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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 10 Carlton vs Sydney
Last post by Baggers -8 - Newman
2 - Boyd
2 - McGovern
1 - Acres
1 - Hewett
1 - Pittonet
HM: Cripps, Kemp, E Hollands.
This.
I feel the same way and my issues with him initially was that he folded under pressure and his kicking suffered.
As you mention, it's still a bit of a worry, but he has improved a lot in this area.
If we had someone else capable of negating small forwards, I'd be keen to get him further up the ground and help our connection between mids and forwards and also between forwards and the big sticks.
For a team that has consistently lacked run and effort lately, i'm not sure why people feel the need to drop Ollie Hollands.
He gives 100%, 100% of the time. He is not the problem.
If we start dropping people based on output, how far down our team do we get before we get to Ollie Hollands.....and how far down are VFL team to do we get before we find a replacement.
I'll save the effort. There is nothing better below. Ollie stays.
We got beaten in the middle - they had two taggers basically - Rowbottom was on a tackling warpath and Jordan kept holding onto Walsh restricting him from hunting the ball. We didn't reciprocate with our own tagger(s) - Pitto had zero tackles and Grundy had a party on him. I understand we are trying to implement our own style but clubs have figured us out and taggers are now back in vogue.I agree, Hewett is probably our main run with player and Kennedy can do the job as well as provide some drive but both Warner and Heeney have them for pace and once goalside with a break on our players they were not going to be caught.
I think Boyd is a good kick but is better when he is in the clear and heading forward, for a VFL unknown player I have warmed to Boyd and think he is in our best 22/23 and happy to give Austin a tick for his recruiting.
Thing is who do we have who's kicking is 'elite'.I reckon Charlie is close to an elite kick. I reckon Jack Martin and Weiters are close also. The rest on our list are very ordinary.
Even Nick Daicos who is as good a kick as any went at 30% on the weekend.