Yep Reading around there are quite a few clubs interested. Personally I'd rather keep him But the club may be looking at his age compared to Motlop and Durdin and choose to move him on. I think his value might not be in a swap for a pick ...but rather bundled with a pick for a player of need.
I dont know that I could tolerate my Hawthorn mates if they won. One mate in particular who said to me 10 -11 weeks ago (rnd 16 we'd just flogged Geel by 10 goals) and we were sitting in 2nd, they were 13th and he boldly claimed "we will salute before your mob does". I told him he was crazy and he asked why to which I replied, "look at the ladder mate, we are 2nd are you are 13th". Those words will come back to haunt me I'm sure.
Heat maps show where players had disposals, not where they were running.
In fact, 90% of Motlop’s disposals were in defence, 40% of Fantasia’s were in defence and all four of Durdin’s disposals were in the forward line. You’d have to look at the GPS data to see how much time they spent in attack and defence.
Putting that to one side, your point about them having different roles is correct. Fantasia generally has the link up role that Cottrell does so well and he had a defensive role on Zorko for some time. Motlop usually gets back in defence but Durdin rarely goes beyond the wing.
I don’t know if the distance covered stats are published anywhere but I suspect that they would show considerable variation.
Agree. You have to know exactly what a player’s role is in order to make criticism of how well he’s performing it. Skills execution is obvious on the other hand.
Our lack of some real small forward talent stood out for me. Nowhere near enough real F50 pressure. Our present crop are low contributors in terms of ball winning and goal kicking imo. We need better urgently.
Disgraceful overall performance. Time for much introspection and reflection. A lot of work needed to prepare for next year. I’ve just about had enough, at least for the time being.
As optimistic as I usually am, that optimism has deserted me for tomorrow's game. In fact my concern is that they'll rag-doll us. I pray to all the gods that I am wrong. For us to win tomorrow we'll need an amazing and enormous spirit and ruthlessness to get on top of the Aints, then stay there. Not something we've seen a lot of against a strong defensive side in good form.
I couldn't care less how Martin, Marchbank, Cunningham et al get injured, I'd rather save the embarrassment and go in 1 man down or with an unproven newby than risk it with any of those. Pick any of them and it will be a disaster, Ive seen that movie a thousand times, I know how it ends.
Leave ‘em in the crystal cabinet. Go with the Pyrex.
A gutsy, business like win. A very undermanned team doing what had to be done. Liked the look of the new guys with Binns putting in a solid performance and Moir an exciting cameo. Well done Blues 👍