hmm people wanted to play riewoldt vickery griffiths and ffs at times mcbean in the one fwd line this yr. yet the same people complained about the lack of fwd pressure and how easy sides took the ball out of our fwd line. go figure.
what was the area of biggest failure this yr, whats that i hear the fwd line.
the epitimy of madness is to do the same thing over and over expecting different results each time.or maybe some really do believe in magical fairies.
on 6 occasions last yr we played all of vickery, riewoldt, and griffiths in the same fwd line. we lost on 4 occasions only beating a lamentable gws and carlton in rnd 2 where they should have overrun us.
id say playing all three in the same fwd line did not work, it created all sorts of problems for us not the opposition. yet some wanted to add mcbean to the mix.
is there a place for vickery and griffiths in the same fwd line. imo no. both play exactly the same role and both have shown so far they are not good enough to play either the ruck role or kpf role exclusively. hence i dont believe we can play both. play one as a 2nd ruck with time fwd and find a more traditional kpf who is capable of playing kpf exclusively to partner riewoldt.
as for cotchin, deledio, martin here i was under the impression they rotated fairly regularly thru the fwd line. geez between the 3 they must have kicked close to 100 goals. there was nearly always one of em in the fwd half thus solving one of the flank problems.
my issue with this is i dont think any of them are good defensively, especially deledio and martin. geez that is going to cause a stir.
