Duz has lived with McGrath for a few years now. I guess it does take a while to reap the benefits from what you sow.
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Curious to know what others thought of his game against the Eagles. I thought he was solid, 24 touches and six tackles, which is high for him. I donāt think the Eaglesā small forwards did heaps of damage, and the spoil McGrath made running back to goal at a critical point in the last quarter was brilliant.
I reckon heās had a really good season - career-best, Iād say - but I feel like his level has dipped a bit over the past four or five games.
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heās good, and has been good all year. but his kicking is horrendous and he seems determined to get the ball so much. good for multis, but he continues to run into bad positions to get a cheap stat.
even yesterday from a kick out he runs out from the goal square, couple of bounces and runs into trouble!
cant fault his defending. can fault his kicking
I actually thought his kicking had massively improved this year. I have missed the last few games so it may have fallen off, but it was so much better first 10 games
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Our ball movement out of defence has been quite poor as a team, lots of sideways kicks. Apart from Martin and McGrath very few of our defenders take the game on. McGrath kicking in my view has been pretty good this year, massive improvement on previous years but the last thing we should do is criticise him for taking the game on (even if he runs into trouble). One of the very few in this side with the guts to do it. He needs more support in this regard or we will continue to have efficiency issues moving the ball forward. Slow ball movement out of defensive 50 ultimately results in turnovers.
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I think there should be a rule that he NEVER kicks out from a behind.
He either directly turns the ball over or just goes long down the line and it ALWAYS comes back in for a repeat inside 50 against.
Ridley/Redman should be the only ones allowed to take kick outs.
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Thatās a poor take on what he has been like this year. His kicking has been excellent overall. He is also not looking for cheap stats at all. His role is to get the ball and be creative. That he is doing.
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And if Redman are Ridley are nowhere near it. We should sit back and wait?
Lol. No.
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There is zero reason for Andy to be taking kick outs from full back. Heās a very good small defender and if he was drafted as such and not a #1 pick Iād be far less inclined to get frustrated with him as he does provide a lot of value. Heās had a good year
He must know his kicking is his Achilles heal. He does a number of dump kicks per game and Iām sure itās highlighted in their post game reviews.
Iām pretty certain he works his arse off on it as heās clearly incredibly disciplined, but it highlights how challenging it will be for Tsatas as I think most of us would think Andyās a far better kick than Elijah.
Thought he was terrible. Cripps was his opponent and got coaches votes. kicked 2.3
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watch closer.
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Iām with you, CH. Cripps torched him all day, and he constantly ran himself into trouble and just burnt it by foot
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No reason to. Maybe you need glasses?
I donāt know how you can say itās been excellent.
Itās been rated average and the kicking efficiency metrics are designed to be forgiving
The spoil in the 4th qtr when running towards the player was all time.
How he didnāt give away a free there was incredible.
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I felt like a few of the WC smalls (mainly Cripps and Ryan) were ācheatingā a bit and running / hiding well forward whilst we had the ball. Then when we turned it over, they were in acres of space.
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McGrath is an ok player, better this year, but still nothing special and agree he has dropped off recently back to his baseline.
Nah, it certainly hasnāt been excellent. Pretty solid and an improvement no doubt, but heās nowhere near āexcellentā by foot.
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So youāre saying that their small forwards were cheating for making our small defenders defend and not chase easy kicks?
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Does the same thing pretty much every year. Has a good stretch, then goes back to maligned McGrath again.
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