- Naismith and Sinclair are a little too non-competitive in the air, Naismith offers other things so he's in no danger of losing his spot but we have no aerial presence (in terms of at least creating a contest) outside of Reid and Franklin. 3 marks between our rucks tonight, Bellchambers had more by himself....so many times tonight when exiting the defence we had no aerial presence when we kick to contests unless Reid had pushed up or an undersized bloke like Heeney/Parker flew.
Sinclair has been 'better' by own standards but Tippett would be bashed to hell on here if he put up that Sinclair performance, anyway Tippett must be due for his good half-season soon! He always has a good half of a season, and maybe this time it'll come at the right time of year? I want them to make sure that ankle is 100% right though, he's shown he will play through injury if asked but he also doesn't handle playing with injury very well.
- Reid 1.3, Franklin 0.6 need to seriously practice their goal kicking, gone to shit since the bye (especially at the SCG), positive I guess is they are both working well together and having so many shots, especially against some decent Essendon key backs...but they both look shot for confidence on the set shots you can see it all over their faces. Buddy passing off a 45m shot to Jack barely within range could've been very, very costly. He needs to take those shots, it's why he's on the $$$.
- In reflection Grundy was great, seems to have gotten back to his form of the last few years and the brain fades from early in the season (which also frequented his game earlier in his career) are gone again.
- Towers like Sinclair has been better lately but really Dawson/Edwards are banging the door down and at worst surely they'd offer the same and we wouldn't lose anything. Both possess decent foot-skills and tonight showed that should be a premium, we have room to squeeze at least one in and if they can help our field kicking they should be in, or at least tried..
Sinclair has been 'better' by own standards but Tippett would be bashed to hell on here if he put up that Sinclair performance, anyway Tippett must be due for his good half-season soon! He always has a good half of a season, and maybe this time it'll come at the right time of year? I want them to make sure that ankle is 100% right though, he's shown he will play through injury if asked but he also doesn't handle playing with injury very well.
- Reid 1.3, Franklin 0.6 need to seriously practice their goal kicking, gone to shit since the bye (especially at the SCG), positive I guess is they are both working well together and having so many shots, especially against some decent Essendon key backs...but they both look shot for confidence on the set shots you can see it all over their faces. Buddy passing off a 45m shot to Jack barely within range could've been very, very costly. He needs to take those shots, it's why he's on the $$$.
- In reflection Grundy was great, seems to have gotten back to his form of the last few years and the brain fades from early in the season (which also frequented his game earlier in his career) are gone again.
- Towers like Sinclair has been better lately but really Dawson/Edwards are banging the door down and at worst surely they'd offer the same and we wouldn't lose anything. Both possess decent foot-skills and tonight showed that should be a premium, we have room to squeeze at least one in and if they can help our field kicking they should be in, or at least tried..
