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On 26/04/2024 at 07:36, rpfc said:

Bowey is a premiership winning player. Turner has taken three impressive marks, to good kicks, and one lucky handball.

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    4 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    It was to be clear, we have not found a CHF or FF on a consistent basis.  
    JVR is young and we will persist but he needs to take the simple marks (dropping most marks at the moment). Petty is not the answer.  Schache is not the answer. Tmcd is not the answer.  Turner was good v Tigers but likely is makeshift (he’s really a prototype Lever interceptor). Jefferson is young and not developing as we would like.  Brown is on last very last legs.  

    We are competing against teams with quality key forwards Curnow-McKay, Daniher, Cameron-Hawkins, Hogan, Mihocek.  

    I hear what you are saying Spiritons, JVR stays and I believe that Disco replaces The Joel Smith role and either Fullarton or Verrall replace the Benny Brown role. Hopefully Fullarton gets a good run at it whilst Verrall and Jefferson continue to build at Casey, plus McAdam gives us another x-factor option up forward. It will all play out over the next 6-8 weeks.!!

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    5 hours ago, daisycutter said:

    "lucky" handball?

    it was the most impressive handball of the game and very deliberate ... watch the replay

    I watched it multiple times. 

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    20 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    It was to be clear, we have not found a CHF or FF on a consistent basis.  
    JVR is young and we will persist but he needs to take the simple marks (dropping most marks at the moment). Petty is not the answer.  Schache is not the answer. Tmcd is not the answer.  Turner was good v Tigers but likely is makeshift (he’s really a prototype Lever interceptor). Jefferson is young and not developing as we would like.  Brown is on last very last legs.  

    We are competing against teams with quality key forwards Curnow-McKay, Daniher, Cameron-Hawkins, Hogan, Mihocek.  

    Yeah, I kinda get that too.  It would be nice, but perhaps unrealistic to expect JvR's development to be linear, when KPPs usually take many years to mature. 

    And I am still also somewhat juries out on if Petty is a key forward.  He played a few dominant games last season, but also alot when he didn't have much of an impact.  I do suspect that he's the type of player that might take a number of weeks to find form as a forward, so let's wait and see.

    Until then, we just need these players to provide adequate output that enables our game plan for multiple other players like Fritsch, Kozzie and others like perhaps Disco and Chandler to come in and kick their bags when the opportunity arises.

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