99prelim wrote:
Blue Vain wrote:
In an ideal world, Jones would play forward today and take his form and confidence with him.
Marchbank or Plowman could play on Riewoldt.
Unfortunately throwing Jones forward could quickly dissolve the confidence he has built up. The mix will be interesting. Personally, I suspect Weitering will play forward on Rance.
The changes look OK to me. Smedts has been solid in the VFL and Pickett has potential. He just needs some composure when he runs with the ball. He's a bit like Yarran. When he accelerates, he tends to lose awareness of the opposition and sometimes runs straight into them.
The interesting match ups will be in our backline. What do they do with Docherty? He'll probably start in the middle but he'll eventually drop behind the ball. Do they send Lambert to him? What do they do with Simmo? Will Smedts play half back?
I'm a big fan of just throwing things around a bit. I said previously that I'd like to see Jones play a 'tagging' role on Rance. Follow Rance as though Rance were a fwd. No pressure to kick goals but to give other forwards the opportunity to do it. Of course, since he's at that end of the ground, he may well have an opportunity to kick one or two.
Part of me doesn't want to upset the applecart with Jones but part of me subscribes to the 'endure' philosophy. Players need to build resilience. maybe he can go for patches, then go back into the backline.
Speaking of 'enduring', SPS follows Cotchin for regular short bursts during the game...noot as a tagger as such; more about learning from an experience player about finding the ball
TBH I'm loving this conversation.
Bolton and co have peeled the CLUB back and gone with best practise since.
Anything can work with this flexibility mantra.
You know it looks like that one soldier down, one oldier up mantra.
Except these days we have the 'cattle', thanks to SOS.
Have to add these days, perhaps prematurely (not) MLD and Trigg....and Maclure and Walls......I'm loving everything Carlton these days.
The world is our oyster.