Milne - Where's he at?

[dragit]

Hope Milney has a blinder this week and wins the game off his own boot with 6 goals… respect him as a great player for the club, just can't ignore the fact that it just isn't happening for him this year.

[vacuous space]

If he'd been bad, I might understand the noise. The criticism seems to be he's not in AA form. He's not. But 1.5 per game is no worse than average and he's doing it while playing on each team's best small defender. His presence takes pressure off Saad and everyone down. He's now got goals in 39 straight games. Does anybody think that we have anybody else who could do that with the kind of attention he gets?

If some kid plays well enough to take his spot, then fine. He's not going to get dropped for his birth certificate.

[Teflon]

If he'd been bad, I might understand the noise. The criticism seems to be he's not in AA form. He's not. But 1.5 per game is no worse than average and he's doing it while playing on each team's best small defender. His presence takes pressure off Saad and everyone down. He's now got goals in 39 straight games. Does anybody think that we have anybody else who could do that with the kind of attention he gets?

If some kid plays well enough to take his spot, then fine. He's not going to get dropped for his birth certificate.

Don't think hiding behind averages of goals a game does anything to address the glaring deficiency that's in Milnes game and worse now than ever - his forward pressure and tackling is below par.

Getting bags against GWS to help out the 1.5 goals a game average does little for me.

Perhaps the bigger question for ALL our small forwards should be:

Can we afford in future to carry specialist small forwards who can't go into the midfield rotation?

Right now this makes Milnes position even more questionable

1. He can't play anywhere else
2. He isn't kicking goals (I'd like to see his stats this year against top 8 sides)
3 He adds next to NO forward pressure

Clocks ticking IMO

[spert]

We will suffer this season against any quality opposition as our forward line doesn't kick enough goals- I don't care what Milne, Saad, Milera etc have done in the past, be it good or bad, but in season 2013 these small forwards just need to be basically kicking more goals when the ball comes into their zone, that's their main job. At present we have an in-form CHF, but no contributions from FF or small forwards- if Roo gets injured, then on current form, we would struggle to kick 5 goals per match.