2018 VFL Rd 1: Northern Blues vs Collingwood

[Jack Burton]

Agree with that, but isn't Charlie leading our goalkicking? And showing the most promise for kicking goals for us?

[Baggers]

The problem on Friday night re goal kicking wasn't the big blokes, it was a poor contribution from our small forwards and mids.

[flyboy77]

The I50 stat is a BS stat if all the entries are terrible....as ours are.

[kruddler]

Wouldn't that mean a tall forward has to go out? CCurnow or Casboult?

Bringing in Kerr is equivalent to play SOSOS.

So we'd just go back to Casboult, Curnowfides and Kerr....a relatively standard forwardline setup.

[cookie2]

Bringing in Kerr is equivalent to play SOSOS.

So we'd just go back to Casboult, Curnowfides and Kerr....a relatively standard forwardline setup.

I would like to see us try that combination.

[northernblue]

The I50 stat is a BS stat if all the entries are terrible....as ours are.

All stats are BS... that’s why you evaluate them.


Edit:
But the stats are still valid as a reference point.

[LP]

Bringing in Kerr is equivalent to play SOSOS.

So we'd just go back to Casboult, Curnowfides and Kerr....a relatively standard forwardline setup.

Get rid of Casboult then and play Curnow, Kerr and SoJ.

If Casboult is going to take a free ride and let Charlie do all the heavy lifting, then Casboult may as well not be there, the only problem then becomes the ruck but Casboult isn't such a loss anyway!

Get Casboult into the 2s and have him take some front position, let him do what the big blokes are supposed to do. If we intend to let him just keep launching form the back of the pack why don't we replace him with a Liam Ryan type, same job and same result except you have a player who'll actually chase down defenders. Why not just give Garlett license to jump like an idiot 20 times a game, same job same result!

[ElwoodBlues1]

Bringing in Kerr is equivalent to play SOSOS.

So we'd just go back to Casboult, Curnowfides and Kerr....a relatively standard forwardline setup.

Kerr is a specialist KP player, he is a much bigger unit, better kick and plays a traditional KP game....nothing like SOSOS who is a 3rd tall forward who has even been run through the midfield in the twos.

Yep lets try a traditional setup for a change....why because the present setup is useless and we have been smacked by teams who are garbage..

We are a tiny little schoolboy team which lacks size, is intimidated every week and go to water when the heat gets applied, we need a traditional setup IMO, the little forward line full of choir boys
hasnt worked like Richmonds setup and its time to try different things...let other teams find three tall defenders, Kerr might straighten up some of our mids and give us some better system, he might not.
I'd rather see Kerr and Harry leading the goalkicking at years end than Matthew Wright and Levi again and another bottom four finish again.....

[townsendcalling]

3 talls + 1 link + 2 smalls haven’t hurt Adelaide. SOJ needs to build a tank and become our Tom Lynch, the connector.  Lead up, distribute, don’t worry about pack marks etc. Garrett, Pickett, Fisher, Wright at the feet.

One proviso..... on ballers must hit the scoreboard too.

[LP]

3 talls + 1 link + 2 smalls haven’t hurt Adelaide. SOJ needs to build a tank and become our Tom Lynch, the connector.  Lead up, distribute, don’t worry about pack marks etc. Garrett, Pickett, Fisher, Wright at the feet.

One proviso..... on ballers must hit the scoreboard too.

SoJ has no hope of becoming Tom Lynch(Crows), I think you are looking at SoJ through rose coloured glasses, he's half the speed, aerobic capacity and agility of the Crows version. No matter how hard to try if you do not have the right physiology you'll never get to the same aerobic capacity.

Perhaps our best chance of having a Tom Lynch(Crows) type player is Marchbank.

I think SoJ should reset himself to learn the midfield and become a Pendlebury type player allowing Cripps to spend more time as a F50 marking target. I think Carey was right, Cripps is great inside when he wins the ball but if he doesn't he is too slow and opposition players run off him and hurt us week after week. SoJ could be a better mix for that inside player and has a bit more pace than Cripps, as long as fans do not expect SoJ to be Cripps it could well work.

There is still room for this type of player in the game, but you have to have a game plan that suits them. What is the point of us having a fast break high speed game plan with a team loaded with Casboult, Wright, Daisy, Cripps, Curnow, Curnow, SoJ, Weitering and Kennedy. They are all sub-par on pace or agility! Some posters will think I'm being harsh on Charlie, but watch the first few games, despite his success he gets stuff all separation from defenders because he doesn't have the top speed. If he not continuously taking ridiculous numbers of contested marks he's going to be in big trouble as a KPF, because that form cannot last it won't see you through a season.