Neale was immense. Watching him live is so good. Seeing him burrow into packs and come out with the ball and always hits a target with the handball. Genius. Now adding goals to his game as well.
Thought Gardiner played a very underrated game down back and touchwood is over the shoulder issues. Rich and Zorko showed experience and class down back.
Only negative for me was first qtr and Mcstay was very poor. He just refused body contact and wants to jump into contests often from the side so its little wonder he drops so many marks. Hipwood was so much better last before injury because he engaged in physical contest. Dan can be a very important player for us but he needs to be a lot better, especially against the strong sides.
Thought Gardiner played a very underrated game down back and touchwood is over the shoulder issues. Rich and Zorko showed experience and class down back.
Only negative for me was first qtr and Mcstay was very poor. He just refused body contact and wants to jump into contests often from the side so its little wonder he drops so many marks. Hipwood was so much better last before injury because he engaged in physical contest. Dan can be a very important player for us but he needs to be a lot better, especially against the strong sides.
I am saying that providing any Key Forward fills his role given by his coach, is good in my eyes. to go one step further, should all our forwards (Big, small, key or even part timer) fill their role given by the coach, you would expect us to win the game..... which we have done both times thus far in 2022. I'd be pretty confident in saying that the coach's are happy with Joe's performance to date despite your view of him being different.
