gerry atric wrote:
Before this game the Saints had beaten one side, GWS. On Friday Freeo, with an ordinary list, their best two exp players and best 2 younger players out, and their only ruck out after 15 mins, showed grit and resilience, we put up excuses.
Don't see all the wraps for Warnock. Look at how Mcevoy works around the ground, he can actually take a contested mark. Has Warnock ever taken an overhead mark? With Jacobs on our list we recruited Warnock as fourth first ruck and drafted Big K, while trading away Kennedy so we have no key forwards. Big K shouldn't have played, clearly not fit. And Hammo is a ruck and only a ruck. If he rucked and Warnock played full forward I suspect we would do as well in the ruck and worse (if possible) up forward. Our 3 rucks barely had as many possessions, marks, contested marks as their one ruck. Knockouts are overated. We need a fit Big K as first ruck. We need to give Levi a long run in the 1s as he is about the only guy who can take a genuine contested mark. We don't have any key forwards (I exclude Waite's occassional cameos) and so we need to use Levi and / or Rowe and consider playing only one ruckman. I thought Ratts was the only guy who thought three rucks cd work, but MM fell for it as well. Have these guys ever watched our three rucks? None of them are forwards. At years end trade Warnock and maybe Hampson and start rebuiildng. Juddy is still our best player and he is not the player he was.
Very disappointing loss on Monday night, the Saints have definitely had it over us for the past 10 years. Also, they lost to the Gold Coast this season (I know, so did we last season). Agree with you gerry atric about the 3 rucks, we can't play 3 of them. I think 2 is acceptable, but 3 is too unbalanced as none of them can play forward.
Our bombing into the forward line was atrocious, which played right into St Kilda's hands. How many times did we see a Carlton player just bomb it in? So many times where McEvoy and Fisher just had easy uncontested marks in our forward 50. I actually think that Malthouse got out-coached on Monday, as they had an unaccountable defender roaming our forward 50, why couldn't he be made accountable?
This week to have Waite come in, Dylan Buckley to replace one of the 2 amigos, Laidler to come back in if Jamo doesn't get up. Maybe even bring in Casboult.