Squad for JLT game named

[DJC]

In the real season work rate and experience defeats speed, it's pointless being fast if you do not get the right spots at the right time.

That is why the older smarter guys keep getting games, they do the work to get in the right spot or dispose of an opponent before the ball gets in the area. It's how guys like Gibbs keep racking up 30 possessions a game.

SPS, Pickett, Le Bois, Fischer would just be chasing tails all season because they cannot work their way through the game, where to be and when they have to be there.

Weitering is such a stand out for this reason, he looked smart and ready to work from day one, but by late last season opponents started putting doubt in his head and we saw him caught out of position.

It's naive to think pace is all you need to be a better football option, guys like Mitchell, Lewis, Hodge, Gibson, Viney, Cripps make a mockery of that idea. Betts had plenty of pace his whole career at Carlton, has probably lost some pace now, and is becoming a far better footballer.

I think that it's about having time to use the ball LP.  Pace can help but it's due more to quick thinking, good decision-making, alertness, peripheral vision, communication with team mates, etc (and work rate and experience of course).  I wouldn't class SOJ as quick but the first time I saw him play I was surprised by how much time he seemed to have. That convinced me that he would be an AFL player.  At the other end of the scale, Daisy now doesn't seem to have any time when he gets the ball.