06-09-2021, 12:58 PM
(06-09-2021, 11:10 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:Ryan is a strong mark and needs a strong player in the air on him, none of our smaller defenders are great above their head and
he needs to be bodied up and not allowed free passage leading or jumping.
I dont blame Stocker it was a coaching debacle IMO and if thats a sample of Amos at work then he needs firing out the door with Barker...help cost us the game and damaged a young kid in the process...your quite Brilliant Dale Amos/David Teague.
Ryan is a difficult match-up for all teams; they're aren't many defenders with the speed to go with him and the ability to stop him marking. It was a very poor decision to (a) continue to play Stocker out of position and (b) play him on Ryan. Jones took Ryan for a while and kept him pretty quiet. Of course, he was required to play on a tall forward.
Apart from poor team selection and the coach's inability/reluctance to move players, it highlights our lack of a genuine hard-nosed lock down defender.
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