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He’s done it again. This morning on MTR, and reported in the Herald Sun, Jason Akermanis was overly critical of young St. Kilda listed defender Alastair Smith, calling him “some dribbler who can’t kick.”
This was after he was heavily and successfully tagged, probably more for the experience of young Smith rather than actually trying to negate his influence.
I’m sorry Aker, I thought a Brownlow medalist, who’s in the top five players of a premiership contender would be able to shrug a tag off a man fourteen years his junior. When you were drafted, you played for a rubbish team, and got a game every week. Smith has to work his butt off to even be named as an emergency, and this will only add to his resume.
Ask all 16 clubs, plus Gold Goast and GWS who they would prefer?
A 33-year-old Brownlow medalist with a big mouth and something seriously wrong with his game? Or a developing 19-year-old midfielder/defender, with a lovely left boot and the ability to tag (now we know thanks to him)? I reckon the resounding response would be for the man from Perth.
When a player of Aker’s calibre has only fourteen disposals, one of four things is happening: he’s playing on a gun player; a high quality of opposition was against his team; there’s something temporarily wrong; there’s something permanently wrong.
Smith is not a gun. The opposition were relatively low quality, and his team were full of talent. If its temporary, at his age it might as well be permanent since he’s had no good games this year. Looks like Aker is turning geriatric.
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