Ras was fine, it was his first full game for nearly 2 years and he had 5 score involvements including creating 1 of 9 goals basically by himself.
Give him a run at it and watch him grow into the player we need. Patience will make us prosper.
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Give him a run at it and watch him grow into the player we need. Patience will make us prosper.
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Aish is the ideal person to come in for Walker but it seems as though he has fallen out of favour with Longmuir and the selection committee, I have a feeling It will be Worner who comes back into the side.
The issue is that our midfield isn't playing.
Our midfield includes Darcy and Young, 2 of the best players in the competition at their respective roles.
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i just think it's an easy Draper for Walker swap. Walker doesn't really rebound anyways and Draper can defend the smalls, so it's a fairly ideal swap. Probably just be 1 in this week, and it'd likely be whoever the sub is.
Aish just feels like he's physically lost a step. Some on here assert JL has an anti-Aish bias, which is just about the dumbest thing in the world. Brought him over from his previous club. Was never the most athletic, but he had a level of toughness and physicality that waned last season. The contrast between him tagging Clayton Oliver brilliantly in 2022 and his midfield spells once he became sub last year was staggering.
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Good spot for Draper. Not the best use of Chappy’s attributes though. I want him ahead of the footy.
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Tend to agree re: Chappy, a good user with ball in hand.
and, unlike some others in our starting 22, looks composed and like he has time all the time. makes sound decisions, mostly.
Why does he deserve to be dropped? He had a reasonable game by his standards. Nothing great, but he was better than Banfield, Frederick and Sharp. Johnson was only marginally better. They have been given a free pass to get continuous games. I have my doubts if Erasmus can be an AFL standard player, but I'd like to see a solid block of games to provide the evidence.
Erasmus had 19 pressure acts, only behind our main centre square trio in Jackson, Serong and Brayshaw. We need all the help we can get with our pressure. He's also one of the few players we have who can actually stick a tackle.
He deserves to be dropped just on the basis of the second last goal of the day. Bice started his run with the ball just goal side of the wing with Erasmus on him. Erasmus gave up the chase after just a few steps and Bice took a bounce or two and ended up kicking a goal. It was a pathetic effort by Erasmus.
If we're dropping blokes for one **** effort we wouldn't have had enough players last week after the Cats game.
It's actually very young and inexperienced which is the main problem.
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Erasmus was ok & he was played in a settled role that isn’t foreign to him but it is largely at AFL level. Be nice if he had a small run at it to see if he can excel in the role.
Agreed but it was the complete lack of effort that got my eye. He gave up the chase almost immediately. It was pathetic.
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I was watching some show on Fox last night and David King was talking about Ben Hobbs at Essendon.
Basically said, he was an exceptional midfielder in underage footy but has never been good at AFL level but he has never actually got a prolonged look at midfield minutes. He then went on to say how Sam Mitchell done the opposite with Hawks.
We are doing exactly that with MJ and Ras, pure mids with elite midfield abilities sitting on flanks and wings instead of playing in the middle.
Dropping him after one game might not be why he's not an AFL standard player yet but it gives him no chance to get up to the pace of AFL level which at times has looked like his biggest issue.
Making the same mistakes over and over again and expecting different results is just dumb. It's exactly why I gave up on JL 18 months ago (of course this isn't just about Erasmus).
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The trouble for us is they all have one such moment a game and cumulatively it stuffs us up
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Have to agree. Saw some clips on Freddy’s defensive efforts Swans players stepped around him and was able to Center the ball. Freo defence was set up down the line.
Resulted in rapid movement through the corridor and scores at the other end
In my opinion he is not a natural footballer Looks great with ball in hand and he can rely on his athleticism. However putting himself in the right position both offensively and defensively remains a problem
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Not a massive Ras fan (his handballing might be the worst I have seen from a "mid") but if we want to see if he can improve we shouldn't be dropping him after one game. Just let him play 2-3 games in a row, if he still looks a step behind drop him when Young is ready to return.
I sit on that wing and while it was a poor look, the main negative it highlighted was his lack of speed. Not his effort. He was cracking in all day and was gassed. He simply got dropped by Bice for speed. He was pointing this out to his teammates and asking for cover, but nothing came. Brayshaw was standing around on the spot. Sharp didn't react. Not sure they could have really done anything except create someone else that was open. But there were others out on their feet as well. Erasmus kept chasing, but was moving in quicksand and just didn't have the legs.
That goal is primarily on Voss's shanked kick, and then Chapman being sucked in to the wrong side and not covering the left foot of Campbell properly. Have to be aware of your opponent's strengths.
The kick from Bice was also a fluke. It had a big hook on it that was sending it right of the goal post, and then at the last second it defied physics and swerved sharply back to the left and snuck through. Look at the goal umpire's movements.
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