Liz, I think the midfield has become too predictable with Kennedy in there. When Joey is there they rely on him so much. But last week when they put him at CHF we won the midfield because we were unpredictable and the boys were sharing the load. I would like to see him play more forward and then rotate through the mids in a different capacity. By that I mean not being relied on so much and the set ups changing when he is in there so he has a more equal role to the other guys. As we set up now when he is in there he is the guy who storms the HO every time. We need to share that around a bit more and set up Joey not in the same position every time. He needs to be able to rotate around the stoppages with the other guys.
I think that would work better. It would take a lot of pressure off him and the other players would take more responsibility. It would also allow him to have freer movement around the edge of stoppages at times, setting up running players with his strong body and ball use. I thought late in the third and much of the last the young blokes took charge of the centre square and the stoppages around the ground and the figures back that up. We won more stoppages without him in the midfield last week than with him. That is because opponents are putting on such a heavy tag he is literally held out of the contest. When he's not there they can't do that and they don't have a clue what our young mids are going to do. Lovely situation to have.
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