Lynch playing behind isn’t helping the delivery into the forward line. Young is outclassed. Dow looking good, Taranto looking great. Hopper building.
30 degree day, so I’m ok if the pace isn’t frenetic. Save that for round 1.
Yes there have been plenty of frees against, but holy crap we play dumb sometimes. Can’t blames the umps for that.
Its like we are surprised that Melbourne are good in the air at the back. They play 3 talls back there (we only have 2) but because we are allowing them to mark at will it makes it hard to lock anything in. As you say Lycnh is behind, needs to get in front. If he brings it to ground that what we have Cotchin, MRJ and Bolton for, but we cannot have them mark as easily as they have in that half.
Agree on Young - laughable that people on here were suggesting that he should play in front of Tarrant if he was fit. A no gamer, vs a near 200 gamer and it shows. He has promise but to expect a no gamer rookie to suddenly be able to defend like they expect is frankly ridiculous, and shows an element of prejudice against Tarrant who we have certainly missed today.
Dow - probably the best I've seen him play so good signs, as he's on the potential delist list this year, if he can step off that it will be good for us.
Taranto will be a gun for us an Hopper has been ok as you say.
A bit disappointed in Juddy today, expected a bit more from him.
A few players need to find a way to get themselves into this game.