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With a disposal efficiency of just over 50 per cent, Collingwood couldn’t kick last season.
Although being hampered by injury contributed to the Pies missing the finals, if they had hit their targets injury wouldn’t have mattered as much.
In Travis Cloke Collingwood have one of the best power forwards in the league, but they consistently kick it at his ankles or over his head.
Cloke could have a lot more shots on goal if players like Scott Pendlebury and Steele Sidebottom could run down the wing and hit him on his chest.
One of the best deliverers on Collingwood’s list right know is Tim Broomhead. I remember his first game: he was subbed on, got the ball out of the midfield, and hit Cloke, lace out, on the chest, giving the defender no chance to make a contest.
(Of course Cloke missed, but still.)
Fatigue seems to kick in for the Pies after the third quarter, and their disposal gets even worse, making them unable to make a team pay. If they had beaten North Melbourne by over 80 points in one of the earlier rounds last year, or finished off the Gold Coast instead of leaving it up to Clinton Young to mark a sitter, they could have been a real threat.
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