The quickest path to Whipping Boy, is to be traded in halfway through your career.
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EFC does not even have ācan we be a little bit proactive?ā on its agenda.
Crucially you missed out this important bit:
āā¦ and underperform and be overpaidā.
How is his wage even relevant? We have cash to burn and nobody to spend it on.
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Hes nothing like these 2.
Yeah, heās an explosive rover type not a wingman. Itās actually not a very common type of player these days, probably because sheer size has become so prized. Iām thinking Tony McGuiness, John Platten, though both of those guys were better gut runners and probably not quite as high end quick. Shiel has never been a pure wingman thatās for sure. He kind of plays like a ruck rover but needs space to work through because he lacks the size required to bulldoze through. Heās at least 5cm and closer to 10kgs smaller than he needs to be to do that though. Our whole midfield problem is that weāve ended up with a bunch of rovers (though I think parish plays more like a traditional center). Itās hysterical to think we recruited Smith with the promise of more midfield time too.
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Kelly without the elite kicking and better extraction skills?
Yeah, very similar to Treloar too
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Honestly heās kind of a weird player. Doesnāt have sheer size, isnāt a massive gut runner, isnāt particularly polished. Speed is obviously his one wood but he doesnāt really hurt with it.
The modern champion Rovers, Crawford/cousins have combined class and a huge tank.
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Merrett doesnāt have a monster tank either but has just enough speed and a damaging left foot. Parish has great vision and just knows where to go but doesnāt have a huge tank, speed, size or polish (though he can be damaging because his vision is so good).
Theyāre kind of all 1 trick ponies which is why they can all be vulnerable to tags and why they donāt work together well.
I canāt think of another midfield that was so imbalanced for so long. Actually I can, jobe, Hocking, hepp, Myers, Howlett, bj, Stanton. All totally one paced, only 1 elite runner and 1 damaging kick among themā¦
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Which one was the damaging kick?
Myers? I mean sure, he could hoof it, but was he damaging? Nahā¦
Goddard? To a point, but I reckon his kicking was way worse with us than when he was at the Saints.
Goddard was an elite kick, Iāll just add Jobe had elite vision and hand ball.
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Could you just say he plays like Judd? Obviously Judd was a class above.
Iāve always seen Shiel as a poor manās Dangerfield, explosive from stoppage, pretty powerful athletes, dreadful disposal and unreliable goal kicking.
The good stuff danger is obviously better and danger has a bomb of a kick from 50. But that is the genre of player I see shiel as
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Sorta but Judd was proper ruck rover size and could brute force things
Danger is just a lot bigger the Shiel too
Heās not a guy who rips you apart on his own, but what he does do is create drive forward and transition super quick.
If we have our forward line right where weāve got big targets presenting, crumbers around them and weāre locking it in well, he comes into his own. What he doesnāt/canāt do is spot up targets in traffic.
Pretty sure the years/times heās shone are the years weāve had our forwards sorted.
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Shiel let SPP get that goal
Heās a very odd player Dylan.
Does some strange things that really leave you scratching your head. There will be the odd brilliant piece of play thrown in there as well but yeah, heās an interesting one.
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He is very consistently inconsistent.
Sometimes he goes hard, sometimes he doesnāt; sometimes he chases hard, sometimes he doesnāt; sometimes he runs with the ball hard, sometimes he doesnāt, sometimes he tackles well, sometimes he doesnāt.
Looks like a solidly built player with a huge burst of speed but doesnāt play like it very often.
Heās the type of player you think can be good, but then you wonder if we will ever improve while he is in the team.
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