And Gawn, as expected has had a good game ruck wise, probably a bit quiet around the ground
There was a stat early that showed hitouts. Dees had twice as many as us (roughly) but we had more hitouts to advantage. Reckon pitto has held his own in that department.
Loving pittonets game tonight. He is being a real pest. Got inside gawns head early. Tackling well and getting the dees players to lose focus on the ball and we are benefiting from it.
Of course his goal and general ruck play has been good too.
It's been a long time since we've had a ruck with some genuine aggression, enjoys the hard stuff and loves the verbal.
Reckons he might have a broken finger too.
Hopefully he can keep gawn quiet for 1 more quarter.
Well, at the risk of seeming like a smarty pants, I suspected Hewett or Cerra. Balance. Plus Hewett was a little slow last week and would be a good replacement for a tired (or injured) mid when some of the early heat has gone out of the game.
Going back to what I was saying the other day...if someone is tired or injured, rest them. Keep cunners in the side.
Of course it is, because its makes no sense. Its not like we need a defensive minded mid to play on superstar mids that the opposition has..... oh wait. *facepalm*
Funny this... Ian Roberts came out nearly 30 years ago in Rugby League. Women AFL+Soccer players seem to have no trouble with it. Colin Hughes the gay footballer on Ted Lasso declared himself...teammates seemed more concerned he didn't trust them with the info.
I guess the question is... Is it anybody's business? Do we really need to know? Is it important that we know" Would it be a positive for young gay footballers, or would the atmosphere in a teenage team be a little less tolerant than a professional organistation
There's been a few players who have been 'outed' over the journey. Most notably when Jacko outed someone on Live tv during a legends game.
There's the comedian Josh Lawson (?) who said he has had a relationship with a former brownlow medalist.
Plenty of people have been speculated about and plenty know it to be true, but nobody has 'admitted it'.
We have been sending Cripps forward, and quite effectively too.
It really shouldn’t matter if the opposition sets out to limit Crippa’s influence. Our other mids, and rucks, should take up the slack and allow him to play a little more as an outside mid. His work as a link up player is invaluable and he can do that without having to get first hands to the ball at every contest.
It would be nice to see our rucks and other mids putting more pressure on Crippa’s opponents too.
The skipper is a big fan of the two rucks and I don’t think that he’d accept that one quieter game from him is any reason to change.
Skipper is a big fan of having Pitto to rove too.....not necesarily 2 rucks.
I would tend to agree DJC. The idea that stopping Cripps goes a long way to stopping Carlton is hardly new. Collingwood didn’t discover anything new. Cripps has been blocked, tagged and scragged his whole career. For whatever reason, we weren’t able to do anything about it. The coaches’ votes make pretty clear that apart from Nick Daicos, no player on either team had a particularly great game.
Just for something different....
Stop Cripps. Stop Carlton. OK, maybe.
What do we do when Cripps is getting beaten? Send him forward. However, we already have Charlie, Harry and now TDK forward....can we afford to have Cripps there as well? Probably not.
So who is the weak link in that chain?
Yep, going back to the 1 ruck debate. 1 less ruck in the team means an extra midfielder and more flexibility/versatility with making moves.
I've been against it, but maybe its time to try TDK as a key back? We have extra talls good enough to play 1's, but running out of spots to play them all.....yet we have a big opening at CHB that we can't nail down. Why not TDK?
OK, let me use real world examples to help push the point across.
Zac Williams. Long injury history. 2 weeks ago he was injured in the game and subbed out. He was picked last week. He got injured again. Now vossy is saying he'll be right for this week.
Why?
We keep pushing and pushing and we'll eventually break him again. You could argue that if we rested him last week the result would've been different. Do we need to say the same thing after this week? Rest him!
I am not sure where you find Marchbank and Martin are being rested they have being rested for 5-6 years.
You are comparing players that will be lucky to get 10 games out of them per season to 200+ game players over the age of 30
The point is, why do we play players until we break them. Yes, some are more fragile then others. Some are taller than others. Some are faster than others. Some are stronger than others.
Find out the attributes of the player and play to their advantages and cover their weaknesses. If a weakness is their longevity, or durability, cover for it. Rest them when you need too.
Both Martin and Marchbank are very good players when they are fit....we just don't see it enough. So rather than keep doing the same thing and expecting different results, change the way we approach them......and everyone.
Doesn't have to be limited to them. Many on here were suggesting we rest cripps a couple years ago when he was clearly injured. But the club kept insisting everything was fine, and we got a half-fit cripps for the whole year, rather than being without him for 2-3.....7 weeks or whatever it needed to be to get him back to a 'fit' level where he could perform.
I've heard Marc Murphy talk about this, and its something he didn't realise until later in his career. Players would have surgery as a 1st call to 'fix' something if it meant they could play a week earlier than had they simply sat out and rested. These surgeries can lead to further issues down the track and potentially do more harm than good in some instances. We are obsessed with getting back and playing THIS WEEK at the expense of next week, next month or next year. Why?
As mentioned, Geelong are leading the pack in this regard. Resting Danger, Hawkins, Cameron, Selwood......hard to find some bigger names in the comp than them, but they find a way to rest them and do ok......most likely because they rest them is why they do ok. So why do we think we know better than them?
Be smarter with how we deal with our players, our seasons depend on it!
