Re: How will we line up in 2025.
Reply #255 –
As for Motlop not being fast; "Agility is Motlop’s greatest athletic attribute, registering a top five finish at the national combine with a time of 8.063 seconds.
We've been through this multiple times before, there is a huge difference between acceleration and sustained top speed, both are important. And agility is largely irrelevant outside of traffic, as I was discussing moving the footy unhindered and unpressured through free space.
Cripps would easily be one of our quickest over the first 5 or 10 steps, that is his training and power base, but after that the bulk of the AFL pass him like he's standing still, Motlop is no different.
I get it, you want to talk us up, as Mulder says, "you want to believe", but AFL is real not just a dream.
The ball movement we saw happen in the pre-season games for both sides, hardly ever or never happens in the real deal, that is not an accident. The same applies to Kemp or McGovern finding themselves free to jump uncontested and unhindered.
Read what you wrote, "Motlop isn't fast but ran anyway from opponents." Yes, he did that, in congested situations where his acceleration and agility gives him an edge. He also got run down and was incorrectly penalised.
It's not a matter of talking us up; it was a practice match. But there's no point making stuff up to downplay our performance or excuse GWS being smashed by a more efficient team.
So far we've heard that we're at a different stage of preparation - even though our first game is just four days after GWS's - and then that GWS wasn't chasing, exerted little pressure and showed minimal second effort. Unlike the previous week's match sims, that was as competitive as practice matches can be. If we had played like we did against the Saints, I would be very concerned.
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