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Jack Ross
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He's more inside than outside but ultimately it's a moot point if you're not good enough in either area.
Bloke i work with. Ex AFL player. Father of a decent up and coming AFL player. Knows Ross real well. Son played with him for years. Seen a lot of his football.
He reckons we are totally playing him out of position. Reckons he's someone you just throw onto the ball and let him get around the ground from stoppage to stoppage. Forget trimming him down, playing him on a hbf or wing. Not his thing. Bulk him back up and let him do his thing in traffic and not so much of the running off hbf or the wing and one on one contests in space. Says he's a pure on baller.
He reckons we are totally playing him out of position. Reckons he's someone you just throw onto the ball and let him get around the ground from stoppage to stoppage. Forget trimming him down, playing him on a hbf or wing. Not his thing. Bulk him back up and let him do his thing in traffic and not so much of the running off hbf or the wing and one on one contests in space. Says he's a pure on baller.
Well, thats what this guy reckons thats seen him play since he was 15.
The HBF is THE easiest position to play in a game of footy.
Inside mid is one of the hardest (along with Ruck and FP imo).
If you look unimpressive on a HBF,
you will almost certainly look considerably more unimpressive in the middle.
If your butcher is struggling to trim the fat off your lamb cutlets adequately,
you don't give him a scalpel and swing him into the neurosurgery ward.
Jesus.
what with this narrative?
Inside mid is one of the hardest (along with Ruck and FP imo).
If you look unimpressive on a HBF,
you will almost certainly look considerably more unimpressive in the middle.
If your butcher is struggling to trim the fat off your lamb cutlets adequately,
you don't give him a scalpel and swing him into the neurosurgery ward.
Jesus.
what with this narrative?
It's the same with RCD, 5 tackles and 4 clearances in his last game and got dropped...................
Not sure what's happened to him. It's like his reaction time and fast twitch fibres have really slowed. In his first few games not only was he winning the hard ball, he showed agility, quick movement and quick decision making. Now he goes to ground and is slow to make a decision and execute.
Thats not my recollection.
I can recall saying from the outset, a bit like a stuck record,
this side isn't big enough for Graham and Ross.
which suggest Jack Ross never, ever, played, remotely in the fashion you recall.
there is a really weird collective consciousness going on with Ross,
and I cant hate it, because it's positive.
But it fascinates me.
I think its a new kind of cognitive bias?
I'll call it
The fills-a-desperate-need delusion
whereby, you judge whatever is available, as adequate to fill your needs.
It doesn't just apply to footy list management,
you could need a wife, for example, to meet your culinary, intellectual, emotional and physical needs,
and a really quite dumb, menopausal woman who cant cook, or make meaningful connections with other people,
smiles at you in a pub,
and in your mind, she becomes your perfect match.
This. Was never convinced of Ross but i appreciate the more positive few that he has tools
yeah, Id much prefer everyone on PRE adopting the positive position,
that an very plodding footballer is the key to our future,
in an odd kind of a Whitney Housten school of footy optimism.
as opposed to saying some star, Sydney Stack for example,
is useless and troubled and bad and no hope of ever being a decent human.
youre right harry, I took a look, and I clearly stated on debut,
that, although I had had a schooner of rum in the last quarter,
I wouldnt trade him for Rozzee, Dursman AND Butters.
reinforces that a full-disclosure approach to anonymity,
is sound policy.
you don't show that kind of form on debut without the ability. something has gone wrong with him physically, mentally and development wise since then.
I agree - on recent form he's a bush footballer and if I hadn't witnessed his debut form I'd be in the delist camp.
Can't? course you can. Head scratching anomolies happen all the time in footy. Players can be flash in the pan, plodders can star in a big game out of the blue, players can be a gun for 50 or 100 games then die in the arse etc etce. all sorts of things can happen.
