Just made mine and slotted in 3 Dons!Laird Weitering Docherty
Mills Lever J HuntZerrett Grundy Coniglio
Bont Cripps VineyStringer JoeyD Heeney
Moore Hogan FantasiaJ Martin B Crouch Wines Petracca
Why would you not put all 5 Dons in?
I picked the 5 Dons first thing then added shittest players of the lot so that their competitors would get the one less vote. Maybe I’m juvenile. I don’t care, fk em.
Hahaha yeah I can understand people who might do that. Just not my go.
Incidentally, I see that pickle Sam Landsberger selected his team for tomorrow’s Herald Sun and has Peter Wright at Centre Half Forward and no Daniher at all. Hahaha!
Yes, Joe has some issues in front of goal but he does nearly everything else to a pretty damn high level and has plenty more runs on the board than Wright who has played what, 15 games?
Not sure which game it was during the weekend but the commentators were rating their best 5 young forwards in the league (think it might have been the GC game) out the options of Hogan, Cameron, Lynch, Daniher and Moore.
Every single one of them had Daniher as 5th on the list other than BT who had him 3rd or 4th. The discussion that followed was one long puff piece about how Hogan had the best hands, Cameron the best goal kicking, Lynch the best mobility and Moore the most potential… barely even a mention of Daniher… almost like he was an after thought.
I’m not sure whether it has been our incredibly poor offensive this year, our horrendous form or just plain bias but I found myself wondering whether these flogs even watch the games.
I then thought about it and did a little research. Point 1 would be that Daniher clearly plays more of a CHF role than the other 4… with him have more Inside 50’s than any of the other four. Point 2 would be that JD is also playing in the worst team of all five (right now, this year) with absolutely no support around him whatsoever for most of the season.
Irrespective of that, Daniher is in the top 2 for contest marks and contested possessions- meaning he wins his own ball. This is in direct contrast to Cameron who averages less than 1 contested mark per game… less than 1!! The real area that lets JD down is his disposal efficiency which sits at 63% and clangers (average of 3.1 per game). Essentially he makes more mistakes than the other 5.
Lynch clearly leads that pack as a pure full forward and I would take him first but I would honestly take JD ahead of Moore and Hogan who both have big issues with reliability and consistency. I would have cameron last for the startling reason that he has no ability to win his own ball.
So probably hugely irrelevant but the thought that Daniher is not the leading ‘young’ CHF in the comp is laughable, just laughable. Just add his name to the list of EFC players that will need to be shown a lot more respect next year when we actually get back to playing some half decent footy as a team.
