GWS Goose
Brownlow Medallist
yes, excellent point, it is 180That's a 180 degree turn. 360 degrees gets you back to playing forward!
My problem is that it gets us to playing a 4.5 tall defence (Taylor, Buckley, Haynes, HH & 0.5 is Idun). Or we stick Haynes on a wing, which was supposedly the case against Freo (I need to look at the game again to watch his positioning during play.) Neither of those is a great outcome IMHO - it might have worked against a disappointing Freo, but can it work against stronger teams?
From your first sentence, the inference is that HH should replace Haynes as the third defender - better 1-on-1, almost as able an interceptor, and better ball distributor.
Haynes was wing like on the weekend IMO. Not quite true wing. I read or heard somewhere they were hoping he'd take intercept marks further up the field, which did happen.
Not sure how they all fit in, which is the conundrum