bondiblue wrote:
Sidefx wrote:
FarmerBlue wrote:
carntheblues wrote:
Sidefx wrote:
I'd like to see a little change up this week after watching last weeks rebounding transitions.
Saad on a wing, kicking lace out passes to the forwards, something we have sorely missed.
B: Newman Young McGovern
HB: Cincotta Weitering Docherty
C: Acres Cripps Saad
HF: Durdin McKay Walsh
F: Silvagni Curnow Motlop
Foll: Pittonet Hewett Cerra
Int: Cowan Kemp Kennedy Owies (Ed Curnow)
Hollands -Rested or sub if we keep Cowan out.
Saad doesn't have the tank for the wing role, so no leave him at half back where he can play to his strengths. We do not need him on the wing.
Agree. To much of a weapon at HB. We have Acres Hollands Docherty Binns Walsh Cerra Cottrell that can all play wing and play it well
Unfortunately none of the wings are yet to show they can be damaging by foot, something we are missing on a wing.
No point running all day if you are ineffective with your disposals and you have too many turnovers or your kicks lack penetration.
Martin or Williams would be the closest we have aside from Saad and we know where they play most of the year.
We need a Bolton like player to hit the leads and give our two forwards the best chance against a good defence.
I think Martin is close, but LOB, Binns, Cottrell, Hollands and Acres are different kind of runners than Saady and Williams, and probably Boyd too.
Last week our wings kicked 2 goals, 13 score involvements
Disposals Acres 34 disposals 88% efficient, Holland 12 d 66%
Not bad considering we had 80 more disposals and we used the corridor thru Acres big body.
Other than Cottrell I cant see anyone better than what Hollands does. LOB and Binns included.
Im really surprised Hollands got named in round 1 TBH. I'm a fan of Cottrell and Hollands in the same team.
Stat's are usually overinflated in a game where there are so many goals kicked by one side, it's the stats in a game against a defensive team like the Saints that matter.
Not all teams will be so outmatched in the F50 like last weekend and the delivery has to be more creative and accurate.
And in that Saints game, Acres 0 goals and 3 SI's and Hollands had 0 goals and 3 SI's.
But even then the Score involvement stat can be misleading as the stat can be received at half back.
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Score Involvement: Number of scoring chains where a player was involved with either a disposal, hitout-to-advantage, kick-in or knock-on. If a player has two disposals in the same scoring chain, he is credited with one score involvement.
It doesn't truly represent the quality of disposal, which if we want to be a finals team and win, quality matters a lot more.
I view the game different to you I guess, Acres spent 62% of his time in the defensive half of the ground and most of his disposals (only 6 in the corridor) were not of great difficulty hence his DEF%. Don't get me wrong, he's playing a great defensive role for us.
Hollands is a great runner and 100% commits himself, other than that he doesn't really offer much by foot that I've seen so far.
I agree Cottrell is a much more damaging kick than them both and has the toughness.
LOB is a great runner also and most of the time choses the harder option for his disposals and as a result can tend to put other players under more pressure, but he is not tough enough and he fails to halve the contest when required. If only we could get LOBs leg with Hollands running and commitment, awesome.
Either way, after 7 rounds of Hollands and Acres you could probably ask Charlie and Harry how confident they are of getting hit lace out in the F50 by either of them.
If it is above 50/50 I'd be surprised, which is my point.
We lack a Marc Murphy (when fit of course) who used to have the forwards salivating when he had the ball delivering it to them from the middle or a Bolton on the wing who does the same.
Even that smug pumpkin head, Dangerfield was calving them up with his entries on the weekend.
We still lack that polish that other teams have with our F50 entires IMO.
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