âWe need to bring in a key position player.â
Not Francis. Heâs too small, doesnât have the strength to match it with 190+.
âWe need to drop Ben McNeice and bring in Francisâ.
What!?! You want to bring in a slow, lumbering key position player for a small defender. Wonât somebody please think of the team balance!!!
The excuses are getting ridiculous.
Edit: Langford is the Brown one that is up and doesnât want to get down, and the two small ones are Colyer and McNeice. Francis is the big guy on the left that isnât getting up isnât he?
Your posting form has been exceptional the past few weeks but unfortunately youâll have to keep plugging away in the Blitz Magooâs. Weâd love to elevate you but if we did, we feel that there is a risk Blitz would becomeâŚdare I say itâŚunbalanced!
SEE! PLAY THE KIDS!
Quality thread title.
Francis has become a defender largely because he felt more comfortable back there. I have no issues with that. Thing is, if heâd continued as a forward heâd have had a huge amount of opportunity this year in the exact role heâd been playing at vfl level.
and he would have sucked at it
What I donât like is this pigeon holing of âtypeâ. Francis seems to be pigeon holed as an intercept free wheeling defender, and so he can only replace Hurley or Goddard.
There seems to be this idea of a perfect balance of how a defence must look eg one lock down big key position, one fast running rebounder, one intercept marker, one medium tall, another lockdown small.
Why? Each team should, and does, play to its own strengths and available personnel. There isnât a perfect balance. When you want to run the ball out of defence, it doesnât have to be McKenna or Saad, other players are allowed to run it out if the situation presents itself. Hurley and Goddard donât have a licence to roam around picking off opposition kicks and not defending their immediate opponent. Sure, those things can be a particular strength of any player, but they all have similar responsibilities, albeit on opponents with different strengths.
Francis has to be a good defender, first and foremost, and then if he can zone off when the opportunity presents and take a mark, well that is fine, it is what he does well. Just because Hurley and Goddard are in the side, and also do that well, doesnât mean Francis canât play and do it. As long as they all fulfil their primary responsibility to defend.
People carry on as if there is a magic formula. IMO, keep a balance that is required to match up on the opposition, and beyond that, pick your best players. And they all have to play a role that is much wider than just their primary strength. It is why Goddardâs position, and for a time mid season, Hurleyâs position, were being questioned. They were doing only what they are good at.
Oh how did I miss this?
Francis would do alright as âsome boring blokeâ. Selling candy and kicking banana goals from the pockets.
The next generation plus a retired club champion.
should go to another club and do really well, meanwhile weâll give woosh another 10 years
what a â â â â â â â disgrace what worsfold has put this kid through
appaling
He belongs in the Magoos.
At the end of the year he can go to the Cows.
Just flabbergasting. Gast flabbered.
Has your gob been smacked?
No but somebody tripped on my jaw
Or your mullet stunned?