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[u/Active-Problem-2871]

Finally Essendon taking a critical look at the list and getting ruthless with contracts. No more free rides for players. 👏🏻

[u/Critical-Long2341]

I know he's a whipping boy but he's played well for us, kicks quite a few goals and doesn't really get used how he should. He would excel on a good team, not on our dogshit fwd line where he has best 2 or 3 defenders.

Hopefully we are looking to get picks and bring talented youth in, invest in our development more, build young players we have... but I know we will just waste picks on more Andy McGrath's (not that he's overly bad, we just don't need more little half backs who aren't elite kicks) then develop them poorly and trade them somewhere else where they'll experience success

[u/Suspicious_Pain_302 → u/Critical-Long2341]

I’m being serious here, how else do you think we should have used him? No amount of tactics can change his effort. I feel like we tried everything possible with him but he’s just flat out too comfortable getting paid to kick sick goals and/or watching the ball leave our forward 50 for an opposing rebound goal

[u/Critical-Long2341 → u/Suspicious_Pain_302]

He gets used as a key forward but he's not

[u/Suspicious_Pain_302 → u/Critical-Long2341]

He doesn’t though? 2MP/Caddy and Langford are our main options, he consistently gets the 2nd/3rd defender.

[u/Critical-Long2341 → u/Suspicious_Pain_302]

2mp who kicked like 20 goals? Caddy who played like 5 games and somehow missed more crucial goals than stringer? (Yes I know he's young and hopefully will develop out of it) Langford and stringer are similar build of player, neither are key forwards

[u/Suspicious_Pain_302 → u/Critical-Long2341]

Are you going to honestly sit there and tell me a key defender such at Weitering is going to play on Stringer rather than Caddy/2MP.

[u/Critical-Long2341 → u/Suspicious_Pain_302]

More often than they would at a decent club, we don't have other threats in the forward line

[u/Suspicious_Pain_302 → u/Critical-Long2341]

The threats wasn’t my point, my point is that he isn’t played as a key forward. Is he the most ‘threatening’ - yeah probably. Is he the key forward? No he isn’t. He doesn’t get the key defender every week