The problem with Vickery, Griffiths, Astbury and perhaps Elton is that, while they have the tools, they lack the desperation and urgency to make a contest theirs.
Not sure you can teach or develop that.
Griff was on top of the 1%s at Richmond after round 1. You need desperation and preparedness to have multiple efforts in a contest to get these stats.
I think we should play Ty, Ben and Jack in the forward line all together and give them all an area to roam in. They are all mobile and will stretch any defence. Put a few of our smalls front and centre and we have avery capable forward line. I'd play Ty close to the goal square and the other two a little further our on either flank.
Elton should be developed as a CHB who can play on the opposition talls. I say that because his goal kicking is not reliable and rather than waste time trying to improve something that may never be reliable under extreme pressure, cut our losses and use his athleticism to run off the opposition tall forwards.
ya know what and ive said this before. if we take a forrward lin the draft lets develop him as a forward. if we take a ruckman lets develop him as a ruckman . if we take a defender ffs develop him as a defender.
apert from riewoldt who was an outstanding chf who we play at ff most of the time we have failed to actually draft to needs with talls.
im sick to death of this bull poo.
todd elton was taken primarily as a kpf who could ruck a bit if needed. for gods sake lets develop one tall to what his strengths dictate. elton is a forward.
lets see elton griffiths astbury rance chaplin mcintosh grimes darrou just how many do we need to develop down back while totally ignore the forw structure.
thinkj about it
astbury hit nup forward developed almost entirely down back.
griffiths a genuine ff developed down back.
mcguane a forward played down back.
vickery a ruckman played almost exclusibvely forward.
post who was cut last yr same scenario.
mcintosh a running and accountable tall defender and they want to turn him into a mid.
derickx a ruckman and they try to turn him into a forward.
and now you want elton down back when clearly hes a forward .
we are stupid and too clever by half .
for me its simple
tall defenders
rance, grimes, chaplin, darrou, mcintosh, mcbean, thats 6 bloody hell do we have a top notch defender capable of taking on other big kpfs and winning.
tall forwards
riewoldt, griffiths, elton, astbury, thats 4 and at least 2 shy of the numbers we need. yet two are developed as backs. could include mcguane but why hes a hack.at this point in time we have 1 decent tall forward.
ruckmen
maric, stephenson.vickery, derickx. at this point in time i can say we have three dud ruckmen.
of the three areas, id say we have the backs covered more than anything. especially when you add griffiths and astbury who are being developed down back to the 6 ive named above.
at this point in time the way we are developing our talls i really can argue we have just 2 genuine tall forwards on the entire list and one of them is elton.