neither is Williams, and McEntee and Evans do bugger all anyway
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I would love to see Williams come in as a forward. His junior stuff there was exceptional and I personally value the mercurial nature of his play to the pressure nature of other options.
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Because ‘structure’ out weighs ability these days.
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Shaun Burgoyne was quite possibly the most gifted junior to ever come through the draft to Port.
It isn’t the same.
MCG! It’ll be a good test to see where we’re at
But we are not replacing Shaun Burgoyne we are replacing 1 possession Jed mcentee.
I personally think Jase deserves a go, I was surprised he was overlooked for Frankie Evans for round 1
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Personally after 10 years of "the missing piece" all the minor rounds are trials. Making the 8 is not a pass mark, it is expected.
Until they start playing a style that holds up to finals football and actually win finals they're really just making up the numbers.
The missing piece narrative was always media driven bs, can’t recall the club actually parroting that bs.
And then it turned into a crows supporter meme for us but it never had any substance to it and they were just jealous because we had stronger ability to attract players from interstate than they did.
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The interesting thing is that he ability as a forward was never in question. Not during his junior days and not doing his time in SANFL as a forward either. He probably didn't transfer his freakish skills from u18s to SANFL but he was still effective.
He's also not exactly slow, probably same pace as DBJ. They aren't the fastest but labelling them slow is also not the right term imo.
The issue with Williams as a forward in AFL, after his debut against Swans, was his endurance and strength, both of which are now AFL standard as he showed last year.
I highly doubt whether we'd do it. But I think I'd have Williams as a forward permanently. His footy smarts are above what I've seen ever from DBJ or McEntee plus he's got some good overhead marking ability.
I kinda go with this except who spells Soldo in 2nd ruck. Even if Soldo rests more up forward and Sweet takes more of the ruck, there is a considerable amount of time when Sweet will be playing somewhere {probably up forward} when he hasn't really shown an ability to do so.
Williams definitely deserves a chance up forward. He may not be quick but neither was Robbie. Like Robbie he reads the game well, is good one on one, takes a good mark and has the skills to execute. I am so ******* tired of hearing about the value of defensive forwards, even the commentators have bought into it. Talking Mcentee up during his one possession, one tackle game.
More Riolis. Less McEntees.
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when we shifted Williams from forward to half back
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Does Ayyyden Johnson lining up on McGovern count?
Williams spent half a quarter last year playing as a forward after coming on as the sub. He looked lost, and at the next break we rejigged the line up moving Williams back and Burton (I think) forward.
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Half a quarter ain't much of a sample size, plenty of our forwards do fukc all for longer than that at times.
I like him down back though and hope he comes back in soon, I'm sure as s**t not jerking off to the back half's performance to an absolute rabble like West Coast.
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