Kouta was amazing in top flight, but some of his ordinary games detract from his legacy.
Cripps... I have to say, he has been bloody good and of his 250 games, I reckon less than 5% are bad ones.
2 x brownlow medallist puts him in Greg Williams territory, and the knock on his kicking doesnt really detract from his legacy. He is in rare air, and dont ask me who Cripps goes past in the pantheon of Carlton greats, but he is easily in the top percentile. If he jagged a flag as captain, then he would instantly become a top 5.
Kouta was unstoppable in full flight.....anywhere over the ground. His 2000 year would be about the best year by anyone, ever......except Woewodin?
He averaged 6.3 clearances a game and 1.8 goals and 2.75 contested marks a game.
For the record, Harry has never had that many contested marks in any given year (2.6 CM/g) Harry has only average more goals a game in 4 of his 10 years (1 year was only 1.83) Cripps averages 7 clearances over his career, his 45 brownlow vote season, he averaged 8.
Kouta was able to match it with both, at the same time.
After the knee, he became 'ordinary' as he was a different player but reinvented his game and became a clearance beast. In 2005 he averaged more clearances than anyone, including prime Judd and Kirk.
You could pick your starting 17 and whatever you had left, you could put Kouta into it, and he wouldn't be out of place.
So nobody comes close to Kouta for mine simply because he could do anything, and did.
Kemp is a good utility player being asked to perform a role he has performed for approximately less than 15 games at AFL level and is currently doing a pretty good job of it, with some warts on his game.
Give him some time to sort those out. He is a reliable enough kick, its possibly the first time in his career he has a monkey on his back. The fans jumping on him for lack of finishing wont help him, there is no reason he cant be our Jack Gunston.
Agreed.
Plenty of time for him to turn things around.
That doesn't mean he needs to play 1's every week until he does. This kind of form is exactly why you drop players to the 2's to regain some confidence. Problem is, we don't have anyone to bring in. Closest you could argue is Ison, and we already dropped him for similar reasons.
Kemp is a good player to have in your 23. Traditional utility player. We just can't plan for him to be our FF for the next 7 years.
Nick Austin take a bow again.... Pick 45 is 'burning it up!' About time we found a diamond in the back end of the draft, and Austin did it.
Never had an issue with the individuals he picked.......but any danger you could get a balanced list together?
Meanwhile we have Kemp up forward who is too scared to take a shot at goal......and Young who we've shopped around but nobody wanted. Doesn't fill you with confidence in that area now does it.
GC were very poor, despite being good in front of goal.
Kemp not only has the yips in front of goal, he is scared to even have a ping at them. At least twice he passed to people in worst positions than him, just so he didn't have to shoulder the responsibility of taking a shot himself. Someone needs to get him a shrink, quick.
Lewis Young looked better in the air than Harry does.....maybe it was the opposition?
Talor Byrne continues to make the extra step which results in laying the tackle, rather than just touching an opponent....and is getting rewarded.
I can't recall how many free kicks we got for holding the ball today, but i'd suggest its our season high.....and there was still a couple that they missed.
Harry Dean is playing with the experience of a 100 gamer. He'll be telling Weitering what to do if he ever returns. Exceeded all expectations. Today wasn't his best game either, but his opponent is about the toughest he'll ever face, so you take that.
Jagga can not touch the ball between now and the end of the year and still win the rising star. His poise and balance is elite. He'll win a brownlow someday. IMO, he's aready overtaken Walsh in the midfield heirarchy. Jagga had equal most touches on the ground, and 2nd best disposal efficiency of the 46 players, despite having the 2nd most contested possessions in navy blue (behind Cripps of course)......and its effectively, his first year!
Moir's only kicked multiple goals on three occasions in his 13 games...including one where he kicked 4 That's what we need to see 3-4 goals a game to make up for the missing moments. He doesn't have to do it every game but at least on a regular basis.
Ison hasn't kicked 2 in a game yet.
Worse than that, Ison has kicked 3.10. We have enough poor kicks in the team already. Moir....15.7 over his career.
For a bloke who is no good and goes missing far too often, his numbers still stack up against some other 'favourites' who get more of a gig.
Without Harry.....who is going to cause more damage up forward? Moir or Ison?? If that who we are choosing between.....is it a choice?
I like what Moir brings, has the talent.to be a superstar but he kind of lost me in the first quarter of opening rd when he gave up a chase way too easily.
I would like to see him get a few games later in the season once we are officially done. Saturday is still a live game and he can't be trusted yet.
Ison is my preffered option at the moment.
Ison had 0 tackles in his last outing vs Hawks and averages 1.6 tackles /game and 0.4 goals/game Moir averages 1.4 tackles/game and 1.15 goals/game over his career.
That must be one hell of a 'half tackle' Ison brings every game by comparison.
Moir is becoming a caricature of himself. His output exceeds perception.
