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Seeing Gawn at full forward makes me think the whole thing is doomed to fail.
I really think the Grundy deal will absolutely hamstring us going forward. Neither of these two have ever kicked more than 16 in a season. If Gawn could kick straight, he could maybe kick 30, but that's not a good return for a FF in a good team and its an abysmal return for a guy on his coin.
I get that they're being "creative" and that they had made plans for Jackson and his role in the team, and that there are no dominant KPFs on the market, but this stinks to me of a list management team with the same hubris as the coaching and playing groups this season. Thinking they can turn anything into gold because we won the flag last year.
There's a reason the Pies are sacrificing Grundy to bring in the likes of Bobby Hill and Tanner Bruhn. They recognise their strength is the pressure game, and that Darcy Cameronwill do well enough as first ruck to allow them to play the game they want to play. In the process, they can remove a big salary and bring in more young, hungry players.PLAYERCARDSTART14Darcy Cameron
- Age
- 28
- Ht
- 204cm
- Wt
- 103kg
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- Ruck
CareerSeasonLast 5
- D
- 6.0
- 1star
- K
- 3.3
- 1star
- HB
- 2.7
- 2star
- CL
- 0.3
- 2star
- HO
- 5.3
- 5star
- D
- 7.5
- 2star
- K
- 4.5
- 2star
- HB
- 3.0
- 2star
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- 0.5
- 3star
- HO
- 3.5
- 5star
- D
- 6.0
- 2star
- K
- 3.3
- 2star
- HB
- 2.7
- 3star
- CL
- 0.3
- 2star
- HO
- 5.3
- 5star
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Sure, our strength is "the contest", but guess what: you don't have to win every hit out to take advantage of it. Opposition mids this season, despite Gawn's continuing statistical dominance in the middle, are evidence of that. We have three inside midfielders contracted to the end of this decade on massive money. Back those *ers in to win the ball at times when their ruckman isn't winning the taps, and put some money into the rest of the team to ensure we don't have to keep plugging round holes with square pegs up forward. Weideman will never be the future, and Ben Brownis cooked. McDonald is 30 coming off a massive injury, and has really only had two good seasons in the last five years anyway. JVR looks good, but he's never played a game at this level so we're going in blind there.PLAYERCARDSTART50Ben Brown
- Age
- 31
- Ht
- 200cm
- Wt
- 100kg
- Pos.
- Fwd
CareerSeasonLast 5
- D
- 10.7
- 3star
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- 7.7
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- 3.0
- 3star
- M
- 4.8
- 5star
- T
- 1.2
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- G
- 2.2
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- D
- 7.9
- 2star
- K
- 6.3
- 3star
- HB
- 1.6
- 1star
- M
- 3.7
- 4star
- T
- 0.9
- 2star
- G
- 1.0
- 4star
- D
- 8.0
- 2star
- K
- 4.6
- 2star
- HB
- 3.4
- 3star
- M
- 4.4
- 4star
- T
- 1.4
- 4star
- G
- 1.2
- 4star
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The worst thing you can do as a club when you have a disappointing season, particularly after pretending it wasn't happening at the time and that major changes weren't needed as we would "click into gear when needed", is to keep on digging downwards because the plan worked for so long. Bringing in Grundy makes absolutely no sense at all to me, but sadly it looks like its definitely going to happen.
Brilliant post. Could not agree more.
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