We’re 2 games in and yet to see a monster score from 4 mids who regularly pumped them out last year. If we get through this round without any real big ones from the big mids, especially Fyfe against your boys, I think I’ll try and get ahead of the curve and have a bit of a reshuffle.
Good season to try these out of the box things after all.
The rucks were pretty poor game 1 last year too.............other years were have seen pre season momentum players start off well then fizzer.
Potentially we have seen two weak fwd sides cough up the ball to two of the best defences.
Midfielders scoring could be a factor of a faster pace, however, with 60 HO per game so far compared to a few sample games of 70 last year, it looks similar on stoppages.
re rucks, have we have seen any insights yet. Grundy was 10% ahead of his average for last three games against English of 162. Yes, English has grown size, however, Grundy dominated him both in HTA and looked ahead on possessions. If stoppages in line and we didn't see a spike in marks for rucks (best ruckman so far is English with 4), TOG in line, not sure what inferences we draw. Carlton game worse where Kruezer went down, so Soldo massive score vs TOG and Nankervis was terrible.
Maybe a chance that ruckman are taking possessions off mids, as all seemed to have high possession counts (English just off Bont!). Is the game intensity up, mids running above normal speeds and entry into 50 is poor helping defenders...........maybe, just not convinced yet.