Love Durds' energy though, and feel like he does a bit of stuff that isn't necessarily stat-worthy. I get there's the pressure acts (fwds: CD 20, MO 17, ZF 16, JC 13, JS 12, JM 7, CC 5, HM 5), but that's also kind of some secret sauce going on there. The pace he runs at the opposition is great, even if he doesn't quite get there to take that PA stat he's coming fast enough to make them get rid of the ball more hurriedly than they'd like. Loved that tackle last week where the handball looped just enough and he came in from what felt like 20+m away to make the hit.Agree with most of this, but would be shocked if Owies was dropped after 8 tackles (6 inside 50) and 2 goals.
Reckon you could make a case to drop Durdin for a fortnight though, to afford Motlop a run. Love his endeavour, but in the last 3 games he's kicked 1 goal and is only averaging 3 tackles. Both he and Motlop are long term players for us, so there's shouldn't be any issue with alternating them a bit this year.
Would rather pair each with the more mature Owies, who I think is actually developing into something of a leader in that forward line, than play both the youngsters together.