Worner plays defense, need to make a spot in defense
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Toast Welcome to Fremantle Karl Worner (pick 8 2021 rookie draft)
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Out henry
he needs to carve up the 2s to be considered again
I agree with you. The only thing I can come up with is that they see in him the traits they want on an hbf and want to release Chappy, Young or Clark up the ground.
I hope you are right but it seems a long way around, and we've just brought in another specialist winger.
My prediction is Chapman, Young and Clark all stay predominantly in defence.
If Acres can get a game at Freo, Worner is at least a ball magnet.
Plus he has distance in his kicks.
Deserves a chance to at least show something. Playing NOD ATM is playing a man
a short.
Worner has definitely improved his disposal; part of me wonders whether that is due to him playing off half back where there is not the stress of running up and down the ground all day.
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He has played wing past couple of games. He should replace Noddy this game against Essendon as Henry played alright.
He was getting a lot of cheap/easy possessions on the wing and i think he was moved to HBF to teach him some accountability Whilst his possession stats have dropped he has improved overall but now switch him back to the wing as we have a need there
Considering how much we have struggled on the wings in our two recent loses in my opinion we desperately need to give Worner a go at playing wing. He is bar far the best realistic option of at least being able to stay with his player on long runs. Plus we could give Clark some time on a wing and rotate Worner to defence for periods too. I just can't see Longmuir making any positional changes unfortunately though.
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Hell yeah. I've been wanting him in for a while so hopefully he goes alright.
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Despite the sub, very happy for him. Dude's been putting the work in down at Peel for awhile now, well deserved.
His kicking at WAFL level has improved a lot from what Ive seen. J'Lo mentions his clearly improved ball use in the clip above from the King Tenz post. According to one of the interviews he did recently when his contract extension was announced he's done a heap of leg strength work since coming to the club. That 's probably the reason why he looks a bit quicker and his disposal is more consistent. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure he's quicker than most think at least in terms of speed/endurance. He'd be one of the better 100 metre runners at the club which is why he was the club representative at the GF Grand Final sprint competition.
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YESSSSSS KARLOSSSSS
It'll be interesting to see him in action at the level. Be good to have him as a viable option so Aish can be more deployable as needed.
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It’s that improvement in his disposal that has help bring about his selection and tomorrow he runs out in the AFL for the very first time.
All the best for tomorrow Karl.
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Was alright in limited game time, hopefully gets a full game next week. He deserves it.
I still don't care what anyone says, I absolutely hate seeing guys debut as the sub. As if we don't have a number of guys that could be sub in any given week.
Should be a rule against it.
I still don't care what anyone says, I absolutely hate seeing guys debut as the sub. As if we don't have a number of guys that could be sub in any given week.
Should be a rule against it.
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At least he actually showed some effort when he came on unlike a lot of others out there.
"Debutant shows effort", so rare for that to happen. His decision making was pretty bad, but that isn't too concerning for a first run at it. His delivery was a bit more of a concern though.
