I hope so. It is a great weapon to have. This whole settle down at one end really undersells the amount of work they put into their games and their intelligence. I see it like telling a kid they have to either learn to talk or count!!
We have a fairly high quality suite of talls but there is every chance that Gumby will never get his body right, there is also a chance that Hooker and/or Pears wont come on. Carlise and Hurley can genuinely play at each end of the ground and it seems crazy that we should inflexibly commit either of them to either end of the ground. We set the team up in the way that gives us the best chance to beat a particular team and also show some flexibility on game day. So for example if we play against Collingwood and their midfield is dominating and Hooker is struggling to deal with Cloke, so why not swing Hurley back for 15 min to buy the coaches time to rejig the midfield and get that on an even keel, or even hope that it is a matter of the pies coming out swinging and we can just hold on while they punch themselves out, and once we're ready to rock and our midfield is gettin on top swing him forward!!
A friend of mine who's sun played TAC cup with him told me that Hurley was primarily a forward in that level and spent time down back just for development. It is just that for the state side they had enough forwards and he played back, and did very well for himself.
Yes he may do a better job in defense but I think this is only a reflection on the fact that creating is always harder than destroying. Learning to play forward will take longer because he has to learn positioning that will make it easier for mids to deliver to him and he'll learn how to balance between supporting his fellow forwards and getting out of their way. Regards defending all he has to do is learn how to blanket a particular player.
Let him develop as a forward because he'll always be able to go to defense and try to blanket a particular opponent. Also our potential KPFs, counting Crameri as a 3rd tall, are Gumby, Daniher and Carlisle. They are all long rangy types and not the powerhouse we need to be central to the forward set up.
We have a fairly high quality suite of talls but there is every chance that Gumby will never get his body right, there is also a chance that Hooker and/or Pears wont come on. Carlise and Hurley can genuinely play at each end of the ground and it seems crazy that we should inflexibly commit either of them to either end of the ground. We set the team up in the way that gives us the best chance to beat a particular team and also show some flexibility on game day. So for example if we play against Collingwood and their midfield is dominating and Hooker is struggling to deal with Cloke, so why not swing Hurley back for 15 min to buy the coaches time to rejig the midfield and get that on an even keel, or even hope that it is a matter of the pies coming out swinging and we can just hold on while they punch themselves out, and once we're ready to rock and our midfield is gettin on top swing him forward!!
A friend of mine who's sun played TAC cup with him told me that Hurley was primarily a forward in that level and spent time down back just for development. It is just that for the state side they had enough forwards and he played back, and did very well for himself.
Yes he may do a better job in defense but I think this is only a reflection on the fact that creating is always harder than destroying. Learning to play forward will take longer because he has to learn positioning that will make it easier for mids to deliver to him and he'll learn how to balance between supporting his fellow forwards and getting out of their way. Regards defending all he has to do is learn how to blanket a particular player.
Let him develop as a forward because he'll always be able to go to defense and try to blanket a particular opponent. Also our potential KPFs, counting Crameri as a 3rd tall, are Gumby, Daniher and Carlisle. They are all long rangy types and not the powerhouse we need to be central to the forward set up.
