At least Shiel had put in 3 good seasons with GWS without much of an incident.
It seems odd to pry a guy out on 6 years.
Given his injury history. What 1 season from his first 6 he has gone through unscathed?
Medical staff must be convinced he is over the worst of it.
OK. Great, Ben is a good interceptor and can win one on one contests against the top KPFs.
But really he is an improvement on Zerk in those respects, but can we please fix the major problem we have, that our forwards and mids let teams go end to end without us even touching the ball far too often.
We are not fit enough, fast enough and fail to apply enough pressure or even get to enough contests.
Ben McKay will not fix that issue, but he will improve our back 6/7
He will fix that issue — at CHF.
It was a priority pick disguised as FA compo, a handout to Clarko who built a dynasty with a similar haul in a super draft with the Hawks
The only teams that would have received a band 1 comp would have been the AFL owned clubs
I still don’t get the “FA compo” bit — I thought a player had to be at a club for 8 years for that - Ben’s only been at Norf 7 years. Still, we got him. Now for his brother…
Is it OK if he just holds off key forwards while Ridley clunks intercept marks all day?
In recent times, Ridley has had to take a KPD role, and some may have forgotten how good he is at the interceptor role. Hopefully, he gets to play that role more often again.
McKay is actually a better interceptor than Ridley.
Absolutely…complete Mickey Mouse competition.
Now in 5 years North will be competing for flags and we will have not won a final for 25 years.
Fixed.
Yes because Mckay wont get ragged doll like zerk
North will be lucky to still be around in 5 years
North will be a powerhouse in 5 years. We will be playing a 40 yo Goldy and 32 year old McKay and losing elimination finals
And we will still beat them
Look, that’s just rubbish.
McKay will be 30
Thought he was 27. 6 year deal seems better now!
Sadly the rest of your post is probably spot on
And if they win a flag they will be the least deserving premiers in AFL history.
and they won’t give a crap.
Not according to Steven May