Does our game plan preclude us from developing a Fyfe/Mundy/Swan/pendlebury type player?

[MC_9]

Interestingly we had 10 players average over 20 touches a game while Freo had 5 and the Pies had 4.

We also had 21 players average over 15 touches.

We certainly spread the load more than others.

That is an amazing stat.

Surely that is some sort of record.

 

[HolyRioli]

Absolutely agree. Makes me wonder how well some of players would perform in other teams. We know how well Kennedy has done...

Bruest for mine could be anything. Phenomenal 1on1 player. He does everything that say a Robbie Grey does, but seems limited to Cameo roles.

At first I thought he was in and out of form like most small forwards, but he wasn't. He was in and out of the play, often making decoy leads etc to open up space.

Good for us I guess cause it lowers the pressure on increasing his wage, but I'd love to see the results of Breust getting 30+ touches a game!


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Have been saying this about Bruest for a long time. Has the ability to be the best in the competition IMO. But I suspect he's happy bagging his 50 goals a year and premiership medals to go with them

 

[HolyRioli]

This is true but the fact these 2 were running side by side with each other and as the game wore on Hannebery was noticeably lagging behind shows the gut running that Izzy does, truly remarkable athlete. I remember reading about how Robert Harvey went toe to toe with Crawford at Waverly one day and he said for the first time in his career he felt like he was run into the ground, Crawford in his prime was the leagues best runner and he would literally run his opponents to the point of total exhaustion. Little instances or highlights can often summaries a players strength and deficiencies, Crawf and Izzy have the ability to gut run both ways and that's what makes them special.

Remember reading that in their prime (ie: late 90's) Crawford and Harvey (and maybe one or two others) were running half marathons every game. Most players simply could not go with them

 

[Davo23]

With a lot of talk about attracting/developing elite midfielders to the Hawks, it doesn't seem to be the way we play.

Would the Fyfe's etc do as well, and be dominant players in the Hawthorn structure, or would they be valuable additions, but appear less dominant due to the way we play?


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Great post, jkb!

The fact is that, in Hodge, Mitch & Burgoyne, we have three Hall of Fame midfielders who play miscellaneous roles around the ground. They go into centre bounces when required, but otherwise have defensive and attacking jobs, which are crucial to our structure.

Midfielders like Selwood, Fyfe, Dangerfield, Pendlebury etc are at every centre bounce they can because they need to be for their clubs. As a result, they have more posessions, more votes, more notice, more wear & tear.

I don't know whether they would adapt to playing for us: Fyfe playing at half back?