, posy: member: 51846"]Rubbish - Brown has shown this year the importance of KPP's ho have some pace. Apart from the regular brain fades he's proved important this year.
The shortened break hurt WC undoubtedly but what was more noticeable was the number of skill execution errors made under pressure. Remember this is basically the same team that beat Adel & Coll when the pressure was less intense. So we know the boys can kick & deliver when in open space but less so when its hot in the kitchen.
Gaff is an exception & Shuey is normally good (made several blues yest) but the rest have issues.
The secret is not drafting pace per se but following the Hawthorn model & drafting kids who can kick.
there are too many players at WC who simply make fundamental kicking skill issues under pressure & the team won't/can't progress until that is rectified.
Spoke with Simpson about this last week & again late last night & his comments about Birchall & Suckling really show his thoughts.[/QUOTE]
Would you put LeCras at the top of the kicking list, Hurn, Butler or Gaff? LeCras, under pressure, is one of the best kicks and we didn't have him out there, I also reckon Butler's kicking under pressure is usually pretty good.
So, my next question
BOND 007 is do you get rid of the poor kickers?
Watched Pickett at Swans yesterday, because there wasn't really much to watch on Swans side.

For someone highly touted with their skills, there were a lot of kicking errors. Bouncing in front of leading forwards by a good 5 m on most occasions.....[/QUOTE]
No - you cant eliminate every poor kick as there might not be many left. The answer is selecting/drafting good kicks & utilizing them. Hawthorn as a playing group arent much better than WC in ball winning or even perhaps decision making, what they do better is in having a greater number of options who can execute the skills to their advantage. All teams - even successful ones have players who regularly scrub the ball - but they know their place is not as the mailman as they have better kicking options around them
So its all about ratios