If we didn't have so many players out I would of been furious with how they let them go so much. However letting them burst through for 6 minutes is a sign of a young team.
Just some notes:
- Harry again very impressive. Shows confidence and also alot of strength. Gave Jones a bath in the first half and would of taken the points in the end although Jones was a bit handy in the end. Doesn't get caught one out and doesn't lose sight of his oponent or loose players roaming around half forward like Swan does sometimes.
- Fanning was very good. Strong hands or "dukes" as Brayshaw would say. I have been a bit of a critic of him but he has improved. Today he was very good in positioning around the ground, didn't let his oponent get into dangerous positions too easily and got into plenty himself.
- Egan didn't do much really but the things he does do are very exciting. His leap coupled with long arms gets him to many contests he shouldn't be in. His vision is superb, he spots up a player straight away. He knows how to run out of traffic and has very clean hands and a very good handball. His footskills can let him down but that is a composure thing that can be trained into him with experience. You can't teach a player vision.
- Davies gets the ball, has speed and looks to have improved his kicking a bit. He was so impressive he had to be tagged out of the game. With a bigger body he could be quite good as he has an outside wingers body but does get alot of ball in close. With Harry, Fanning and Davies all blazing will we promote all of them? I think we will need to promote Fanning because it's his last year but it would be a shame for Davies or O'Brien to be stuck in Willy with great form just because noone is injured.
- Buckley looks good up forward, very good. Times his leads perfectly.
- Brodie continues to impress as a key midfielder. Is between him and Jimmy for the Copeland
- Jimmy's form has tapered off in the past 4 weeks. Norf played it well by forcing Hale on to him.
- J.Cloke could prove to be a valuable back up to our team. I have always said he must be kept because of our poor tall defender depth. Now he has proved he has some flexibility and could become our spare parts man. If he was 10cm taller he would be an ideal ruckman. He would have to be the smallest ruckman in a while, Goodes was pretty small in his first season where he played ruck around 190cm if I recall. Jason is only 1cm taller than buckley i think :O.
- Woewodin is good at the hard ball situation. Now before you fall off your chair in horror of that statement let me expand. He is good at the hard ball, WHEN HE DECIDES TO GO FOR IT. That is his problem. In one situation he will put his head down and get the ball out, and in the next situation he will decide not to do it. Not many cases of that today though.
- Best wishes to Didak I hope this doesn't impede his career if it is an irregular heartbeat condition although that hasn't been diagnosed yet.
- Maxwell is good up forward. Unlike many other non-forwards who you wack up forward when you are short, he actually knows what he's doing he doesn't clog up the forward line, he keeps it open when needed and doesn't get in peoples way.
- Swan in the midfield is ok, we are obviously just plonking him there to test how he goes there since our season is a write off. However I believe his ideal position is in the back pocket playing on the loose player to get alot of ball.