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Jake kicked over 40 goals (and 1 goal off leading our goal kicking for the 4th time?) in a completely disfunctional fwd line of a pretty well disfunctional team. I can only imagine how many goals he'd kick for a team like the Dees or the Pies if we let him go.
Agree that he's unlikely to be with us if and when we are finally pushing for success, so I can respect calls to trade him out on that basis. But potting him as if he's not contributing or he's 'past it' or any other tripe is just total nonsense. He's about #135 of our biggest problems on the field.
He needs to be realistic.Interesting.
It’s like a game of chicken inside the actual game.
He was better than Langford. Comparing him with Wright is like comparing him with Caddy or Draper or Jones or Alwyn Davey Jr. He's not there to provide what they provide.I'd give him 1 year.
He gets a lot of shit (understandable) but he was better than Langford and Wright.
When you have spuds like Menzie and Gresham around you and the butchery of the ball into your area, you're not always going to do well.
Again, I get the shit he cops and a fair bit is justified.
But I just don't see us been better with Langford and Wright supporting Nate.
Let's be honest, Kyle and Peter have had one good season each in 10 years.
This is our biggest issue and the game plan does not help. I am not sure this forward press game will ever stand up in finals and it is boring as fcuk footy. Even Lyon at Saints has woken up re running the ball.Stringer stays, get rid of the idiots who can't hit targets.
This.This is our biggest issue and the game plan does not help. I am not sure this forward press game will ever stand up in finals and it is boring as fcuk footy. Even Lyon at Saints has woken up re running the ball.
All the good teams are running the ball and creating space off the back of breaking lines. We chip, chip, get to the middle to be confronted with an opposition stacked forward line and zero pressure if the ball hits the ground.
Then you look at the last 15 minutes of the Freo game when we ran the ball we looked a million times better. Time to recruit mid sized runners that can break lines.
IMO we have way too many talls atm.
Nick Hind approves this.Interesting.
It’s like a game of chicken inside the actual game.
No current season stats available
Some of Daniel Menzel's numbers in his last 3 seasons at Geelong (before being traded to Sydney):
- 2016: 33 goals at an average of 1.8;
- 2017: 40 goals at an average of 2.1;
- 2018: 27 goals at an average of 2.1.
Jake Stringer's equivalent numbers in his last 3 seasons;
- 2022: 25 goals at an average of 1.7;
- 2023: 21 goals at an average of 1.2;
- 2024: 42 goals at an average of 1.8.
What does a good club do when faced with a dysfunctional forward line? What does a bad club do when faced with the equivalent problem? I want to answers at least part of this latter question to say that it will come up with a number of reasons not to make desperately needed change, none of which address the fundamental issue(s).