(04-20-2021, 03:55 AM)cookie2 date Wrote:I think he tends to take on aspects of others' roles in a "if you want the job done well, do it yourself" kind of way.I think we(The Club) did this to him, when we started listening to media and experts that Cripps should be a CHF.
He's a mid-fielder, an inside the contest ball magnet, and we've turned him into a utility.
I'll go further, the only time he looked useful inside F50 to me is when he is at the fall of the ball roving the marking contest. Nobody is going to out mark Levi, Big H and McGovern, and nobody is going to out muscle Cripps. Our smalls should be switched onto this. Several times Cripps gets the ground ball within a wall of opponents and no passing team-mates to offload to, they all hang back! FFS, when the contest is on all Big H has to do is put one of those huge mitts in the air and bring the ball to his feet! Instead more than once you can see the defender get a clear 15m punch away, that should never happen.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"