The funniest thing about the people who commentate on footy is their absolute ignorance of long term form.
Injury aside, players are likely to perform at a fairly standard level over their career, improving up til about 25-26, then declining after about 30, with a few exceptions due to injury or mental state.
Hooker was always going to revert to mean. Heās been a good player his whole career, he had a shortened preseason. Why would you put your neck out on his form? Batshit stupid.
Do you remember the next most recent article singling out a player for criticism?
I donāt, but I bet there was one not long ago, and people read it, discussed it, then forgot about it. It probably generated a few thousand clicks or paper copies sold.
āProductā doesnāt have to be long lasting or even correct these days, it just needs to sell.
Seven bagged the crap out of Liberatore recently, even sending a camera and transmission truck (maybe; they may also have driven the footage the couple kilometres to the studio) to a game they were otherwise ignoring.
Which was fine by me, it actually got some footage of Essendon VFL onto the telly.
Just heard on the radio that Hooker has a finger injury, although it was not clear if he would play against the swans. Does anyone have any clear news about this?