Blue Vain wrote:
keogh wrote:
All these players have been recruited from other clubs other than from TAC junior level under SOS's watch since he came to the club
Matthew Wright
Sam Kerridge
Jed Lamb
Andrew Phillips
Lachie Plowman
Liam Sumner
Andrew Gallucci
Matthew Korcheck
Alex Fasolo
Will Setterfield
Hugh Goddard
Matthew Owens
Billie Smedts
Caleb Marchbank
Jarrod Pickett
Rhys Palmer
Kym LeBois
Alex Silvangi
Matt Shaw
Mitch McGovern
Nic Newman
James Bugg
Ciaron Sheehan
Matthew Lobbe
Matthew Kennedy
Darcy Lang
Aaron Mullett
Jarrod Gartlett
Cameron O'Shea
Cillian McDaid
Michael Gibbons
I may have missed a couple but of those players 14 have already been delisted, retired or left
Of those that get a pass mark
Wright
That's it
The dury is still out on those who are left IMO and only the sugar coaters could say something positive about Gartlett, Lobbe
Anyone who doesn't believe Plowman gets a pass mark is either letting their biases override their logic or they don't understand his role.
He would be one of the first picked every week and he has been exceptional value for us.
Yes the list still requires work but its reasonably balanced. As a few of us have been saying for couple of years, small forwards are our deficiency and that is killing us at the moment. For whatever reason, SOS hasn't appreciated the importance of the role or he doesn't have the capacity to select them.
We refuse to understand that it is a specialist role with specialist skills. No doubt we hoped to go into the season with Pickett and the ability of Cunners to adapt provided us with another option.
Not having those players is killing our forward structure. I know some posters call for Silvagni or Garlett but they dont have the skillset. Their strength are primarily marking targets which we have an abundance of.
IMO, we're desperate for Cuningham to return and we need another player with natural forward craft to fill another small forward spot. The only others possible are Pickett, Murphy or Thomas. They aren't natural forwards but Murphy and Thomas have forward smarts and Pickett has the pace and power to be a presence. Hopefully we can select someone in the mid season draft who can assist because Bolts is fighting with one arm behind his back with the forward structure at his disposal.
What’s good about Plowman
His ok when it’s a one on one contest when the ball
Is in the air
Not good when the ball is on ground
Lacks mobility
Provides no run out of defence
Shit kick
You need more from your defenders these
days if you want to be a top 4 team
He also lacks size to play on bigger players
SOS pick him at 3 when he was drafted at GWS
In 6 years his body shape hasn’t changed
Too slow
Another vanilla footballer
He does a job but provides little extra