GreatEx wrote:
bondiblue wrote:
Hornet wrote:
No changes this week except for injuries... Weitering???
Cats tall backs are a problem if we bomb... with Harry in the team, we bomb... play a mobile fwd 6 and expose their defence.
McKay needs to earn his spot...
I think you’re right that we tend to bomb it by instruction when Harry and Charlie are forward.
I’m watching the Swans Port game. Papley types are freaks. Rioli is flashy. I think our small forwards are as good as any of the peripheral smalls forwards of swans and port…imo. I would love Hayward, but he goes missing and I still prefer Williams Durdin including Motlop. Whites quicker than Rioli and Hayward.
Maybe our small forwards have clicked. Just need to keep bringing the pressure and contest with physicality.
You've been very critical of our small forwards even after Norf, why the generous change? When you said they've let us down, did you mean they weren't good enough, or that they could be good enough but weren't doing themselves justice.
I, too, have cooled on Hayward. Perhaps that's just because the Swans have looked less convincing and are working things out with a new coach. Small forwards tend to be at the mercy of team form. Hayward looked great in a purring outfit. So did Motlop and White when we put Norf to the sword. He's probably not one we should be pushing the boat out for.
Fair call. I hate hypocrisy, but I’m just questioning myself, whether my metrics are applied harsher on Carlton players than opposition. Ie grass is greener. Bias against perhaps?
There are not that many amazing small forwards. I believe the Pies have the best fleet of small forwards: not to be confused with mosquito fleet of midfielders. The term was coined by Carlton’s small midfielders who kicked heaps of goals when rotated forward. Pies smalls stay home. They have 3. 3 really good ones. Hill, Schultz Elliot. Everyone else runs through the midfield (not Miihochek)
I hope Motlop gets stronger, lighter and faster. Looking at Rioli and Hayward. They are a level below Palpley and Pies group. Well, we are not getting either so have to be content to have a group of smalls….just not 9 of them and not 5 in the forwardline, especially when they don’t play midfield, let alone what they should do is kick goals.
Very happy with the scoresheet with all their names on them with multiple goals…to shut up the noise.
Back to your other point, supply matters.
Wins have shadowed the AA performances of Cripps and Hewett, and Cerra could be. Walsh will just keep getting better and will earn himself plenty of Brownlow votes. The engine room gives the forwardline plenty of supply. They all thrive with supply. My concern is they go missing. Too many for this pond.
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