Cale Morton is very stiff not to have been nominated so far.
He had 30 touches yesterday (20 of which were kicks) and a goal.
It has to be his turn.
Cale Morton is very stiff not to have been nominated so far.
He had 30 touches yesterday (20 of which were kicks) and a goal.
It has to be his turn.
And the man who started it all, the Schneiderman . . . . .
Yep by 3 months. Morton should the R20 nomination sewn up in any case.
I think ideally you need a mix of the two. You can take a slow midfielder with poor endurance and improve those areas to some degree but there is a limit. And a team can cope with a couple of these types if they are good ball winners. But sadly you look at players like Schmidt and Moore who both have excellent football brains and know that their lack of footspeed and natural endurance is probably going to stop them becoming top notch AFL players. That doesn't mean there's no place for them and I'm not advocating they be moved on. But a main ball winning brigade in a few years time of Moore, Schmidt and Bird is - as a group- not going to be quick enough.
The athletes have their place and a lot of them seem well suited to defence, where they are behind the play, rather than having to make it. I don't think it's coincidence that the three Irishmen currently entrenched in their teams are mostly playing as half-back flankers / back pockets. Nor that Murphy is being groomed as a CHB rather than as a forward.
Daniel Harris from the Roos is a case in point. He's very good round the packs but probably can't spend more than 60-70% of time on the ground at the pace the modern day game is played. Other slowish ball winners, like Mitchell, Kirk, maybe Cross have the endurance thing nailed.
Ideally I think you are right. I would weight the balance towards footballers, but a few real athletes can add run (and sometimes something unexpected) to the side. I think that Geelong and the all-conquering Brisbane team are/were more weighted toward footballers. It's great to be able to get running outside midfielders or rebounding half bank flankers who are footballers, but there are not so many of them and that's where the athletes can fit in as you say. Just need to be careful it's not overdone. The most difficult ones are the few of ours you've noted - good footballing brains and skills but not the best athletes.
Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."
MADNow this is a thread that i would expect on the ego -centric, wank session that is redandwhiteonline.com...
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On The Couch last night Mike Sheahan said Dalziell is eligible this year.There is a Port Adelaide player they keep plugging for to get nominated also.
Anyone know Bird's average possessions since the bye?
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