The Dominator7
Unleash Finbar's Fury
- Sep 22, 2016
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It's no coincidence that we're constantly being attached to small forwards and this is not simply media driven.
Maybe it's the term that we don't like or feel to be 'old hat' so let's call them forward-line specialists.
We currently have no small-medium forwards that can regularly manufacture goals out of little. We just don't.
Of course we need them do and I have little doubt the trade period will play out accordingly.
Papley is the player that would make for what I see to be, the best fit for the CFC.
Maybe we won't get the player/s we want, but we do need goal-kickers and let's not get too carried away for the 100 point 'achievements' this season to date.
It was great knocking that barrier over but it was against teams that had personnel poor back-lines, at the time we played them.
I think you’ve summed it up nicely.
The question I ask myself is do we have ANY guys on our list who have played fwd their whole career, not mids who have some goal sense like SPS, Cuners, Gibbo, Polson, Garlett or Fish, someone like a Gryan Myers who was a TAC cup sniper, kicked a bag (7 from memory) in the U18 GF?
The answer is no and I think HARKER pointed it out early in the season when Teague said in a short website clip that we were “looking” for a small forward. Look at our 2019 list and who we’ve run through there:
- Gibbons (gun VFL mid)
- Polson (nippy mid...and personally I think we’ve done him no service in his development)
- Pickett (nuff said)
- Bugg (nuff said)
- Cuningham (midfielder)
- Garlett (played WA U18’s as outside mid/wing/HBF)
- LeBois is probably the closest but was still more a HFF for SA U18 and is on such a slow burn I think the fires gone out!!
I love what SOS has done with our list over since 2015, recruiting can be a crapshoot and you’ve gotta dig through a lot of dirt to find gems, but we have continued to get this player type wrong - starting with Gallucci as a rookie
JustaBattler - I agree 100% with your earlier post that other positions need addressing, this was more about the 1 position that our CEO has publicly stated we are searching for...not sure I’ve seen a CEO come out and say that this far out from trade period, but I could be wrong.
I also agree with you that the Pies don’t have many (Elliott maybe), neither do the Dogs, whereas Richmond have shitloads. For me it comes down to the style of game you want to play, and if we are going to have the bigs boys up forward, it makes sense to get someone Mosquitoing around there as with goal kicking/crumbing/pressure as their natural No1 skill set, not someone who is OK at it BUT can also go through the midfield