With repeat clips from Friday\u2019s elimination final win over Carlton played, four-time premiership winner Jordan Lewis and triple premiership Tiger Jack Riewoldt both questioned Cameron\u2019s best role at a time they believe he is not 100% fit.<\/p>\n
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Statistics showed Cameron spent just 24% of game time forward in that win over the Blues \u2013 the majority of his time (73%) was on the wing.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Cameron speaks to Geelong staff at training.Source: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
But that led to a tense back and forth between Lewis and Riewoldt on one couch and Jonathan Brown and Buckley, who was adamant the Cats superstar was ready to go.<\/p>\n
Replay the discussion:<\/p>\n
JACK RIEWOLDT: \u201cThe one thing that everyone is dialling in on is Jeremy Cameron.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously suffered that horrific AC injury against the GWS Giants, but his output and where he\u2019s been played at the moment, on the wing \u2026 if you\u2019re sitting in the opposition coaching box and see Jeremy Cameron on the wing \u2013 and what is an injured Jeremy Cameron \u2013 we know he\u2019s got that broken arm still from last year\u2019s grand final hasn\u2019t set back in place. Clearly that is still hampering him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis efficiency, my belief is that he\u2019s got to play ahead of the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see efforts where he clearly is protecting his arm and not only is he protecting his arm now, it\u2019s starting to affect the confidence of this superstar that fully fit is Jeremy Cameron.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a belief that he wants to get back in front of the ball \u2013 but at the moment, these efforts \u2026 you can\u2019t play him on the wing.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone\u2019s going to take him deep soon and he\u2019s going to have to defend in the backline \u2013 could that be Hayden Young this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just think maybe selection is starting to be questioned for Jeremy Cameron.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Riewoldt and Jordan Lewis were united in their criticism of Cats star Jeremy Cameron.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
JORDAN LEWIS: \u201cI think it\u2019s a concern. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re right in terms of where he was playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was playing wing and then at times swapping forward with (Mark) Blicavs and trying to lose his opponent and set forward of the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I wonder subconsciously whether the players are not kicking him the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, he was open a lot of the times as well, but yet not being used.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, if I\u2019m Geelong and he plays this week, and I know you (turns to Buckley) are smiling over there, you\u2019ve got to look for him to give him the ball because he\u2019s not great in the contest.\u201d<\/p>\n
NATHAN BUCKLEY: \u201cIt\u2019s just funny sitting here having the insight that I have listening to you two talk about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
RIEWOLDT: \u201cWe can only go on what we see.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown and Buckley back Jeremy Cameron | 02:08<\/p>\n
BUCKLEY: \u201cI know, but if you\u2019re coaching, I\u2019m guaranteeing you\u2019re playing Jeremy Cameron. And you\u2019re playing him \u2026 LEWIS: \u201cUnder what circumstances, though? If you\u2019ve got a player that can\u2019t contest \u2026 BUCKLEY: \u201cPretty much under any circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n
LEWIS: \u201cHe can\u2019t contest forward of the ball!\u201d<\/p>\n
RIEWOLDT: \u201cHe\u2019s playing with one arm at the moment though.\u201d<\/p>\n
JONATHAN BROWN: \u201cWould you two boys drop him?\u201d<\/p>\n
LEWIS: \u201cI\u2019d seriously consider selection, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
RIEWOLDT: \u201cIf he\u2019s not in front of the ball, and you want to play him on the wing, I\u2019d be finding a different alternative for mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonathan Brown and Nathan Buckley react on the opposite couch.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
BROWN: \u201cWhat about the scoring though? Because it hasn\u2019t hurt them. <\/p>\n
\u201cSince he\u2019s gone to the wing and all that it sort of hasn\u2019t hurt. I don\u2019t want this to be couch against couch, by the way. We can if you want out the back in the carpark later on (laughs) \u2026 (to Buckley) you take the Warrnambool boy \u2013 they\u2019re pretty tough those Warrnambool boys. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll take the Tassie boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
BUCKLEY: \u201cThe question about him playing forward, like this probably sort of puts a little bit of perspective in it. So since he\u2019s been out of the forward line, it\u2019s actually performed pretty well. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo the question then is \u2018how do you best utilise Jeremy?\u2019 and there\u2019s a plan in place, and (coach Chris) Scotty mentioned that on 360 before our show \u2026\u201d RIEWOLDT: \u201cHe also mentioned that he\u2019s nursing him too.\u201d<\/p>\n
BUCKLEY: \u201cHe has.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cats confident Cameron can recover form | 01:09<\/p>\n
RIEWOLDT: \u201cSo is he fit and firing, ready to go?\u201d <\/p>\n
BUCKLEY: \u201cHe\u2019s absolutely ready to go.\u201d <\/p>\n
RIEWOLDT: \u201cIs he 100%?\u201d<\/p>\n
BUCKLEY: \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
BROWN: \u201cAre you downplaying how hard it is to play forward? You\u2019re saying play forward because he\u2019s clearly injured \u2013 mate, you\u2019ve got to have everything going for you playing forward because that\u2019s where you cop the most contact.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can play out on the wing (nursing an injury).\u201d BUCKLEY: \u201c….and I will make the point that the last time he was questioned, I think he kicked 10 goals that week. So just keep going, boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeremy Cameron (left) leaves the field.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
LEWIS: \u201cThat\u2019s fine. But on the evidence on the weekend, it\u2019s hard to overlook that. In the contest.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut time will tell.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think taking on what Chris Scott said, he may play a lot more forward. I think it\u2019s going to be a challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe obviously don\u2019t know the deal. But just from watching him, it seems like he\u2019s clearly playing injured and clearly we\u2019re not getting the best of Jeremy Cameron.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A discussion over Geelong star Jeremy Cameron\u2019s selection turned tense on Monday night\u2019s On the Couch as Cats…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-884114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884114","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=884114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}