Just wrote on the hawks game thread about ballard, with mac playing on a tall there was no match up for him. Concerning for him going forward, not so much if there's a team with a tall forward line but a lot of teams are going smaller now.
And we were particularly tall down back with Collins, Mac, Ballard and Luko.
Plenty of timea they didnt kick it to toby because Ballard was on him and would out mark him, so it wasn't all bad
Because he's 18 1st game and in awe of the situation and he got it wrong.....lighten up.
Good point about the tackles. We hardly tackled as well … having a bye so early and then a country ground made it feel like a real practice match.
I think King's analysis on First Crack was fair. Ballard for some reason was giving 10m to Toby and was burned every time. That last globetrotter goal was not a good view from Ballard point of view. He also said we need to discover a type of defender to go with him. Easier said than done. Uwland, Powell would be my choice but yes, it could be the same outcome.
I can't believe no team drafted him before us.
Agree with this. Jack has one fault and kicking isn't it. He needs to go harder in the competition but definitely had a better game than some think. That being said I'd prefer him on the ing to Fiorini and moving into the forward line kicking long goals. Still some finetuning but we've almost removed the dead wood. A couple of pieces still floating in there though and it shows when they get pantsted as they did in the last quarter.
It feels like the top teams always get the rub of the green when it comes to free kicks, luckily our time is coming, and we’ll get to see the benefit of this soon enough
Said the same to the boys.As they get older they're starting to experience the same matchday officiating anxieties their dad does
Whether or not Jack is happier in defence, I bet Hardwick is pretty happy with the idea the ball was used by him 22 times. And that he is also a risk of sneaking far enough forward to kick a goal or two makes him pretty useful to a coach.
I agree with the letting players play to their strengths.
Clohesy was great. 92% is a lot better than the 40-50% of Ace and Cheat Code, that’s for sure. And he used his time well, spread pretty evenly across all quarters. Must be quite fit, which is good.
Achieved most of what I hoped for ,generally pleased with our overall performance.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Jarrod Witts | 67 | 83% | 78 | 84 | 86 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Noah Anderson | 92 | 82% | 74 | 74 | 87 | 89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Matt Rowell | 91 | 81% | 93 | 84 | 74 | 77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Touk Miller | 83 | 74% | 78 | 68 | 87 | 63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ned Moyle | 22 | 71% | 71 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Will Graham | 17 | 49% | 49 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sam Flanders | 37 | 33% | 56 | 53 | 39 | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Levi Casboult | 18 | 23% | 22 | 16 | 29 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bailey Humphrey | 12 | 15% | 0 | 21 | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ethan Read | 5 | 14% | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| David Swallow | 4 | 4% | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Total Team CBAs | 27 | 19 | 31 | 35 |
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I agree with your thoughts but I must say it was the physicality of Walter, Graham and Clohesy that had me as excited as their football abilities. Won’t be surprising to see them tire late in games and towards the end of the season though.
Touk's not going to stand out like 2022 anymore because the rest of the team has improved. He was a one man band sometimes then. Just cause he's not the Suns best player every week doesn't mean he's not playing well.
Good takes. Luko will get better defensively, hopefully can start going for marks where he doesnt have a defender bodying him.
