(07-07-2024, 04:05 AM)kruddler date Wrote:Do you even know what you are arguing at the moment? You just keep shovelling dirt not realising you are digging yourself deeper.My proposal is referentially self-consistent, I'm not contradicting my own case like your posts.
You can't have your cake and eat it, you can't have more players on the ground providing less run and still have maximum run and carry from the Mids no matter what you do with bench time. It's obvious, less run at either end of the ground has to be covered, and as [member=57]ElwoodBlues1[/member] points out, like many others on this forum, run and carry is our weakness.
Your solution comes at the very cost you have spent weeks maximally arguing against.
My proposal comes at a cost, bench time for Mids will be reduced, I argue that will have minimal impact, in much the same way that the injuries to TDK, Weiters and McGovern yesterday which reduced on field run and consumed extra bench time didn't stop us finishing strongly. But the advantage I think is in the flexibility it brings, the option to reshuffle and offer cover for unexpected circumstances at both either end of the ground.
As much as I hate the thought of Young in the ruck, he's still an option that brings flexibility, unlike yesterday's only solution to wrap and strap the broken so as to wheel them back out there!
From a season long perspective that loss wasn't the worst thing that could have happen from wheeling out the limping, but on GF day, if we get there, there won't be next week!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"