12-30-2015, 03:42 PM
The AFL website was ranking all midfields in the comp. Found it pretty interesting to look how all the engine rooms in the AFL look stacked up against each other.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-12-29/th...-team-rank
No surprises with the top teams, but what I found interesting was that bar Sydney the top few teams all have the perfect setup in terms of attributes in their midfields. They all actually have legit protype gut busting wingers on the wings, not any random midfielder which the rest of the comp pretty much have. This might explain the issue with Sydney a little.
For e.g:
C: Isaac Smith, Sam Mitchell, Bradley Hill
Foll: Ben McEvoy, Luke Hodge, Jordan Lewis
Compared to us:
C: Kade Simpson, Patrick Cripps, Ed Curnow
Foll: Matthew Kreuzer, Bryce Gibbs, Marc Murphy
First of all Simpson will spend most of the year in a back pocket/flank and Curnow will tagging. Boekhorst is the logical 'winger' we have, with Cunningham the next best as a natural winger type if he is that. I'm assuming he is a pacy outside type from what I have read/heard.
This area is a bit of pet obsession of mine and feel it is always underrated. With a solid foundation to the midfield in Cripps we desperately need to add to this part in the next couple years. Would like to see Buckley step up on one of those wings, Graham to work alongside Cripps, Boekhorst on the other and Cunningham in the wings. No pun intended.
Looking past Murph and Gibbs as I am not sure they will be there for 17, we still need another bull to assist Cripps, another pacy gut busting runner and hopefully Graham keeps tracking along nicely.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-12-29/th...-team-rank
No surprises with the top teams, but what I found interesting was that bar Sydney the top few teams all have the perfect setup in terms of attributes in their midfields. They all actually have legit protype gut busting wingers on the wings, not any random midfielder which the rest of the comp pretty much have. This might explain the issue with Sydney a little.
For e.g:
C: Isaac Smith, Sam Mitchell, Bradley Hill
Foll: Ben McEvoy, Luke Hodge, Jordan Lewis
Compared to us:
C: Kade Simpson, Patrick Cripps, Ed Curnow
Foll: Matthew Kreuzer, Bryce Gibbs, Marc Murphy
First of all Simpson will spend most of the year in a back pocket/flank and Curnow will tagging. Boekhorst is the logical 'winger' we have, with Cunningham the next best as a natural winger type if he is that. I'm assuming he is a pacy outside type from what I have read/heard.
This area is a bit of pet obsession of mine and feel it is always underrated. With a solid foundation to the midfield in Cripps we desperately need to add to this part in the next couple years. Would like to see Buckley step up on one of those wings, Graham to work alongside Cripps, Boekhorst on the other and Cunningham in the wings. No pun intended.
Looking past Murph and Gibbs as I am not sure they will be there for 17, we still need another bull to assist Cripps, another pacy gut busting runner and hopefully Graham keeps tracking along nicely.