Analysis 2023 Preseason Games
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Big bodied inside mid who tackles well and can win contested ball. The issue is that Essendon may use him in a variety of roles. Just in the practice game against St Kilda, he had two distinct roles in the one game, in the first half he played purely as a midfielder, matched up on the opposition's best ball winner (most of the time this was Steele but a couple of times it was Clarke and once Bytel), this is where he scored the majority of his points. In the second half he did not attend a single CBA from what I gathered and played on a wing, even after Caldwell went off injured (who was at the centre bounces the whole second half up to that point). At stoppages, he would line up on the defensive side of the stoppage as the defensive winger guarding the St Kilda player that had pushed up from the forwards. That's not a great role and most of his possessions in the second half were in the final quarter in junk time.
It is the former inside mid role where there is value with him, but the fact that they can move him around, even within single games (albeit this was a practice game) means it's a risky pick at his price. Hopper for comparison is pretty safe as we know what his role is and what he was brought into their club to do.
It is the former inside mid role where there is value with him, but the fact that they can move him around, even within single games (albeit this was a practice game) means it's a risky pick at his price. Hopper for comparison is pretty safe as we know what his role is and what he was brought into their club to do.
I can’t its just wishful thinking, does make the defence look strong. Have to give up bont and green for it to happen and im not willing to do that. Running with setterfield, hopper, callaghan ashcroft and Mackenzie.
I would rather ash the Callaghan but can’t find the 90k. Im not sold on Callaghan due to his roll. In saying that with his weak fixture and good price tag hopefully he makes a quick $$$.
I would rather ash the Callaghan but can’t find the 90k. Im not sold on Callaghan due to his roll. In saying that with his weak fixture and good price tag hopefully he makes a quick $$$.
Pretty bloody effective. If you don't want to read the studies, it's a pretty easy comparison - compare the death rates in Italy and NYC at the beginning of the pandemic to where we are now. Vaccines are the main part of that (omicron, despite claims that it's "less deadly", still killed plenty in HK and China when it got into their unvaccinated elderly populations).
