Re: Rd 15: Post Game Passion: Carlton vs Adelaide
Reply #205 –
It's funny - I'd say Kreuzer and Gibbs are almost on AA pace and Cripps is going well. Murphy isn't going badly either.
So how is our midfield so underpowered? I guess you've got to look at the depth midfielders and the wings and flanks where we're definitely light on for real top end quality.
Kreuzer, Murphy, Gibbs and Cripps are right up there and Ed Curnow is pretty good. However, the quality drops away after that. When the second tier midfielders/small forwards struggle to get 40 possessions between them, the added pressure on our first tier players is enormous. I think that many folk fail to appreciate how hard Murphy, Gibbs and Cripps have to work, and it would be an awful lot harder without Kreuzer's second and third efforts.