We need to stop the Rohan talk. As I mentioned the other week, he's Jake Neade without defensive pressure. If you only watched his highlights reel you'd be gagging for him, but if you actually watch his week to week output you wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole. Had a great game against the Hawks then backs it up this week with 8 touches (4 effective) and a behind. If you look at his bottom 2/3rds output (take out the two Hawks games and the GC game) he is averaging 8.6 disposals (5.5 effective), 0.5 goal assists and 0.3 goals. All this from a guy who should be in his prime at 25 years old. That is exactly the sort of inconsistency that is killing us at the moment and the last type of player we need to be recruiting. He would be great icing on the cake at a Hawthorn where his 1 good game every 3 or 4 weeks could be great, but would be an absolute killer to our side that needs depth players putting in consistent effort.
All this goes back to the type of player we need, which are consistent output types that don't have to be brilliant flashy players. Boak, Gray, Hammer, Wingard, Pittard and even Impey these days can cover that game breaking class a good team needs. Unfortunately it's easy for one or more of those guys to be down because of the lack of consistent support. This is what I was really hoping Ah Chee to deliver this year; just a consistent 20 disposal 4 or 5 tackle type player. Didn't have to do anything outstanding all that often, but was able to be that constantly turning cog that helped keep our premiums in the game. It's something that Sam Gray has been able to do at SANFL level really well. He's never the most damaging player, but his ability to keep racking up the ball just gives more opportunities for guys like Summerton, Toumpas, Tom Gray, and Reynolds to be able to do their thing and break the game open. Unfortunately he hasn't been able to consistently translate that to the same AFL form.