4flagsin5yrs
Premiership Player
Highlighted is literally the reason he's on the outer, it's the reason his footy is failing him.
He holds back, he doesn't go hard, he runs around contested ground balls and is unwilling to take tackles and he let's the opposition run through contests without checking them. It's not his body not letting him do things it's his mind.
He's made it so far because of skills and smarts but if you aren't willing to embrace the contact side of the game AFL will catch you out.
He's literally not hard enough at the contest and that's why we won't play him in the midfield.
10 tackles and bugger all possessions, probably holding back and letting the opposition have first crack at the footy like I see all the time, well at least he's stopping them because he has been letting them get through him at in AFL side.
It's quite simple for SPS, get the intensity and physicality up or move on. It's not on us it's on him.
It's frustrating because he has the talent to be a top player but as many great coaches have said, it's all between the ears.
BS, if he did all that, he wouldn't have strung 3 games back to back, let alone how many?
I just reckon SPS is jack of being played out of position.
That's on Teague.