07-14-2024, 12:02 AM
You look at the stats and we won most of them, dominated the hitouts but really only broke even in the clearances/stoppages like vs GWS. Dominating teams in this area has been a feature of our wins and having such a one paced midfield exposes us when we only break even. Cripps again was a lone hand and its mystifying why the in form Hewett and Kennedy have been dropped or relegated in Kennedys case to sub as a lot of us have been saying.
The flow on effect seems to be Walsh unable to break his tag and being subdued, Id also add when you play Pittonet as the ruckman we lose TDK's clearance ability where I think he provides better value than his actual ruckwork.
IMO Voss and the MC have played this team out of form by trying to be too cute at selection and in efforts to manage workload havent got it right and picked the wrong opponents to be fiddling with selections given players like Cerra and Cottrell have come back in cold and not been able to add much.
The flow on effect seems to be Walsh unable to break his tag and being subdued, Id also add when you play Pittonet as the ruckman we lose TDK's clearance ability where I think he provides better value than his actual ruckwork.
IMO Voss and the MC have played this team out of form by trying to be too cute at selection and in efforts to manage workload havent got it right and picked the wrong opponents to be fiddling with selections given players like Cerra and Cottrell have come back in cold and not been able to add much.