Peter "2MP" Wright - STAY IN THE TEAM, PETER?

SplitRound · February 25, 2021, 10:10pm

We had six years of Shaun McKernan as a stop gap. We need smaller gaps.

FuriousGeorge · February 25, 2021, 10:15pm

Great, thanks @Ants. Now I have a hankering for chips and gravy.

Ants · February 25, 2021, 10:23pm

Smack wasn’t a stop-gap. He was depth. In 2016 and 2017 when JD was fit he hardly played. That’s right, he hardly played in 2016. And Smack was perfectly fine depth; he just wasn’t first team good enough.

Klawdy · February 25, 2021, 10:27pm

2MP is only at the club because @scotty21 told Dodoro that it was happening.

SplitRound · February 25, 2021, 11:00pm

That’s a fair point. He turned out to be depth for a bunch of stop gaps, but that was what he was for.
Edit: I guess Stewart probably wasn’t a stop gap, they just decided they didn’t like him there.

stir_fried_ewok · February 25, 2021, 11:15pm

We gave him 3 years so he’ll need to find his niche this year or Bryan will walk past him.

Ants · February 26, 2021, 3:18am

I’d have said, that with no injuries in 2017-2019 the talls would have been (in the coaches/list manager’s view):

Back: Ambrose, Hurley
Fwd: JD, Stewart,
Hooker wherever we needed a 3rd moreso. More back after we got Stringer.

So IMO Brown, Hartley, Smack were all depth. It just turned out because Ambrose, JD and Stewart couldn’t stay on the park that we played 2 of them every week.

FuriousGeorge · February 26, 2021, 3:24am

I didn’t get chips and gravy for lunch, just in case anyone was wondering.

Fairybread · February 26, 2021, 3:26am

Thought on balance that he was ok.

SplitRound · February 26, 2021, 4:10am

Agree except for the Stewart part (hence my edit). It might have been the list manager’s vision that he was a starting player, but by halfway through his second season the coaches clearly didn’t agree. He played 11 games at the start of 2018 at AFL level, then got dropped and played 12 VFL games (clearly not injured), replaced by Mitch Brown. He then injured himself at the start of 2019 in the VFL, where he was playing because Mitch Brown was playing seniors.

Ants · February 26, 2021, 4:21am

Hmm, I remembered him as being injured. Obviously I was wrong on that.

FuriousGeorge · February 26, 2021, 4:23am

Didn’t Stewart have OP for most of the same time as Daniher?

SplitRound · February 26, 2021, 4:25am

2019 yes, 2018 I hope not given they didn’t stop playing him in the twos.

miss_ellie · February 26, 2021, 4:29am

Admittedly I only saw the second half, but when 2MP missed the set shot from about 20 metres out, first thing I thought was Zac Clarke (mark 2).

Hopefully he improves.

Nifty_Nev · February 26, 2021, 5:07am

To be fair it’s hard not to notice a 2 meter blood-nut

sine_nomine · February 26, 2021, 5:16am

So, would it be fair to say:
We weren’t expecting much and he’s delivering that in spades.

Killer_Mike · February 26, 2021, 5:48am

Was it Gleeson?

Tippa-the-Iceberg · February 26, 2021, 5:50am

Nah…THE

Killer_Mike · February 26, 2021, 5:51am

Langford outbodies everyone

astro_bomber · February 26, 2021, 6:02am

Plonk the 2mp in forward line and kick the ball on top of his head instead of Tippa’s. All he has to do is not get out marked and bring the ball to ground. Problem is, our small forwards are never in the forward line to crumb goals. They are always asked to play up the ground.