Strategy We need a key forward

[Wooden Robot]

Lynch, Gibcus and Kosi forward would be interesting. Lynch deep, the other two on the move up the ground.
Kosi a bit more physical and Gibcus the class.
Ryan is essentially a ruckman, Gawn style more than English who was always very athletic and moves more like a forward.

Kosi looks anything but physical.
Biggest knock on him from Hawks fans I know is his 'failure to present as an option'.

 

[Tigerbob]

Kosi looks anything but physical.
Biggest knock on him from Hawks fans I know is his 'failure to present as an option'.

I’m reluctant to give up on a 23 year old tall.

Right system, right coaching and he could be a player. We just need him to play his role. Be that second tall option and provide a contest, move to create space and hopefully kick over 25 goals for the season.

He’s gonna cost very little. To me, it’s a smart get.

 

[bc27]

Didn’t we have two and traded them two year ago?

 

[crackertiger]

I’m reluctant to give up on a 23 year old tall.

Right system, right coaching and he could be a player. We just need him to play his role. Be that second tall option and provide a contest, move to create space and hopefully kick over 25 goals for the season.

He’s gonna cost very little. To me, it’s a smart get.

Agree. I suspect he may be used down back. He spent a fair bit of his Juniors as a key Defender. Was recruited as a key defender. Rutten will take him under his wing. Then Balta possibly goes forward.

 

[jesterx]

looks like hawks have found a koschitzke replacement:


lol

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Gunna be royally rooted when we can’t get our kpf’s out of tassie .

 

[Daka]

I'm pretty bullish on Ryan, more as a ruck-forward option though

Kozi will help a lot imo. just need to play his role make a contest, I'm pretty sure he will offer more than Riewoldt did this year & that's not to disrespect Jack but I thought he has been done for a couple of years.

 

[Tigerbob]

Gunna be royally rooted when we can’t get our kpf’s out of tassie .

That hits hard.

 

[wegetpumped]

I'm pretty bullish on Ryan, more as a ruck-forward option though

Kozi will help a lot imo. just need to play his role make a contest, I'm pretty sure he will offer more than Riewoldt did this year & that's not to disrespect Jack but I thought he has been done for a couple of years.

So you're saying he will be better than Jack as he has been cooked for a while now? Very interesting so I expect 30 t0 50 goal season's wonderful can't wait

 

[Daka]

So you're saying he will be better than Jack as he has been cooked for a while now? Very interesting so I expect 30 t0 50 goal season's wonderful can't wait

I think he will create more goals than Jack this year is probably the better way to word it, I expect him to kick at least 30 goals himself if he plays a full season in the team.

 

[JR#8]

Any takers for Brodie McLaughlin?

 

[Bojangles17]

Premiership F50
FF frampton
chf miochec

stop your flipping drama queening

 

[dean33]

Pies just won a flag off the back of no real traditional key fwd. Melbourne won a flag with Ben brown

50

Ben Brown

Age

33

Ht

200cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Fwd

Career

Season

Last 5

D

10.7

3star

K

7.7

3star

HB

3.0

3star

M

4.8

5star

T

1.2

3star

G

2.2

5star

D

7.9

2star

K

6.3

3star

HB

1.6

1star

M

3.7

4star

T

0.9

2star

G

1.0

4star

D

8.0

2star

K

4.6

2star

HB

3.4

3star

M

4.4

4star

T

1.4

4star

G

1.2

4star

as key fwd. We won a flag in 17 with Jack and a bunch of dwarves.

We are better off making sure the game plan is correct and suring up our defence.

Lynch, kosi, Sampson and Bauer are more than adequate at the moment and then once Dusty’s money isn’t on the books we can look at a lynch replacement.

 

[Grrr]

Kosi looks anything but physical.
Biggest knock on him from Hawks fans I know is his 'failure to present as an option'.

It was mainly in reference to Miller, a bit more physical which wouldn't be hard. He is mobile and he goes for his marks, might not be a champ, but we just need someone who presents. Doesn't have to be Mihocek in that regard, but in tandom with someone like Bauer or Gibcus it is a whole lot better than what we had this year.

 

["The Roar Is Back"]

Premiership F50
FF frampton
chf miochec

stop your *ing drama queening

We ain’t getting Colonwood’s umpire lovefeast .

 

[inCOGnito]

Brown over Van Rooyen was a blunder. Everyone could see we needed a tall forward.

Agree, remember watching it and thinking what are they doing... Then having Van Rooyen kick goals against us to rub it in. We haven't seen Brown yet at AFL level have we?

 

[JAKLAUGHING]

Back to the 2017 GF drawing board for forwards...Lunch Special...with entrees of speedy tasty goers!

 

[tugga]

Agree, remember watching it and thinking what are they doing... Then having Van Rooyen kick goals against us to rub it in. We haven't seen Brown yet at AFL level have we?

Played round 24. Could end up being a good player, but we really needed a key forward

 

[Drunken Wookie]

I’m reluctant to give up on a 23 year old tall.

Right system, right coaching and he could be a player. We just need him to play his role. Be that second tall option and provide a contest, move to create space and hopefully kick over 25 goals for the season.

He’s gonna cost very little. To me, it’s a smart get.

Will have Lynch to learn from for a few years yet. Couldn't ask for a better forward to model his game on.

 

[Football Tragic]

If we don't have a key forward then we find one from the team and/or change our game plan to suit the strengths of the players we do have. It worked in 2017 when we played a very small forwardline and it can work again moving forward.

I think Lynch will be back with the support of Kozi but if he's not, I'd rather play players who are performing than just gift games to plodders because they fit the measurements of typical players from that set position.

 

[Tygrys]

I'm not listening to trade radio or anything (life is too short), however apparently Cal Twomey is reporting that Hawthorn is driving are a very hard bargain regarding Jacob Koschitzke. Even people like myself who don't rate him or have zero expectations of what he can deliver can live with him coming for a third or fourth. However, can we all agree that our 2nd should under no circumstances be on the table. Pluck someone out of a state league if we have to, but we have already done our quota of trade overs this year with Hopper. I know it's early days but if a second is what is needed to prise him out of Hawthorn, let them keep him.

 

[LTT]

It was mainly in reference to Miller, a bit more physical which wouldn't be hard. He is mobile and he goes for his marks, might not be a champ, but we just need someone who presents. Doesn't have to be Mihocek in that regard, but in tandom with someone like Bauer or Gibcus it is a whole lot better than what we had this year.

At the start of the season our forwards were doing training drills where the tall forwards were not trying to mark but were tapping the ball to ground. This was clearly a Hardwick game plan which Miller tried to execute throughout the season. Hopefully Yze will let him train as a genuine key forward or key back

 

[SunshineBoy]

Brown over Van Rooyen was a blunder. Everyone could see we needed a tall forward.

Yeah but we needed more HBF

 

[SouthernStripes]

Will have Lynch to learn from for a few years yet. Couldn't ask for a better forward to model his game on.

I really worry that Lynch will struggle to get on the park with this foot injury

 

[Tigerbob]

Kosi for a second is criminal lol

At the end of the day, he nominated Richmond, out of contract, was only offered a one year deal, didn’t play much.

We were being generous with Pick 46. Deal will get done.