I don't have the best footy brain, and was hoping someone could help me out. I was thinking we don't have great small forwards who can feed off the crumbs dropped by Reid and LRT, so I started to think about our small forwards. McGlynn's not been in the best form, and then there's.......umm....Jack, except he normally plays on the ball and.......Bird is listed on the team sheet as a forward, (I always thought he was more of a mid). ROK & Goodes are also listed on the team sheet as forwards, except they both play taller and on the ball quite a bit of the time and finally there's......Jetta! I know he plays on the wing, but he's small and he kicks goals so he must be a small forward. The footy media told me so.
Can someone explain what is going on? Where are our small forwards? Is it just that we tend to not have dedicated small forwards but just rotate our mids through? Is it about having a more open forward line and playing an extra man back and congesting the midfield?
All explanations gratefully received.
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