(05-09-2022, 02:25 AM)Gointocarlton date Wrote:The point is, what they do in fact produce is highly rated within (ie its not just about goals)It's never about goals outside of the public commentary, it's always about the other stuff.
Nthmond have a team full of blokes like this surrounding a few select KPFs, in fact less KPF's than us, yet it is what has delivered them multiple flags. Fans concentrate on Dusty, Cotchin, Lynch and Riewoldt, but it's the stuff that happens around them that lets them go to work! It's very analogous to fans being obsessed with hit outs, when in fact the hit out matters very little if the other 2nd or 3rd effort stuff is in place, stuff nobody attributes, nobody notices(except coaches) or ever records!
Cripps can't do what he does this season if he hasn't got guys like Kennedy, Walsh and Hewett sacrificing around him, because one contest and he's done and that contest in isolation means nothing. I was worried when we lost Pitto we'd lose the 2nd or 3rd efforts in and around the ruck, but TDK and especially SoJ have picked up right where Pitto left off. It's A-Grade stoppage coaching by SpecialK and whoever else is involved, given the way it seems to be happening I suspect Voss has a massive say and needs some genuine credit.
btw., Did you like the way Cripps gave Saad some direction in live play about where to run to receive the handball? It shows Cripps is in a supreme space at the moment, his level of awareness is 2nd to none, he had eyes on two approaching opponents and still could direct Saad into the space he was about to create! Further, I suspect if the opponents took Cripps direction and went to Saad, Cripps would have ducked inboard and went on his merry way, it was magnificent football.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"