Never heard Cotchin's or Prestia's kicking described in such enthusiastic terms - both have been stars but average kicks. Appreciate Taranto is another level below them in accuracy though.
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Not bad numbers for a kid that is struggling..imagine when he isnt struggling 
Geezuz zips you are confusing me with your logic and hard evidence. How far you have come since ‘his *smile*’
Imagine what a player he would be if the rest of the team would get on board and and position themselves at 30degree angles to his intended targets? I’m seeing 100% efficiency if only we could get buy in.
There is much to improve. Not least that jogging 3m behind an opponent in possession.
Last night he had 34D, 3 Clearance, 7 SI, 6 Tackle, 5 Turnover, 12/21 CP/UP.
I thought he was very GWS last night and mediocre, not say he wan't about our best. We've had no real impact on him as yet and can't unless we can get systems in place around him. Dion, Martin, Chimp, Shai in form.
We want a good handover here. We need our ageing stars to lift and accelerate Taranto on the park. He has a lot of improvement in him IMO.
Last night he had 34D, 3 Clearance, 7 SI, 6 Tackle, 5 Turnover, 12/21 CP/UP.
I thought he was very GWS last night and mediocre, not say he wan't about our best. We've had no real impact on him as yet and can't unless we can get systems in place around him. Dion, Martin, Chimp, Shai in form.
We want a good handover here. We need our ageing stars to lift and accelerate Taranto on the park. He has a lot of improvement in him IMO.
That jogging behind is because he's gassed, fb. But he's a competitor, fb. He just doesn't know how to spend his nitro yet. Cotchin is a genius at that. We've got plenty to offer this underdeveloped player.
He’s ran the most KMs for us the last 4 weeks, and equal second most round 1, so talk about his work rate is a bit laughable - he’s working his backside off. His kicking is literally the only negative since he’s come to the club, and it’s really not that big a deal because we are the type of territory side who just bomb it forward anyway, plus he’s an elite defensive mid
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Call it hunger then. His desperation around the ball looks questionable. I am happy to be wrong.
He’s easily our leading player for pressure acts and tackles
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It's a little bit deceiving posting that midway through a round, 12 contested possessions not top 10.
He’s our best performer over the first 4 rounds.
Nothing deceiving about that.
Hopper not far behind, only having played 3 games.
Hate to think what we’d be doing without them.
There's a few points that I've mentioned on this topic, if we're 16th instead of 13th and sitting on a top 5 pick, which scenario would you prefer? Taranto or no Taranto? Secondly, the guy who is near the top of the contested chart went for a couple of third round picks, not 2 firsts, that sums up perfectly the flaws in our approach. We didn't even get the better clearance player by the looks of things. Grundy was another who would have stiffened up the clearance numbers, next week has the potential to be brutal, Miller or Ryan in for a roasting.
We'd be 0-5, bottom of the ladder, dreaming of Harley Reid, and looking at years in the wilderness.
Just imagine where we would be without him this year, my guess 0-5. Shazam Spook.
But 6 points out of a possible 20 is going gangbusters? This is classic middling behaviour, the revisionism already in full swing. Prior to the season we were all in agreement that top 4 was the benchmark, now it's 13th and cherry picking stats to justify an approach which is already showing signs of failure.
Taranto is having a crack & winning the footy but geez his kicking is diabolical. That ball drop..
BUT I remember when Prestia arrived in his first year & I thought pretty much the same thing.
BUT I remember when Prestia arrived in his first year & I thought pretty much the same thing.
I thought he was a bit of a sneaky goal kicker at the GWS - I have zero confidence in his goal kicking. And his field kicking ain’t great. But he is having a red hot crack, we need more doing the same.
Who said things are gangbusters?? Who's cherry-picking stats? Who's trying to justify anything? (We should be 3-2, by the way.)
You've taken a position that will be very easy for you to claim you were right. If we don't win a flag you will say you were right. You will ignore our mountainous injury list as a factor, or cite it as a function of an ageing list and argue that's why we should have brought in a 30-year-old and an expensive 29-year-old injury-struck ruckman instead of two mids entering their primes in an age bracket we had a gaping chasm. It'll be the club got it wrong and you got it right.
Maybe many of us fans expected Taranto + Hopper = flag, after all if we'd had them last year we might well have won it. But Jack was right when he said we recruited them to give us a midfield while we transition. We had a shy at the stumps for a last dynasty flag, but with most of the eye to the next gen. They will be around in five years. Mitchell and Grundy won't. And in those five years they will protect our kids while they develop.
You want shiny new draft picks. Everyone does. But our list would have been completely out of balance, for years. Stop fussing about pick whatever we gave up. We gave up picks in the range we'd previously picked Jarhead, Lennon, RCD, Coleman-Jones and Dow. Not blue-chip selections. We got two top-7 picks. We got five kids the year before, at least one of whom looks top 5 quality and another top 10-15. Forget the numbers. Look at the talent.
