Toast Lower

[moomba75]

I like him as a player and glad Freo got him.

 

[sumavich]

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/whats-wrong-with-fremantles-nick-lower-20110718-1hl7c.html

Very good article on Lower !!

 

[strobe00]

He was superb; he could of been playing like that all year if Harve's and the coaching staff didn't refuse to play him in the right position. The guy is not a backman, Port made that mistake so we need to play him more in the midfield.

Agreed.

Especially with the rather bizarre persistence with playing Pav in the midfield. Lower was available. Don't know why we kept playing Pav in the midfield and Lower in the half back and half forward lines.

 

[free at last]

Getting to the stage now with our mature-age recruits,they are going to succeed no matter what.Must be a bit of, I'll show you ****s.
The likes of shuey & gaff are going to be in for a buffeting,come Sunday.

 

[strobe00]

Better not let Clay know that we picked up a solid inside midfielder, he'd have nothing to whine about..

Can understand his point though.

We only picked up the one genuine inside mid with all of our picks last year. Pitt, Michie and Mellington may have a chance to play inside one day but aren't inside mids today.

Ruffles, Buco and Roberts aren't inside mids either.

Doesn't seem to be something we've made much of an attempt to recruit for over the past few years. We seem to be trying to grab flankers and outside mids and train them to work inside, rather than grabbing a few genuine inside players.

Was the reason I was hoping we'd pick up Parker last year. Ended up grabbing Pitt in the first round. Time will tell.

 

[strobe00]

I think they can, the players they've picked up previously have all been 'noticed' previously and disregarded. That has to be their strategy, targeting late bloomers or seeing a player in the wrong position.

I think we'll go KPP this time.

Fingers crossed.

Another inside mid or two wouldn't go astray either. Especially if Palmer is on the way out.

 

[Tweedy]

Can understand his point though.

We only picked up the one genuine inside mid with all of our picks last year. Pitt, Michie and Mellington may have a chance to play inside one day but aren't inside mids today.

Ruffles, Buco and Roberts aren't inside mids either.

Doesn't seem to be something we've made much of an attempt to recruit for over the past few years. We seem to be trying to grab flankers and outside mids and train them to work inside, rather than grabbing a few genuine inside players.

Was the reason I was hoping we'd pick up Parker last year. Ended up grabbing Pitt in the first round. Time will tell.

Sometimes it just doesn't pan out for the recruiters. Pitt at 20 was too good to pass up. Then I strongly suspect we would have picked Parker next round, but the Swans snagged him the pick before ours. Hallahan was another who sounded like a good inside mid for us, but he went 4-5 picks beforehand.

 

[Lord Nicholson]

Foxtel just had his debut game for Port on. Campbell continually pronouncing his name incorrectly (I assume).

He's had a recognizable handball technique from the start, that's for sure. Really cranks it up.

I've liked his work this year - the winning goal during the Bulldogs game was fantastic, but he's been a consistent performer since then. In particular, I liked his work during the Hawthorn game. Just seemed to run rampant in the backline for a while there.

 

[Alfonz]

Having Lower and Broughton in the midfield gives us some much needed grunt and hardness as well. The sort you could rely on in a tough final. Would be nice if they had a little bit of extra pace, but I don't think that matters too much.

Lower still has some kicking issues, but like that article says, it is more to do with what he tries to do with the ball. Plus the pressure he could be under. His action seems OK, and he has quite a long kick on him. I think he had a shot on goal from outside 50m in the first quarter which hit the post and was a decent kick.

 

[free at last]

I just hope from this point in time ,both lower and broughton are played solely in the midfield from now on.Broughton & lower are a tad slow but their hardness at the contest definitely makes up for it.This is the reason why we are going super hard for O'meara.An inside mid who does a 2.9 for 20 metres,combined with beautiful skills.