Would love to, but I can't watch from up here and there was no stream. Stats is all I get to see plus ad hoc BF posts during/after the match.
I think only two match day posts mentioned Smith. One asked if he was playing forward (obviously not from someone at the ground) and the other (post match) said he played a good first quarter but was beaten after that.
So please elaborate: he had 10 disposals AND stopped 9 forward entries? - or were they part of the 10 disposals? From your comments his 10 disposals must have included a fair number of CPs? Were his 3 marks all intercepts? Also why no tackles? Doesn't he pressure opponents in possession? bad tackling technique?
These are genuine questions. People keep talking him up but in the two games I've seen him in the seniors he has only shown the occasional glimmer. I'm hoping to understand what MC and others have seen in him. I know he has a good leap but at 182cm he's going to have to show something extra to become a regular in the AFL.
Roarke Smith has some good skills such as a good leap but for my liking he just doesn't do enough, he hasn't got the energy. Sometimes he gets up high enough for a spoil but misses entirely. He is not dominant enough. He played OK in the first half but faded badly in the second.
Declan Hamilton played well in the first half, being in the right place at the right time to kick 3 goals and he made some good passes. He got a few touches in the third but I didn't see him in the last quarter. Note that he has laid either no tackles or very few tackles for the last 4 matches.
I suggest that both of these players should have been delisted. Maybe these guys went OK in the last 5 minutes, I don't know as I left early to avoid the rush and traffic jams. I wasn't bad leaving a bit early because I met Tom Campbell and we had a chat and also saw John Schultz.