(06-27-2016, 10:52 PM)sandsmere link Wrote:The best post I've seen on here for a long time cimm.
Well done !!!
Set the standards and stick to them.
The only part I don't agree with is Gowers, I am assuming cimm1979 has the wrong player or name.
Quote:Setting a platform
Bill Gowers: Following a slow start to the season, the second-year Carlton rookie has benefited from a move to the half-back line to be one of the Blues’ best performers in their last three wins. Gowers has averaged over 22 disposals since the positional change and put in arguably his best performance of the last two seasons against Box Hill. He will be hopeful of maintaining his positive form in the second half of the season as the Blues look to build on their positive momentum.
Quote:Rnd 10.
38. Billy Gowers
Stats: 27 disposals, 10 marks, 5 inside 50s, 8 handball receives
From the coach: It was a really good game from Billy. He swept up just about everything that came into the defensive half of the ground. He provided some good run-and-carry, was strong in the air and used the ball well.
Seriously, people not voting from a stats sheet would have had him among our best last game(Rnd 12) as well.
I think under the MM regime they were trying to turn him into a Mid/Fwd, but he lacked the agility and awareness in traffic. Not sure how big he is now, his arrival stats showed 186cm, but I'd suggest he is closer to 190cm now and looks like he can hold down a flank. He has a great ability to read the ball and play, his recent games remind me of the way Docherty was in his early games.
His only problem is do we already have too many of the type that can play the flank role, Tuohy, Docherty, Simmo, Byrne, Walker, Lamb, Sumner, Graham, Kerridge, Curnow, Gibbs, etc., etc..
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"