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Courtney_Fish
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Need to invest in human cloning I think.

Would be nice. Tell you what I'm super impressed by Adam Simpson at West Coast. One practice game in for sure but just the way he had them playing with intensity, work rate and composed skills was pretty much the same as how we performed against Richmond just they did it better. An Alistair Clarkson apprenticeship and a product of the 1990's Kangaroos just like John Longmire. Oh well we move on I guess.

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    A gun Mid (Selwood type) and a 200cm defence player to work with James Frawley and Tom McDonald with the tall fwd most sides have got

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    The thing i think Howe adds is that he is an absolute nightmare to find a match up for, if he isn't All Australian he might be the hardest player in the comp to match up, obviously some stiff comp for that title

    He's got potential to be hard to match up on but deep forward he isn't actually. He's fast on the lead but not lighting like say Lance Franklin. And he's poor one on one in a physical contest. So he's really just a good leading forward who can also jump over your head if stuck behind. Against the better one on one defenders in the comp he's really contained pretty well.

    Where he has the potential to be dangerous is when played up the ground and matched up by more typical half back flankers or wingmen he can then isolate them and beat them in th air. But that requires him to do enough good stuff when up the ground so that he contributes in that as well.

    Under Mark Neeld I saw him play some good games when used as a deep forward particularly on lesser defenders, and some good games when played on a wing and when he had the chance to get behind the ball. Rarely did I see him play those Adam Goodes style games where Goodes plays in the midfield and drifts forward and then plays forward and gets up the ground. It's hard to teach a guy to play 2 positions at once and to develop all the skills needed but that's the reality for what Howe has to do if (and I think we should) we plan to play Dawes, Hogan and a 2nd ruck (Clark or otherwise) in the same team.

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