He’s gone back to the blind panic kick over the shoulder, and i’d swear he had this trait largely eliminated 12-18m ago.
He needs to use his pace and lateral movement to get us out of trouble deep in defence.
In order to do this, he will need to be prepared to risk a few extra HTB’s per season.
The coaches should be instructing him to take more risks in this regard.
Not to transfer the pressure to someone else with a hb, but to find enough space so that he can kick with a view to the field ahead.
I feel like this part of his game had regressed badly since the Bye last year.
He actually isn’t a terrible kick when he has space.
He needs to make the space for himself.
This guy is farkin terrible, his good is overshadowed by his terrible disposal, and it is terrible. And then we have a farkin useless coach who will back him, shut up Nino, we are not going anywhere with these 2. If i was Harley i wouldn’t come anywhere near this club. The good part about this win is that it ■■■■■■ off Clako
We’ve had problems with opposition small forwards for a long time. Imagine what would happen if McGrath wasn’t around. Yes, his disposal is often but as a pure stopper he stays in the team for a while.
He rightly stays in the team but only because our list is poor. Gotta find an upgrade in the off season. This season typifies him. Good in patches but very average overall.
Yes, he’s very good at shutting down small forwards. It’s the only thing he does well.
Suppose he was swapped with a guy who mightn’t be as good at shutting down small forwards but could kick and maintained composure. Net gain.
My biggest knock on him is is composure and leadership. If this guy is one of our better leaders that explains a lot. The panic kicks.
If the team was better around him he’d be a pretty effective player if think. But we lost the midfield battle against a terrible side and once again our defense was under constant pressure and we could not arrest that.
I love how the comments in here have a great deal of hate for his disposal. That he’s useless and needs to be dumped. There is a vague admission that he’s great at shutting down elite small forwards.
Isn’t that his main job? Isn’t he showing value by doing his main job well? Let me suggest that his opponent week by week this year has been torched by him.
He is getting less possessions and has been less mistake prone from what I’ve observed. His howlers are embarrassing, it what he does well is important, especially in a league full of great small forwards
McGrath, gets the ball. He runs towards 2 players. He takes a bounce then panics, turns around and is now running backwards.Handballs to Prior’s knees who is in a worse position. Prior gets it back to McGrath who prop kicks over his shoulder. The ball travels about 15m (40m) high and is marked 10m outside the 50 by the opposition.
Except it’s not just 1 clanger it’s several most weeks and he can’t string 3 good games in a row together let alone 7.
You don’t go offering 6 years to a back pocket who plays 1 good game every month or so and who even after all this time in the system still has no composure and is a panic merchant.
I watched most of the game last night, and McGrath was fine. The opposition scored 62, in perfect conditions, with a winning midfield and dominant ruckman. Our defence was not the problem.
I concede that McGrath sometimes lacks composure with ball in hand, but pretty much every single EFC player on the field was massively guilty of that in the second-half last night.
So…small forwards are currently the most prized asset on an AFL team. Every club is looking for them and wants to devlop them. They are getting picked up early in the draft. They are the current “match winners”
… and yet we place no value on the players who job it is to stop them and do stop them well. Weird.
but as a pure stopper he stays in the team for a while.