08-06-2016, 02:10 AM
(08-06-2016, 01:09 AM)blue4life link Wrote:Our best win of the season has undoubtedly been against Geelong and Jones didn't play.
Casboult had 8 touches and kicked a goal, Armfield kicked 3 and Everitt 4, Gorringe kicked a couple playing second ruck.
Jones and Casboult played in the win against Port Adelaide which is our second best win of the season but Casboult was out of the game after 10 minutes.
Jones kicked 2 from 8 touches, Everitt kicked 3.
Realistically the common factor seems to be Everitt in good form, the other games we've won have been against teams no better than us and in the case of Brisbane and Essendon worse, so I don't rate them too highly.
Two key forwards are always better than one unless they're substandard, and in our case they are.
I missed out on Everitt for Graham, I guess they figured that dropping Graham would leave the midfield thin but he doesn't score and scoring has been our biggest problem, Everitt can at least kick a few although his form has slipped.
We'll go OK but we're certainly down on pace and St Kilda are quick if nothing else, it's about 50/50 I reckon.
Two forwards are always better than one for structural purposes no matter how good they are. The worse they are the more you need (up to two). One is only ok if you have the likes of Fev, who could carry a defence on his own, even then two is way better. Like I said both take men. Don't respect Casboult and Jones and they'll still hurt you. If there's one the defence all go to him. With two they split them, allows Casboult gets up the ground where he can play, takes defenders with him, opens the 50 and we score. Everitt was able to kick plenty in that period for the same reason, space and the fact the two key forwards had taken the opposition defenders. He too has been no good since we went back to one key forward. While Casboult and Jones didn't kick many but allows many others too, including Everitt. Can't argue with the scoreboard.
We are undefeated with Jones and Casboult in the side and kicked much better scores. Casboult averaged 1.5 a game, and alot of marks, last year as either a permanent 2nd ruck or key forward/ruck, while we had a 2nd key forward, Henderson, who while playing poorly but certainly needed defenders. Any club would take that. Note that allowed Everitt to kick 31 goals. Casboult's game this year, forward backing Kreuzer, who was rucking alone, 11 marks, 7 contested, 3 goals. Good reason clubs were interested in him last year. Moral there is to player average players to their strengths or they struggle.
Against Geelong, Goringe, a forward/ruck more than the other way around, got 14 touches, 7 marks and 2 goals against Geelong. Same argument applies. He actually played on the wing in the VFL the other week.