(05-21-2016, 01:09 AM)jeza link Wrote:Jones got in curtesy of playing closer to goal than Jaksch and kicking slightly more goals. Bizarre situation where Cas gets injured and our next best tall fwd isn't even an emergency. BB hates him.
I understand how it could appear this way. I reckon you can be really confident that BB is not the kind of Senior Coach who would 'hate' a player. I think he has a standard for senior selection and simply won't drop below it (unless serious injury forces his hand). The only reason I think Gorringe was selected ahead of KJ would be his ability to help out in the ruck. At his best Gorringe can pinch a goal or two up forward, but so can KJ.
And if you look at our big blokes who get senior games they all seem to have one particular thing in common which doesn't seem to be KJs strong suit - ferocious endeavour at the contest. Jones hits packs and has second and third efforts as do our other big blokes, but KJ is not big on that - he seems to be able to take a good contested mark, affect a good spoil but if either of those fail he's slow to respond and perhaps that is what the coaches have him working on, his second and third efforts. I'll watch him closely tomorrow arvo to see how that goes.
Only our ruthless best, from Board to bootstudders will get us no. 17