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Not quite sure how you put Kirk in the bests…. 9 disposals, 1 tackle.
Agree with this. It certainly look like maintaining possession and trying to work the ball methodically up field was the emphasis after last week's debacle in the wet. Good to see Truslove and team responded and gives me some reassurance.
That's from PlayHQ, so it's come from the coaches
Reminds me of when I gave my son the macca's voucher for BOG because he was the only one in my team who hadn't received one yet...........
Slightly odd in my view.
Could be he was given a role to perform on a player (small forward?) and he played that role to the expectation of the coaches.
He was played solely in defence. I have never seen him play as a defender before. Hamish normally plays off halfback but they had him play off a wing the whole game.
Nothing that was apparent
No way Kirk
I went to the rooms , nothing apparent apart from Hamlings finger
That makes far more sense that the “bests” list published post-game.
They would have a big say , but then you look at players like Stephens who never went near the middle in the AFL , but in the VFL he was right in there . The senior coaches would say they want a player played in a position to see how they go , but Truslove would call the shots on game day.
I know it's a bit different, but we have a number of young kids at my local club who are also on VFL lists. Every now and then they are not selected so return to us, however their VFL coach requests that they play in certain positions (for whatever reason). It kills us, because we have a good KPD who would help our defence enormously, but his VFL coach insisted that we give him a run as a forward. We have to do it because it's in his best interest and we have to give a report on it, but it doesn't help our team at all.
In an ideal world you’d have the two teams playing an identical style. But our AFL style relies on gut running from all 22 players and a high degree of skill by foot. When half the team doesn’t even have “average” foot skills (and no one approaches an Errol or Isaac) and few have the ability to run and run and run, the result is not going to be the same.
