I think Soligo and Crouch attending the most CBAs is about right given that both Dawson and Rankine have shown they can be very damaging in other roles. Would be very happy with those four getting the vast majority of CBAs but with Soligo and Crouch having the most.
“A top two or three player”: King’s huge Rankine call as midfield minutes increase — SEN
“I think Rankine is sitting one out and one back ready to swoop.”apple.news
In case you can’t open it, in the last 6 weeks he’s 8 scores from 22 clearances. Laird is only one up with 50% more clearances.
Rankine is only attending 35% CBA, this needs to be increased.
Midfield should be Soligo, Rankine, Dawson with Laird and Crouch rotating in.
I have been banging on about Rankine as a virtual full time mid for a long time now - Andrew McLeod mk 2 in my opinion if he does - he can be that good“A top two or three player”: King’s huge Rankine call as midfield minutes increase — SEN
“I think Rankine is sitting one out and one back ready to swoop.”
In case you can’t open it, in the last 6 weeks he’s 8 scores from 22 clearances. Laird is only one up with 50% more clearances.
Rankine is only attending 35% CBA, this needs to be increased.
Midfield should be Soligo, Rankine, Dawson with Laird and Crouch rotating in.
Surely we use Laird more in the backline for his experience... & move Smith out of the backline back on to a wing.
I get the feeling the club sees in Izak what most of us do and hence the big play for Hayward who can fill that forward slot and allow Izak to be a full time mid that can drift forward
Not me. Rankine has the much higher ceiling and can be our modern day McLeod in the middle. Rachele can be a quality mid but he is a level down from Izak imo - most players are. I am happy for Rachele to still rotate through the forward line but I like the thought of Rankine burst through the middle 1 handed pick up and accelerating away from his man and feeding it into the forwards.
I won't ever forget that one either. Big time toys out of the cot moment for some reason. Vic clubs raided the expansion teams for years and everything was fine. But a young indigenous lad wants to come home to SA and he's being poorly advised.
His comment today was in a couple more weeks of that form he’ll be considered top 3 in the comp.
Not every player has to go into the midfield.
I agree to the bolded bit, but we are talking about Izak Rankine in particular and he has elite midfielder written all over him so its negligence to NOT move him there for 70-80% of the game. We don't have the luxury of having a JHF, Butters and Rozee there by way of example so we need to try our best players there to see if they can be that elite mid and that is exactly what Izak will be if played there imo. Eddie never had the tank to play as a full time mid. Charlie Cameron could have been a majority full time mid I think had he had the opportunity and he would have been great there too
Hence why they are looking at snaring Hayward - he fills that void to allow Izak to be the mid we crave with Soligo, Dawson and Rachele while still maintaining a permanent goal threat. Of course Rankine, Rachele and hopefully Pedlar will still rest forward for spurts but only as that.
Whichever way the wind blows
Interestingly Dees are looking to do the reverse & play Petracca more up forward as they need him scoring more goals given how poor their forward line is.
He's a dumb campaigner just like all the other media dumb campaigners
Isn't that kinda what we did though? Backed pure talent and targeted it in advance?
More we’d have not played him early on. GC did that for us and we’ve reaped the benefits.
I seriously don’t get the hate on Nicks re playing young players. Rachele and Soligo less than 2.5 years into their career have played almost as many games as Rankine did in 4 years at GC.
