03-26-2024, 03:36 PM
(03-26-2024, 11:08 AM)kruddler link Wrote:https://central.rookieme.com/afl/player/brodie-kemp/One mans opinion, sure, but shared by plenty of others.
Not sure how many 'midfield extractors' are classed as KPD's a year later.
Despite the size difference and despite my own personal opinion on the matter, i'd still prefer to play Weitering and Kemp over Weitering and Young.
Only way kemp will be defeated is if our team defence fails and he's left 1-on-1 with his taller opponent with no chance to jump at the ball.
Young on the other hand could be defeated by his opponent a number of ways.
Kemp played a couple of games in the midfield as a junior, that's it. SOS said that Kemp could play midfield when he was drafted, but he said that about Plowman, Marchbank, Stocker, and others. Despite the 'midfield extractor' tag, Kemp has played all of his football for us as a KPP.
Kemp does get beaten by taller opponents in one on one contests - Gawn in the semi - and by stronger opponents like Balta. He also loses contests when he attempts to mark rather than spoil. Young is more conservative and is happy to kill the contest if there's doubt about the outcome. Young is a better match up for Larkey and Coleman-Kones than Kemp is, and I would play both, regardless of whether Weitering is in the team.
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