Do we need better wingmen??
Our gameplan of run and gun via high use of handballs from the back half (when we are in form) is hampered by having C grade guys on the wings.
We have got million dollar midfielders dishing the ball out to sharp and Banfield who are on minimum chips and not in the elite class of wingmen in the comp. Haven’t been impressed by any of our wingers in recent weeks - they are frequently in our bottom 4 or 5 players.
I would love to see what Brad Hill or someone of that talent level could offer instead of Sharp/Jom/banfield in this freo side.
Now that I mention it, I can’t think of too many premiers recently that didn’t have one elite Wingman. J Daicos, Isaac smith, even Ed Langdon. Maybe Richmond but they did have Dusty.
Maybe you should go to a game and sit on the Sharp wing and watch him go to work. He was excellent against Geelong. Close to our best player. I sit 20 rows back, dead in line with the centre circle. He does a power of work running up and down the wing. He ran Dempsey ragged, but Dempsey does have a few forward/marking tricks that Sharp does not. And Sharp actually got a fair bit of the ball for a change. Often he gets ignored, including when he is free inside our F50. Sharp is more than fine as a winger. The other side we need improvement though.