(04-20-2023, 11:45 PM)Mav date Wrote:I guess we can’t ask much more from guys who are hardly in the running for AA selection. If only we had an elite small forward such as Kossie Pickett or Josh Rachele.So much of this depends on team tactics, it's not really fair to compare players on such uneven terms.
Rochelle basically came into a club that had a SF crumbing game plan developed around Betts over a decade.
Kossie Pickett plays in a team with no clearly defined KPF, Gawn is probably their closest thing to a KPF this season, and can you imagine our Durdin and Motlop with Gawn working for them inside F50?
We complain too much about who, and we don't really complain enough about not getting the best out of what we've got. FFS, we have two Coleman medallists inside F50 and a game plan that sits the pill on their head at least 50% of the time! Mostly Charlie and BigH are occupying 2 or more defenders, and we bomb it to them, where is our decision making, where is our spare numbers if Charlie and BigH have 2 or more guarding them? :o
Think of last Thursday, when the Crow onballers and HBs were running off our Mids in numbers, when we occasionally forced a turnover, FFS how can it be we were kicking to contests when many of our Mids and HF had already trailed behind the streaming Crows? The Crows had numbers forward of the ball, and numbers behind the ball, we must have been beaten at the contest by ghosts!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"