Even last year, in our one good year, we sucked at crumbing off of packs. Our "go long to the wing" strategy should have also meant crumbing players at the front of the packs, where the ball spills the most... but invariably it was not us.
Those 2-3 lucky games we hung on to (Port, Brisbane...
Yeah, surely that's doable - I have pick #5, so I go wild bidding on other players to bump my pick down so I get a free first rounder.
Won't be rorted at all.
What is the point of this anyway? The whole reason acadamies/nga/FS exists in the first place is to give clubs access to these players...
Good thing we are really solid in those center clearances then!
I reckon I'm on board with the "backup ruck on the bench is a waste of a bench spot". Turray or Rob in the team for 35% of the game is a dumb idea. Solve it some other way.
It was definitely a "let's try some stuff, cos we may as well" with the other talls in Q4.
Did we learn anything from it? Don't think so. Finbar can't kick. Turray seems lost. Neither are good enough. Maybe they get better in future, but they aren't right now.