JK wrote:One of the blokes on Fox Footy was bang on right about Pittard last night.
I know he is much maligned among many Port supporters, but imho it's because he has the most difficult role, the one that involves the most risk .. He has the responsibility for taking the risk kicks, that can make or break a play for Port.
In a team with plenty of stars it's often easy to make him the fall guy, but when he's on he creates so much .. When he's off, the turnovers can come out, but thats the style of play his coach wants.
Reckon he is undervalued by many.
Bang on JK.
IMO- the reason port's back 6, in particular, Pittard, looked so good last night is because of Trengove.
When Jacko is in our side. It frees up Hombsch and Jonas to do the intercept marking/spoiling, leaving O'Shea, Broadbent and Pittard to be offensive linkmen. You cant match up on all 3 of those.
As soon as Jonas and Hombsch have to play accountable roles on a key forward, we lose a link up. Brogs often gets a tag, leaving Pittard the only ball user out of the back 6- causes him to make turnovers constantly trying to generate offensive movement, as well as defend. When we are able to use all 3, Jasper can pick his time to go, thus leaving his skills sharper over the course of the match due to lack of fatigue.
He was brilliant last night- but nobody dare underestimate the importance of Trengove. People say Lobbe is our most important player? Yeah, only because of our injury depletion in that area. Jacko is our most important player as far as structure, by a long way.