Fisher had a Barry Crocker yesterday, Kennedy and LoB had a few fumbles as well, the all ran hard but when they needed to be clean they panicked and it can be demoralising for those around them. I give them credit for doing the work to get near the footy, often first to the footy, but you can't surrender it like that so often like that and still get a pat on the back.
Selecting Fogarty was just a mistake, I didn't expect anything based I what I saw earlier and he delivered to expectation, so we should not be shocked or upset. We can't have Fisher, Fogarty and Boyd all in one team and play a contested ball winning game style. They just do not have enough pace to gain an advantage on the outside, especially when Walsh also appears to be struggling given an interrupted pre-season.
Some fans are dirty on Martin, and no doubt he doesn't get enough of the footy, but he does deliver a different set of skills when he's competing overhead. However, if we play Pitto and De Koning, allowing SoJ to play forward, then I think Martin is a duplication of the SoJ forward play and as a result is redundant.
I thought given the barrage of football coming into our D50 the core defensive setup was OK. None of them failed but they will always be pretty powerless when continually outnumbered given an opponent gets so many deep and easy entries. My only criticism was that our D50 did not attack enough, perhaps that was more plan to keep De Koning rucking longer and not have to push so deep into D50.
When Cripps got injured, given Kennedy was having an ordinary day and Cerra was quiet, should we have given Setterfield a midfield run? Setterfield's certainly been covering the ground so he must be midfield fit.
Selecting Fogarty was just a mistake, I didn't expect anything based I what I saw earlier and he delivered to expectation, so we should not be shocked or upset. We can't have Fisher, Fogarty and Boyd all in one team and play a contested ball winning game style. They just do not have enough pace to gain an advantage on the outside, especially when Walsh also appears to be struggling given an interrupted pre-season.
Some fans are dirty on Martin, and no doubt he doesn't get enough of the footy, but he does deliver a different set of skills when he's competing overhead. However, if we play Pitto and De Koning, allowing SoJ to play forward, then I think Martin is a duplication of the SoJ forward play and as a result is redundant.
I thought given the barrage of football coming into our D50 the core defensive setup was OK. None of them failed but they will always be pretty powerless when continually outnumbered given an opponent gets so many deep and easy entries. My only criticism was that our D50 did not attack enough, perhaps that was more plan to keep De Koning rucking longer and not have to push so deep into D50.
When Cripps got injured, given Kennedy was having an ordinary day and Cerra was quiet, should we have given Setterfield a midfield run? Setterfield's certainly been covering the ground so he must be midfield fit.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"