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I’ve noticed a few times Close has worked into space and the ball has come over the back, however the next defender in line has moved up so unless the ball delivery is perfect, it becomes another contest.
I didnt understand the logic of making him sub, period of the game you want to inject a bit of speed and heat and you're bringing on a pseudo key forward that offers next to nothing defensively.
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McKay wasn't even that brilliant, but if you swapped him and Neale you probably change the result of the game. I understand that Harry received better supply, but he just did his job in a way Neale didn't. We are downright uncompetitive in the air, and Neale isn't providing goals either. 4 disposals to him; 15 to Weitering. And Shannon wasn't exactly providing crumbs for the smalls very often.
Close was disappointing tonight. Sure like others he didn’t get the ball kicked to his advantage a few times, but Haynes outpointed him far too easily. I watch Carlton pretty closely and Haynes has been very ordinary, and we made him look good. Coupled with that Close wasn’t covering the outlets as well as he normally does coming out of our attack, as others have said we just weren’t switched on or putting in the effort to close down those uncontested marks.
Totally agree, he is refusing to use his size to at least contest as many situations as possible, bring it to ground we have some serious talent there just seemed to have no presence the last few weeks.
The thing is occassionally he shows he can do it! Those last sequences against the Hawks. He did it very well in the QF last year. But it's just nowhere near consistent enough. Nor is his marking, ability to win disposals or scoring capacity. Besides that he's going great though.
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Exactly the reason I didn't like when we used Duncan or Mullin as sub.
Sadly, this set of games in May looks as tough if not tougher. It's not terminal if we drop all 4 games. We can regroup, but there are certainly persuasive arguments that we lose all 4, although regaining Jack Henry, Miers, Kolo, and Stewart & OH hitting form would alter that. Will it be all before June?
The quality of opponents is roughly the same as the last 4 collectively, except 2 games are in Geelong. In reality you would be predicting a big downturn in form to lose all 4. Which to be clear is fine, but it's not something our previous month is representative of.
His only hope is to learn off Atkins on how to be an absolute DOG!
When Henry comes back we should get Stewart right and let Zuthrie or COS play his role for a week or two, the games against Carlton and St Kilda as soon as we lost him in his damaging role it was very noticeable how much drive we lost from half back through the middle. Miers and him are so important for creating different angles to enter 50.
I dont wanna pot the kid but last week in VFL he was invisible and didnt go well and this week was as step up in level and physicality and he was totally lost.
I said dropping Clohesy was a mistake. He aint gonna get 34 touches and 4 goals - but he works harder than just about anyone not named Atkins and whilst not being a gun - will add hardness to any side and we lacked hardness yesterday.
