ONE EYE
Senior List
The darkest moments in Eagles history have coincided with the lack of tall forwards. This occurred prior to the 92/94 Premiership Years and more recently at the end of Malthouses era and Judge era. Other than Peter Sumich and Ross Glendenning we have a poor record of developing Tall Key Forwards. No doubt Some bright sparks will bob up with some other examples. However, the point is any really good team needs a couple of tall focal points.
Examples of good teams where this is evident are:
Essendon - LLoyd and Lucas
Collingwood - Rocca and Tarrent
Brisbane - Brown and Lynch
St Kilda - Reiwoldt and Gherig (Aaaaaaaaagh!)
You get my drift.
I understand that McDougall and Staker have been given every opportunity to develop. I know that long term they have a good chance of coming up. In the meantime they have undeveloped bodies for AFL Football. At best they are gaining invalyuable experience and at worst they could end up with career threatening injuries.
I hope Paul Johnson has not been classified into the Stevan Jackson, Brendon Fewster or Brett Spinks category. That is tall and cumbersome, good at WAFL level but not quite lithe enough for AFL CHF.. I thought yesterday was an ideal opportunity for him to play CHF. He would provide a contest in the packs to bring the ball to ground for our Crumbers. Woosha gave this strategy an after thought when he moved Lynch up forward. This robbed Peter to play Paul.
Its difficult to see upfield when you are watching TV. But when Embley got caught at Half Back he was looking up field for a lead. This is a classic Eagles situation. There was nobodyt pressing hard up field. There should have been two options. Johnson pushing hard at the true CHF and on a flank pushing up the wing should be Staker on a lead. As Langdon and Mitchell White have done successfully in the past. Staker and Langdon dont have the strenghth overhead for the key CHF Role.
Next week we should see Gaspar at CHF with Jako at FF. I think Mc Dougall should be given a rest now to gather his confidence. I think Staker needs to be persisted with but be used in the role of a Langdon/White as detailed. This structure would give Sampi and Matera every opportunity to crumb goals in addition to the midfield pressing forward to assist.
I know that the injuries to Gaspar, Gardiner, Jakovich and Hansen havent helped our Tall Forward Options. But leaving Johnson out just shows no respect to how important CHF is in Football.
GO EAGLES!
Examples of good teams where this is evident are:
Essendon - LLoyd and Lucas
Collingwood - Rocca and Tarrent
Brisbane - Brown and Lynch
St Kilda - Reiwoldt and Gherig (Aaaaaaaaagh!)
You get my drift.
I understand that McDougall and Staker have been given every opportunity to develop. I know that long term they have a good chance of coming up. In the meantime they have undeveloped bodies for AFL Football. At best they are gaining invalyuable experience and at worst they could end up with career threatening injuries.
I hope Paul Johnson has not been classified into the Stevan Jackson, Brendon Fewster or Brett Spinks category. That is tall and cumbersome, good at WAFL level but not quite lithe enough for AFL CHF.. I thought yesterday was an ideal opportunity for him to play CHF. He would provide a contest in the packs to bring the ball to ground for our Crumbers. Woosha gave this strategy an after thought when he moved Lynch up forward. This robbed Peter to play Paul.
Its difficult to see upfield when you are watching TV. But when Embley got caught at Half Back he was looking up field for a lead. This is a classic Eagles situation. There was nobodyt pressing hard up field. There should have been two options. Johnson pushing hard at the true CHF and on a flank pushing up the wing should be Staker on a lead. As Langdon and Mitchell White have done successfully in the past. Staker and Langdon dont have the strenghth overhead for the key CHF Role.
Next week we should see Gaspar at CHF with Jako at FF. I think Mc Dougall should be given a rest now to gather his confidence. I think Staker needs to be persisted with but be used in the role of a Langdon/White as detailed. This structure would give Sampi and Matera every opportunity to crumb goals in addition to the midfield pressing forward to assist.
I know that the injuries to Gaspar, Gardiner, Jakovich and Hansen havent helped our Tall Forward Options. But leaving Johnson out just shows no respect to how important CHF is in Football.
GO EAGLES!
I'm sure we will trade Braun and Wirra for an injury prone Hay. Just how many games has he played in the last couple of years ??And don't even mention Hadrill/McPharlin in the same sentence as Leppitsch/Michael. You purple people do tend to overrate your own.
