Like Mutch. He seems a bit more outside than I thought - didn’t see him do much on the inside.
Begley is good-ish when he gets it but I thought he was a little quiet - could be well served to put his head down for the next 4-6 weeks in the VFL with a view to a debut later.
Draper struggled to get is involved as DJR said Bellcho monopolises the ruck battles and other forwards boss the F50. When he rucked I was pleasantly surprised. I’ve stopped trying to evaluate ruck craft but he won taps and I like that - on that note I thought the free he gave away in Q4 was ridiculous.
Clarke and Jackson did little for me.
Langford has a lot of tools but didn’t really prove his dropping to be erroneous like I’d have liked.
Don’t get particularly excited by Howlett or Hocking given their relative ability levels and ages but both were good, particularly Hocking and can see them coming back for Melbourne.
Not much else to report other than that I like Stewart. Gleeson is too good for this level and is the future of the AFL side - he should be playing seniors ahead of Kelly.
Good to see Myers do well first game back from LTI.
But after having a year off where he was able to do lots of training and running it is a shame he didn’t use the time to add more right side to his game. Since he lacks pace and natural evasiveness being only able to turn one side is going to always limit how effective he can be in a congested midfield at AFL level.
At 6’4 and his size he can take on the tackle to get back onto his left . He will be fine once he gets the pace of AFL and he will play a mix of HB, wing & midfield to complement our quick outside mids/HFF’s
seeing mayne fumble a ball even though it was firmly in his hands in the centre square with not a player within 20 odd meters of him was worth leaving the house for
Watched the second half replay and thought Boyce, Bellchambers, Myers, Mutch and Gleeson were all good.
Gleeson tho! He’s pretty good at getting the footy - reads the play well, it’s just the bit after that he’s not always great at (ie - getting it to someone else)
That’s probably why they are playing him there.
i thought he covered enormous ground and did some brilliant things today but his pressure was lacking.
He’s getting there.
Boyse has been really good every time I have seen him.
P.S. The Fry Ups at windy hill are OK but not in the same league as the delicious tucker at my local Newport game yesterday. The Lebanese mob put on a huge charcoal rottiserie spit with lamb and chicken which ran all day; kebabs everywhere! Unfortunately the Newport boys lost by ten goals hindered by the fact that they are all about 20 kilos heavier than the opposition players. The pros and cons of kebabs I suppose.