Agree. I think Lyon is an astute judge of footballing ability and he has a great record of extracting the most out of players, notably ones with limitations such as Mayne. Team rules would be geared towards maximising their output (such as not to take a shot from outside 50 if there is a better option). If someone steps up to play the role better I am sure they will be selected, but as Crozier has shown, it is not simple and does take time.
With a short forward line I would expect us to have fewer players playing forward. We do that already anyway. For me a forward line like that needs players who can play midfield. Again, most of ours can and do, but I don't know how Yarran goes. Does anyone have knowledge of his ability?
He's still a friend even after you belted him???
By making him and all others accountable against measures that are more aligned to our overall objective of winning a flag. He's a forward. A key performance measure should be to kick goals. That the players openly flout that they are not rated on kicking goals is symbolic of a defensive style of play and mindset that has been set from above that has been proven to fall short. That is what I want to see changed. Would it be asking too much for Mayne to be measured against a Gunston, a Breust or a Stringer's past season. Some like to point to stats - they're kicking in excess of 50 goals and averaging more than 2 goals a game. Ballantyne kicked 49 goals in 2014 and that's where he needs to be. The powers that be have to support our forwards with an attacking game plan and make them accountable against relevant measures that are aimed at winning games and less focussed on not losing them. When we get the ascendancy in a game, we should be hammering it home rather than slipping into preservation mode. Opposition teams know we leave the door open.
Mayne best is 2013 at age 25 after that going downhill.
I've addressed that plenty of times! When we heard we were losing coaches, I was hoping it was Suma so we could get someone new.
It'd be bloody hard for Crozier to play consistent footy at AFL level, when he's not getting AFL games consistently. I think if we've got 2 average mid-sized forwards to chose from, the younger, more skillful, more upside Crozier should be the one getting the job
Sounds fine to me so long as Freo adopts an offensive game plan like Hawthorn otherwise you are comparing apples with oranges. Which actually illustrates my mindset with our forward line really well. The problem isn't just the personnel, we need to add more offensive aspects to our game plan. Once that happens then the players who are scorers and those that are not will become more clear and make selections relatively simple. I keep hearing how there are all these players that would be better than Mayne but some how there is always a convenient excuse as to why they haven't shown it yet. "But Mayne's not as good as Gunston or Breust", which forward on our list is? I don't remember anyone kicking 50+ in 2015 for us, does that mean all our forwards are rubbish?
