NAB Challenge v Lions

[The Big Cat]

Well modern day coaches seem to want or feel they need athletes who can kick a ball.

Hodge just floats across half back and just finds his speedy mids with pin point accuracy.

I presume you are talking about speedy mids like Hill and Smith. Where are the others, certainly not Mitchell, Lewis and Burgoyne. So far we have identified a ratio of 4:2. in terms of footballers and speed.

[jono2707]

Well modern day coaches seem to want or feel they need athletes who can kick a ball.

We have Jetts - one of the quickest around and a sublime kick with the ball when at his best.

The problem is there aren't that many players that are both top line athletes and footballers around, and most are taken very high up in the draft, so we've had few chances to pick many up in the last number of years.

Tell you what though, I'm glad we picked up the likes of Luke Parker when we did a few years ago - what he lacks in sheer pace, he makes up for in hardness, footy nous and smarts. Give me more Lukes over 'athletes' any day

[dimelb]

Well modern day coaches seem to want or feel they need athletes who can kick a ball.

Hodge just floats across half back and just finds his speedy mids with pin point accuracy.

Missing players department: who is going to do ROK's job on Hodge? He didn't have much room to move there.

[O'Reilly Boy]

Missing players department: who is going to do ROK's job on Hodge? He didn't have much room to move there.

Zac Jones