if you think
mitchell at times?
is claiming him to be a half back, then grab it and run with it, if you must.
where did we finish on the ladder when deledio won his B&F playing in the middle?
both hodge and mitchell play accross half back, hodge much more so. the reason being is that their coach recognises the importance off having class accross the half back line, as you have as many forward thrusts start from there, with the added hurdle of having to dissect a rolling zone defence of modern football.
clearly you one of those that puts little importance of having classy players accross half back, so i assume you put little credence in the view that that is the springboard of attack.
i doubt if myself, or anyone else, will ever change that view. i imagine even if an afl coach explained why there has been an evolution of the defensive forward, you would change your view.
To answer your first question we finished low down on the ladder when Lids was winning his two B&F's.. Not because Lids was in the middle, it was because we were sh/7 just like your last post.
I didn't say you don't need class across halfback, I believe you do but what we were discussing was if your best players played there or in the middle. And to show even how desperate you are, you try and claim Mitchell as a halfback flanker. He has played there off and on over the last couple of years mostly because last year he was coming back from injury, but anyone that knows even the slightest bit about footy knows that Mitchell has payed 90% of his footy in the middle where the best players play.
Hodge is a very good player but he isn't their best now he is getting on in age.
Anyway it doesn't really matter, I'm happy for you to think what you think. But if you want to keep going with this, name me any two HBF's in the same side and ill name you two better players in their team.
One last question to you, are Houli and Vlastuin our best players? They play across halfback for us?? Maybe Dimma thinks they are both better than Cotch and Dusty??
please explain how you keep thinking the words "at times" is claiming to be his permanent position in regards to mitchell?
like wow, seriously??.
also, i have never said that the best players are played at half back. again, how do you come to that conclusion?
and you seem to missed the point with deledio. we were crap as you say, and he was easiliy the best player in the team. he would have won the B&F no matter where we played him, so its not a sound argument that was his best footy.
By the way, Cotchim has played accross half back,just that no one here ever picked up on it. Personally though, i wouldn't play him there, but thats another discussion.
are you arguing just for the sake of argument, because you seem to be hell bent on dragging the discussion away from the original point of disagreement and arguing against things that were never said, or implied
