VFL 2021 Rd 4: Carlton vs the Footscray

[ianh]

I look at this team and I think as I have for every game this season: where are out talls? Tom de Koning is the only ruck. Yet, Kennedy is named as a rover!
There are positives about this team, but the lack of taller options sticks out like a sore thumb.

Lack of options I guess although one of Gundry or Mirkov would make a difference.  Gundry in Under 23s match and Mirkov don't know about.  They have Delaney on the bench who is a KPU/Ruck and could perhaps be slotted in down back to give us at least one genuine tall down there.  He or Wooller can provide the chop out for TDK.  Pretty clear from that lineup TDK won't be the injury sub for the ones.  On that basis we lose one of the mids Setter/Dow/SPS to that role.

The Dogs have named both Scahche and Ugle-Hagan up forward and unlikely JUH will be the injury sub so expect we will never to cover 2 tall forwards with effectively zero tall defenders.  Delaney could take one, perhaps Wooller gets played back but then zero talls in the forward line.  Ben Silvagni did a job on JUH last week aided by double-teaming perhaps that is what we need to do.

Radovanovic  is as far as I am aware purely a defender but I wonder whether it would be worth seeing how he would go up forward if we had to play Wooller and Delaney back?  Might be a bust but one of the advantages of running our own VFL team is we can trial this sort of thing.

Notice that they have ex-Blue Jesse Glass-McCasker at FB.  He v Wooller would be an interesting athletic matchup.