I honestly don’t think after all this time Dodoro has much improvement in him.
Speaking of Collingwood’s Cox, glad to see they’ve finally realised he’s a spud and he can’t get a game. Though he’s on astonishingly good money for someone who can’t actually play Aussie Rules other than a couple of half decent marks each game
100%. Everyone is obsessed with tall blokes playing a KPP or ruck role, but it’s your midfielders who win you games. And imagine a 200cm wingman who can drift forward and take marks over his 180cm opponent.
Richmond tried for his entire career to turn Richo into a key forward and he wasn’t. Then they unleashed him on the wing late in his career, 30+ years of age and slowing down, and he nearly won a Brownlow there.
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Richo wasn’t a key forward!!!
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This is the kind of player you build a squad around.
Our draft and trade strategy for the next five years should revolve around one attribute: the ability to give the ball to Coxy.
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I know you’re saying this partly tongue in cheek… but plenty of similar comments were written about Draper, JoeDan etc.
What about we build a team around a solid gameplan and culture instead, just for a change… instead of Hail Mary hopes on one or two players becoming superstars?
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Very true, he wasn’t but they played him as one for 15 years
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And it is not like this is anything new. Bont is 194cm, Cripps 196cm. It’s the way to go, need to keep moving.
Sheeds picked Bolton as a mid, ahead of his time.
The secret to all top players. Confidence and feeling that you belong on the ground with your team mates. Watch as some of our newbies such as 2MP , Jones , Zerk and even Phillips gain there mojo , it will be wunderbar.
Just love seeing him bob, weave and blind turn through two or three players and dispose of it well, absolute silk
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He sure played well on the wing. But he also kicked 800 goals at slightly more goals per game than Wayne Carey…
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I reckon Dustin Fletcher never played two’s either…
I don’t think Merrett, Heppell, McGrath have played a game in the twos either have they?
Yeah, nah.
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What I loved about Cox on the weekend, was that moment in the last where Collingwood had created a fast break type situation at a time where another goal to them might break us, they go long to a one on one or two in two and the ball goes to the ground. And there to hoover it up and pick the correct option was Cox. At the speed the ball had travelled from our half forward line he had no right to be there. And to get there, be clean and calm and pick a good option under the heat was so important, and something that we have not had a lot of at critical times over the last few years.
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Yeah i’d like to see the behind the goals footage for that to see where he came from
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Was all over him like a big straight jacket.
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This kid can be absolutely anything… he’s a gun… it’s his 6th game and showing some promise. Playing on the big stage , with a massive crowd behind and against him. Unbelievable!!
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Umm he is 11th on the all time AFL goal kicking table with 800?
He was a very good key forward in an era where Richmond were mostly ■■■■.
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I imagined he would slot in as a half back flanker with speed and precision of ball use from half back.
But he has played a much harder role well.
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