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He’ll bounce back.
Give the kid a chance.
Give the kid a chance.
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Christalmighty. Castagna had one kick that went OOF. Broad dropping sitters all night. Lynch can barely hold a mark. Nank smashed etc etc etc.Exactly right, we have nobody in the VFL who is ready to step up and play midfield in years to come, Cumberland maybe. We have some outside players who look okay, Ralphsmith, Rioli, but no coalface mids. With Edwards and Cotchin you can't guarantee they can play uninjured at their ages, Cotchin in particular. So we have to back our young players in. Ross is not an outside player, but is learning that caper. Made one serious mistake last night which all players make at times, caught in two minds.
I feel that Pickett is taking a midfield spot. I'd prefer him on the wing again. CJ can provide back up ruck. So mids are Dusty, Graham, Bolton, Ross, RCD.Tbh, I haven’t seen signs of a good player from him yet. He’s young, but the most promising game he had was his debut game against Port Adelaide. Reminds me a lot of Corey Ellis’ trajectory.
I’ll give him some time of course because he is young, but not convinced just yet if I’m going to be honest.
Because Hardwick and co are refusing to play CCJ for some reason. It’s getting annoying at this point.I feel that Pickett is taking a midfield spot. I'd prefer him on the wing again. CJ can provide back up ruck. So mids are Dusty, Graham, Bolton, Ross, RCD.
Pickett could not get near it last night. I think you are right, needs to settle in one spot, even if he rucks a bit, then back to the wing. Need to keep it simple and play players in their best spots.I feel that Pickett is taking a midfield spot. I'd prefer him on the wing again. CJ can provide back up ruck. So mids are Dusty, Graham, Bolton, Ross, RCD.
Personally i dont think it will take 5 years.100%.
With our midfield depleted, we don't have obvious replacements. We've got to start rebuilding on the run because these games into kids now will benefit us as a club in the next 5 years.
He has had some good moments, still needs 20 - 30 more games though.
Agreed. He's a broke man's Tom Mitchell. Get him to 85kg and put him in the guts to win clearances, tackles and feed handballs out. He's not an outside player.Ross won’t make it if they continue to play him on the wing.
Inside mid or bust
Ross won’t make it if they continue to play him on the wing.
Inside mid or bust
Has to play there regularly to get the confidence to do that. Having said that he had 20 odd possessions on the weekend on the wing, a lot of players got less than that. Seems like he is an easy target when some of our players seem to get away with very little criticism.I was thinking similar things.
What I think is a strength of Ross is his ability to get low and compete for a guy his height. Should Ross be a tall in and under guy to maximise his output and effect on the team? Maybe he needs to go inside and speed up his handball release and get his ball onto foot far quicker as a real clearance playerlike a Liberatore
Has to play there regularly to get the confidence to do that. Having said that he had 20 odd possessions on the weekend on the wing, a lot of players got less than that. Seems like he is an easy target when some of our players seem to get away with very little criticism.
Yes my comment about some criticising wasn't aimed at you. Last year was hard on the young players development wise due to lack of opportunity with no VFL, and this year all the promising ones so far, Stack, Dow, Ralphsmith, Cumberland, MRJ have all had delayed starts to the year which hasn't helped. A few of them will get their chance now it seems, ready or not.I am not really criticising him, he needs more games to develop like a lot of others.
I think we do not give enough opportunity to the youngsters to be honest.
I am not sure Dimma's strength is development frankly, Williams was linked to Dusty, Leppa to Rance etc.., youngsters need opportunity to grow.
You should give players the best opportunity for them to succeed including suitable roles otherwise your unnecessarily pushing uphill and going against the grain when there are too many other obstacles against us as a team.
One of the things we need to focus on now is how to win the most premierships strategically over the next twenty years
Balta Bolton baker , short , what are they , a bowl of gold fish , I could go on and on , heck how many of our premiership sides were fromI am not really criticising him, he needs more games to develop like a lot of others.
I think we do not give enough opportunity to the youngsters to be honest.
I am not sure Dimma's strength is development frankly, Williams was linked to Dusty, Leppa to Rance etc.., youngsters need opportunity to grow.
You should give players the best opportunity for them to succeed including suitable roles for their physical makeup otherwise your unnecessarily pushing uphill and going against the grain when there are too many other obstacles against us as a team. For example one does not ask Samson Ryan to rove regularly to the ruckman obviously because thats not his forte
One of the things we need to focus on now is how to win the most premierships strategically over the next twenty years
Started reasonably well 14p first half 4p sec half ,,, like a few of my golf rounds . Stick with him , don’t hang a kid on one big doozy
Played on the wing, which is not his best position obviously, and probably our leading possession winner at half time with 14 doesn't say plodder to me. The second half, get in line behind all the other senior players who didn't show up.needs to go back to the VFL until he can prove he is not just an ALF plodder
I think Ross has great vision. There was a game earlier in the season (ironically to me the one before he was squeezed out/dropped), where every time he got the ball he put someone into space by hands, many under quite a bit of heat. That was also a feature of his early games. You don't lose vision, you may lose confidence to pull the trigger on those handballs, and who could blame him. In one week, out the next, then played on a wing.His touches don't seem to do any damage.
Like I find he has always been good at finding the footy but struggled to make an impact during the game.
- Doesn't kick goals.
- Low on goal assists.
- Doesn't break the lines across.
- Not high on clearances.
- Not in the top 5 tacklers.
- Can't ruck, play half back or be versatile across the ground.
There's a lot working against him. He looks to be built like a Joel Selwood but plays more like Troy Selwood sadly.
If he makes it? Great. But these six to seven works are it for him, if he can't make an impact and cement his spot in the team, he would need to be either VFL relegated or delisted because we are looking for AFL players, not fill ins.
And how good were his first few games then, it looked like we had unearthed a gem. Stack was the same, better but a star who has not shone since. Does that mean they cannot get back to what they was like in his first dozen games. Of course not.Problem is he has no upside. His first year performances were his ceiling.