Past Josh Deluca

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Mr_Plow said:
I think we should look at our best 7-8 midfielders moving forward, so that excludes Deluca and Murphy whilst including Setterfield, Cuningham and Stocker:

Cripps 195
Walsh 184 (will get to 186 in a year or two)
Setterfield 192
Dow 187
Cuningham 185
Stocker 184
Petrevski-Seton 182
Fisher 177

Mean = 185.75

Sure we're undersized and underweight for the next few years, but moving forward I don't believe it to be an issue. Our utilisation of midfielders is abhorrent, though. Cuningham and Stocker should get more centre square starts at the expense of Fisher and Petrevski-Seton.

This is also assuming Kennedy isn't in our best 7-8, which is too early to call.
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Cripps has grown a cm since you wrote this....:p
 
Wickzki said:
Disagree that we don't lack height. Compare it to last year's grand finalists this year:

Collingwood's top 7 midfield rotation

Treloar 182
Pendlebury 191
Beams 187
Phillips 187
Crisp 190
Sidebottom 184
Adams 181

Average 186

West Coast

Gaff 182
Sheed 185
Shuey 183
Yeo 190
Redden 190
Jetta 182
Masten 180

Average: 184.57cm

Our proposed best 7 mids (including DeLuca)

Cripps 195
Walsh 184
Murphy 180
Fisher 175
Petrevski-Seton 180
Dow 184
DeLuca 179

Avg 182.43

We only have Cripps who is as tall or taller as their average midfielder (184.57cm+, Walsh and Dow just under).

We are both shorter and lack strength in the midfield compared to their big bodied mids. We are a mosquito fleet who didn't need another short mid.
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You have No setters in there for us but Beams in for Collingwood Skews it a little bit.
 

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Bamboo Harvester said:
Tim Kelly is listed as being at 182cm and 81kg...a massive 3cm taller and 1kg heavier than Deluca.

Good thing the Cats don't draft 'undersized' mids either...
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There is nothing wrong with having an undersized mid or two in your rotation as long as it's balanced properly. I never said that it wasn't.

What I did say is that our current midfield rotation is undersized and meek when compared to the opposition. It's getting smashed to ribbons almost every week.

As other posters pointed out we have players (Kennedy, Setterfield, Curnow, I added Jack Silvagni) who could solve that issue. Yet the problem is that none of them have been given enough opportunity to do so. Therefore, adding DeLuca to a midfield rotation that is already getting smashed exacerbates a problem that we're already fighting this year.

On Jack Silvagni... Why do you go to the effort of spending so much of a season developing a guy to play in your midfield, and give it some strength and determination, and not give the guy a consistent opportunity to show what he's learned?

BJuddy said:
You have No setters in there for us but Beams in for Collingwood Skews it a little bit.
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Setters didn't play this past week as he was dropped. Will happily put him in there when he's consistently in the team again. On that note I didn't put Kennedy in either as he'd only played the one game.

Beams is in the Pies top 7 midfield rotation
 

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