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But four-time premiership star Jordan Lewis believes Wanganeen-Milera\u2019s movements left the Saints \u201cskinny\u201d defensively as they were ultimately outclassed in the fourth quarter at the MCG. <\/p>\n
\u201cI left the game (on Sunday) \u2026 and I just left thinking \u2018Is it system? Or is it selfishness?\u2019 In terms of the way that he plays,\u201d Lewis began on Fox Footy\u2019s On the Couch. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are a lot of sides that cover for centre-forward players, I get that \u2026 So then I had to confirm in my own head today what I was seeing, and it was pretty damning, if I\u2019m honest, to watch him run around and suffer in silence.\u201d<\/p>\n
‘100 goals in a season is ON!’ | 02:36<\/p>\n
Lewis dissected several film examples on Sunday of Wanganeen-Milera roaming wherever he wanted on the MCG turf. <\/p>\n
The first piece of vision showed Wanganeen-Milera – playing as a midfielder – drift forward to become a seventh attacker. <\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t seen that system with any other team, in terms of where they play,\u201d Lewis said. <\/p>\n
The second example depicted \u2018Nas\u2019 having a \u201clapse in concentration\u201d as his opponent – and tagger – Koltyn Tholstrup spread into space. <\/p>\n
\u201cMelbourne (were) out – that could have been stopped inside their (the Saints\u2019) forward 50. Once again, not paying attention to a certain part of the game that doesn\u2019t benefit him,\u201d Lewis said. <\/p>\n
The next clip showed him allowing Tholstrup space to mark virtually uncontested inside 50. <\/p>\n
The last piece of vision was particularly glaring, with Wanganeen-Milera taking out his frustration on teammate Sam Flanders for not giving him the ball – before Tholstrup again got free for a cheap possession in transition. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis one was quite damning \u2026 he was clearly frustrated, calling for the ball, he\u2019s got a tagger right on his backside, he turns around to spray his midfielder (Flanders),\u201d Lewis said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I can tell you, there were about seven or eight more clips that we left on the table \u2026 I think he\u2019s clearly a great player with ball in hand, but he\u2019s a player that goes hard forward and stays forward. He doesn\u2019t re-engage on defence. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, I think he\u2019s suffering in silence at the moment. His communication is nonexistent, which doesn\u2019t tell everyone else what he\u2019s doing, and that happens in general play and at stoppages as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch the full On the Couch breakdown in the video player below:<\/p>\n
‘Is it system, or selfishness?’ | 02:42<\/p>\n
When asked about the conversation that may have to be had, Lewis added: \u201cA lot of times, when we go through reviews, it isn\u2019t about what you do with ball in hand – it\u2019s what you\u2019re doing without the ball. And he can become such a more influential player for this team when he doesn\u2019t have the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox Footy analyst and Geelong assistant coach Nathan Buckley said Wanganeen-Milera was likely doing simply what his coach asked of him. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s a very real possibility that he\u2019s just following instructions on what part of the field his coach wants him,\u201d Buckley said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI also think that there\u2019s a very real possibility that he\u2019s struggling to deal with the attention – both off field and on field.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Saints coach Ross Lyon was scrutinised post-match on Sunday for his use of \u2018Nas\u2019 in the final term, with the superstar stuck on the bench for six minutes after spending the first half of the quarter playing deep forward. <\/p>\n
The 23-year-old, who booted three goals from 18 disposals for the match, attended just one of seven centre-square stoppages in the last period as St Kilda fell short. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really simple \u2014 (Wanganeen-Milera) had a licence to go anywhere. He was getting tagged, so you just put (pressure) on a tag and you open up your forward line,\u201d Lyon said after the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said, \u2018mate, you can go and take a kick-in, you can go behind the ball, you can go to the stoppage or you can go (to the bench).<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes you\u2019ve got to let them drive the car \u2026 but it\u2019s a steep learning curve \u2026 I wouldn\u2019t have thought he\u2019s walked off distraught. He\u2019s got 15 (disposals) and three goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera has been questioned in \u201cdamning\u201d film vision from St Kilda\u2019s 13-point loss to Melbourne on Sunday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,24164,64,63,689,55,639,269473,269474,1818,269471,1127,269472,10145,19125,19080,3465,647,7804,269475,26511,677,53253,49776,85,1122,26889,33203,660,192215],"class_list":["post-543792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-assistant-coach","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-centre-forward-players","tag-couch-analysis","tag-david-king","tag-film-vision","tag-fox-footy","tag-game-film","tag-garry-lyon","tag-jay-clark","tag-jordan-lewis","tag-leigh-montagna","tag-melbourne","tag-melbourne-demons","tag-multiple-film-examples","tag-nathan-buckley","tag-oceania","tag-real-possibility","tag-sam-flanders","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-steep-learning-curve","tag-victoria","tag-worrying-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}