05-26-2023, 06:18 AM
(05-26-2023, 06:05 AM)LP link Wrote:Nobody has stated he's getting a gig was undeserved, but that doesn't take away from his recent ineffectiveness in some of the roles the club has asked him to do, it's not his fault, it's MC stupidity!
Fans calling for him to be 2nd ruck better hope they do not get what they are asking for, I've written it before and I'll write it again the ruck is prematurely ending his career and not through injury. If he is going to be purely judged in our playing him as a ruck it's slur on his good name, because despite all the good effort he brings he is not up to it!
He can be an effective HFF, Wing or perhaps even a tagger. All roles he has done well in, but in 2023 under the way the game is being adjudicated ruck is over as an option for him.
We(Carlton) hurt a lot of players by not managing them in a horses for coarses approach, in my opinion Scott at the Handbaggers are the best in the business at having the right player in the right role and managing them through the season. I hope Cook brings some of it and makes players understand they can't all be the big show!
You seem to think 2nd ruck is his primary focus. Its not.
He plays there for (at most) 1/4 of the game.
He spends slightly less time on the bench.
But over half his game is played in his primary role of forward.
Do we use him well enough as a forward....not really. We don't target him much at all as we are too Charlie/Harry focused.
If we played him out of the square (with his 3rd defender) and cleared some room for him, and actually kicked him the ball, he'd go ok. But thats not what we do.
We expect him to get the ball the hard way...off the deck, or through defensive efforts.
I'd like to see a breakdown of forward 50 targets of all our forwards. I suspect that Jack and the 3 small forwards combine for less than 1/3 of all targets, possibly less than 1/4, with the 2 big blokes getting up to 2/3->3/4's of the targets.
Makes it hard for him to have an impact in his primary role when they don't kick him the ball.