It’s a strange argument as to why he shouldn’t rotate through the midfield. The AFL has limited rotations to the interchange bench. What all of the best teams are doing is rotating between forwards instead. Consider Geelong; they have Ablett, Dangerfield, Kelly, Menegola and now Dahlhaus who all rotate through the middle and forward line to keep fresh legs in the middle. Why should we go out with tired legs in the middle when Tippa has shown he can be damaging off a handball in the middle?
I love him but 4 touches is poor.
at least he put his body on the line numerous times.
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Not having a crack but apparently he had a huge preseason.
We shouldn’t be making excuses for any players.
Playing out of position @ CHF doesnt help
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can ave the hugest preseason ever, doesn’t count for ■■■■ if your teammates think you’re a chf at 5 foot tall
Well we aren’t going to start playing big guys there!
Would ruin a long standing Essendon game plan.
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If it was good enough for Davey then it’s good enough for Walla
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playing him out of the goal square at centre bounces only confirms my thoughts that the coaching panel have no clue he should be one of the first into the square to create not have it sat on his head…
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Wasn’t he injured recently?
Good luck being a forward when Essington show up. They probably should have just switched the mids with the forwards in the 2md half.
He was one of the few putting in a 4 quarter effort and the only one who was clean at ground level, only had 4 posessions but had more influence than others.
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He is the only one who actually leads at the ball, it is why it is kicked to him as he is the only target. The rest sit back and wait for the ball to be kicked long.
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Not many possessions, but from what I watched today he tried more than many of them. Sometimes those efforts meant he was two on one, or had a long bomb falling on his head with a taller opponent.
Yep, we were missing Laverde in the F50 as a leading forward, it left McKernan as the only tall presenting; Brown’s best has always been between the arcs and Stringer doesn’t present toward the ball carrier preferring to get his opponent under the ball and getting the one the spills over the back.
Laverde has to play otherwise stringer is forced to play a structural role he isn’t suited to and we then miss stringer in through the middle.
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Two weeks in a row Walla is playing CHF.
Brown and Smack are just not working.
Hes pretty good when he’s good, but I reckon throughout his career he’s had more bad games than good. Not as good as we think he is
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Trade bait
Nope. FF today, very commonly nominated as the goal square specialist.
Which might work if we ever got a centre clearance and kicked it to 30m out to a leading target. Did we have a single penetrating kick forward from a centre bounce today?
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hell no
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Mate… Brown and Smack are good VFL players playing key position in the AFL
They are not up to it
Hence we are a very ordinary team
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Has fat rolls