06-19-2022, 05:34 AM
(06-18-2022, 12:04 PM)blueboys_1 link Wrote:Watched the 2nds game on Friday night and was impresed by Mirkov with a couple of things that he did, a volloyball swat at the ball to knock it out of bounds, and a gather and handball over the pack to a free teammate, however apart from those 2 highligts he did not do much else. Personally I think he is still 12 -18 months away from been ready for his AFL debut.He probably isnt ready but as Krud pointed out in his post(26) expectations are low and its more to allow TDK to fill that hole down back and also provides TDK with some type of proper rest after banging bodies with Darcy and Lobb .
We all love Jack and he has been great but as what happened with Shaun Grigg teams began to change tactics and took advantage of the size difference by playing either two genuine rucks or rucking their senior rucks against him and apart from the obvious losing the ruck contests there is a fair chance Jack will get hurt vs the giants like Darcy and we are doing a young man like TDK no favours either by asking him to play so many minutes onball and its denying us of his abilities down forward as well.
Players often lift when playing senior footy and I think Mirkov might be similar to Ned Reeves of Hawthorn who was very raw but has acquitted himself well at senior level..