06-20-2022, 08:14 AM
I quite like the idea of having Kemp in the midfield, assuming we get a bit of height back. He is mobile and attacks the ball quite well, and very few mids out there could compete with him in the air. He isn't slow either.
I wouldn't mind if we managed to find a young mid with real extreme pace to break out of the centre square: it is probably the only sort of mid we don't really have yet. Fisher is the closest. It just gives us that little bit extra, which I would love.
But we already have issues fitting all out top mids in the centre square. Now that Dow and Setterfield are finally showing something, they can't get a look-in.
I still like the idea of Kemp as a mid, but I don't think we can afford it at the moment.
Later in the year I would be quite amenable to giving him time in there at VFL level to see how he can produce.
To be honest, we don't have a bad bunch of taller players. Their problem as a group is that they can't stay on the field. It means that we'll probably look for a key defender at the draft, someone like Gibcus. Perhaps we can snaffle one on the cheap, but I would like another top defender down there.
Oscar Mac, alas, has had it. back injuries are very difficult to come back from, as he has demonstrated. I know that wasn't specifically why Melbourne flicked him, but he filled the bill for us perfectly. He just wasn't able to stay on the park.
He could well have become our Petty, the third tall defender at Melbourne who get most of the hard jobs. It would be nice if we can aim for someone like that, especially if there is a physical defender out there who is not getting the game time for one reason or another.
I am happy to see Michael Lewis and Tyreece Liu playing in the VFL at the moment. They mightn't be the players to fix the key posts, but I'd like to see them get a chance to show what they can do. Certainly Liu played his best game at the weekend, after Akuei went off with concussion.
I wouldn't mind if we managed to find a young mid with real extreme pace to break out of the centre square: it is probably the only sort of mid we don't really have yet. Fisher is the closest. It just gives us that little bit extra, which I would love.
But we already have issues fitting all out top mids in the centre square. Now that Dow and Setterfield are finally showing something, they can't get a look-in.
I still like the idea of Kemp as a mid, but I don't think we can afford it at the moment.
Later in the year I would be quite amenable to giving him time in there at VFL level to see how he can produce.
To be honest, we don't have a bad bunch of taller players. Their problem as a group is that they can't stay on the field. It means that we'll probably look for a key defender at the draft, someone like Gibcus. Perhaps we can snaffle one on the cheap, but I would like another top defender down there.
Oscar Mac, alas, has had it. back injuries are very difficult to come back from, as he has demonstrated. I know that wasn't specifically why Melbourne flicked him, but he filled the bill for us perfectly. He just wasn't able to stay on the park.
He could well have become our Petty, the third tall defender at Melbourne who get most of the hard jobs. It would be nice if we can aim for someone like that, especially if there is a physical defender out there who is not getting the game time for one reason or another.
I am happy to see Michael Lewis and Tyreece Liu playing in the VFL at the moment. They mightn't be the players to fix the key posts, but I'd like to see them get a chance to show what they can do. Certainly Liu played his best game at the weekend, after Akuei went off with concussion.
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