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[BigLefty]

Why do you have to fast be a line-breaker?

Brad Symes was an ELITE line-breaker - he broke lines and ended up being the guy with ball in hand FAR too often given his poor use.

Porps is a great hand-ball receiver on the overlap - which is effectively a key part of breaking lines - and then a quality user.

I can see arguments that a guy like Mcleod would run 50m and kick it 50m to be a 100m player. But I'd suggest Porps can be a 70 to 85m player comfortably.

Having said all that... don't want him down back. Just wanted to debate that a line-breaker doesn't need pace. Just the desire and ability to time their run.

sounds more like a line-stretcher to me.

not quite fast enough to get through the defence, but did enough to make them move a few metres before tackling him.

 

[Lawrst]

A lot of the time last year Tippett + Callinans goals = Tippets goals.

Someone read the Paper today.

 

[betterthanu]

Someone read the Paper today.

I did not actually

 

[Tex Support]

Stats aside, I like the way Jenkins has gone about it so far. 3 games in to his new role, you can see he's worth persisting with. I like his attitude in general, even with the way he he took over the #4.

If he learns how to ruck as good as Tippett (and he's working hard at it), then happy days.

Again, he's 3 games in to his role, and a pretty raw talent still. Might need a full season to get to a point where he's sufficently filling the gap left by Tippett.

 

[Allefgib]

sounds more like a line-stretcher to me.

not quite fast enough to get through the defence, but did enough to make them move a few metres before tackling him.

Depends on what you mean by a line-breaker I guess.

Symesy knew when to run and worked hard enough to be on the end of plenty hand-ball receives as he 'broke the line' of where the stoppage/contest was.

 

[Wood_Duck]

The best thing that could happen for the Crows is if JJ pops up and kicks a bag at some stage. Im not sure he is striking fear into opposition coaches just yet. We aren't really playing through him so opposition teams have the luxury of not having to dedicate defenders to him. One bag of 5 would change the complexion all together.

 

[King Elvis]

We should be playing through him.

 

[Wood_Duck]

We should be playing through him.

I agree. At the moment we don't really appear to be playing through either of our key forwards.