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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 21: Carlton vs. Richmond
Well send him to vegas because he must be the luckiest bloke out there as he does it week in week out.

I suppose you think Rance has been lucky his whole career too?

Perhaps its got nothing to do with luck. ;)
Well no team kicks into forward 50 with 100% efficiency. So they will miss their targets. Some, like us, do it more than others.

Players like Rance, Rampe and WCE McGovern, and increasingly Weitering, read the play and get in a good position. Plowman watches the opposition take marks more than he has fall on his chest. In a marking contest he is useless and gets beaten far too easily.

The ball in his hands is not a good thing anyway. He’s the backline’s version of Dow when it comes to hitting a target.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Post Game Passion: AFL 2019 Rd 21: Carlton vs. Richmond
I thought him, plowman and Daisy were gold down back.

The amount of contests, intercept marks and tackles for a free saved over 10 goals between them.
Plowman is a liability in our backline.
Too slow to play on small forwards,  or strong enough for the bigger guys and again demonstrated his appalling kicking today.
His only value is that sometimes he marks opposition miskicks while he is standing in space.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: In Game Action: 2019 AFL Rd 21: Carlton vs Richmond
It's not about that Barb.

They've got us comfortably covered for foot speed and we aren't taking them out of the chain of play, which means we are left out of position and out of the contest all over the ground.

You can't be slower, and be losing your feet or letting the opposition keep theirs, it's a lose lose scenario.

If you are going to concede foot speed, you have to be physical to level the playing field.
They don’t have us beaten for speed, they have us beaten for effort.

We give them space to start and then they work harder.