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The only reason it's a disaster when Charlie drops the mark is because we have exactly zero genuine small forwards in our team who can actually capitalise from a ground ball situation.
Delisting Schulz & Butcher then not playing Eddy is very poor management.Schulz would have been an excellent foil for him. Delisting Schulz and Butcher at the same time was a huge mistake. We should have tried to squeeze one more season out of Schulz if the alternative was playing Trengove as a KPF all season.
Charlie Dixon to play down back, adding to our number of defenders - helping out by spiking the ball to other defenders, who will spoil the spike to a running defender who kicks it down the line to Sam Gray, who goes for a trundle through 8 opposition players and kicks the most magnificent point you've ever seen from 15 metres out.
It's called an overhead forward thrust smash m8.
When Charlie is having a shocking marking day I feel he should effectively ruck in the marking contest and knock the ball to specific areas to our small forwards advantage. And then I realise we don't play small forwards who know how to position themselves for crumbs.
With all due respect, you're having a bit of a laugh here, yeah?
Perfect example of what I was talking about. Mind you this was right in front of me and I could see he was pushing back with one hand but I couldn't see that he had his arm held.
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When Robbie kicks on the run he is a beautiful kick!
But set shots ....
Not giving Eddy a genuine chance to adapt to the level has been stupid but Schulz was cooked & Butcher please lol can barely get a kick at the ponderosa.Delisting Schulz & Butcher then not playing Eddy is very poor management.
Perfect example of what I was talking about. Mind you this was right in front of me and I could see he was pushing back with one hand but I couldn't see that he had his arm held.
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Dixon is lucky it wasn't a free against him for a hold. He had hold of the guernsey of the Collingwood player who was holding Dixon's arm.Ump is right there still no free to dix
Howard was recovering from a knee. We started off playing Eddy but when we realised he wasn't fit enough we just played nobody.
Trying to squeeze a season out of Schulz was probably ideal, but even then you know i'll fight anyone to the death who tries to argue that Trengove has had a better season than Butcher would have had in the same role, even if Butcher had to ruck.
If Howard was fully fit, i'd have been fine with both of them being delisted, but we left ourselves a gaping hole that we haven't really filled at all and our forward structure has been s**t all year bar the 2nd half of the West Coast game at Subi.
Not giving Eddy a genuine chance to adapt to the level has been stupid but Schulz was cooked & Butcher please lol can barely get a kick at the ponderosa.
When FOUR of our smalls conspired not to score from ten metres out, I lost my faith in the team.The only reason it's a disaster when Charlie drops the mark is because we have exactly zero genuine small forwards in our team who can actually capitalise from a ground ball situation.
Not giving Eddy a genuine chance to adapt to the level has been stupid but Schulz was cooked & Butcher please lol can barely get a kick at the ponderosa.
Bloody LIM's.When FOUR of our smalls conspired not to score from ten metres out, I lost my faith in the team.
If we can't score in that situation, then what is the point of so small a forward line.
Turned on the tv on Saturday to see Centrals rampaging all over Norwood at the Parade. It was raining goals. Poor old Butch didn't even trouble the scorers.
Probably because he's got a day jobHe doesn't even look like Butch any more. Haircut, clean shaven. I think he's sending a lookalike and collecting the cheque.
Jack Hannath can roost the ball a fair way just by the by.
So you think that it was truly because of Marshall's presence that Dixon did so well?Bump. Amazing what happens when you play a legitimate tall alongside him who can also add a bit of defensive pressure like he does, the way he was clunking those marks in the final quarter was immediate inducing.
Would be great to see Big Dix fire up in September, reckon he'd be keen as hell to play in a home final.
Not so much his presence but just having another tall down there who's sole goal wasn't to act as a decoy, it's not what he did but Marshall plays like a forward compared to Jacko who's admitted to not being suited for the role but plays it for the team.So you think that it was truly because of Marshall's presence that Dixon did so well?