(07-07-2024, 04:12 AM)kruddler date Wrote:You can when you are carrying someone every week in Fantasia.Yesterday, BigH was red hot in the opening term, then TDK rolls his ankle and our red hot KPF is moved up the ground and out of F50
simply because we went into the game without a viable plan B. That's not a viable option, it's not a plan, taking our only functional KPF and sending them out of goal range is insanity.
Some want to point at Jackson replacing Darcy in yesterday's Freo game, but Jackson for Darcy's was the back up plan not the starting solution. Jackson gets to do what he did for 1/2 a game because Darcy had shouldered the early load. we can have a similar scenario, we have a very similar Midfield and we have a far stronger F50.
What's harder to find, a functional KPF or a competitive ruck?
The game was then over for the next 2-1/2 qtrs, what happened in the last was all too late and too little, partly triggered by GWS' own moves.
The same will likely happen on GF Day if we suffer a similar circumstance. Sure it's rare, but so are GF appearances.
What we did in the last quarter yesterday isn't sustainable, it comes at a huge cost and it will impact us in the coming weeks, that impact will also come on top of any potential injuries from putting legless blokes back on the field.
Next week, TDK, Weiters and maybe McGovern could be our new Rnd 17 Kennedy.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"