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But it fits with yours.

Not only is this hindsight Harry at his finest, it ignores the simple fact that Frost's greatest weakness hasn't been the brain-fades and lack of football awareness that still cost us a goal or three each week, but his lack of a tank. He wasn't being played because opposition forwards would just run him round for a half, and then run freely off him for the rest of the game because he was too knackered to chase. Which is also why you don't see him playing further up the ground, where in many respects, his strengths would be more useful and his deficiencies less of a handicap. Perhaps another pre-season will help in that regard, but at his age, don't think anyone's going to be holding their breath. He is what he is.

Also any number of posters understand him playing back out of necessity. (staff shortages). Though equally, I'd argue that playing back for a while has made him a more rounded footballer. He played matches up forward last year, but with nothing like the impact he's now having.

No, they're just lucky.

Except that it had no impact on what has kept him out for the year, OP. Which is an inflammation caused by overuse (i.e., over a long period of time). It isn't caused or even aggravated by anything that happens in a single afternoon on a footy field.

Work ethic comes back 100% to the players. If the players can't behave like professional athletes, then they go.

One swallow doesn't make a spring, but Oscar was as handy a backup ruck as anyone we've tried this year. One of the reasons is that he has his brother's tank, and can run all day, a more than useful attribute for an on-baller. Or even a forward. There's a perception that Oscar is slow, and perhaps in starting speed he is - but once he gets that big diesel up to speed, he's no slouch. Watch the lead up to his goal: he starts on the wing, but by the time he gets to the forward pocket for the receive, his Collingwood opponent is 20 yards behind. If Hunt had managed a clean kick, it would have been a walk-in goal.

No we didn't. The total value of the trade was the equivalent of Pick 10. Which should please you. Close thread.

Sure, but Lever was never a one-on-one defender at Adelaide, let alone a KPD - he had Talia (amongst others) to do that job. His strength has always been his ability to read the ball and intercept mark/spoil, and that's what we need him doing - if ever we can get a full, settled team on the park.

Turnovers, turnovers, turnovers. Even with the players we had out there, the game could have looked very very different if even half of those turnovers had reached their intended targets. Partly skill, partly confidence, but partly also knowing what your team mates are going to do, and for it all to become intuitive. Big pre-season awaits.

Similar to Stretch in that regard. I sometimes think (hope ...) that with these kinds of players it'll come with experience, but not the case so far with either of them.

You don't have to, because in the total trade, we didn't. But carry on.

Don't disagree - but for whatever reason, he's often a really poor decision maker once he gets it.

Regardless of anything else, bottom handful are under where they need to be. Melksham (OK, coming back from injury), but Dunkley, Baker, JKH not giving enough and/or turning the ball over.

For starters, he's not. They're different players, in very different roles, it's not either/or. The players being picked over Hore are Hunt (played back last week), Salem, Hibberd, and in particular, Lever who does Hore's sweeper/intercept mark role better. If Lever doesn't get up this week (or any week), that's Hore's spot. Under normal circumstances, it would be May for Oscar, but with Preuss out and so many other of our talls injured, it becomes May for Preuss, and Oscar keeps his spot, presumably on Mihocek, with Frost taking one of the more mobile forwards. May then covers for Petty up forward when Petty covers for Max, or May just take second ruck duties. Neither Frost nor O'Mac are good as backup to Max, and neither have any experience (ability?) as KPF's, and to go in with only one KPF (Petty) who also has to double as backup ruck, is asking for trouble. Finally, it's going to be wet, so not ideal conditions for an intercept marker like Hore, though ideal for the king of the 1%'ers and spoils, Oscar Mac.

Wouldn't he have a clause in his contract that would automatically trigger another year? ... though he's missed a bit this year with injury, which mightn't help.

Then stop interpreting. Simples.

May. Thus O'Mac.

Oh look, Jake Lever was put back on the ground when he injured his ankle ... and he's playing the following week. That's not the way it's supposed to work.

You can't build fitness during the season. In fact, it's the reverse: as the season goes on, the more fatigue builds up. Thus pre-seasons. That every club does. For a reason.

Probably closest to the pin.

You mean the fitness and conditioning department that Misson is still head of?

And welcome to Fantasyland.

If only that were true. We have no evidence. All we have on Demonland are elaborate stories based on nothing but speculation from people who have no expertise in the field.

Nothing.