Given that Harry is out, it might be a good time to bring Ison in. Not as a direct replacement, but it'd allow others to shift one up. So Kemp could be Harry and Ison could be Kemp.
Same logic could be used on Moir who we'd likely get more of a return from.
We need to keep checking in with Moir often to see if he 'gets it' yet, because the moment he does, he'll turn games. I'd be going hard on him in the off-season getting his running up a notch. I'd like to see him get to a stage where he could give a chop out in the middle/on a wing and rest forward. We could use his skills further up the ground.
Bit over Kemp and to a lesser extent Harry. I want to try something different , thought Hayward played his best game vs the Pies and worked hard and I'd be wanting same from Moir with Ison my more stay at home forward.
Harry was playing his best game for some time IMO......but its also a pretty low bar.
Harry gets way too many concussons for a bloke 200+.
I can't see him playing out his contract with us. Still has 4.5years left.
Ison is half a foot taller than byrne. Hardly like for like.
Not sure Frankie goes around at his listed 6'0" either, but thats for another day
I'd bring in Ison for Kemp and think about Moir too...both have more talent than most on the list and both can kick straight. Lord, Acres and Hewitt also as ins..
Given that Harry is out, it might be a good time to bring Ison in. Not as a direct replacement, but it'd allow others to shift one up. So Kemp could be Harry and Ison could be Kemp.
Same logic could be used on Moir who we'd likely get more of a return from.
We need to keep checking in with Moir often to see if he 'gets it' yet, because the moment he does, he'll turn games. I'd be going hard on him in the off-season getting his running up a notch. I'd like to see him get to a stage where he could give a chop out in the middle/on a wing and rest forward. We could use his skills further up the ground.
Pitto will always be more susceptable to an opposition ruck who can still jump at the end of the game.
Pitto wasn't the problem. He did his job.
He got more clearances than the other 2 rucks combined (5 vs 4). He got 21 touches vs Cameron 18. He was leading contested possession getter for us with 12, only Daicos with 16 ahead of him. Cripps had 11. He was carltons 4th highest supercoach scorer behind, Williams, Walsh and Newman.
If you want to try and exploit him/us, then you do exactly what collingwood did. Get a 'jumper' against him at the end. Probably helps thats its a relatively new player who he hasn't come across before too.
Thats why you have scouts, Steenes first AFL game had him doing the same stuff, he has been in the system for 4 years at Collingwood so how he plays shouldnt have been a mystery imo. Its not Pittonets fault but after the first Steene to Daicos play there needed to be a change....I thought Young did ok but it was too late by then.
There's a difference between watching tape and banging bodies though. I'm sure we will be better equipped next time they face.
Pitto will always be more susceptable to an opposition ruck who can still jump at the end of the game.
Pitto wasn't the problem. He did his job.
He got more clearances than the other 2 rucks combined (5 vs 4). He got 21 touches vs Cameron 18. He was leading contested possession getter for us with 12, only Daicos with 16 ahead of him. Cripps had 11. He was carltons 4th highest supercoach scorer behind, Williams, Walsh and Newman.
If you want to try and exploit him/us, then you do exactly what collingwood did. Get a 'jumper' against him at the end. Probably helps thats its a relatively new player who he hasn't come across before too.
I agree Lods. The math ain't mathin' wrt Elijah. There's clearly more to the story than meets the eye.
As to the game, another one where we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. A kid barely out of nappies misses 2 shots on goal, the best player in the comp needs to put on a clinic to get his team over the line, we had one player looking out of sorts, and we lose by 5 points to a coach who is supposedly a master motivator and master tactician.
The only reasonable conclusion from this is that we need a new football department. In fact, I would implore the club to create two new football departments, just to be on the safe side.
Sad part is Elijah has been our bedt player this year.
Hes llayed 1 good game, maybe 2, but was terrible to the point he shouldve been dropped.
He had played 75% game time up to 3/4 time iirc.
Tog by 1/4 87% 83% 55% 25%
Ended with 1 posession which got a 1m gain in the 3rd quarter. Id looked at 3/4 time and he still had donuts. Maybe the afl gifted him a touch in an attempt to hide the problem?
Saw vision of him on the bench in the last quarter sitting alone. He looked to be gesturing and motioning to himself. You know the way they portray crazy people in movies? Was definitely not right.
Commentators on the night said elijah didn't know where he is supposed to be. Which was after the 6 6 6 warning.
The footage shown already and there is more.
I hope this is the last time we see him in navy blue.
I don't like the way McKay takes a mark and turns his back on the team-mates further towards goal, he has done it twice thus far.
I'm not saying that he isn't having a bit of a crack but he does need to keep aware and open to seeing another better scoring option either further upfield or more centred.
Most of the time he is either.... a) the last player there, thus knowing there is nobody behind him b) trying to see if a player is running past for a handball
TBH, i don't want him trying to make a quick kick to a teammate, that is usually his undoing.
