But all this talk from players and people from within the club about the forward line being the issue for us not scoring and therefore not winning doesn’t sit that well with me.
It wasn’t the forward line’s fault that we couldn’t get it out of defensive 50 against West Coast for a whole quarter.
The issue is our players don’t work hard enough and our lack of a system kills us against the better teams – the good teams shut down our half back dash and we simply have no plan B.
Maybe we can put aside our milestone yips and give Zaharakis a win for his.
Kid plays 200 games for the clubs he barracks for, with some wonderful highlights. Well done to him.
Come to think of it a draw against GWS would really see Blitz lose it’s collective marbles.
Tempting to abandon the Lid Off position just for the fireworks
Well done to Zacka! Has always been one of my favourites.
Cops a lot of flak (unfairly imo) for his natural game on here. Hopefully has a ripper of a Milestone game.
Well done Zaka. Cops to much flack on here. Solid for pretty much all of his career. He is an outside player just needs people to understand that…even after 200 games
I agree he’s more outside than inside but it’s not as much as some think. Despite hardly attending centre bounces, his tackle count average (3.2) is the same or better than parish, Heppell, Langford, mcGrath, and two guys also not playing mid but playing similar roles at times in guelfi and Ridley. In fact the only mids who out tackle him are Shiel and Merrett. His contested possession average (7.8) this year naturally trail Heppell, Merrett and Shiel, marginally down from parish (8.8), but equal or better than guys playing more in the contest in Langford. McGrath, and ahead of positional peers guelfi and Ridley. For all the uninformed scorn he gets here his inside type numbers would be pretty fair if he was rotating fairly regularly through the centre bounces, and he’s not.