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Eds inclusion must be tactical as his pre season form was ordinary.
Probably tells you a bit about Dow and Obriens future too imo given they have been left out in such an important game.
The trust in Plowman seems to have evaporated as well, the coaching career of Voss started to slide in his 2nd year at Brisbane and expectations are high for finals in 2023. He doesn't want any passengers and you know a player like Ed will give you effort and accountability unlike a few others.
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(03-15-2023, 11:05 PM)DJC link Wrote:He could be the sub ?
He may be...
Pittonet might be there as a distraction.
(He may not be ready to go)
But Richmond have to consider that we may play the two rucks at some stage.
Of the emergencies...who would provide the best overall coverage?
They all seem pretty specialist in their roles.
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(03-15-2023, 11:11 PM)ElwoodBlues1 date Wrote:Eds inclusion must be tactical as his pre season form was ordinary.
Probably tells you a bit about Dow and Obriens future too imo given they have been left out in such an important game.
The trust in Plowman seems to have evaporated as well, the coaching career of Voss started to slide in his 2nd year at Brisbane and expectations are high for finals in 2023. He doesn't want any passengers and you know a player like Ed will give you effort and accountability unlike a few others. Is Ed the special case defender selected just to tag Dusty out of F50?
But looking at our team, I'd suggest we are hoping Dusty is starved of opportunity, we are setup to intercept across the HBF and not for defence at FB.
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(03-15-2023, 11:05 PM)DJC link Wrote:He could be the sub ?
So he's not one of the first players picked?
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To suggest the Tigers will have to think a lot about Ed is a bit odd. The guy has played 11 seasons and he’s probably played on any of his likely opponents a number of times. Those players know what to expect. And the coaches know he’ll play as a stopper, whether in the midfield, F50 or D50. With Teague as an assistant coach, there won’t be any surprises. And in any event, coaches would be used to their team playing against a run-all-day tagger. It’s not as though you need to plan for it. The opposition will decide whether they run a hard tag or not. The only thing a coach can do to break the tag is take the tagged player off the field or send him to the F50 to see if the tagger follows. Coaches have given up on trying to send another midfielder to help out the tagged player. Unsurprisingly, that never worked.
Now, if Ed might have a non-tagging assignment, I’m all ears.
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(03-16-2023, 12:05 AM)Mav link Wrote:Now, if Ed might have a non-tagging assignment, I’m all ears.
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I reckon Richmond's biggest headache is down back. Balta is athletic and probably the ideal match up for Charlie....but then who goes to Harry? Get enough of the ball in the middle and use it well going forward and McKay should be able to outmark any of their defenders and help himself to a bag. Balta will likely go to McKay and then it'll be a Vlaustin or Broad on Charlie with Grimes intercepting.
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Miller is their tallest defender and it would be tempting to think he’ll play on Harry. But his last 5 games have seen him interchanging off the bench with Nankervis in the ruck. If he’s the 2nd ruck, he can’t be expected to change off Harry. Broad is 192 cm but he tends to take small mobile forwards such as Charlie Cameron in the finals last year. He isn’t really a key defender type.
They really are left with only Grimes and Balta on Charlie and Harry respectively, with Vlaustuin playing as the intercept defender.
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(This post was last modified: 03-16-2023, 02:26 AM by LP.)
If a fit Ed can stitch up Ablett Jnr, he can handle Dusty as well.
Otherwise, I think we are going to waste a player with good run and carry on Dusty, or worse still someone like Gov standing at FB when he should be up the ground intercepting.
I think Dusty is too mobile for Weiters or Young, but they have the strength to match him, Cowan would be a lamb to the slaughter. Saad and Doc a waste of good run, unless the plan is to run off Dusty.
Does Newman have the pace and agility to go with Dusty, he has enough strength and aggression, but I'm not sure he'll keep up?
I think if we can shutdown Riewoldt with a one on one, and then assume they will want Dusty left in space so we should close it up as much as possible, because you know Dusty will turn most players inside out. That leaves them with Lynch as the primary marking target, and I think we can cover or break even with him, I assume Weiters get's that gig.
I suspect Graham for them will end up down back, his F50 listing is a smokescreen.
Odds on Cotchin tries to run through someone early.
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