People have given up on Reid?
25 possessions and 11 clearances from 63 percent game time, decent
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Blindly following stats.
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No, but heās playing like a guy who has missed an enormous amount of football.
I still have hope for Zach.
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I think youāll find that some arenāt thinking that at all. Theyāve decided that heās no good and thatās that.
Edit - see two posts above, lol.
Double edit - and ive no idea why the reference to Kako and Caddy, neither were liabilities today.
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Yeah 25 touches / 11 clearances is great for a young bloke with that much ToG
3 score involvements from 25 touches is terrrrrible
Keep sending him up, thereās a big difference between reps at training and actually having to do it in a game. This team is going nowhere in 2025, play the kids, let Draper go in FA, and start the rebuild properly.
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well that would be like saying some use his overall stats, as a midfielder to justify he is good, would it not ?
in a team that just got done by 60 points, having had 160 odd points kicked against them, āstatsā should mean absolutely sweet ā ā ā ā all in determining somoenes value.
thereās probably 5 (and thatās being generous) that shouldnāt come under scrutiny, the rest, including this kid should come under it (as others should too yes). But there are stanton like levels of defence for this kid, almost like people make it a hill to stand on to defend him.
I watched the full game and this kid has good instincts in and around the stoppages, gets on the move and can track / control the ball through multiple player congestion. Barely played half the game and got his hands on it more than most, and gave us first use when few others did. I also thought there were signs last week of his potential as a clearance player. Iām way less worried about his raw possession numbers and Iām looking to see how he wins it and if he has traits that will impact at senior level.
And tbh I fail to see the link of continuity between your three posts on this. Presumably, Iām not understanding the point. No one who watched today would think Kako was a liability.
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Havenāt written him off yet as at least he has a crack and shows some fight out there but geez his skills are just terrible unfortunately at the minute. We have to persist with him this year and hope the lad keeps putting in the hard yards to get his skills to a passable level
as soon as he feels contact he tries to get a free and gives up on the play, has zero defensive accountability. he canāt make good decisions for moving the ball forward, his clearances mostly do not go to our advantage, he cannot kick
Were you at the game Sal?
He didnāt spread. He languished.
He missed easy easy targets. Kako who was good enough to beat 3 players for a goal and Perkins in the middle.
Both were easy 15 meter kicks.
He also fumbled all day.
Not saying he isnāt going to make it but there isnāt another player in the AFL like him.
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Hyperbole much.
I always enjoy this chestnut.
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From the Ponsford you could see his lack of defensive running, and you could see the bad decisions and execution.
I canāt think of another player who is good and clearances and just so bad by foot. Can you?
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Hobbs
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Rubbish
Hobbs isnāt good at clearances.
Need to keep playing him, there is no one else
I saw the RESULTS, he is good.
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I think itās probably not acknowledged that he gave a lot of possessions to Merrett to set up the scoring chains
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Youāre looking at the wrong set of figures.