Our most composed player when he came on. But not a teachers pet, clearly.
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He’s not a teacher’s pet because he’s too young and he can football.
Brad only likes geriatric blokes that play entitled and only run one way.
Or, you know, no preseason, young kid, lacks fitness from early injury and they are actually trying to manage his loads.
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I must admit. Didn’t even notice he was playing. Is that my bad?
Given our injuries I think he’s been managed through this week’s game. Wasn’t afforded that opportunity last week due to Martin’s injury. Possible full game next week in place of Lual or Clarke.
Should play a full game.
Sadly Redman has his spot.
But this kid can seriously play and we need to get games into him.
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Can’t believe the umpire didn’t pay his mark. He punched the ball, then ran and dived to mark it.
Did I miss something? Why wasn’t it paid a mark?
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Hope he can work on his pace, think we have a player with him
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Our best player when he hits 20/21 years old.
Stupid to make him sub. Should have started on the field!!!
No. That was a clear mark. Umpires missed it.
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Hit the ground as he was scooping it up on the dive. I was outraged til I saw the slow mo.
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On the big screen the replay still looked OK to me. I haven’t watched a replay on TV (and don’t intend to!).
At least someone gets it…
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Prediction: Zac will be treated like Mass 2.0. Brad doesn’t know what to do with a player with a weapon (his ball use) but things to work on (defensive intent).
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Lol funny you say that, i have noticed he likes to put him in the sub role. He’s definitely not as popular as Clarke, who i saw brad mentioned for the second time this week, that he will likely never be dropped.
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Let’s not get carried away. Zac was the youngest draftee, I think we’re all very surprised he’s played this much already… including Zac.
I think this is a case of the coaches trying to protect him while he’s obviously still developing an AFL body/fitness
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At least we have one poster who can read the room.
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Early prediction for sure and I sure hope that it’s wrong, but I see a similar pattern as we saw with Mass. If he is sub today, that’s 3x in a row straight off a bye. That’s not protecting a young player with limited preseason. Thats hindering development.
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The first week he played 3/4. That may have changed any plans of managing him completely.