Yeah. Good point.
He took some ruck hitouts against Richmond and got 11. I’m not sure if that was while Goldy was playing a kick behind play or as a designated ruck. He attended 20% of the ruck contest. Last night, that was down to 5%.
For reference, 2MP was at 20% against Richmond and 43% against GWS last night. He’s regularly been +20% in hitouts won. Prior to Scott he was wining 40% of hitouts (smaller volume of hitouts though), he’s now up to 50% which is a good sign.
I actually see more scope in 2MP expanding his ruck game. And I do think it fits within the forward line scheme where you play 3 talls (which most teams are doing), but one of them is a back up ruckman (which teams are shying away from).
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It still baffles me that we have a forwards coach who kicked an impressive 2 goals in a grand total of 11 AFL games. Surely he has to be in the cannon?
Nice little interview from Jake here starting at 3.23
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He is very humble and respectful here. I would love to see him win the flag this year with the Giants.
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No. Fark him. He couldn’t be bothered doing the hardwork for us. I don’t want him to get the cheap glory with GWS
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Because of the Giants list they allowed him to recover from his injuries.
He is a luxury for them. For us we needed him on the park so we pushed him.
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Hmm. Doesn’t explain how he came back overweight nearly every pre-season.
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He comes back borderline flying.
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He wasn’t fit enough at start of pre-season for GWS either.
But when you have Hogan, Riccardi, Greene, Cadman etc., that means you straight up go “nope, not playing until you are fit, your loss”.
Whereas we had Wright (sometimes), Langford and well, not much else.
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I remember that play. Once he decided to handball to Ridley, it was obvious to me that he needed to veer to his left, draw the oncoming defender to him and away from Ridley, and that Ridley had to run hard enough to overlap and allow the offensive handball.
Instead Johnson handballed too soon, Ridley didn’t run hard to overlap, and the same GWS player defending Johnson with the ball was able to pressure Ridley into an immediated hurried disposal that went OOTF.
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Yeah love Jakey.
Good on him, gets 2 years which matters for his family.
And closer to maybe snagging a second flag.
Who knows he may get an extension as well.
When he came to us, the environment turned him around initially from the doggies.
Then when things were fizzling clearly a change of environment has worked well for him again.
AFL Journeymen are fine. Not everyone is a one club player.
He hasn’t gone about things by being disloyal to his footy club ever imho.
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Something along the lines of…“I know a coupla guys but you take the fall”…
Dude!!! You really had to quote the whole post; I injured my finger scrolling to the next post lol
I reckon keep Blakiston. Never played Key back. He looks good to me. Kicking practice and positioning over a pre-season(his first) would do wonders for him next year. Goes in hard , seems athletic. Has a Crack.
Bonus is the ruck work.
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I was harsh on Blakiston last week but he looked decent this week, which he should for a soon to be 27 year old.
When will we find out if any action will be taken against Lav for this ‘tunnel’
Not cited. Jakey fined for umpire contact the only sanction.
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Thanks, dunstall will be furious
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