Yes. I've never seen a racial comment on here regarding Bell. Every comment has been directed toward his performance.
He does get a CBA now and then. Just not many. I think he will be good at the CB as he matures.
Ture, but we have a very short injury list, while Carlton had several key players out, so no excuses there. We've been getting killed this year in our defensive end scrabbles, stoppages and coverage in general. It's hard to tell what the problem is, but obviously too many players are getting loose at the wrong times. It may not be the sole fault of our defenders, but the midfielders dropping back into coverage are missing assignments as well. We may have to try a few new things the rest of the year to find the right combination. I'm sort of thinking that Florent may be one to stay more often in defence as well as keeping COR in the side at least until Cunningham is fit to play. I think JMac goes back to the midfield. It's very early days, but I wouldn't mind seeing Corey Warner given a lock down defender role sometime this year; maybe try him on an inexperienced small forward when the matchup looks good.
We've been down this road before. Most of us, Ludwig included, thought highly of Hewett, especially in his last couple of years. He had to be played out of position because, JPK, Parker and Mills are slower than average players, so we couldn't add George to this group when we were already being hurt for lack of pace in the centre. And George was not not good at other positions, as we have also discovered with Kennedy. Throw in the salary cap and George became the odd man out. No surprise he's doing well at Carlton. Our midfield will get there, but right now we are depending too much on younger players. Carlton broke so many of our tackles last night. They have a big, strong midfield, while some of our guys are not strong enough to bring them down. It just may take time to fix this one.
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