If BB had the service from the umpires similar to Aaron Naughton he’d have another 10 goals for the season and we’d be saying he’s played his role. As it is Aaron is miles better at playing for frees that Ben, as are most of Bevos Logie Winning Brigade, perhaps we need to spend a little time on our acting skills leading up to finals?
Yeah I said this in the game day threads plus post match forums and asked the question, how can our forwards expect to kick goals playing defensive side wings?
As much as I love Max I think this in an opportunity. It was alluded to by someone from the Sydney camp before the game last week that they were setting their midfield up to shark Gawns taps. In effect assuming they would lose the tap and instead just clamp down on our mids, this seemed to play out at times with the limited room and space we had at stoppages. Add an extra around the ball which the oppo has done of late and it adds up the handball merry go round leading to a turnover we’ve been doing a lot of lately.
Perhaps now our mids can be the hunters rather than hunted and we can freshen up our approach to stoppages.
Yes injuries can result from excessive overload, but most of our injuries are from impacts and completely unrelated to training, fitness etc if we had a spate of soft tissue injuries I would be concerned about the training load.