When your engine carks it you can scream at your wheels for not turning, but you’re wasting your time.
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R1- 9CP, 2T
R2- 6 CP, 4T
R3-16CP, 4T
R4-6CP, 2T
First 2 rounds total 15CP, 6T
Rounds3 and 4 total 22CP, 6T
First 2 rounds everyone plays low intensity compared to oppo - link man ineffective, despite doing ok at CP (for a mostly outside player).
Second two rounds, much better pressure and offensive run - link man does better with modest increase in CP.
What rounds 3 and 4 show is that dropping him after rounds 1 and 2 would have been a monumentally stupid overly emotional response, and was frankly never a snowflakes chance of happening despite standard blitz roller coaster opinion going nuts after a loss or two. The blitz match committee would have us on 4 losses but least we’d be getting games into unripe or unfit youngsters rather than has beens or never weres like ( in that opinion) Zaka, brown, etc.
One or two bad losses in a few weeks and you just know where this thread will go.
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He was almaot exclusively out there in 2017 and most of 2018.
Still reckon we dropped the ball in 2017 - badly.
Playing Watson all the way through, on top of Hepp & Myers and a sprinkling of Howlett/Bird threw out our balance.
Not to mention made it near impossible to blood kids (ie Langford and McGrath) in the midfield.
Whereas in 2018 we didn’t get results, but I was very very impressed with the development put into the midfield group (both new players and existing guys in new/different roles).
Everything starts from midfield, and I think it’s starting to click now.
People will chalk it up to Shiel, but a lot of work in 2018 went into McGrath, Langford & Parish, of course the Most Improved Player™, ran a handful of different guys through the wings. they even threw Hepp a few defensive assignments.
Methodical.
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Zak, Back and Crack out this week with a leg infection… what’s going down at Tulla with all these weird-a*se lower leg injuries?
Edit: not out of North game - HeraldSun beat up
Agree about Shiel. He will help a lot but no one player is going to carry a team to ultimate success. They are a key factor but they can’t do it all themselves. Judd at Carlton - nup. Watson with us - nup. All successful teams with an elite gun star player still need a decent depth of other top players to do their part.
C7 news reporting that he is in hospital with the leg infection.
Rounds 3 & 4 show exactly why it would have been a mistake to drop him after round 2.
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Here is the clip that discusses Zaka.
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Who is the norf player?
McDonald losing his appeal.
He’s cooked
Love this catchphrase. It’s working.
I cAnT bELiEve He WaS lAuGhING aFtER aLosS.
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What’s the latest on the knee that apparently bleeds red black and gangrene???
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A few players over the last couple of season developed nasty infections. A melb player last year with a finger iirc? Got bitten by his dog then played, after the game almost lost his finger.
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Was that Petracca?
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Yep that’s the one.
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I feel like there was a Brissie player too? 4-5 years back
It’s no good.
Anyone see if he trained today?