What the continued non-selection reinforces is Scott does not pick his side based on form.
He has a pre conceived notion about player roles and selects off his own idea of suitability rather than whether or not the player is actually performing.
They don’t play the same position but selecting Guelfi who hasn’t been able to run out a game in the VFL, and has looked pretty horrible OVER Tsatas is egregious. There is literally no reward, nor consequence for good or bad performance. It’s really, really poor coaching imo.
The scariest thing is we weren’t even really considering Humphrey who Melbourne offered multiple first round picks for. You can see now why they wanted him.
Pou looks decent but he’s way overhyped, Humphrey is just a beast who can play mid and forward.
For those of you that bang on about clearances, there are different types of clearances. There are clearances like the ones that Parish and Tsatas collect, which are literally loose balls which they have the ability to cleanly pick up and run away with, but little damage is done because they simply don’t impact the game with their disposals. Then there are clearances like the ones that Wardlaw, Tom Green and Rowell collect where they take 2 or 3 players out with their aggression to collect the ball and release skilled teammates into space. Durham is the closest we have to that type of player.
Games these days are won off the half back line, which is where the better teams have good users of the footy. So allowing a Parish and Tsatas to clear the ball and kick the ball to the half back line is literally only setting up their next attack.
I’m as big a Hobbs fan as anyone in here, but Hobbs is only just going this season and Tsatas is dominating the 2s. I’d have Tsatas in over Hobbs if it were a forced choice (which it’s not…)
Saw something interesting on the selection thread - are we going too defensive in our midfield selection? Love Caldwell, Durham & Setters can all play tight. But surely we can afford to give games to one out and out ball winner…
Or if we could actually win a clearance it would have stopped dogs getting one… can’t have gone any worse last week by having a crack at getting our own ball with someone like Tastas.
I’m finding Hobbs hard to gauge this year as he is not playing a role he is most suited to. Would love to see us give him some more CBA time to see how he goes. But wi the Parish due back shortly, it seems very unlikely.
It doesn’t matter how many times you say this doesn’t make it true.
Look at the score origin stats of the top six teams in the comp five of them get a majority of their score form forward half origins the outlier is the hawks who get nearly equal amount of score from defense and forward half but have the second most score origins from centre clearance.
