I watched the first half of the replay of the draw with North this morning. Even if I hadn't had to get to bed I wasn't going to watch the second half
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Watching it again it stood out like the proverbial that we really need to find a genuine big tall marking key forward. Jack does well but when he leads out up towards and outside 50 then we are left with no true tall forward to kick to. I think 5 times in the second quarter our mids kicked it on top of Nahas' head who had no chance of marking the ball. That day we were using Graham as a tall forward with Vickery in the ruck and Gus should stick to ruckwork. He's Postie played but apart from that gutsy mark he took inside 50 in the first quarter most of his marks were on the wing.
I had forgotten how well Vickery did against McIntosh in the ruck. He's agility enables him to become another mid for us one the ball hits the deck. Provided he stays injury free (touchwood) he's going to become a good player for us once he gets a few preseasons under his belt to build up his strength and to play out 4 quarters. Blingers and Edwards were on fire in that first half off half-back. If we had a decent tall forward structure to kick to with the amount of clearances we won we could have been at least 12 goals up. Still 7 goals up at half-time shouldn't end up in a drawn game unless you tank
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Cogs and Silvester are the only ones gone from that game off the top of my head.
