Norf just match up perfectly against us to exploit our weaknesses.
3 tall forwards (two of who always play well against us) exploits Chaplin and our third tall back. Chappy gets no help and can't help others while Batch was left one out with Waite too much.
Dominate athletic ruck negates obliterates Maric at ruck contests and around the ground.
Plethora of hard inside nuts exposes Cotchin and Miles as our only two genuine inside players. Further killed by Goldstein tapping it down the throats.
Our 7 man defense means we are one short in attack. Hansen thrives as a loose tall and picked off our long bombs constantly. Our poor awarness when going into f50 doesn't work against a team with a dominate tall loose defender.
Our poor to average pressure in attack is exploited by Norf who love to attack from the HB line.
A small, skillful and fast player like Brett Harvey constantly cuts us up.
Overall I'm not sure any team in the league matches up as well against us as Norf. That is further highlighted by the stat they never score below 100 points against us yet we've pretty much held every other team below that threshold in last 2 years.
Spot on, except for the one correction I made.
Goldstein's dominance of Ivvy is one of the main reasons we can't beat Norf. He gives his meatgrinders first use, which makes it doubly hard for Cotch and co to win clearances, which makes it hard to isolate defenders and keep Hansen out of it. Snowballs from the centre bounce.
We are the ones who must do the ruck negating against Norf. Ivan can't do it.
Hampster, here's looking at you, kid.
Unless he can build a tank and increase his engine to play midfield as well he wont make it as just a foward, The days where just playing hff/fp are finished and at 190cm he needs to be able to rotate through the middle and without pace - He needs yo learn to play inside
He has the size and the hands to be a good inside player I reckon.