Player Watch Welcome to Port Adelaide Brandon Zerk-Thatcher

[Ford Fairlane]

Don't mark with your knee.

 

[The Hobo]

BZT just has an ability to drop a mark, miss a kick, spoil it back into opposition players, and just stuff it, after doing a lot right. Just kills ya.

Far more reliable than Rat, who can do all of the above at a far higher frequency.

BZT has been pretty reliable in my eyes. No defender is infallible to a mistake.

 

[The Hobo]

all year has been alot better then esava, both of them cant play in the same backline due to the lack of chemistry with one another, we cannot fix this issue in the last 2 months of the season. therfore i believe that esava doesnt make our 22 leaving us with two genuine key deffedners in aliir and zerk thacher.

Esava impacts Aliirs game too. Just too much chaos.

Esava's main issue is that he doesn't have a defenders brain or instinct. He doesn't know when to leave his man and when to stay. He doesn't factor in where his team mates are and their position in the contest when deciding to launch. A perfect example is that contest where he crashed into Bergman. Bergman was always odds on to win that contest, but Esava ignored the cues and just came crashing in.

You can learn some of this, but some of this is also instinct. BZT is a natural defender, Esava is not.

The only way he will work as a defender is if he's asked to lock down on someone and not try and press up and intercept. Give him a job to do, and play one on one. He's actually good at that, and will have far less impact on Aliir and BZTs game if he sticks to his man.

 

[The Hobo]

Yes, Esava struggles to read the play and where to position himself; impacting Aliir who has to watch his own man and where Esava is. The two big defenders save this game for us.

Agreed, which is why I think he needs to just focus on his own man. Put him on the Hawkins type forward, tell him to stick to him and be a pure stopper.

Aliir reads the play better than most, he's the one that can come across to help. Not the other way around.

 

[The Hobo]

Has duursma ever had a game as influential as this one of BZT?


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Duursma had plenty of influential games for us. He was hit badly by injuries and never really got going again.

 

[Jello_B]

Esava impacts Aliirs game too. Just too much chaos.

Esava's main issue is that he doesn't have a defenders brain or instinct. He doesn't know when to leave his man and when to stay. He doesn't factor in where his team mates are and their position in the contest when deciding to launch. A perfect example is that contest where he crashed into Bergman. Bergman was always odds on to win that contest, but Esava ignored the queues and just came crashing in.

You can learn some of this, but some of this is also instinct. BZT is a natural defender, Esava is not.

The only way he will work as a defender is if he's asked to lock down on someone and not try and press up and intercept. Give him a job to do, and play one on one. He's actually good at that, and will have far less impact on Aliir and BZTs game if he sticks to his man.

Seems obvious. Pity we have a coach that can’t see obvious.