Bellchambers steady decline (as displayed in fantasy points on the far right stat)
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I love TBell as a competitor and a guy that sticks up for his teammates, but he scares me…biggest exposure is when he’s against an athletic ruck or even a part time ruck who’s athletic-he gets burned around the ground. I remember when Gawn was out and Melbourne had a 1st gamer part time ruckman & TBell was smashed around the ground for being to slow
shortened game time 2020
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This place is going to go off when Langford or Parish get dropped.
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Even after 2 rounds this year when he’s looked off pace he’s still sitting 6th for average hitouts with a better hitout to advantage ratio than the 5 guys beating him. That’s exactly what we were missing last year.
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2 rounds against plodders in Darcy and Sinclair are probably gonna inflate your stats. im not surprised he was selected this week over Phillips, but its a position that can be improved. let’s hope draper is better than them all…
Good news is that his backup is decent. Some may even say better.
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He better hurry up because Belly will be done very soon.
Didn’t you hear, he’s learning a new position. He should get it within a couple of years!
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he’s done now. but he’s probably the best we have… just
although there’s a good arguement Phillips would be a benefit to the team with the trade off of around the ground stuff compared to belly being non existent in that. like i have said, it’s probably splitting hairs between them in all honesty, and in no way does it bother me belly gets a game ahead of him, even though I’d like to see Phillips get a crack. they are BOTH average imo, even though i reckon Phillips could just about break even with tapwork and provide more around the ground and be just a little more beneficial to the side. I didn’t think Phillips disgraced himself with his tapwork against west coast.
but yeah, long story short - we need someone better than them both. hopefully draper is it
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We’ll come back to it after another 5 rounds or so. Early days in a weird season.
it’ll be interesting to see how it folds out. i hope the coaches have the balls to play draper mid season, even if it’s in tandem with belly
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I think they should definitely do a transition period with both of them for Draper’s benefit. And to give us another target forward.
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100% agree with you wob. I think our ruck is our biggest weakness, but it’s not improved by playing Phillips. All my fingers and toes are crossed that Draper is an answer.
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I think we are all like that. it seems all our eggs are in one basket with draper (sorry bryan)
if he’s not the messiah, we are nailing @theDJR to a post
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Which one?
I’ve made around 46,900 posts* in this generation of the Blitz database, though admittedly not all of them are about Big Sammy Draper.
*faaaaaaaark.
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and rightly so.
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Scratch match at the hangar on sunday (time?) people not allowed in, but many can watch from melrose drive and still be distanced.
Was mentioned that it’s in the morning but no idea time.
The one in the early days about smearing faeces on the walls of the Shower Stand dunnies will do.
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