Nick's Collingwood Bulletin Board

You nailed it RudeBoy

I think Sier now gets more game time in the first couple weeks. Good chance to see if he has improved.

T M. Still is and no change from 2018

When a soldier falls another walks into the battle

Mids are covered by a plus of 4

He is going to need to play more minutes, without Adams.

In the GF Sier played about 45mins.

Adams is one midfielder that I would want there every game! His tackling pressure and hard ball gets are second to none and by my view the best in the comp. We don't realize how much we will miss him against the Tigers. He alone was a spine in the armour of the Tigers in that Prelim. Still that hard edge can be covered by Sier and Greenwood.

It doesn't much matter. He had a very slow start to 2018 (after, I think, a hampered pre-season) and didn't really influence games in the first half of the year. He gradually picked up momentum from about round 12 on. His Brownlow votes all came between rounds 15 and 22. All of his 30+ disposal games, all of his big clearance numbers and 13 of his 16 goals assists for the year came from round 12 on. They can cover his work for the early part of the year, provided he gets back.

think positive wrote:Love love love Taylor Adams, we will miss him for shaw, but we have good depth, and a great team attitude. and if we cannot win without 1 midfielder missing, then we aint got a hope in hell! A champion TEAM not a team of champions.

Get better soon Tay, We need you, for leadership and skills. but most importantly, get better properly and fully. cheers

I didnt think we had any Shaw's on our list. Only Brown's, Daicos's, Kelly's and Moore's!!! Do you know something we dont?

Pies4shaw wrote:It doesn't much matter. He had a very slow start to 2018 (after, I think, a hampered pre-season) and didn't really influence games in the first half of the year. He gradually picked up momentum from about round 12 on. His Brownlow votes all came between rounds 15 and 22. All of his 30+ disposal games, all of his big clearance numbers and 13 of his 16 goals assists for the year came from round 12 on. They can cover his work for the early part of the year, provided he gets back.

i think you might be overlooking the significance of his absence in our early season struggles. Him and DeGoey.

Mossi wrote: Adams is one midfielder that I would want there every game! His tackling pressure and hard ball gets are second to none and by my view the best in the comp. We don't realize how much we will miss him against the Tigers. He alone was a spine in the armour of the Tigers in that Prelim. Still that hard edge can be covered by Sier and Greenwood.

Believe it or not, both Aish and Brown are capable of playing the Tay Adams role. Now i don't expect either of them to get the nod to do that (since Pendles, Beams, Treloar, Sier and others are ahead of them in terms of midfield depth), but both have exceptionally good hands in the clinches and both are very good at getting their hands on the ball in those in and under situations.

In the case of Aish in particular, Tay Adams has been the biggest impediment to his development as he has had to adapt to the wing/HBF role as the only way to get a game.

Big loss for the early part of the season.

It makes the addition of Beams all the more important.

His very best football is A grade level these days, he appears the natural successor to Pendlebury as Captain and in the Grand Final was clearly our best performed midfielder.

Big loss.