Eagles Team Rd 12!

Mead

Norm Smith Medallist
Joined
Mar 2, 2002
Posts
6,795
Likes
1,080
Location
Perth
AFL Club
West Coast
Other Teams
Eagles
#26
Fantastic to see Doogs finally get a game. Hopefully he'll get at least about a 3 game stretch to show his ware.

Having said that, we'd be fools to go into this game without Wilsonlistically, we'll be pretty lucky if we do better than 50/50 out of the centre. If thats the case, its always going to come down to which team can find a focal point in their forays forward. McDougall shows promise, but given he will also be needed for back up rucking duties, it would be folly of the highest order to go into this game without at least one player capable of kicking the big score- If you look at forward line of McDougall/Haynes/Sampi, Jones/Jakovich/Chick, the thing which strikes me is we'll be going in with no forward who has ever kicked better than 4 goals in a game. (and with the exception of Chick, Haynes and Sampi, three who haven't even managed that.) So, unless our midfield finds some way to get thoroughly on top of brisbane, we'd be expecting a career best performance from some of our forwards for us to have a chance, in cricketing parlance, we're sending McGrath in to bat last, and needing a half century to win.

What Wilson gives is a bona fide forward option, and somebody who has shown himself capable of kicking the big scores. I don't think anyone can predict how he'll go after so many weeks out in the cold, but at the least he gives our forward line some sort of chance of kicking a decent sort of score.
 

(Log in to remove this ad.)

Top Bottom