please be gentle
We've seen numerous reports over the past few months about McGovern's value, with the highest figure getting up to $1.3 million, about what some clubs were prepared to pay for Dustin Martin (arguably the best player in the game right now). I am in no way saying McGovern is a bad player, but I am suggesting that perhaps his worth is being inflated due to the structure of our back line. Consider the following:
1. West Coast has played a 'floating tall' in defence for a few years now, before it was McGovern it was Darren Glass taking a high number of intercept marks in his last few years at the club, with many praising him for his late career resurgence in form.
2. The one game we played this year without McGovern, Barrass took over his role in defence and Schofield took over Barrass' one-on-one role. In this game Barrass had a massive 11 marks, the most on the ground, and led the rebound 50 count (6). If Barrass played his role each week would he suddenly be worth 1.3 mill?
We've seen numerous reports over the past few months about McGovern's value, with the highest figure getting up to $1.3 million, about what some clubs were prepared to pay for Dustin Martin (arguably the best player in the game right now). I am in no way saying McGovern is a bad player, but I am suggesting that perhaps his worth is being inflated due to the structure of our back line. Consider the following:
1. West Coast has played a 'floating tall' in defence for a few years now, before it was McGovern it was Darren Glass taking a high number of intercept marks in his last few years at the club, with many praising him for his late career resurgence in form.
2. The one game we played this year without McGovern, Barrass took over his role in defence and Schofield took over Barrass' one-on-one role. In this game Barrass had a massive 11 marks, the most on the ground, and led the rebound 50 count (6). If Barrass played his role each week would he suddenly be worth 1.3 mill?