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.
@kruddler I think we are a bit too tall for my liking still, but Haynes has more athleticism than Okeefe and Derkson combined. We only lost run on Boyd, and you could argue Hayward is like for like.
Its 2 glacial talls and 1 small running player for 2 talls that have better agility and speed, and 1 small that is likely not as quick as the one out, but has a lot more class and ability about him (just hasnt put it together yet). To me it signals that we are swinging Lewis Young forward, and id be keeping an eye out for late changes.
Point is the same. More athletic talls or not, they are not smalls and they are certainly not capable of playing a midfield role that we took Hewett out of. Yes, we can shuffle a little bit by adding Williams into the midfield more, but we need more help in the midfield, not less.
Hayward was out and then back in, so he doesn't 'add' anything since we dropped Hewett, he just missed a game.
There are plenty of battlers out there who don't fit into the 'rich billionaire' mold.
I'm having to sell an investment property courtesy of years of interest rate rises and cost of living going through the roof, fuel prices etc.
To top it all off the renters stopped paying rent and damaged the place on the way out....including taking the hill hoist away.
No point going through VCAT, so i've just gotta fit the bill for all that, and suck up 2x mortgages while i spend all my weekends getting it back to normal ready to sell.
Given we only have 2 players on our injury list, and both are out for 12 months with a knee injury, i think its almost certain there are a few injured players running around.
