A Question

[lacrow]

Ok, so now that so many teams are flooding and the game plans of, say WC and the Crows, depend so much on running players I was wondering if KPP will soon go the way of the specialist FF.

That is, is it worthwhile to start playing the entire field as if it was one big midfield, so that you don't have so much tall KPP's as smaller, Ricciuto and Thompson types in the forward and back parts of the field. Then when the ball comes down in the forward 50, the gameplan is to "clear it" (by way of kicking a goal). It would seem we are moving more towards that kind of play anyway, with the emphasis on defensive footy in the forward line and run from the backline.

So I guess my question is, are the Crows better off by beginning to draft more "Roo"-like players to fill Forward and Defensive spots instead of trying to develop KPP's like (formerly) Watts, etc?

I pose this question because last season I questioned the value of having a traditional ruckman and whether we were better off with just a tall midfielder. Soon after that, we ended up seeing the value of a guy like Hudson who was an average ruckman, but who dominated when the ball hit the deck and who ended up being a huge part of our success last year as a result of his around the ground play.

Thoughts?

 

[lacrow]

Hmmm... ok, so I guess it's a stupid question?

 

[Alex99]

Hmmm... ok, so I guess it's a stupid question?

maybe, but someone will have a veiw to that question.

 

[- PC -]

No its not a silly question

The older I get the more I feel ''traditional'' football is only played at the lower levels ...and even then its going to die out.

May as well change the name of the game to runball


*grumpy old man rant over*

 

[snakebite01]

This weekend:

Riewoldt - 9 goals
Brown - 7 goals
Pavlich - 6 goals
Bradshaw - 6 goals
Nietz - 6 goals
Hall - 5 goals
Fevola - 4 goals

Interesting question, but I think the tall forward still has a place in the game.

 

[ricciuto]

This weekend:

Riewoldt - 9 goals
Bradshaw - 7 goals
Pavlich - 6 goals
Brown - 6 goals
Nietz - 6 goals
Hall - 5 goals
Fevola - 4 goals

Interesting question, but I think the tall forward still has a place in the game.

The Full forwards are becoming the most important spot on the field. This year there has been so many bags of goals, every weekend there is a bag of goals from someone, and it is good that not all the same players kick the big bags.
It is great to see the full forwards getting so many goals, as from up above, 9 goals in a game from 1 player is always great to see, like in the older days, Dunstall, Carey and Ablett used to get 10-13 goals a game, the game is becoming more defensive and stylish, but when the ball gets down there, the forwards take the oppourtunity and use it well, by kicking the goals.

 

[Crow-mo]

nah, there is nothing wrong with the question, but there is something a bit wrong with the original supposition: i.e. that the traditional FF has gone out of football.

it's a common thing to say, but it's rubbish. neither a FF or any other KPP is ever going to go out of the game. what we have at the moment, is a dearth of FF. but we still have Fev, Matthew Lloyd etc. the issue is that we have just moved on from a golden age of full forwards, and I guarantee that a Lockett/Dunstall/Ablett/Modra et al will never, ever, be redundant in the modern game. the same then applies with KPP, if you have a carey/brown/tredrea/rehn/salmon/hall etc. there is always room.

what is true, is that league dilution and equalisation has meant it is increasingly unlikely that a team will get their hands on players of this ilk, so they have started to come up with ways of compensating. that's all, every team, including WC and Adelaide would rather some KPP talent, they just have to make do without, that's all.