He is an out an out inside mid. He needs to improve lots of facets of his game but I agree with KM he needs to be able to pick up more possessions on the outside.
Also needs other onballers to raise to the occasion around him. Helps if he is the designated receiver sometimes instead of the tagger of one of the oppositions better receiver at all ruck contests
Needs to watch Tom Mitchell. An inside mid who still racks up huge amount of footy and a lot of it is just link up play. And it’s because he is so smart in running to right areas
Mitchell is not this massive inside brute either. They’d be similar size.
Can we stop with the Oliver talk? We had no control over it. We sat pretty at pick 4 and had no reason to move mountains to gain 1 spot. Melbourne saw the opportunity and took it, fair play to them. He was the best choice at pick 5 and still remains the best choice to this day. This young kid will learn (yes, kids learn) from his omission and come back better than ever!
Don’t think dropping him achieves anything personally. What’s he got to gain? He hasn’t been that bad regardless. Play him in the guts in the 1s and let him develop there.
Is fitness the main reason why he doesn’t play as a pure mid? He’s never been known to excel in any athletic attribute which has put him behind the 8 ball to get to that next level.
Yep.
Playing with zero confidence in a busted ■■■■ of a midfield. Everyone looks crap. Zerrett looks crap, Heppell looks crap. Hot take, they’re not all completely ■■■■.
With that said, Parish has looked tanked for a few weeks. A freshen up should help.
In his first year he was getting contested possessions and bursting from stoppages. Unfortunetly for him we’ve preferred Myers to win the contested footy and then turn it over with blind kicks out of the pack.
I know what I prefer. He’s been dropped now, he should kill them down in the 2s and come back bigger, better and hungrier and tear the opposition apart later in the year. 2018 is no write off for him and he is still going to be a great player for us for many years.
Blitzers picked a bad example to slag off. “Poor” as Zaha is, he is now one of our best players and is consistent, in a similar conversation to Dev Smith. If only we had another 20 consistent players fit enough to run out 4 quarters.
Mitchell has polled 2nd in the coaches votes two of the last three weeks. Wish our blokes could be off the boil and still be considered the second best player on the ground.