Still too tall, especially if Waterman is played forward. Kennedy, Darling, Oscar and Waterman is a vey slow forward line
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Short quarters will suit Waterman.
Between Oscar chopping out in the ruck, and JK, JD and JW having a break on the bench, you'd imagine (or hope) it'll be very rare when all 4 are playing up fwd together.
On a serious note, Darling was soundly beaten by Trent ‘The Cannon’ McKenzie last week.
If JK is cooked and your other premier key forward is getting smashed by a flanker who couldn’t get a game with GCS, then it makes life pretty easy for opposition KPDs to zone off and intercept
Allir truly will be BOG
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The board has reliably informed me that this is impossible.
Darling is the unquestionable GOAT.
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At the risk of being contrarian, I thought Jonas was on Darling and Clurey was on Kennedy most of the time last week.
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I think it was pretty hard to tell who was on Darling seeing as Darling was only shown on the tv screen about 3 times the whole game.
Sure but he was on smaller defenders Houston and McKenzie at stages and had no impact. These two moments early were what stuck out
Wasn't too long ago that we were praising his tank and potential to run as a high HFF (took Masto's role for a few games in 2018/19 iirc). He can gut run, and works hard. Hopefully we can see some of that.
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He doesn’t have to spend the whole time there and with short 1/4s he should be sweet. Just as long as a link up role and not this stupid defensive wing role.
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Dont want to be harsh but should a guy with asthma that cant run out a game have been drafted at all?
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Kerr had really bad asthma and ditto Chick so sure it’s quite common. I also play Ammo footy games with plenty of blokes with asthma and they don’t have a problem.
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Fair enough. Whoever he was on, he had an absolute mare.
The previous week Darcy Gardiner gave him a bath. I rate Gardiner but he’s not exactly an AA at this stage either.
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I think you are right, I do believe though he was positioned more or a very high half forward through rather a true winger. But i think in essence you are largely correct
And that is why they wont all be playing forward at the same time and we have a bench. Pretty much as they were named.
Oscar is 2nd ruck and 3rd forward.
Waterman is a hff rotation. And he played well.
We looked much better abiet against lessor competion than the Lions or Port.
Shame about Shuey and JJ with their hammies though.
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Not to be too harsh on Brander, since he's never got a fair go at his natural spot, but yeah Jake did more today than Brander has done in his entire career. Even patches of effective & influential footy is of more value to the team than an entire game of MEH.
I don't know how much the asthma really affects him but it's not too apparent to me. The one thing he has done since game 1 is work hard and get high up the ground to be a link-up guy when the ball isn't in the forward half. If you see him hunched over and breathing hard it might just be because he had just run his arse off rather than anything to do with asthma.
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The four key forwards we played today were Kennedy, Darling, Allen and Waterman.
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Kicked seven goals between them today (should have been eight if Kennedy hadn’t fluffed the easiest of the lost), that’s more goals than the entire team kicked in any of the first three hub games.
I don’t think that forward line up will work in all conditions against all teams, but it sure worked today.
God no. Not even sure bc we won that tactic necessarily worked.
Kennedy and Darling have only played one good game each in 2020 and may next week the MC will considering resting one for team balance.
And not looking too flash when playing a team not in the hub. Maybe this thing is harder than it seems?
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The player I’d compare him to would be Gunston. I think you’re splitting hairs as he can essentially fill both roles.
