Collingwood (& MM's) problem

[Quicky]

I think this is one of my major issues. In that we have so much delivery into the foward 50 from our worst user of the ball and another who is not far away. Cloke's current role as the whole CHF / wing means a large amount of his possesions result in inside 50's (especially when you throw in his love for the long hail mary and hope)

Effectively it takes our most likely foward target and worst user of the ball into the 50 and takes him away from the 50 and gets him kicking it in. It baffles me. Our fowardline looks infinately worse when he is outside the and kicking the ball in and yet we have him in a role which is designed for him to do exactly that. Sometimes less is more and Cloke's case is one of them IMO. Without seeing the stats I'd say over the past couple of years he'd be top 3 for our side for inside 50's and in the bottom in terms of inside 50 to goal assit ratios. Surely we have to get him into a role where most of his possesions result in a direct shot for goal.

This is spot on. I don't see why we can't have Cloke stay in the forward 50 with Didak, Lockyer and Dick (or any of our other HFF'ers) doing the lead up work and providing the link from defense or midfield into the F50. We'd also get much better delivery if these were the guys delivering the ball into the F50, on top of having a dangerous forward target to kick it to. It makes so much sense I can't understand why MM doesn't do it.