Disagree.
He ran, contested and tackled. More than be said for McKenna, Goddard, Hooker, Hurley, McGrath, Baguley and others.
Only had 12 disposals, but he generally also I kicks better than most others as well.
Disagree.
He ran, contested and tackled. More than be said for McKenna, Goddard, Hooker, Hurley, McGrath, Baguley and others.
Only had 12 disposals, but he generally also I kicks better than most others as well.
I went to the game last night and kept a close watch on Laverde. In the first half he was very good, he did quite a lot of off ball work and got to some great positions but not rewarded. He disappeared a bit in the 2nd half. Overall I thought he looked quite good and definitely belonged out there.
All il say, and I canโt be bothered anymore, id that if you think laverde was โokayโ or you gave him a pass mark last night, then your standards are poor and essington is ingrained in you. He was sh*t. Again. He has had a good run at it now, and heโs output is still no good.
Heโs exactly the type of player we persist with for too long. Heโs no good and I wonder how long itโll take people to realise. When heโs delisted or traded, il quote this post
You are spot on. You win some picks, you lose some. We have tried him and he just isnโt up to it, time to give someone else a go
Yet you will persevere with Goddard, Baguley, Hooker, Hurley who are the blokes who lost us this game and the Carlscum one.
Youโll only find out how decent he is up forward when you actually man up the loose defenders.
Heโs lost a fair bit of lateral movement since that ankle/foot injury.
Iโd never play Goddard and baguley again if it were up to me
Hurley has had a shocking year
And Iโm pretty sure hooker held reiwoldt goalless didnโt he? Odd comments all round mate
You seem to know very little about our team.
Are you dermie?
Yep I would give both BJ and Bags the gold watch now.
Not sure if you could see all the play on the TV, but at the ground it was obvious that Hooker struggled to get into a good defensive position. He was always second to the ball and was very poor for him in the air.
Jack Riewoldt kicked one goal in the last, but he didnโt looked that well. I do not reckon he should have played. And in spite of that Hooker had a shocker.
Send him forward; Klunk it in the goal square
He needs to move the ball a bit quicker. After a mark he always holds up the ball far too long, allowing the opposition to cover the forwards.
Eh.
I wavered.
He played some top class footy, and some absolute โ โ โ โ โ too. The question for me was sustaining good form, not whether he could play.
Jump on the bandwagon like the rest. In reality heโs had a lot of injuries and shows a lot more potential than the rest of team at the minute. Yes heโs played 5 or so straight games now, but he also missed a hell of a lot of football.
Heโs holding his spot and getting better every week. What else do want?
I personally think heโll be a quality player and heโs only 22. No one else his size takes contested marks around the ground and uses it as cleanly as him. This forum is way too fickle.
Is he clumsy below the knees? Sometimes, but he also shovels it out very well in contested situations and they often translate to goal assists. I seriously wonder if people on this forum just jump on someoneโs comment and go with it and just look for negatives. Same goes for Langford.
Was a bit down numbers wise on last week, . which was his best since the Dees game, โฆ but plenty were.
12 Disp, . 5 Cont Pos, 4 Marks 5 Tackles, 1 Goal. So considering his role and the flogging we got by a much better opponent, โฆ he didnโt really go backwards, โฆ but may actually improved a bit more on last week โฆ
Will see & know more after the Replay, โฆ but for now, โฆ Iโm still in the KSHU boat.
Yeah it was BSD, only confirmed on the Melksham thread afterwards
I wzs pretty confident pre game that Riewoldt would not do much, owing to his concussion the previous week, and so it turned out. Just because Riewoldt didnโt do much doesnโt mean Hooker had a good game.
He is just so slow to get to a ground ball, and his handball at times last night was terrible. He needs to take about 6 or 7 intercept marks a week to make up for his other deficiencies.
It was the same against GWS where he was miles of his man when the ball turned over at times, and several times Saad made ground to get to Hookerโs opponent in marking contests. It looked at one stage as if Saad was playing on Cameron and Patton, but watching the replay I could see he just left his opponent to get to the contest when Hooker could not.
Yeah, nah.
Francis.
Itโs time.
Gotta be close now, โฆ and Brissy would be a good one for him too I reckon, .but Iโm tipping itโs more likely after the bye.
What is his โbreak out gameโ going to look like?
6 goals?
30 touches?
I honestly donโt know
Donโt think itโll be a โBreak Outโ as such this time around myself.
Started first up with 10 Marks and 21 Disp against Melb, โฆ retreated after the initial rush and got back to decent last week, โฆ and AFAICT probably took another small step fwd last night despite only 12 touches.
Think itโs just steady improvement. and if the Melb game became his base and he was doing that most weeks (plus a goal or two) and the occasional better one, youโd be happy with it.
Zerk