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Snapshot of my favourite Blue. Love that he is backing himself with ball in hand and even getting inside 50 entries now. Beast.
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3) he has some radical dance movesTwo things I know about Cottrell
1) what happened last night will really help him believe that he can make it
2) if he doesn't make it wont be through any lack of effort.
I’m extremely not convinced but there’s a voice in my head saying kamdyn Macintosh is a premiership playerEd Curnow‘s apprentice.
I watched the replay again tonight and I was absolutely blown away by Plowman’s game. When the ball came into defence he was EVERYWHERE!!
Tackling, marking, spoiling, out-running his opponent, kicking and handballing to advantage ……………he literally did EVERYTHING you wanted and needed a defender to do.
Massive kudos to someone who is, unfairly, a perennial whipping boy on this board.
Whipping boy...hahaI heard that his Uncle, I think, passed away the same day as the match too. Amazing performance from him.
You missed multiple super clean ground ball gets then.
Persist.
Snapshot of my favourite Blue. Love that he is backing himself with ball in hand and even getting inside 50 entries now. Beast.
Just hitting that spot right now Nice controlled tempo football. Picking the targets with deliberation and then putting the ball into the danger spot!
Would help if he was on the payroll first.FWIW - since returning in round 12 Harry McKay has taken 15 Marks inside 50 and kicked total of 7 goals 10. Any chance big Sav could earn his money?
That is a fair point just not getting too high beating the 15th side. When we win a crunch game that propels us into the finals-I will be the first to say we are on the move. Maybe that will be the Brisbane game
potyI watched the replay again tonight and I was absolutely blown away by Plowman’s game. When the ball came into defence he was EVERYWHERE!!
Tackling, marking, spoiling, out-running his opponent, kicking and handballing to advantage ……………he literally did EVERYTHING you wanted and needed a defender to do.
Massive kudos to someone who is, unfairly, a perennial whipping boy on this board.
Walsh is just amazing.
Serious question - as it stands right now would you prefer to have Walsh or Smith?
Was everyone else also getting annoyed at Dunstal's repeated confusion as to why Harry always plays on.
Clearly he gets the yips, if he takes too long or thinks about taking a set shot, so goes by natural instinct.
I would have thought blind Freddie could work that one out.
Berry is a massive outI'd like to think we'll throw everything we have at the Lions. And then some more.
No Andrews hurts them badly with the forwards we have, and if Ed can do a reasonable job on Neale then I think we could be in for tight contest.
Unfortunately, if Teague doesn't start pushing him up around the pill more, we might not see enough of it
Cuners has all the tools to rip a game apart, but really is lost as a HF
Get him round the pill
I watched the replay again tonight and I was absolutely blown away by Plowman’s game. When the ball came into defence he was EVERYWHERE!!
Tackling, marking, spoiling, out-running his opponent, kicking and handballing to advantage ……………he literally did EVERYTHING you wanted and needed a defender to do.
Massive kudos to someone who is, unfairly, a perennial whipping boy on this board.
The Old Dark Navy's, can we please make this a weekly thing if people are willing? This type of insight is amazing given how specific it is to players, and even more so that most of us can't attend games this year.I have been asked by ODN to track our whipping boy Mitch McGovern. Here are my observations:
In the first half he seemed to be under instructions to keep clear of McKay and/or Casboult and whether it was instructions or not but as the ball was coming into the forward line he seemed to retreat back to the goal square a lot (e.g Josh Jenkins) which effectively meant he was running away from the ball.
When he did lead or try and make the play he was no doubt a victim of our poor delivery into the forward.
For example his first quarter read like this
In the 2nd half the instructions seemed to change and he was playing up the ground more and at least we presenting but ball delivery was still poor and the ball was slippery.
- Lead to the pocket and ball delivered over head and outbodied and outmarked by Melican
- Cunningham fast break under pressure. MCG lead to Cunningham’s left – Cunningham ignored Gov and kicked to CHF to pack of Swans players.
- Fast break through centre from Murphy who kicked to CHF. I think McGovern may have lead initially but then retreated back and ball went to straight to Swans. MCG needed to lead harder and commit to the lead but tried to wait for the ball to come over the back.
- Lead to the pocket to Caz but ball kicked to his feet , Mcg fumble and cleared by Melican.
Summary –
In fairness it was a terrible night to be a forward – particularly a third tall given the slippery conditions, the Swans flood and our terrible ball delivery and strategies going into the forward line. This really needs sorting out – it’s poor.
Having Harry, Caz and MCG basically trying to play the same role isn’t working. Harry or Caz are more demanding of the ball and I think McGov is just second guessing himself and trying to not get in the way. He’s a player who needs to get a good run at the ball but at the moment he is just stopping and starting and not sure where to run. Doesn’t help when our ball movement is slow and Swans could flood back. Regularly looked like 10-12 players at the fall of the ball in the hot spot so bigger bodied Harry or Caz more likely to hold ground and mark or it just gets spoiled.
Whilst he didn’t set the world on fire he looked much more dangerous running more freely up the ground in the second half.
Some more negative points – he didn’t hold his ground well against Melican and was outbodied several times. He has very little second efforts but seemed to openly try to do better at this in the second half. Personally, I think he would do well playing up high half forward/wing and being a target for us down the line or when coming of the half back line. He has the creativity to do this.
Playing his type of role you are going to get nights like that where you basically don’t get a look at the ball but in that case he needs to get some more strings to his bow, get fitter and work harder to tackle and create more pressure – in the words of John Kennedy “at least do something !!”.
Unfortunately, if Teague doesn't start pushing him up around the pill more, we might not see enough of it
Cuners has all the tools to rip a game apart, but really is lost as a HF
Get him round the pill