Re: JLT 2018: Carlton vs St Kilda at Ikon on Wednesday
Reply #427 –
The basis for my assertion is due to the fact that our backline has performed very well without weitering in it.
There is also a trend in the modern game to have a smaller more mobile forwardline.
If we can continue to perform well in our backline, especially against the more mobile forwardlines, leaving someone like Weitering out of our lineup, allows us to add another midfield type into the 22, adding depth and variety in an area we need it.
Its a simple equation...
Is Backline + Weitering + midfield => Midfield + 1 + Backline ??
There is potenially more of a benefit to our overall team if we have an extra midfielder simply because our backline is going so well.
Of course the additional midfield could also allow us to be fitter (more midfield rotations), and apply more pressure as a result meaning the backline is required to dop less work.
Put simply.
Weiters has not thus far been able to mind the gorillas.
Weiters has not been able to play on the small agile types.
Weiters might not have a suitable opponent to play on.
The blokes we already have in our side, are capable of doing the same things that Weiters excels at - Reading the play, zoning off and using the ball well.
Kruddler, the points you made are not referencing the good performance of our backline, they were denigrating Weitering, and they are not supported by historical records.
Match records paint the exact opposite picture of the points you posted, and other posters refer to Weitering's poor start to 2017, yet in start to 2017 he stopped two gorillas, Ben Brown(200cm) and 2M Peter Wright(203cm), Ben Brown was top four in AFL Goal Kicking at the time. Then Weitering followed up those games later by covering three highly mobile opponents in Himmelberg(195cm), Darling(191cm) and Schoenmaker(195cm).
So can he play on gorillas, no doubt he's covered two 200cm FF types just last season!
Is he mobile enough to play on medium forwards, no doubt about that either!
Does he have suitable opponents to play on, well it seems so, if he can run with Darling, Himmelberg or Schoenmakers he's probably our perfect match for Riewoldt and/or the forward resting Nankervis!