They also have a s**t coach so who knows.
Acres plays some bloody good game when he gets a go in the midfield. Kills it in the vfl playing in the guts . Saints problem is they dont have much up forward and a glut of contested mids who are very one dimensional .
He's not the quickest but I wouldn't say he's slow. I just think he's worth considering if we can get him cheaply enough, it's not like we've got a bunch of young midfielders banging down the door to get into the team at the moment.
Many midfielders are
They threw Jamie Cripps and Mark Hutchings away and they went on to be regular fixtures in a premiership year. I wouldn't be taking what the Saints get out of a player as representative of their value to us.
And considering Redden is nearing 30 and will likely need to be replaced at some point it would seem to be a good fit.
Cripps played the go home card and was never going to freo as ross the toss was now their coach . We had saints over a barrel .
It's not irrelevant, but if our recruiters looked at him and said he would fit into our team you have to weigh your faith in them against what you've seen of him at the Saints. For me, I have enough faith in the recruiters targeting players from other clubs that if that's what they wanted I'd be pretty happy to get a deal done.
I see both your points.
But this whole, "Acres will free up Shuey or Redden to play HFF" isn't something that turns me on.
We've just sorted out our midfield balance by playing the correct number of forwards. It sounds to me you're both advocating that we "squeeze" Acres into the lineup by either playing him off the HFF, or have another one of our mids play off the HFF instead. Amounts to the same thing.
You're justifying squeezing another midfielder into the team. Who says any of these campaigners can even play HFF? Goal kicking mid Shuey is the most likely, but that's a stretch. We've proven before that carrying too many midfielders is bad for our scoring and rectified that last year with Rioli, Ryan and Cripps. We've also rectified it recently pissing off Marsden.
As far as displacing another fringe player, who? Waterman? Allen? Petch? All forwards, all young, all should be playing.
It's like you're having Acres replace Marsden, either throwing our midfield balance out, or living in the WAFL.
I'm aware the pick we'll cough up will be in the 30's, i don't hate the idea, given i suggested it in the first place, but i'm not completely sold on it either
You are right - for some reason I had always just thought he wasn't particularly wanted at the Saints.
Yeah I wouldn't have a problem with this.
Think we need to get this plan in action.
Look, I agree with the sentiments of bolstering our midfield, but I’d like to draw your attention to the last time that we picked another key position player who seemed superfluous to our needs was when we picked that strapping young gentleman in your avatar. I find it tricky to be too critical of that choice.
