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Listening to Joey suggest Higgins to get a run through the midfield, makes me think.. is wilson being pigeonholed as a wing? could we give him a run through the midfield? He's strong and quick, can run all day, good decision maker and a penetrating kick.. why not give him a run?
Obviously Owens comes up too
And the other one D King mentioned is Nas, not sure it'd be worth it moving him from the backline but I do like the principle that we need to get our best players around the ball. I think with opportunity we could unearth some inside mids.
Garcia, Owens, Wilson, Higgins, Nas, Henry, joshy hecking battle..
Love to see steele start up forward or something, just to give us a different look. Ross and jones to play at sandy
We've got some good players, let's try some things out
Byrnes did nothing on the weekend to deserve a recall , i doubt we will see much of him again with our injury list getting shorterSaints could be done for tanking after last weeks selection.
Interchange Bench:
Collard , Phillipou, Sharman, Bonner.
You mainly want to rotate your mids so they can keep going at high intensity. We used way less rotations compared to Fremantle.
Pou needs more time in the 2's. Collard needs a lot more time in the 2s.
Sharmon is not needed as a rotation off the bench.
Idk, why we selected Hastie ahead of McLennan, who can play as a lockdown small defender and has been very clean , very accountable, and also good on the rebound at Sandringham.
Dow was very disappointing , basically played an outsiders game. Ross will give a more honest performance.
Higgins our most important scoring player. Straight in.
Wilkie Howard Webster.
W-M Battle Sinclair.
Wood Ross Hill
King, Garcia, Hayes
Higgins, Caminiti, Owens.
R: Marshall, Steele, Wilson
Bench :Windhager, Crouch, Bonner, Clark.
Sub ( Byrnes ).
Not much Butler love here. Nobody after his speed and potential line breaking? Will at least try and get in front of the ball and also tackle.
Disappointed in Ryan, seems to have lost confidence and he a better player than what he has showed us at Sandy in the last couple of weeks...maybe he has been Rossed.Byrnes did nothing on the weekend to deserve a recall , i doubt we will see much of him again with our injury list getting shorter
Byrnes did nothing on the weekend to deserve a recall , i doubt we will see much of him again with our injury list getting shorter
Disappointed in Ryan, seems to have lost confidence and he a better player than what he has showed us at Sandy in the last couple of weeks...maybe he has been Rossed.
Why is that ?Playing out on a wing which isn’t as easy in the VFL.
We've had Higgins out of the forward line for 3 weeks. He has 13 goals in 7 games, kicked 4 against the Pies. He is probably best crumber in the team right now based on experience rather than potential.
Our forwards are static, marking as poor as they ever have, making every possession in the F50 contested. Our inside 50 to score ratio is the worst in the league. We need forwards who can find space and kick goals, who can present and mark. Jack Higgins can do all this.
He's likely to come back into the team this week, into a team that is only in front of the Hawks, Tigers and Roos for goals scored. We need goals, Saints fans. We need players who can kick goals within goal kicking distance of the goal. Go and watch the Saints v Bombers 2023 replay, amongst others we could name.
Please cease this Send Jack Higgins To Rescue The Midfield talk immediately. That's Brad Crouch's and possibly Hunter Clark's job.
Okay. They do count, which is why he has 4 goal assists instead of 2. You're basing his entire season off of 2 kicks inside 50?
I already told you, score involvements are the best measure for an attacking half back. This is a list of players from his position
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Are you impressed by that?
Funny how you're accusing me of ignoring stats. I noticed you failed to mention this one?
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Oh, and maybe this one too:
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Why is that ?
Well is sure isn't his kicking that's his weapon , if you're happy with a bloke playing on the wing just being able to run that fine , but that's not going to help us improve.Or Bachelor's opinion.
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Ryan got stuck out on the wing a little bit in terms of possessions, but he brought his weapon in his running, didn’t stop all game. His attitude was great, as it always is. It was good to see him get a bit of inside-mid time at the end of the game.
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You could argue that a heap of players did nothing to deserve staying in the team.
Byrnes is a solid option for midfield rotations. Its dumb to have a heap of non-mids on the bench.
Well is sure isn't his kicking that's his weapon , if you're happy with a bloke playing on the wing just being able to run that fine , buts that's not going to help us improve.
Crouch was dropped after round 1 though and then went for his knee cleanup after half a game in the VFL.I went back and looked at our first couple of weeks stats. Steele was flying. Crouch was restricted but still adding about 5 clearances a week. We had Geelong beaten before that controversial Danger free kick where he tripped over one of our players and kicked a goal.
We knocked of Collingwood with Max King flying. 3 goals straight and 15 touches against them (4.1 from Higgins). 17 disposals and 2.4 to go along with 94 AF points making King our 4th most effective player against the Cats.
Lost Crouch, Henry and Wood against the Pies and never really resettled. Then without Snags and Butler and Seb Ross dropping away hard we really just lost our competitiveness. Players like Henry and Wood haven't recaptured their early form from the lay off too.
Crouch was dropped after round 1 though and then went for his knee cleanup after half a game in the VFL.
Of course you need depth , and now we have players back from injury he is only depth , not starting 22 , its not that hard to understand I wouldn't have thought.I know he groped your nads or something but you need a few depth soldiers in every side. Mark Hutchings was a premiership player. GWS when their list was at it's best had to import guys like DeBoer because they were all icing and no cake.
And hobbled Crouch still had 5 clearances v Geelong in 63% time on ground.
I think we'd be sitting pretty well at the moment with 10 fit and in-form games from Brad Crouch and Dan Butler.
AFL wingers hold space and usually work really hard defensively for transition.Don't know, wings never get huge numbers in the VFL. Probably because the game is naturally more of a chaos ball game and the ball tends to be sent forward with as few possession chains as possible to avoid turn over.
Or his tankYes, I remember the same promise was made to old mate Dean Kent too.
Maybe worth a look but I'm, also not sold on his field kicking.,
The toll from the Collingwood game was catastrophic and changed the course of our season. We were already carrying a lot of injured players at that point, and we have less depth than last year. So those three broke the camel's back (i think the three were actually Heny Wood and Windy (susp.)).I went back and looked at our first couple of weeks stats. Steele was flying. Crouch was restricted but still adding about 5 clearances a week. We had Geelong beaten before that controversial Danger free kick where he tripped over one of our players and kicked a goal.
We knocked of Collingwood with Max King flying. 3 goals straight and 15 touches against them (4.1 from Higgins). 17 disposals and 2.4 to go along with 94 AF points making King our 4th most effective player against the Cats.
Lost Crouch, Henry and Wood against the Pies and never really resettled. Then without Snags and Butler and Seb Ross dropping away hard we really just lost our competitiveness. Players like Henry and Wood haven't recaptured their early form from the lay off too.
The toll from the Collingwood game was catastrophic and changed the course of our season. We were already carrying a lot of injured players at that point, and we have less depth than last year. So those three broke the camel's back (i think the three were actually Heny Wood and Windy (susp.)).
Well is sure isn't his kicking that's his weapon , if you're happy with a bloke playing on the wing just being able to run that fine , buts that's not going to help us improve.