Re: AFL Rd 12 2023 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Melbourne
Reply #145 –
I've watched most of the reserves games via live streaming this year, and dows kicking is deplorable. Last week against Sydney there was a passage of play where he was all by himself 60 metres from goal, and managed to kick the ball in between 2 targets, and the ball dribbled out of bounds .
This is my concern, as a inside stoppage player he wins heaps of footy and gets involved in chains of play, but he burns a huge percentage of the ball he uses.
It's an area of the game we are already deplorable at, which makes me question whether or not Dow can ever be selected as an upgrade on what we already have! He won't win more inside footy than Cripps, Walsh, Hewett, Cerra or Kennedy, and at his best Dow balls use is no more than equal the worst of them.
Maybe I'm being unfair, but that is what I see.
Fwiw, to be fair to Dow, SoJ got a lot of footy in his VFL appearance and burned just as much of it.
The bodgy ball use is a plague cutting through the club like case of the clap!