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I'll back your early call.He will absorb a baptism of fire like no other player we have seen for many moons, big call, very early call but he will be a superstar for this club
Play him as a third tall down back in the back 50 arc, zoning a bit and learning his craft the Hawthorn way.
HB: Impey - Frost - Scrimmers
FB: Hardwick - Hardigan - Hyphen
He will absorb a baptism of fire like no other player we have seen for many moons, big call, very early call but he will be a superstar for this club
Will make for a very interesting selection call with a fully fit Sicily, DGB, Frost, Hardwick, Hartigan, Greaves, Scrimshaw, Day and Impey. What does our best back line look like? I would expect 7 of those, at least, to be selected in the 22. The four youngest are on an upward trajectory and should be given a solid run at it. Is Hartigan an automatic selection?
Look forward to this season unfolding.
What are his foot skills like?
I think most of our defence are reasonable kicks now.......since Stratton and Frawley are gone.What are his foot skills like?
Totally agree arupist. And if all of the above are kicking butt who plays forward ?Will make for a very interesting selection call with a fully fit Sicily, DGB, Frost, Hardwick, Hartigan, Greaves, Scrimshaw, Day and Impey. What does our best back line look like? I would expect 7 of those, at least, to be selected in the 22. The four youngest are on an upward trajectory and should be given a solid run at it. Is Hartigan an automatic selection?
Look forward to this season unfolding.
Sicily will go forward if DGB can establish himself quickly.Will make for a very interesting selection call with a fully fit Sicily, DGB, Frost, Hardwick, Hartigan, Greaves, Scrimshaw, Day and Impey. What does our best back line look like? I would expect 7 of those, at least, to be selected in the 22. The four youngest are on an upward trajectory and should be given a solid run at it. Is Hartigan an automatic selection?
Look forward to this season unfolding.
Sicily will go forward if DGB can establish himself quickly.
Quite possibly, but that also has a downstream effect on the makeup of the forward line (which obviously needs addressing). A lot will depend on the development of Jeka, Kozzie. Impey could move forward. Will Day stay back?Sicily will go forward if DGB can establish himself quickly.
Please noSicily will go forward if DGB can establish himself quickly.
Yeah I prefer Sicily back too but if he did go forward it could be indicative of list strength in the back end. So strangely I hope it happens ...if that makesPlease no
Yeah i do get the logic i just feel like some people have watched a different Sicily to me, no idea what i am missing.Yeah I prefer Sicily back too but if he did go forward it could be indicative of list strength in the back end. So strangely I hope it happens ...if that makes
IE - Two Sicilys !!!
What if we had nine though?Yeah i do get the logic i just feel like some people have watched a different Sicily to me, no idea what i am missing.
Sicily is a top 5 or so defender in the game, would have at least 22 AA's if it was not for injury. He is a leader down back and one of the best interceptors/rebounders in the game.
He has never been anything more than an average forward over an extended time.
Give me two Sicilys down back anyday!
Yeah i do get the logic i just feel like some people have watched a different Sicily to me, no idea what i am missing.
Sicily is a top 5 or so defender in the game, would have at least 22 AA's if it was not for injury. He is a leader down back and one of the best interceptors/rebounders in the game.
I reckon we're really developing some genuine swingmen on the list. Plenty of guys that could on any day find their best position is at either end, or somewhere in between if we get real creative.Yeah I prefer Sicily back too but if he did go forward it could be indicative of list strength in the back end. So strangely I hope it happens ...if that makes
IE - Two Sicilys !!!
Well I did address his efforts as a forward as well. He was a full time forward without reaching anywhere near the same success he has had since moving back. Yea he was younger but he was swung back half way through 2017 and instantly looked a much better player.What you are missing is that nobody is saying Sicily should be moved forward because he's not good down back. Nobody is even saying he's better forward.
Continuing to state how good Sicily is as a defender doesn't change anything that people are saying. We know he's good down back.
A player's most valuable position to the current iteration of their team is not always their best position individually.
I'm not sure if this is the case with Sicily, but if we were to reach a point where our backline can function fantastically without him, then it is most definitely worth trying him forward given our struggles down that end of the ground recently. If he can add something forward that outweighs what we lose by replacing him with the next best in our backline then that is a win. IF.
I also think you are underrating his efforts to date as a forward - he essentially hasn't played there seriously since he was around 22 years old. In my opinion, in the last two seasons any time he has been swung forward midway through a game/late in the game he has offered something we didn't previously have down there so I think it is plausible. Unlikely but plausible.
Though I do agree he should/will remain in the backline for the near future.
He kicked 30 goals in 2016 when he was pretty inexperienced. If he went fwd now he would kick 40-50Yeah i do get the logic i just feel like some people have watched a different Sicily to me, no idea what i am missing.
Sicily is a top 5 or so defender in the game, would have at least 22 AA's if it was not for injury. He is a leader down back and one of the best interceptors/rebounders in the game.
He has never been anything more than an average forward over an extended time.
Give me two Sicilys down back anyday!