I agree. Remember we saw what we liked in Angus Clarke who will eventually get some continuity.
We need to keep drafting but like you I think we’re better placed than the scoreboard suggests from a medium to long term perspective.
We’re in a rebuild, of course we’re going to cop some belting’s and look totally uncompetitive. It happens to all rebuilding teams.
It hasn’t been Tullamarined yet.
The little clip on X shows his kicking and I was pleasantly surprised how good his kicking was. It was at a high level. Dynamic, powerful and with great penetration . Compare that to Tsatas kicking… Sorry!!
As good as we’ve seen from anybody coming into the side for a looooong time
Agreed, a few times he should have been hit up about 40-45m out and instead we went long and deep to a contest that we lost.
Hopefully he can kick a few more bombs from 50m in the coming weeks and build his team mates trust.
This was a feature in his run of games for Eastern Rangers last year. Once his teammates realised he was an incredibly accurate set shot they began looking for him and he delivered.
He is not getting any cheap possessions at the moment.
I find that he is often very flat footed when he gets the ball. In a proper development system this would be an easy fix.
Stringer says Fark you all.
Agreed. Some of those kicks just looked superb. I hate being one of those people but the fact that it was an Essendon player making them is a bit incongruent, it always seems to be some other teams player.
Good point, give him a week off.
Not sure it’s a development problem. He’s been in the system 6 months.
It’s more likely he’s knackered. A lot of that movement goes unrewarded. So it’s more likely preservation.
I love Stringer, but he wasn’t explosive.
Though I don’t think Robey is either.
They are both big strong units though.
If Jake Stringer wasn’t explosive then nobody is or ever will be
If explosives doesn’t mean breaking tackles and running out the front of a stoppage then I guess he’s isn’t.
Stringer was deceptively quick over the first few meters. His running style makes him look slow because of his tree trunk legs, but he was rarely caught.
Even Dylan Shiel had a cannon of a hoof. The problem was direction not power.
But Robey seems to have both.
Well it doesn’t mean that, so yeh, there is that. Explosive is super quick, particularly off the mark, and they can get out the front from speed off the mark and nothing else required. They leave oppo in their dust.
Midfielders that are/were explosive: Danger, Judd pre OP. If you want to look at outside players Peter Matera, Andy Lovett. Plenty of small forwards.
Stringer got out the front of stoppages because he’s a massive unit, he was stronger than his opponents and he had a great don’t argue, so no one could tackle him. Dusty was the same.
He was reasonably quick as well, and quite good off the mark for a unit, which was important. But there are heaps of players who are reasonably quick, and reasonably quick is not explosive.
Explosive essentially means power which is strength x speed. Stringer, Robey and Martin are/were all explosive athletes.
He was fairly quick. But he was caught regularly, problem was they could not tackle him, he would throw a beautiful don’t argue, and carry on his way. If he was explosive, don’t argue would not be required.
Yes. Power is strength vs speed. You have listed players who are all top end for strength, above average for speed, so would rate highly for power.
But I would argue explosive does not equal power, rather it refers more to speed than, if you think about the definition of the word. And there are plenty faster.
Explosive only has that definition in your head