- Oct 14, 2006
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I’ll play nice once and then happy to have at it if you really want to.Hang on, 3 posts so you said it was the worst list in 15 years, now it's the leadership at fault?
The forwardline performs terribly, because we give them no chance to succeed.
A 26yr old Buddy could perform under these conditions. Jeremy Cameronprobs could, to a lesser extent. Cyril probs could & Rory LobbPLAYERCARDSTART5Jeremy Cameron
- Age
- 31
- Ht
- 196cm
- Wt
- 94kg
- Pos.
- Fwd
CareerSeasonLast 5
- D
- 12.5
- 3star
- K
- 9.0
- 3star
- HB
- 3.4
- 3star
- M
- 5.4
- 5star
- T
- 1.6
- 4star
- G
- 2.6
- 5star
- D
- 10.0
- 3star
- K
- 7.1
- 3star
- HB
- 2.9
- 2star
- M
- 4.6
- 4star
- T
- 2.0
- 3star
- G
- 1.9
- 5star
- D
- 8.2
- 2star
- K
- 5.0
- 2star
- HB
- 3.2
- 3star
- M
- 4.6
- 5star
- T
- 2.4
- 4star
- G
- 2.0
- 5star
PLAYERCARDENDthe other.PLAYERCARDSTART7Rory Lobb
- Age
- 31
- Ht
- 207cm
- Wt
- 106kg
- Pos.
- Fwd
CareerSeasonLast 5
- D
- 11.0
- 3star
- K
- 6.7
- 3star
- HB
- 4.4
- 3star
- M
- 4.0
- 4star
- T
- 2.4
- 4star
- G
- 0.9
- 4star
- D
- 11.3
- 3star
- K
- 8.0
- 3star
- HB
- 3.3
- 2star
- M
- 4.6
- 4star
- T
- 1.4
- 2star
- G
- 1.0
- 4star
- D
- 7.0
- 2star
- K
- 4.0
- 2star
- HB
- 3.0
- 3star
- M
- 2.6
- 3star
- T
- 2.8
- 5star
- G
- 0.6
- 3star
PLAYERCARDEND
I can't think of another forward in the last decade that could perform well the way we bring the ball into the forwardline - given that - I don't hate the forwards, it simply isn't their fault alone.
Can't take a mark? Why not kick it to their advantage?
Can't apply pressure? Because we're terribly outnumbered at the fall of the ball & the opposition frequently marks on the intercept.
You want Hanrahan in there, yet you bemoan the state of the list?
Lewis cannot take a contested mark. Maybe when he matures but not now.
Remember the defensive pressure of Cyril, Poppy and even Buddy? Where is that? If you think I’m being Hawk nostalgic look at Richmond’s version.
Burgoyne cannot bend over anymore.
JOM is our best mid and we don’t have any depth there.
Yet your argument ironically is about how we deliver it. Mate Jarman, Buckley and McLeod could kick it to that forward line and they’d still battle.
Also my point about Hanrahan is that he should have made it. But unlike our past leaders who would have tapped him on the shoulder the first time he squibbed it, much less let the poor kid fall out of favour his role models were not there for him.
You were the one that said, ‘I love that forwardline’. Not me.
No marking power, no defensive pressure, no energy and robbing our best mid.
it stinks