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.
Trade him to Tassie
Agree, he is draft capital and we need to rebuild. His performances are inconsistent and as you say his concussions make his future uncertain..
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.
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.
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..
Thats a lot of changes EB, cant see that many being made. Fark it I'd do it thought, nothing to lose.
I'm going youth GTC and trying to get games in to talented players but you also need some mature support. Eg Acres isn't the future, has slowed up but is still a smart player and more capable vs better players. Ison and Moir have talent and I'd be changing the forward line up to more of a medium and small ball lineup. Keeping Byrne in the team too he has talent and rather go down by ten goals developing players than by five trotting out the same tried and failed every week.
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..
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.
I got no problems with him being a grinder EB, as long he had others to complement....problem is that he doesn't look like main man type, which we paid for. Real problem is the rest of the group are one paced or slow, and none are great kicks - Jagga doesn't really bring those qualities. Walsh has elite work rate and Cripps and Hewitt are gun first handlers/extractors, after that A-grade qualities get real thin
Agree, dont see him as that main man type either Prof and we are going to have to recruit that in the draft or import it in from another club.
Yea well I don't see it. For what we paid in draft capital he needs to Ashcroft level. He plays like a smaller lighter version of Walsh.
Prof, Difficult task being brought in and expected to lift what is a slow pedestrian midfield with poor kicking skills. A lots expected of both him and Walker who are going to be carrying the weight of expectations going forward. Probably needs to be playing with a Harley Reid and Jai Newcombe type/s who can all grow together and compliment their respective skillsets. He is a lightweight version of Walsh with a bit more leg speed and a bit better kick imo but he isnt that dynamic Daicos, Heeney, Rayner type who will change the fortunes of games in 10mins and like Walsh is more that reliable workhorse. Its up to the recruiters to find him some more dynamic mates to work with so he doesnt have to be knocked around doing work he isnt designed to do. We saw Long and Anderson for Collingwood banging bodies etc in the last quarter so Daicos could do his thing but our blokes who should have been doing that stuff were either in the twos ie Hewett or MIA....
Looks like it was a mental health issue. Heart rate very elevated throughput the game, sleeping an issue. Looks like one issue we have to be sensitive the way we approach it. Looks like it's a real issue. Not sure if he is manic/depressive and we got a manic episode last night. As I said, I remember Rhett Baynes.
You have to ask what was he doing on the field? We have all this focus on concussion and looking for symptoms, passing tests etc and Elijah clearly wasn't right and even the general public could see he needed help yet he is allowed to continue. The AFL should investigate both player and club as it was a serious breach of care imo. Put yourself in the parents position seeing your son in that state on a football field and it should never happen again...
He shouldnt have been allowed to play and I'm not sure what our medicos were thinking letting him take the field. He must have been displaying symptoms in the dressing room and surely he is one player they would be asking are you right to go. He actually could have got badly hurt wandering around confused and dazed like he was.
When you get beaten by the usual suspects yet again - Daicos, Elliot, Howe etc it just reinforces that Voss and his "support" are clueless. No planning whatsoever. I don't want to sack another coach but he has no idea. Chuck in a senior group lacking a skerrick of leadership and a swag of passengers and we're looking at a three win season - if we're lucky. The last quarter we all knew was inevitable - it's at the point where we may as well hand the keys in, I don't think this club is ever going to recover.
Yep if you cant contain the Daicos kids then you are up against it and I was surprised to see OllieH on Nick and it didnt end well, Ollie is a trier but not at either Daicos level and his brother Elijah looked like he was at a rock concert and badly affected by something.
Chalmers is real desperate with debt levels climbing and a Federal Budget looming where he has promised tax cuts and give aways but doesnt really have the money but Albo cant have the voters without some free gifts. Gentleman Jim wants to go back to 2006 and retrospectively try to claim CGT and over rule court rulings.The proposed law aims to override two 2025 Federal Court rulings that favored foreign investors (Newmont and YTL Power) regarding the sale of assets, which the ATO had previously pursued. Those assets at the time included wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries, of course Australia would be looking at Foreign Investment for any upgrades or new infrastructure whatever Energy programs they decide for the future but its hard to see Foreign Investors trusting the Aus Government if this legislation gets backdated to 2006.
@Thryleon....ie you look at Government Housing building programs and in particular the HAFF and its just a conga line of corruption....ex Labor Politicians running Super Funds that are investing in the HAFF with CMFEU officials on the Cbus board and with the CFMEU doing the building works and with Swan delaying payments to CBUS members and the Government unable to provide solid figures on the number of houses built. If your a CBUS member do you really want your money going to the CMFEU?
