(07-15-2024, 12:55 AM)Baggers date Wrote:Expecting 'bull' work from Fog, Ollie & Walsh is a folly. Our 'bulls' are Crippa, Kennedy, Cincotta and Hewett. Walsh and Cerra are better on the outside and Fog in the small forward mix.That's not the point, the mix doesn't matter it's the sharing of the load that gets a team across the line. We mentioned many times in the past if we don't find ways to share the load we will run the likes of Cripps prematurely into the ground.
As for having a substitute Cripps, it's a fantasy, there is no "other Cripps".
Good tradespeople look after their tools.
Fog, Walsh, Cincotta, etc., can do what gets done to Cripps, and harass, chase and dump the likes of Bont or others. At the weekend, Bont often stood of the back of the stoppages and played a sweeper role, coming in as the 2nd or 3rd player, and he was doing so largely unchecked.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"