Apparently kicking is iffy
Disposal efficiency is certainly not a strength of his. IIRC he played a TAC game last year where he posted 20ish kicks, only 2 of which were effective.
Seems odd to me that we'd play him at that end. I'd want him forward of centre as an attacking mid.
we need bloody quick hard running tackling defensive fwds especially if we structure up with the three talls vickery,riewoldt, and griffiths. play him on a fwd flank.
the other one id like to see get a game fwd is butler who is a similar type super quick runs hard tackles and has a defensive set to his game with an added bonus he can kick goals, one of his coaches described him as having a canny knack for goals when fwd. both have good tanks and could rotate thru the midfield.
atm we have vlastuin, houli, morris, newman, dea, batchelor, ellis,castagna, possibly menadue, mcintosh, deledio, conca, petterd, hunt who could and have played h/b plus we are trying lennon mcdonough and now drummond across h/b. thats all up 16 players for back flanks. granted 5 or 6 are no good that still leaves 9 players for 6 positions if we include the back flankers we need in the twos.. i dont get it we have severe needs elswhere and those needs are being ignored.
if i had to pidgeon hole players this is how i think we should break down our list regarding the roles they play and how we should develop them atm.
tall defenders - astbury, rance, grimes, chaplin, elton,
sml/med defenders - batchelor, castagna, dea, houli, morris, mcintosh, newman.
def/mid - menadue, vlastuin.
mids/onballers - arnot, conca, cotchin, ellis, foley, grigg, hunt, lambert, miles, short, c ellis, thomas.
fwd/mids - butler, deledio, drummond, edwards, knights, martin.
tall/fwds - riewoldt, mckenzie.
sml/med fwds - mcdonough, lloyd, lennon, petterd gordon.
ruck/fwds - vickery,griffiths, mcbean.
rucks - hampson, maric, soldo.
