Jack Silvagni - The Ultimate Medical Sub

[PaulP]

I think Vossy has covered most of the reasons.  Did he also mention over-using the ball and not providing opportunities for handball receives?

Our small forwards are great at putting pressure on opposition defenders and helping out in the midfield and in defence, but they're not troubling the scorers.  When you have an advantage with your tall forwards, in terms of both quantity and quality, opposition defenders shouldn't be marking a lot of kicks inside 50; marking contests should be won by our talls or brought to ground.  Our small forwards aren't capitalising on those opportunities and it's generally Charlie or midfielders that do the crumbing.  In that context, playing Jack, Tom and Pitto is the best option ... but not necessarily an underdone Pitto.

I don't recall Voss mentioning those. I think he was pretty grumpy about being overpowered at the contest, and that was the focus of his presser.

I've got nothing against Durdin (in fact I rather like him), but what we saw on Saturday night was an 18 man problem. Durdin would've made no difference.

I haven't watched much of the Crows, but what I saw on the weekend matches the word around the traps, which is that they are a tough, honest, blue collar team, who for once also looked polished as well. Their best game for the year, and our worst IMO.