give me post for 5 games anyday or give elton two or three in a row just to get a feel of the big time. ffs we have a 25 yo mature recruit in derickx who is struggling at coburg but what tall wouldnt struggle at coburg.
Browne, Graham and Griffiths to name 3 off the top of my head. All 3 are regularly in the best and get positive mentions in most post match write ups.
thats even better then.
what i dont get. the people on here saying there are no other options you have obviously seen 3.
against gws iasked why not drop vickery well he supposedly had a leg injury anyway. but why not play big ivan in vickerys role and reward one of browne or graham and play em first ruck. ivan spent lots of time forward for adelaide with vickery so out of touch why dont we or didnt we just tweek it a bit.
i firmly believe that even if vickery stayed in the team just jack and a resting ruckman ie vickery forward is one tall short.
i have to ask what is vickery. a kpp or a ruckman forward. if hes supposed to be the latter we are one kpf short. what a massive ask expecting a 21 yo undersized kid to hold down a key post and then do his fair share in the ruck. its an even bigger ask for a 21 yo totally out of form and confidence.
so what do we do we drop our second ruck whos also our 2nd kpf and bring in a kpf. wheres the second ruckman we can send forward to change it up or stretch teams.
why am i narky on miller well theres several reasons not just his age or his performances, which quite frankly have been servicable at times but never really been good enough.
jack is not a quick player but compared to miller hes usain bolt.
miller has no hurt factor he does not take anywhere near enough marks, gets little ball and when he does his kicking is questionable.
to top it off opponents just run off him and hurt us big time and hes so poor or his lack of hurt factor sees his direct opponent with no fear of leaving him and doing a job on jack.
when collingwood won a gf they had dawes and cloke as genuine forwards with leigh brown another kpp playing as a back up ruckman forward.
geelong at no stage ever went with mooney and just ottens forward. . like we have with jack and vickery.
in 07 they went ablett mooney ottens. with king on the interchange bench when king came on ottens joined the other two forward.
that sort of structure has never changed with them.
08 they lost one they probably should not have. the forward structure that got em there was mooney, lonergan, ottens and blake. same deal as 07 only difference was personell.
09 same again mooney hawkins ottens and blake
2011 they went hawkins podsiadly ottens. west on the bench.
why not do with maric what geelong did with ottens. play another ruckman from the bench and give ivan plenty of time forward. if hes need on ball just change it up or down.
i for one dont rate angus i dont think many of us do but like you say hes getting good reports from coburg isnt it time to try something different rather than going with miller and an out of form vickery.
