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Anyone know what’s the go with Fritsch? He has barely played a solid game all season, is soft as anything, goes missing and always looks unhappy.

Anyone else get the vibe he might be talking to other suitors? There was that post in the Sydney forum about him playing for them next year.

Something is not right....

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    10 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

    VFL standard, and played a few games out of his skin in 2018

    I'm not a fan of the way he plays, but when he's working hard, he's still a valuable contributor.

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    He’s just not strong enough now that opposition coaches actually plan around him being there.

    He misses so many shots on goal that a permanent forward should make, it’s getting ridiculous.

    I’ve said previously that we have far too many passengers and he’s been one, so maybe he’s not in the boys club that gets spoken about regularly?

    Plus, the late to meeting thing sounds so bizarre, there has to be something in it?

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    Soft as they come.. i turned around to my 8 month old boy when he was lining up for goal and said he'll miss it, it's a given.

    He stared at me. At least I know he can't argue back at me during the game.

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    Why do people think he is a good kick? He has never been. And why doesn't he get in the gym, has twigs for arms

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    He needs to learn how to work hard & play team first footy......I would play him off half back & let him run & gain confidence. Needs a massive pre season to put on about  2 or 3 kg's if he wants to be a forward.

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    We plucked him from obscurity and made him into what he is today.....whatever that is.

    Hasn't looked like his heart is in it for a while now.

    We should be concerned less with losing him, and more with finding the next Gunston-type forward. That seems to be the role we're wanting him to play but he's just not up to it and/or into it.

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    Tony Lockett would not have got a kick in the forward line today. The delivery into the forward line was abysmal. He's kicked 17 goals which is good could have kicked straighter but that hasn't been the case. The form of Viney and the form of Melksham are more concerning.

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    The problem is he's now seen as our most dangerous forward.  Coaches are putting extra time and effort into stopping him, which means he's getting a lot of extra attention from defenders who are significantly bigger and stronger than him.  To make matters worse, for a period there Goodwin was sending him up a creek without a paddle by clearing out the forward 50 and making him play as the sole FF against multiple opponents because we didn't have any other in-form forwards.  Basically, he's been asked to shoulder too much of the forward-line's load and needs the other, bigger forwards to step up and occupy the defence so he can get on his bike and play his game. 

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    We desperately need a CHF. With the removal of Hogan & the demise of TMac our forward line is all over the shop. We've gone from too many smalls to too many talls and everything in between making it harder for the likes of Fritsch, Hannan & to some extent Pickett to play their positions.

    Not helped by Melksham shirking contests & trying to be clever rather than rolling his sleeves up and getting stuck in. He has given me the Con Britts all season

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    2 minutes ago, Go the Biff said:

    We desperately need a CHF. With the removal of Hogan & the demise of TMac our forward line is all over the shop. We've gone from too many smalls to too many talls and everything in between making it harder for the likes of Fritsch, Hannan & to some extent Pickett to play their positions.

    Not helped by Melksham shirking contests & trying to be clever rather than rolling his sleeves up and getting stuck in. He has given me the Con Britts all season

    Can we get Jack Watts back? 

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    1 minute ago, Go the Biff said:

    We desperately need a CHF. With the removal of Hogan & the demise of TMac our forward line is all over the shop. We've gone from too many smalls to too many talls and everything in between making it harder for the likes of Fritsch, Hannan & to some extent Pickett to play their positions.

    Not helped by Melksham shirking contests & trying to be clever rather than rolling his sleeves up and getting stuck in. He has given me the Con Britts all season

    We have one his name is Jackson and is injured ATM. Petty is also an up and comer just needs to get over his groin problems.

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    Just now, RalphiusMaximus said:

    Can we get Jack Watts back? 

    I repeat "We desperately need a CHF". So JW is irrelevant

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    Has definitely gone backwards. When he arrived in the team he was a clever, well skilled player that looked like he had a big future as a flanker/winger type.

    Last night he was abysmal. Looked disinterested and so down on confidence that I fear we've ruined him.

     

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    He's soft as butter, and only really capable of playing well when guys around him are playing well. 

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    If he nailed his shots he’d be a champion. But he’s looked uncertain and unconfident all year. So costly. Those shots with the wind .... he wasn’t kicking to remotely the right places to allow fr it. Doesn’t look that present a lot of the time. love to see him pumped up instead of looking so angst ridden and wobbly all the time. 

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