smithy wrote:
Where is it written you have to be over 188cm to be a midfield beast ffs, this nonsense that every mid must be 6ft4 is really starting to get tired, it's now the comment that lazy idiots make.
It might be if anyone was actually arguing that. But then again, perhaps you're just being lazy. Or something else.
If they're good enough, height won't be an issue. However the reality is that height, weight and athleticism are all contributing factors to making it at AFL level. If you're taller, faster and stronger you've got an obvious advantage. And so if you lack them, you need to be considerably better to make it. You just need to ask yourself how many really good AFL midfielders there have been over the last 15 years who are below 178cm. Without any research I can think of Boomer Harvey and Caleb Daniel off the top of my head. No doubt there have been others as well. But you just to need to look at AFL lists and the teams that are selected at senior level to know that it's harder. And it's getting harder. 190cm kids who were listed 10 years ago were listed to play as kpp. Now they usually need to be 194cm. Otherwise they need the mobility to play as running players. Mundy, Kennedy, Bont, Cripps. The pressure is on to find and match the bigger bodies.
Now obviously you can't just play big brutes, you also need to complement that with skill and zip and run. And hopefully Fisher will do that for us. But at his height it's going to be harder to make it. SOS himself admitted he didn't even consider Caleb Daniel the previous year because of his height. What does that tell you? It's harder for the really small guys to make it. And AFL teams simply don't play many in their senior teams at the one time. And we've now got quite a few on our list. Maybe we'll break the mould. Maybe we'll catch a break on the competition. Hopefully we do.
And I back SOS to know better than me. But am I surprised? Yes.
Apologies in advance, for yet another lazy, ill-informed, stupid post.
I understand with your logic, and I agree. Point well made and thoroughly explained.
Bigger and Faster means you are bigger and faster, not smaller and slower.
There's no doubt for me that SOS may have got this right by selecting more tenacious, nimble and quicker mids than Brodie and Drew.
Given we have Cripps and Gibbs to play the inside role in 2017, SOS may have felt we had that covered. After all, he did have the advantage of choice with pick 5..
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