08-24-2024, 01:45 PM
(08-24-2024, 11:41 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:I'd have Cincotta on Sinclair and reduce the supply. Membrey is a good contested mark, that's not Cincotta's strong area IMHO. Saints runners in Hill, Wanganeen Milera, Wilson, and Sinclair are players I would be spending time on.
Young playing loose would worry me, Saints don't have a player for him to match up on. Owens, Sharman, Higgins and Butler know where the goals are too and would all be too mobile for Young Imho.
Rather than contested marks, Membrey has the knack of losing his defender and marking unopposed. Stopping that is a team defence concern.
If we can get our team defence right, Young focuses on intercept marks and/or killing the ball in contested marking situations. Weitering then gets to concentrate on organising the defence and setting up our transition.
Our forward line, sans Charlie and Harry, is still far more potent than St Kilda’s.
Hill is a spent force but we do need to curtail Wanganeen-Milera’s run out of defence. The best way to do that is to make sure he’s got a genuine forward threat to worry about and Elijah Hollands can do that in spades. And that should be the key to the game; despite missing Charlie, Harry, Tom, Fog, et al, our 23 is better than their 23 … provided that we play to our potential.
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