Thought the carnts will be out for him and they are.
He played his role. Great tackle not rewarded. Has his legs pulled and no free kick. Two of those dead in front.
Takes a great mark and missed it. Set up the goal for Raz and Parish. No use bringing in Baguley or Mayers.
He wasnโt as good today as he has been but definitely stays in for mine.
This โslimโ version is still very very strong. And in the total absence of other power forwards (when Smack is in the ruck) heโs important right now.
Our inside 50 kicking looks deplorable mainly due to the lack of leading of our forwards, when at games this is obvious. We have poor forward structure, either being outnumbered due our forwards being way too far up the ground or having them all in the one area waving the hands (this being the only movement).
Expecting our mids to kick to a player playing behind and not moving will never end well.
Just about all our forwards play from behind and itโs incredibly frustrating.
We donโt create space for each other very well either.
Our mids kicking doesnโt help either.
corrigan has to go.
I agree with most of that. You cherry picked my comment, though.
I did mention this.
But, I really think it is incorrect to solely blame the forwards. Our mids constantly โbombโ it in there. This has been a trend. Diabolical I50 delivery. We take very few I50 marks. Itโs a combo of both poor I50 delivery & forward positioning, but more the former than the latter, IMO.
I was talking of all our forwards, not just Laverde, agree with #barnz our forward coach is letting the side down badly. I am more frustrated when I have been to the game as you can seethe lack of movement/poor positioning, on TV it looks more like poor delivery.
Iโve called for Corrigan to go on multiple occasions, so fully agreed there.
Did you notice how Hooksey was organising the forward line in the last quarter?
Is working super hard off the ball to give an option. Hard at it, good at ground level. Just canโt seem to get the goals. If he keeps playing like he is Iโm positive the goals will come
The sort of player who just looks like he craves physical contact
Yes, similar to when he is in the backline. Donโt need a โleadership groupโ tag to be a true leader.
Needs to attend the โStraight Kicking for Goal Schoolโ.
Some of his misses in the last few weeks have been terrible.
Part of why Iโm kinda surprised we havenโt seen Bags come back yet. The structure has tended to collapse when it gets a bit hard.
Stringerโs technically the experienced forward down there but I donโt think that sort of thinking & communicating about structures comes naturally to him.
We got 99 problems but Laverde ainโt one.
pivotal in the 4th.
persist for mine (may be my next trauma).
His aggression and ability to break tackles in the forwardline is why he is keeping his spot along with a huge improvement in applying pressure and creating a contest.
Does everything Baguley can do, is better at it and his game is far more suited to the modern AFL than Baguley.
Give him the rest of the year please and rest him if he starts getting too fatigued as I donโt think he has ever strung this many games together before either in the AFL or VFL.
It has been a problem for 3 years.
You would think someone at the club would put some work into this area. I actually celebrate when a forward leads to the kicker. Or the kicker puts the ball to the forwards advantage.
ITโS NOT THAT HARD.
Look he had a bad game yesterday but he never dropped his head and gave up. He kept busting his hump and had his moments helping set up a few goals. I was very impressed by that, showed maturity.
Agree, but i think itโs been a problem since Lloyd and Lucas retired.