannot waste his and the clubs time by being a passive observer at the contest. Like Cripps, Setterfield must be one of the players taking affirmative action in traffic and stoppages! Setterfield needs to think of himself as a poor mans Cripps or Fyfe, nobody expects him to be racking up 35 possessions with 20 contested hard ball gets, but if he is in there competing the opposition do not get easy footy either. When he observes he is too slow to impact the contest, he's no good as a hunter of players because he can't catch them, so he has to hunt the football.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"