Davies is the better defensive player at the moment , Draper has some good skills ie kicking and handball under pressure but appears to have lost some confidence as young players tend to do
Needs more games at Peel
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I think people forget how good Hughes can be defensively. It's his slow decision making with ball in hand that's terrible.
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Hughes is a mature hard body with a good tank (otherwise we wouldn’t have played him on a wing last year) I would feel much more comfortable with him than Draper playing a lockdown role.
Really don't like our two KPDs being 19 and 20 yr old kids. Nothing against either of them for our future, but there's a tipping point where the inexperience stacks and the odd mistake becomes a lot more frequent because you're not surrounded by experienced heads to settle and direct you, you're surrounded by other kids. Even rebuilding teams would hesitate to put two essentially first year players at key posts in defence. Think Draper in for Pearce would be a mistake.
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It’ll be Hughes.
The 4.15 thing was overstated. "Smoked at the contest" where we ... pressure from Swans lead to the poor kicking. Expect the same this time round . Our best chance is Swannies (do you know why they are called Swans - look it up, it's interesting) are due an off day ...
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Hughes is so slow with ball in hand that he should be on the NDIS program.
Still as pertinent today as it was back then
Only at stoppages. But there we will hold our own, even win them, it is stopping the likes of Worner, Gulden and Heeney when the Swans are on the run breaking from HB. Brodie would not run with them.
With so many WA players going to VFL clubs during that period ,all VFL clubs should have the name.
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Not cool.
I doubt the game will come down to the Swans bigs, outside of the Amarty-Party v Adelaide their wins are off the back of Midfield scoring and a very good team defense. If we can limit the ball use out of the middle and close the space around the 50m mark that their mids run into we should be a chance.
But it is off a home game, big difference to a 5 day break after an away game.
We had plenty of easy set shots and snaps that were simply missed under zero/little pressure. Check the maps on the @AFLxScore twitter.
JOM, Switta, Brayshaw missed 4 snaps between them from 25-30m out from little angle.
Voss, Frederick, Amiss missed 3 set shots around 40m out from little angle. Voss, Treacy, Sharp and Switta missed 4 more set shots from a slightly worse (but still easy) angle about 35m out.
Plus the added drain of missing easy ones and watching them kick everything. One of those games where more fragile sides throw in the towel and get done by 80+
Maybe it will rain..
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It’s the midfielders we need to be worried about
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Draper and Davies only really matter if the rest of the team shows up and this is close. That's when their inexperience could easily cost us 1-3 goals and be the difference. Not their fault obvs, but it is what it is.
Hughes should come in considering we need him to defend 1v1. We don't want the ball in his hands and that's where he either brain farts or slows things down.
He has runs on the board as a defender (Hi Darling) and we lack experience in the KPD stakes.
He has runs on the board as a defender (Hi Darling) and we lack experience in the KPD stakes.
