Don’t often agree with the AwFL website but their ‘Nine things we learned from round nine’ here (
m.afl.com.au/news/2018-05-20/nine-things...rned-from-round-nine) pretty much gets it right IMHO.
We have absolutely no defensive pressure inside 50 and right now with B.Hill out - wouldn’t it be great to have Mayne our there? I’ll come back to McCarthy. When he doesn’t have ball in hand he doesn’t work hard enough. Throw a Strdanica or Apeness in with Cox and they can be a genuine target like Sandi was in the last qtr.
Pity Grey keeps pinging his hammy as he has shown a bit the times he has got a run. Tackles ferociously. Maybe Giro in for one of Cerra or Crowden if they need a rest? I’m prepared to give Ballas on more road trip but another effort like that and maybe a Hughes or dare I say it, a Shericliffe, gets a game instead? Something has to happen down there as all the good work of the backline and midfield is going to complete waste ATM.