Gawn still looking good, 10 possies 100%DE 46HO 3 marks 3 tackles 2 goal assists. He hasn't hurt his chances.
Still undecided on R2, Goldy and Currie at R1&3 with Martin at R2 at this stage.
agree although i am not considering Blicavs any more due to Danger coming in and stealing SC points from him. Not totally sold on Gawn but yeh Martin, NicNat or Gawn for R2 atmsame here, Martin seems the safest pick at R2 but hate that he has the same bye as Goldy
between Martin, Blicavs, Nic Nat and Gawn for me. Think Jacobs is going to have a bad year without danger in the crows midfield.
was against Dogs 2nds thoughGawn still looking good, 10 possies 100%DE 46HO 3 marks 3 tackles 2 goal assists. He hasn't hurt his chances.
Would've loved to have seen Gawn come up against a decent ruckman in the preseason. His tons last year came against:
St Kilda 118 (Longer)
Geelong 146 (Blicavs/Walker)
Essendon 150 (Mckernan)
Brisbane 105 (Leuey/Stef)
St Kilda 110 (Longer)
Collingwood 104 (Witts/Grundy)
Freo 106 (Sandi) - did a stack of junk time work with 76 points in the 2nd half
GWS 101 (Downie)
His lower scores came against Nicnat, Goldy, Campbell and Kreuz. Whilst there aren't actually that many quality ruckmen going around, it would've been nice to see how he fared against good opposition in his current form. So far in the preseason he's dominated Lobbe (who looked deplorable) and Minson/Campbell (in a Dogs reserves team), and annoyingly they play the saints in the final game so he'll invariably dominate again. That is my one sticking point with him - how will he go this year against the Goldstein, Sauce, Nicnat, Mummy types? He comes up against Mummy round 1 and Goldy round 3 so we will find out very early in the season.
Having said all that I do think Gawn will be a good pick given his tendency to beat up on the lesser rucks and his seemingly huge HTA % (I swear he's been hitting almost everything down a teammate's throat!), but there is that slight question mark which makes me wonder if he can hit the 110+ mark people seem to be expecting. At this stage I'm going with Martin given the fact he doesn't rely on hitouts to get good scores and averaged 117 in the 8 games Leuey didn't play, but I can see Gawn averaging just as much (if not more) provided he manages reasonable scores against the big guns.
Looking at Melb's draw, Gawn only come sup against North, Eagles, Freo, Crows once. Food for thought.
2 kicks 8 handballs. isnt much, also DE is measured by the disposals that go to team mates or a 50/50 contestI'm looking at the DE. 100% cant be ignored, against anyone.
2 kicks 8 handballs. isnt much, also DE is measured by the disposals that go to team mates or a 50/50 contest
Does anybody think Currie could genuinely take #1 ruck duties from Nicholls? When Z.Smith wasn't playing Nicholls still didn't get THAT many hitouts, mostly low 20s, Currie on the other hand is a more mature ruck playing under Goldy and is actually bloody good at what he does... I'll be watching the last NAB closely, I think for 160k Currie could genuinely be a rookie whom we need his scores on field to be taking advantage of his value. Especially if mid rookies are thin