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Great to hear. We really need that tall option in the forward line. There is too much pressure on Taz and T.Clo has only played 2 games.

Hopefully he can resume his AFL career.
 
Totally agree hopefully he can get some fitness under his belt and get into the 1s for the needed experience. He will be a valuable player when the team gets healthy. Tarrant, Rocca, Fraser, Didak, Caracella, T Cloke and Davidson forward line sounds very good and would be hard to match up on.
 
The quicker Blake Caracella is not an automatic selection the better we will be. Rusling and/or Davidson need to force him out of the satrting 18 if we are to improve. I'd give Davo one or two games in the Willy ones then pick him in the seniors regardless of form.
 

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bobneil130 said:
Totally agree hopefully he can get some fitness under his belt and get into the 1s for the needed experience. He will be a valuable player when the team gets healthy. Tarrant, Rocca, Fraser, Didak, Caracella, T Cloke and Davidson forward line sounds very good and would be hard to match up on.
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Our forward Line does not sound very good...

Tarrant - Class Player, needs support
Rocca - Ageing, will spend more time deep in goalsquare, and injury prone
Fraser - Not Fit, but will be a key forward player
Didak - When he gets fit, WILL be a midfielder not forward
Cara - is class, but not an answer

T Cloke - needs support.

U cannot win footy games with 4+ tall forward options. Not gonna work. Long term, i think tarrant and davidson (if he stays fit) wil share midfield/half-forward. Cloke will be a roaming CHF, Rocca will stay close to goals. With Fraser FF - CHF rotating

For us the ideal set - up this year will be.


HF: Cara T.Cloke Davidson
F: Leon Tarrant Fraser*

* Need Holland/Burns/Woey to kick goals.
 
i agree with you hotpie....get Davo some games and confidence in the knee and achilles then get him straight into the 1's

MM is a fan who backed him after he went down last year, i want to see him in the one's as soon as possible
 
It does sound very good like I said in the post if they are fit

HF: Davidson Rocca T.Cloke
F: Didak Tarrant Caracella

Throw in a little bit of Leon and a fair amount of Fraser and its a forward line that can kick a winning score. Just needs to get better delivery to them.
 
bradrowe#32 said:
Great to hear. We really need that tall option in the forward line. There is too much pressure on Taz and T.Clo has only played 2 games.

Hopefully he can resume his AFL career.
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Problem is Davo's only played one game ;) In anycase, give him one week in the Willy Seniors and then throw him up.
 
our season is shot to bits, so please, just let davo be one major positive to take out of '05 and let him show something when he comes in, please, please, please!!
 
THE FUTURE FORWARD LINE
HF: Rusling (hopefully rotating through the mid/wings), T.Cloke, Tarrant
F: Egan (see Rusling), C.Cloke (he will take time), Davidson
Rusling is playing out of the square for willy but with his speed should be used as a smaller player/midfielder/winger.
Purely optimistic but these forward line is hard to match up on. If Egan develops well his arm length and height will be a factor for a smallish forward, if Rusling turns out to be a gun as all reports go he will be impossible to match up on. Tarrant when not at FF is already hard to stop and Cam can be a fat decoy. Davidson much like Tarrant and will swap who works up the ground more with T.Cloke ala Rocca and Tarrant 2002/2003 where noone was sure who played CHF and FF really.
 
I reckon Billy Morrison has more chance at being a full forward than Cameron...and that's saying something!

It's a good summary of how our forward line could look. Forward definitely isn't our problem at the minute though.

In order: Coaching Staff, Mids, KP Defence, Forward.
 

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It's great that he is playing again and his one half of footy was nearly as good as Leigh Walker's but let's not get carried away. He is long odds now to make it. He will be a lesser player for his two knee recos and we don't even know if he would have been good enough before hand. Hopefully he gets some confidence and form back soon and he starts to have an impact at senior VFL level and we then get to have good look at him in the AFL. Don't pin too many hopes on him though because it is more likely to end in tears than not. He has to have enough talent and drive to begin with, he has to have retained enough mobility/athleticism and he has to stay sound.
 
I agree Mark, but it's a sad indictment that he is unequivocally one of our best prospects!

Lica managed to turn it around after two recos, but most haven't. Here's hoping for a Lica-esque return for the rest of his career!
 
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Tarrant wants to play midfield.

Davidson would be a good replacement at FF
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good call muzza .i think for me one of the most disappointing things about the loss against freo was MM not trying players such as tazza in different positions.i have been a bit critical of tazza at times , but was really impressed with his attitude on the few occasions that the ball got to him on the full.
 

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Tarrant has impressed?

I'd be impressed if he could kick.

I'll accept he is not 100% and so go easy on his ability to get to the ball and follow up but for a player on his money and regarded as highly as he is he is performing poorly. It isn't just because the team is playing badly it is one of the reasons for the team playing badly.

I would love to see him on a wing but if he isn't fit he can't do it now and in any case I reckon he has done too many beach weights for that position. Regardless, if he gets near 100% fit he should be tried on a wing with Lonie on the other.

Davidson might be better off on a half back flank until he has confidence in his knees.
 
It was reported in the Age last weekend that Tarrant hurt his knee in pre-season training. Up until that point it was planned that he would go into the midfield.

Twice a week Tarrant needs to have his knee drained. Once straight after the game and again mid week.

If his performance is down, I think he might have a good reason for it.

Mark you and I have advocated for a long time that Tarrant playing up on a wing/midfield would be something special to watch
 

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