Giants skipper emerges as shock \u2018plan B\u2019 option for big free agency suitor<\/a><\/p>\nKing noted the star forward\u2019s teammates haven\u2019t been helped at times either, saying there\u2019s moments where the Roos \u201cneed to honour his leads and give him the easy one\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wonder whether it\u2019s a team thing, it\u2019s the only forward line I look at in the competition that doesn\u2019t block. And I think, why?,\u201d King added.<\/p>\n
Larkey\u2019s numbers against the best teams raised the most concern.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s kicked a combined 2.6 against top 10 teams Brisbane, Geelong and Sydney. <\/p>\n
And the Roos skipper has rated poorly in all but one his last five games against Sydney (No. 46), Geelong (No. 45), GWS (No. 4), Richmond (No. 37) and Brisbane (No. 35).<\/p>\n
Yze claims Tigers got ‘punched around’ | 12:50<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not interested in what they do against the also rans, because most teams will have good numbers against the also rans. But against Brisbane, Geelong and Sydney \u2014 1.3, 1.1 and 0.2,\u201d King continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re going to lead the joint, you\u2019ve got to lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s his individual game ratings. It just says, c\u2019mon. It\u2019s time to get moving, it\u2019s time to get going. The club will not improve without the captain leading the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saints legend Leigh Montagna questioned whether the 27-year old being handed the captaincy could be weighing on his form. <\/p>\n
But King doesn\u2019t think it\u2019s a factor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think so, he\u2019s not that sort of guy. He\u2019s a level-headed dude,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwenty-three one-on-one contests, which is the 10th most in the comp, he\u2019s yet to mark one. <\/p>\n
\u201cI reckon two years ago, he was fighting two v one and still marking the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just time to perform, it\u2019s time to get going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne legend David King has put the acid on skipper Nick Larkey to step up and \u201cbe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[30395,638,319647,64,63,689,55,639,19061,320102,3499,1818,320105,48815,1127,320104,13658,2105,12141,3465,320103,647,673,24305,677,299826,20002,85,670,303603,320101,19086,660,183694],"class_list":["post-662821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adem-yze","tag-afl","tag-agency-suitor","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-coaching-staff","tag-crunch-games","tag-daniel-pockett","tag-david-king","tag-draft-steal-busts","tag-form-slump","tag-fox-footy","tag-game-ratings","tag-geelong","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-jeremy-cameron","tag-leigh-montagna","tag-make-a-play","tag-melbourne","tag-new-south-wales","tag-nick-larkey","tag-oceania","tag-richmond-head","tag-saints-legend","tag-sports","tag-sydney","tag-team-thing","tag-third-game-player","tag-toby-greene","tag-victoria","tag-worrying-trend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662821","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=662821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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