Cotchin and Martin in the first quarter were absolutely fantastic. Lids was extremely good too. Once these guys were all heavily tagged in once again showed why we are in the position we are currently in - NO DEPTH! There was not one player who could stand up and take their place. Tuck is a ball winning machine but he had no one to finish his good work. Conca and Ellis are still raw babies (Ellis cost us 3 goals from errors last night) and Grigg is a wingman/finisher that needs the others to feed him the ball (this is not a slight on him, it's his role).
We either need Foley back, Conca to step up further, Helbig to recover and start playing games and plain and simple - more genuine midfield depth.
The other obvious deficiencies that were exposed again last night is 1) our one dimensional forwardline - stop Jack and we have no other tall marking option. McGuane is rubbish both as a foward and ruck. In fact he he useless as a backman too. I hope we are just trying to get games into him for trade purposes
The other area was our defence. Post is like a scared rabbit. He won't mark because he is fearful of the ball spilling so he double fists it. Grimes was similar in his first few games I remember but Post has had these mental issues every since he started. Moore is done. He is too slow both following the lead and turning. He allowed two goals through from his lack of speed/movement last night.
For the rest of the season I want to see Arnot and Helbig played (if uninjured). I want to see Griffiths have stints up forward and Astbury played back. I want Batch back in Moore's place. I was Houli rested until after the Ramadan - he looks tired (wish he would put his head over the ball - never goes in which is a shame b/c he is a good user of the ball - another wingman imo).
The sad fact is we have nothing else coming through. Our depth is terrible and it has cost us when it matters most.
