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We must play Frost on a wing & Fritsch forward.

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Frost had a poor game on Sat night but his only position is down back running off his man

when 'The General' (May) comes back he will get back to playing well. As he will get instruction and not need to be so accountable/1:1

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    17 hours ago, tiers said:

    i posted this in December 2018. Nice to receive recognition at last.

    Frosty can be a weapon. The classic 80-100m players who can run away from any opposition and drive the ball long into the forward line.  It doesn't have to be "lace out" just so long as the opposition are put under pressure and forced to defend in our forward line.

    Can't kick goals from anywhere else.

    If used tactically and strategically at the right times will make a huge difference to the game plan.

     

    We've been doing this all year.

    It doesn't work unless the forwards actually pressure the defenders (and it requires forwards to be forward of the ball carrier at all times, another problem we've had too often).

    Not sure why we need Frost to do what we're already doing with our current mids.

    15 hours ago, TGR said:

    Frost should be tried on a wing...no doubt.  Frost reminds me of Liam Jones who would be playing SANFL seconds if he wasn't tried in another position.  Frost doesn't have to be moved, as he is surely top 10 B&F this year for us down back, but we are so one paced and easy to tackle, we have to use these dead rubbers to leave no stone unturned.

     

    Frost should be encouraged to take them on, even if he gets tackled 1 in 6.

     

    If he plays wing, he can run and send a chaos ball into F50.  A chaos ball into F50, means that the defenders don't even know where it's going.  That is got to be better than the disaster of 2019 forward entries.  No surprise that Weed got concussed banging into one of his teammates in the VFL today.  Our forwards have NFI about separation.

    I can't believe this is being advocated as a solution to our woes following what we've seen this year.

    If anything, we need to move away from this. 

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    13 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    We've been doing this all year.

    It doesn't work unless the forwards actually pressure the defenders (and it requires forwards to be forward of the ball carrier at all times, another problem we've had too often).

    Not sure why we need Frost to do what we're already doing with our current mids.

    I can't believe this is being advocated as a solution to our woes following what we've seen this year.

    If anything, we need to move away from this. 

    Could not agree more.. the only thing worse is the D50 chaos ball he used on Saturday that cost us at least 3 goals

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