Can you please provide examples.
I keep hearing this. But I don’t see any substance to it. At all. Be burns of his opponents by wearing them down.
He also was West Coast best player in the 2015 Grand Final which automatically elevates him 30% in my eyes.
Just conners trying to re-negotiate a contract halfway through.
ivan
September 6, 2017, 12:32am
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Colyer completely took him out of the game for a half against us before the game was beyond reach and he got a lot of cheapies in the last.
Greenwood held him 16. Pretty sure gws tagged him to.
I haven’t watched enough WC this year but I’ll be pleased if anyone can throw up a few examples of him breaking hard tags.
Has had 4 games under 20 possessions the last 3 years.
Sometimes players get beaten
Sometimes players arent 100% fit
Sometimes players play with a virus
I don’t think Andrew Gaff is any more or less susceptible to a tag than 99% of other players in the comp.
If a player is shutdown 3-4 games in a row the maybe it’s an issue. But nothing to see here…
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He’s not untaggable, but he is a much much better midfielder than he was about 3 years ago.
We would be crazy mot to offee our first pick for him. It will go along the same route as hawks did to get burgoyne.
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Bring in Gaff and Rockliff and that’s the 2018 flag sorted and wrapped up
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Is rockliff a FA? Doubt he will be leaving lions this year. He wanted out last year but no one wanted him, now that the lions are more settled and have a decent team coming through, he’ll probably stay
Yeh, unrestricted free agent I believe
He wanted 700k last year and no one went for it, wonder if he will get that this year
Gaff and Rockliff IN well then they needn’t bother playing the whole season, just hand the farken flag over to us
Gaff AND rockliff fix our problems and both in the right age group.
Can’t see us landing one of them let alone both
I’d give Rockliff 700 in a heartbeat if he said he’ll come.
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Kj_11
September 6, 2017, 1:53am
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I’d give him $800K as a sincere apology for not taking him up on the offer of $700K last year.
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ivan
September 6, 2017, 2:16am
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Oh agree, all I said was I don’t think he was an absolute superstar
ivan
September 6, 2017, 2:20am
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Don’t get me wrong, I think he is a very good player an an upgrade on Stanton, who I rated very very highly. I also think he’d complement our midfield very well.
I just don’t want to see him paid more than say 650 700. He’s not a million dollar a year player
daf
September 6, 2017, 2:30am
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Rockliff will stay at the Lions. Gaff may leave.
I need a lover that wont drive me crazy.
ivan
September 6, 2017, 6:02am
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ivan:
I see our pressure around stoppages and our inability to disrupt what the opposition want to do if they win first use as our big Achilles heal atm. Our midfield is also just generally slow to transition into defense though I do feel that this may be more a product of trying to move the ball very aggressively and then getting caught out of position because of a fumble or unforced error leading to a quick turnover.
That said, in general when we win it I think we are using it better than we have in previous years though we are still prone to a few too many fumbles and unforced errors.
If we reduce the number of errors in our game we will reduce the number of high speed transitions against us.
though I feel luey and the mids aren’t quite on the same page often enough we actually did split the clearances against the crows.
It will be interesting to see how we stand up to collingwoods pressure around the stoppage which will be a real focus for them this week. I fear it is likely we will concede a lot of field position to them but if we can get our quick transition going (which we couldn’t against Carlton) we can hurt them going the other way.
What we can’t allow is free runners through the back of the stoppage putting our defence under huge pressure
Interesting to reflect on this post as we near the end of the season
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We should be right in Rockliffe’s ear
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