It’s not reflected in his stats, but Aish seems a little off this season, but he’s such a versatile player I don’t think he should be dropped.
I don’t mind Hughes as defender because he players like a defender, and I think when the other team’s midfield gets on top our more attacking defenders can be exposed a little. On the body of work this year I think we can safely say he’s not a winger, so if that’s the spot we’re filling I think we should look elsewhere. I don’t see what we’d lose by playing one of Henry, Johnson or Erasmus there, or moving Freddy to the wing and adding someone like Sturt to the forward line.
O’Driscoll’s output hasn’t been good enough, but we desperately need his type of player, so I don’t know what option we have but to wait for him to hit his straps.
On Banfield, I reckon he does enough to stay in the side. He’s not elite at any one thing, but he gets it a little bit, gets a goal a game, puts on decent pressure and doesn’t get beaten in the air that often. In the aggregate that’s enough.
On paper that is a really good Fremantle side that should really take it up to Geelong.
