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We have Josh Fraser playing and Jaxson Barham playing. I don't usually bake players but for us to be a successful team we need to develop players, now with Luke Ball and Johnno (& Dids) all sitting to be right for the weeks break and playing the Dees why couldn't we have opted for the likes of young Blair a young in and under player to replace Ball instead of Barham..
The use of Josh Fraser in our team is pointless and he shouldn't be in the teams next week. Chris Dawes has been tremendous for us and yet we drop him after one average performance to go with Jack Anthony. Checkout the games against the Saints, we had no key forward and our scoring was horribly inaccurate yet we dropped Anthony the week before.
Then the Cats game where we again drop Anthony and really could have stretched the Cats defense with Dawes and Anthony working inside the 50 metre arc. Again our scoring was effected.
The Lions game again.. no key forward this time Dawes is dropped the week before and we are left wondering what may have been. You might say it worked ok against the Doggies but lets be honest it was a free flowing game and a good game for our mids which resulting in alot of running goals. When the game got tight we couldn't score on our forward thrusts, we had Fraser running around whilst Hudson and Minson had a ball whilst Jolly rested.
Last week proved my theory, poor Clokey had 2 or 3 hanging off him and although Dick kicked 4 we didn't have that second big forward to make a contest for our smaller guys and as a result 22 points were scored from our indirect thrusts forward.
We have to remove Fraser from the team and bring in a target and even bring in Wood and rest Jolly up forward. Something needs to be done, I'm not baking anyone just my honest opinion to something that sticks out in my eyes. Barham I'm probably a little harsh on but 3 turnovers in the last quarter from 4 touches speaks for itself. Had we given young Blair a game we may have come away feeling a little better knowing that we are in a position to play our kids whilst our experienced guys are injured rather then guys who can't get a game in our best 22 period and have had the chance and were dropped for these reasons.
The use of Josh Fraser in our team is pointless and he shouldn't be in the teams next week. Chris Dawes has been tremendous for us and yet we drop him after one average performance to go with Jack Anthony. Checkout the games against the Saints, we had no key forward and our scoring was horribly inaccurate yet we dropped Anthony the week before.
Then the Cats game where we again drop Anthony and really could have stretched the Cats defense with Dawes and Anthony working inside the 50 metre arc. Again our scoring was effected.
The Lions game again.. no key forward this time Dawes is dropped the week before and we are left wondering what may have been. You might say it worked ok against the Doggies but lets be honest it was a free flowing game and a good game for our mids which resulting in alot of running goals. When the game got tight we couldn't score on our forward thrusts, we had Fraser running around whilst Hudson and Minson had a ball whilst Jolly rested.
Last week proved my theory, poor Clokey had 2 or 3 hanging off him and although Dick kicked 4 we didn't have that second big forward to make a contest for our smaller guys and as a result 22 points were scored from our indirect thrusts forward.
We have to remove Fraser from the team and bring in a target and even bring in Wood and rest Jolly up forward. Something needs to be done, I'm not baking anyone just my honest opinion to something that sticks out in my eyes. Barham I'm probably a little harsh on but 3 turnovers in the last quarter from 4 touches speaks for itself. Had we given young Blair a game we may have come away feeling a little better knowing that we are in a position to play our kids whilst our experienced guys are injured rather then guys who can't get a game in our best 22 period and have had the chance and were dropped for these reasons.
It is worth pointing out Mick has said we will be rotating our group of 28 or so players every week this year to ensure we have adequate coverage and expierance available. But if Fraser is named in a final I'll spit chips, big time. Barham too isn't in our best 22, but I have less issues with him getting games at the moment.
