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They keep trying to turn Petracca into a midfielder when he's a medium forward flanker with strength. Similar to Billings, he's not going to be able to get that kind of tank required to play midfield.
They really just need to find a way to make the playing list realise just how badly they're stuffing up by trying to bully their opponents instead of winning. It's a trend in the AFL at the moment, sides who think they're contending or a chance getting in their opposition's face, with the media alongside for 'like a bit of biffo' reasons. I'm not part of a professional AFL club, nor do I have background in one, but as far as I'm concerned that's not having ticker or mongrel at all.
Early Hodge had mongrel because he stayed on the field to guide his team to a grand final win with a broken rib. Lenny Hayes had mongrel because you were damned if you got there first, he'd get the ball. Max Rooke had mongrel because you knew he was behind you without looking, because he slammed you into the deck harder than you'd ever been got before five minutes ago, and again five minutes before that.
That's what Melbourne need; a willingness to win that extends more than just wanting it. They have to need to win, crave it, and they have to be able to commit in such a way as to look at the niggle and scoff at it as irrelevant.
They really just need to find a way to make the playing list realise just how badly they're stuffing up by trying to bully their opponents instead of winning. It's a trend in the AFL at the moment, sides who think they're contending or a chance getting in their opposition's face, with the media alongside for 'like a bit of biffo' reasons. I'm not part of a professional AFL club, nor do I have background in one, but as far as I'm concerned that's not having ticker or mongrel at all.
Early Hodge had mongrel because he stayed on the field to guide his team to a grand final win with a broken rib. Lenny Hayes had mongrel because you were damned if you got there first, he'd get the ball. Max Rooke had mongrel because you knew he was behind you without looking, because he slammed you into the deck harder than you'd ever been got before five minutes ago, and again five minutes before that.
That's what Melbourne need; a willingness to win that extends more than just wanting it. They have to need to win, crave it, and they have to be able to commit in such a way as to look at the niggle and scoff at it as irrelevant.
That being said, some people's metabolisms and activity levels respond to a change in diet more readily than an altered athletic program. I suspect Petracca is the former if he wishes to be more of a midfielder.
