Effes wrote:
sinbagger wrote:
Effes wrote:
BS you might not understand that a lot of midfielders prefer the ruck drop it at their feet.
SOme rucks like NN hit it beyond the inner circle...allowing their teammate to push their opponent IN towards the contest.
There are so many centre square nuances you lot don't seem to understand.
Whether the ruck can hit it at certain points on the clock, whether the midfielder likes it in space or dropped at the rucks feet.
Didn't matter where he tapped it, he tapped it to richmond players most of the time, even when he did punch it clear it went straight to Richmond players.
He gets plenty of taps, but he has negative control, it always goes where our players aren't!
Yet we won the clearances 45 to 35, centre square 14-12, around the ground/throw in 31 to 23
Strange that!
How many were his, how many were roved to Maric and how many were Casboult's?
I can think of three of the Richmond centre clearances that were the direct result of a Warnock tap to the chest of an opponent, one of whom was Maric himself. There were how many centre bounces? Let's see. 4 to start the quarters plus 30 after goals. We won 14 of 34, less than half. They won 12, about a third, if which we gifted them 3 and yet we still just scraped home. Brock got tackled three times before he took a step. Twice he got pinged. That's two more for Richmond, five in all. So we gave them 3 from hitouts and two frees because the tap went to an oppponent or to someone who was not in a position to do anything with it when we got it.
Don't hold that up as an example of good rucking.
There are many nuances of centre square work that you think you know about but obviously don't. There is more to it than quoting raw stats with no breaking them down.
I haven't even started on the other stoppages.
Watch it again. He's a useless giraffe and there is a reason he played all his footy in the WAFL and now the VFL. Successive coaches have worked him out. Harvey, Ratten and now MM have all played him in the seconds. When Kreuzer is fit, Warnock will go straight back to the VFL where he belongs. Better we trade him than pay him to play there. He's a waste of salary cap space. And I don't recall his taking one contested mark yesterday. He's 206cm, has hands the size of dinner plates and he can't catch a ball that would be like a tennis ball to a normal sized person.
For all his faults, Hampson is a better prospect.
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