04-06-2016, 10:25 PM
(04-06-2016, 11:31 AM)ElwoodBlues1 link Wrote:If the other team has a couple of decent marking talls then thats usually the end of the road for us as it is for the other bottom teams..Tippet, Buddy and Sinclair overwhelmed us...to beat teams with that setup you need team defense..the powerful Geelong teams specialised in it with Milburn often providing the extra player at the contest..........Hawks have Gibson who does/did that role assisting Lake..its always 2 on 1 or even 3 on 1. With us its 1on 1 and in some cases that one is totally undersized like Docherty vs Tippett as our key defenders just lose touch with their man and the opposing teams always find the mismatch as one of our smalls has to cover...happens later in games mainly when we tire and the concentration slips.
We need a smart tough 190cm defender who can help our KP defenders and also provide some run and good kicking from defense...Touhy aint smart, White cant kick etc , Everitt is too timid...maybe Plowman can be our Milburn/Gibson...
Well we will get to see Plowman sooner rather than later, and the very early word is that our rookie JGM looks a very likely type.
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"