Re: "SuperFooty Rates The Midfield Depth" - HUN
Reply #25 –
If, and it is a significant 'if', our rucks can play close to their potential, then our midfield improves hugely.
Very true, but it's not just about winning hitouts and directing them to our players' advantage. It's about imposing a big body on contests, taking marks around the ground, dropping back into defence to fill holes, spoiling opposition attempts to mark, going forward to be a marking target and to block our key forwards' opponents, and ensuring that the blokes tagging our best midfielders are spending a lot of time looking over their shoulders.
I think Kreuzer is most able to do that, with Casboult and Rowe our next best. Warnock and Wood might be able to win a few hitouts and Wood can take a mark, but their mastery of the other parts of a ruckman's game is sadly lacking.