The players brought in recently: Ellard, Grigg and Hadley are all one thing: real footballers ... they may not be the best athletes but they make better decisions under pressure, they put their bodies in and run to the right spaces. They read the play and anticipate how things are going to unfold ... when you do that, you don't have to be able to run a sub 11 sec 100m, you're mentally agile, quicker to the contest because you've read where the ball will go, where the next contest will be.

I think we underestimate the important role inside grunt players like Hadley & mcclean is to us. Friday night saw Hadley and ellard win the contested balls in close and releasing to Judd & co to spread and create.

I think most commentators have overlooked just how important these players are to the team structure and balance.

Problem with Hadley is that he is slow. When the ball is in a contest great but in the open he can be a liability. That is the problem. But he should be recognised for what he is, in and under and let him concentrate on that. It doesn't require much planning to have the receivers watch his man if he tries to run off Hadley.

Ratts showed against the bummers that he can plan a game. Let's see it on a weekly basis.

blue sombrero and i also noticed how warnock also palmed the ball away from the centre pack directly to these two (rather than to his feet in the middle of the pack) , especially in the last quarter when confidence rose

Both Hadley and Ellard are average players who are very limited in ability and influence to win football games, however their roles are very important to our structure and for as much limited they are in talent, their Roles means the likes of Judd and Murphy can be released to become Run receiving players. When this happens, they become very damaging and we play our best Football.