He'll be disappointed to miss the reunion match...and he'll be a loss for us especially with Rankine and Dawson just going at the moment.
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Think Rankine will be better this week, but if 25 disposals and 2 goals is "just going" then holy shit.
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Yeah that’s just going for him
Best mid by FAR tonight. Huge pickup for our depth
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Has had a pretty good season but his last 2 weeks have been massive.
Thanks GWS
Crouch is finished.....
Well he should be
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He's fantastic at ground level which really complements the skills of our other midfielders
He should have been a starting midfielder from the second he arrived at our club. Surely this is even more obvious now
He should have been a starting midfielder from the second he arrived at our club. Surely this is even more obvious now
I reckon he’s top 5 in our B&F at this stage. Hard running two way mid is exactly what we needed.
What a star. Wozee can have the Showdown medal.
picked him for the showdown medal in the elite group iMessage with my bro and mum. was huge, was double the next tackler when the rest of the Crows decided to start playing. true example of an uphill skier - we need players who play well when adversity is up and the momentum is against us.
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A bigger deal out west.
If anything, the Port game has said the opposite. We got utterly smashed in the clinches.
He doesn't help the spread from stoppage though.
Midfields with legspeed expose him.
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It wasn’t our spread from the stoppage that was the main issue. We couldn’t get first hands on the ball and let Port spread too easily, usually through a sweeper. When we did get hands on the ball our spread was fine.
If Crouch was playing, our best midfielder on the night would have been playing elsewhere.
Let's not go nuts with this narrative that it's all handball receives, some definite misuse of statistics there. Crouch does lead the club in both clearances and centre clearances, and that's including the Freo game where he was crap and clearly injured. He's certainly a strong clearance winner who can match it with the best midfields in terms of winning clearances, regardless of what weaknesses the rest of his game might have.
What we really need is someone who can win clearances at Crouch's level but also has the pace, skills and defensive game of the rest of our mids. Peatling is great and is part of the solution, but the Port game showed that we aren't able to match it with the best midfields in terms of the clearance game, even with our best non-Crouch midfielders available and playing through the midfield.
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Not really. 55% of his possessions are either handball receives or gathers from hitouts (to advantage, aka ROB tapping directly to him)
That number for other players is 48% Dawson, 44% Peatling, 42% Soligo and 36% Rankine
He is the #1 player in our side for having the ball fed to him, and #4 in the competition among midfielders (min 4 games), for percentage of possessions from those sources.
Crouch is one of very few players in the AFL with that profile. He is high ball fed percentage, low post clearance contested, low pressure acts, low meters gained.
Usually a player has a role to do one of those things. Eg Finn Callaghan is a high receive player, but very high meters gained. Josh Kelly is a high receive player, but high in pressure.
The other players with a "Crouch" profile are Jacob Hopper and Jaeger O'Meara.
There is no way a player who largely relies on having the ball given to him, and who has a poor ability to defend, would have thrived or done anything in a game where Port Adelaide dominated the midfield and particularly dominated contested ball. Our primary ball winners that would have fed Crouch weren't winning the ball. And Reilly O'Brien convincingly lost the hitouts to advantage, the other main way Crouch gets ball.
We were once again smashed at ground balls (Butters 12, Wines 11, JHF 10, Rozee 8, Drew 7 vs Peatling 9, Soligo 8, Rankine 7, Dawson 6) and we already had our top 3 ground ball winners in the side. The only player that Crouch could have replaced to improve us in that area is Dawson.
What we need are players who can beat the opposition at ground level and translate it to clearances. We were absolutely smashed in the same area against Fremantle. We don't need more players who are fed the ball. We need tough, ground level, contested ball winning, clearance mids.
The main issue against Port was that our two best ground level players (Soligo and Rankine) had shockers in the midfield
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IMO the reason this season is still a live one is because Peatling pulled out of a hit to a Freo player's midriff at the last second.
It would have been at least a one match ban if he didn't think better of it. And I don't think the club would have weathered losing him for a second game in three weeks.
It would have been at least a one match ban if he didn't think better of it. And I don't think the club would have weathered losing him for a second game in three weeks.
Old Crouch from last year would have be useful, not this year's Crouch.
