08-11-2023, 07:07 AM
(08-11-2023, 05:47 AM)LP link Wrote:I like your faith in the squad, but if we go to Charlie so predictably this week, he'll be at the mercy of May and Lever and there won't be many crumbing opportunities.
You wouldn't put it past May to have it in his head to take the wind out of Charlie's sails before the finals, ............ given the opportunity just perform a little confidence adjustment!
This game will be a good test for a variety of reasons.
Firstly, the most celebrated rucks in the game vs 2 blokes cop their fair share of flak.
Secondly, the importance of having TDK play forward (out of necessity) could win us the game or lose us the game. I'm excited to see which.
Let me explain...
Obviously the ruck thing is self explanatory so i'll skip to point 2.
TDK winning or losing us the game is down to this.
Either he performs to a suitable level and requires someone like May to stand him for the entire game, freeing up Charlie to be more 1 on 1 (basically what we are hoping for)
or
TDK is largely useless up forward, we play into their hands and Charlie gets double teamed anyway, but we have 1 less effective forward to help him out.
By playing TDK, we are actually giving someone for May/Lever to play on in tandem with Charlie.
If TDK wasn't there, their backline could be too top heavy and May/Lever would be forced to play on a small.....who they wouldn't be able to keep up with.
It reminds me of Setanta and his (3) little helpers. Teams couldn't match up on Walker, Betts and Garlett when Setanta was the only key forward. They were usually too tall, and trying to play their 2nd tall on Walker (a 190cm highflying, agile, fast/hard running medium type) meant they were beaten in one or more of those areas. If they put their best medium/small defender on Walker, one of the other 2 would have a day out. They each had 48, 50 and 56 goals with that smaller/unconventional forward setup.
It could work for us this week, but we may never know.