03-29-2021, 06:35 AM
(03-29-2021, 05:53 AM)Raydan link Wrote:It's not just about selection, it's about the position they play. Setterfield on the wing 19 meters gained???!!!???Lets talk about Setterfield and where soft players end up.........usually on a wing. Not sure what happened over summer but he has a bad case of the handbrake harry whites and been pulling up short in contests and avoiding contact.
While Walsh has done well on the ball, it looks as if he will need to be on the wing, so we have runners outside and Setterfield inside, but does that make us too big and slow.
What about Ed Curnow? Still good enough, plays his guts out, but by playing him on the wing do we do a Bolton and play Ed out of position? If we bring Stocker in, are we going to play him inside on the ball? Or is he a Williamson replacement? Again playing a natural midfielder out of position.
Can we play Ed of a HFF flank that pushes into the mid after the ball has been bounced and Cripps goes to HFF and plays the lead up to the wings for a rebound. He has the hands to take an over head mark then hopefully feed of to the runners.
This way we can play Cripps as a forward half inside mid against a HBF and Stocker (If playing BP) can be the same in the back half.
I agree with most he needs to get back to the coalface but we cant send him there the way he has been playing, he is just too non contested at the minute and needs some time in the twos to get some confidence.
I think he is a decent player but one who is out of form and giving him somewhere easy to play isnt helping him or the team.
His role is to support Cripps and become a top big bodied mid with us, I see him as a Josh Dunkley type who might not be silky smooth but can play that support mid role to Cripps as well as lock onto an opposing tall mid who is giving us trouble much like Dunkley does for the Dogs.
Its really important he makes it as a top line player and I hope the coaching staff are working hard to get him back on track and attacking the ball properly.