Yeah, good pick up. They’ve missed him this year. Unbelievable midfield depth. Aiden Bonor was a very early pick and just played his first game and will add even more if he stays fit.
I just hope we don’t make any major changes to “the way we want to play” over the off season, irrespective of how much proven talent we bring in for 2019. so we dont have another clusterfark like rounds 2-10 2018,
John is conservative enough as it is. That experience will probably make him more conservative, and he will learn how to bring in new players without massive disruption to the team.
Is this right? I thought saad was superb last yr and was classified in the elite category for a small defender. Smith obviously has been great, stringer up and down but overall about what i expected.
Whoosa: “Yeah, 4-7 coming into the bye isn’t where we wanted to be, but we’ve brought Shiel in this year and the players are all having to learn to play together. We’ve also brought Joey back into the side and he and everybody need to learn to play together and he is learning to the new game style”
Did your sources of information watch all the games Saad ever played at the Suns and Smith at GWS and form this opinion, or did you simply look at the Champion Data ratings stats. If the former, its an OK opinion, if it came from Champion Data then of course its complete BS.
The return we have received from SSS has been absolutely outstanding. Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected them to have as much influence as they have.
Couldn’t agree more. I particularly wanted Smith and wasn’t concerned either way with Stringer. Jake has some improvement left but has been very good I reckon. All three have been better than I’d hoped.
Yeah, for me, Jake has been the biggest surprise. It’s his attitude that’s won me over more than anything else. From the outside looking in, he seems to have embraced the club and embraced what they expected from him. I’ve really enjoyed watching him in the red & black.
Agree. Forced into it with injuries but the moves were solid and very encouraging. Sliding Bags back, pushing hooker forward when he had no match up. Then pushing Brown back to play sweeper. there were a heap of other ones too.
Yep, bags to defence and hooker up forward when we realised we were too tall down back. Brown to loose man in the final quarter once we had no rotations.
We were dreadful for the most part of the second quarter but got out of it nicely.