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Given how we’ve developed Salem and Bowey, Houston could easily end up being a really expensive, imported version of them.We’ll no doubt start at one first round pick for Houston. It will go from there and no doubt Port will ask for 2 firsts. Let’s hope we don’t go there. I’m ok with offering one first. We could really do with someone that could kick over or pierce through zones like he can.
An port absolutely tore apart our zone on Saturday night with him in the side. Definitely the difference makerHouston is a significantly better kick than anyone on our list. The likes of Bowey and Salem don’t have that type of penetration. Rivers does but not the accuracy. May you could argue is closest to him. McVee possibly but I don’t think has the penetration.
Trac also a long, penetrating kick without reliable accuracy.Houston is a significantly better kick than anyone on our list. The likes of Bowey and Salem don’t have that type of penetration. Rivers does but not the accuracy. May you could argue is closest to him. McVee possibly but I don’t think has the penetration.
Melbourne's super power of bringing the game down to the muck.An port absolutely tore apart our zone on Saturday night with him in the side. Definitely the difference maker
Don't forget the 12 other defenders on our list that we used actual draft picks on. Who needs midfielders and forwards when you can just keep drafting defefenders to move into those positions.First time I have seen everyone on this board agreeing on something (Houston).
Would have thought we already over subscribed in our backline. Will have 7 first rounders tied up there ( Leverx2, Houstonx2, Salem, Bowey, May).
Meanwhile our forward line will have 2 (JvR/Pickett).
Idiotic decision by our list management again.
While sending everyone back to help them out. Its why you cant say Chaplin is good. The resources and game plan is designed specifically to make Chaplin look good.First time I have seen everyone on this board agreeing on something (Houston).
Would have thought we already over subscribed in our backline. Will have 7 first rounders tied up there ( Leverx2, Houstonx2, Salem, Bowey, May).
Meanwhile our forward line will have 2 (JvR/Pickett).
Idiotic decision by our list management again.
Totally agree. He isn’t worth 2 firsts. And agree re Melksham and Fritsch. But they don’t play behind the footy.Trac also a long, penetrating kick without reliable accuracy.
Melksham also a very good kick and maybe our best field kick considering he can go off either foot - just doesn't get enough of it
Fritsch would be but he rarely passes or gets enough of it anyway
If we want to see more of McVee and Rivers in the middle then we need defenders who can break the lines, or kick over them (or both) to replace them.
If Houston was a free agent we would be frothing about him coming to us for nothing (but cap space). Doesn't make him worth 2 first rounders though.
While sending everyone back to help them out. Its why you cant say Chaplin is good. The resources and game plan is designed specifically to make Chaplin look good.
lol, SMH, you just listed all the resources we have put into the backline, on top of that he gets a defensive game plan. Id hope the backline looks respectable.Chaplin is the last coach I would be having a go at
The Houston thing really feels like Goodwin wants to persist with the chip kick gameplan we did for the first half of the year.Our problem isn't penetrating the zone we don't even try, teams penetrate with run and carry not one player pulling a miracle kick off. That's a 2-3 times in a game maybe thing
lol, SMH, you just listed all the resources we have put into the backline, on top of that he gets a defensive game plan. Id hope the backline looks respectable.
Im not saying it is.If Chaplin is championing his line to get that, I don’t see how it’s on him that the list team actually do it.
Im not saying it is... im simply saying this game plan is designed to make him look good, and we have spent money and picks on his area of the ground.
I see it a little differently. Run and carry is important but usually relies on a riskier kick back through the middle or over the first layer of zone - causing the next later to push up which then the run/carry, sharp handballing gets through or kick out the back opens up.Our problem isn't penetrating the zone we don't even try, teams penetrate with run and carry not one player pulling a miracle kick off. That's a 2-3 times in a game maybe thing
Some does come from kicks yes, some comes from turnover and some comes from a mark that's flicked into a handball. This is the problem with us getting Houston. It's not just add a nice kick and we get more attacking it's a whole team mindset. He can't just do it alone. Steven May might be the best kicking full back that's ever played AFL, makes no difference when he nails a kick into the corridor and then the guy grabs it and goes back over the mark then kicks to a contest on the flankI see it a little differently. Run and carry is important but usually relies on a riskier kick back through the middle or over the first layer of zone - causing the next later to push up which then the run/carry, sharp handballing gets through or kick out the back opens up.
Agree that adding 1 player who can make that kick does bugger all for us. Too easy to shut down.
Unfortunately for us our problems go far beyond kicking skills. We cannot even hit targets with handballs, put on a decent shepherd and our want/will/fitness to spread quickly or run defensively is diabolically poor.
Houston is a very good player. I don't think anyone is denying that. The problem is the cost when we are seemingly on our way down, and how effective will he actually be under Goodwin. May is about the only good kick that is utilised in our team. Maybe Spargo was to a certain degree a couple of years ago. But that's about it. What's he gonna do with Houston? Get him to chip sideways? Kick it into a packed F50 where our forwards have no space? Might as well plonk Woey in that role and save 2 firsts.Trac also a long, penetrating kick without reliable accuracy.
Melksham also a very good kick and maybe our best field kick considering he can go off either foot - just doesn't get enough of it
Fritsch would be but he rarely passes or gets enough of it anyway
If we want to see more of McVee and Rivers in the middle then we need defenders who can break the lines, or kick over them (or both) to replace them.
If Houston was a free agent we would be frothing about him coming to us for nothing (but cap space). Doesn't make him worth 2 first rounders though.
Could do worse (and would keep JVR out of the ruck), but he's another that would probably struggle with the way we move the ball as he's hardly a pack-crashing contested beast (despite his size).Anyone for Peter Wright? Playing VFL and his deal is until 2027 so would require a trade, would help up forward and as second ruck.