The game is being played on the Monday as it's a public holiday here in WA. Heading to the game, excited to get one of my few opportunities to see the boys run around.
Given a senior list of 40, having 12 players fighting for a spot in the back 6 isn't necessarily excessive. This year, we've used almost every backman we had available, and while a couple of the outs were due to form, mostly it was injury driven. We even had to pull Howe out of the forward line...
A point to note (and I'm not having a go at you here) is that Moore is substantially younger than all of the other players you've named except Hogan. Lynch is 23 (87 games), Cameron is 23 (76 games), Daniher is 22 (55 games), Hogan is 21 (27 games); Moore is 20 (16 games). Purely on goalkicking...
Really liked the way we went about it, particularly, for obvious reasons, the first half. Thought Oxley, Reid and the much-maligned Frost did a really good job down back. Loved seeing Reid dropping in to take intercept marks - we've missed his ability to read the play. Got me some box seat...
No, they're not. However, I think that a backline that looks something like this:
B: Williams Brown (Toovey/Sinclair)
HB: Oxley Reid Sharenberg
Has a pretty good mix of run, intercept skills and accurate disposal. I'm fully cognisant of the kicking deficiencies of Frost and Maynard, and I...
Not particularly surprising, when you consider that (other than Reid and Browny) the backline against Melbourne was more-or-less our third string blokes. Oxley also disposes of the footy pretty well. Also, when I talk about "defensive half turnovers", I don't just mean "turnovers by our...
I don't have the stat in front of me, but I think the thing that truly crippled us against Melbourne, even in the second half when we were at least contesting, was defensive half turnovers. If you turn the ball over in your offensive half you at least have some chance of setting defensive lines...
I'd argue that, rather than choosing not to say he would quit if the time came, he refused to give another Robbo beat-up air time. Probably the last thing a playing group that is pretty clearly shaky on confidence needs is the coach publicly announcing he'll quit if the going get tough(er).
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