Could be worse, North have Tassie!
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You gotta be pretty dam good to be an all australian midfielder at 23yo while being top5 in the brownlow.
And before you say oh the browlow doesnt mean anythingā¦how about coaches votes? Or player rating? Or score involvments, how about i50s, or contested possessions? Or clearances or meters gained. Maybe ground ball gets, or effective disposals? All these stats i would deem important and darcy is basically our best at all of them.
Regarding defence, last year he was top3 at essendon for tackles, defensive pressure acts and total preasure acts.
Heās had a down year for sure and hardly got going after his calf injuries, but geez some ppl on here talk absolute ā ā ā ā
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Yes ā¦. why do most of our high draft picks seem so limited after 2 or 3 years. Good question ā¦. why? Is it attitude & is it spread by senior players to new players or is it aomething else?
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Canāt wait until they make us give up part of our already tiny zone to North when Tassie come inā¦
Tiwi islands produces more Norm smiths than just about any other area in the country, we just donāt invest and canāt tap into the talent.
Our Melbourne academy is starting to produce some players but itās a very small pool of potential as they need to A) be born to foreign parents, B) play footy, C) be AFL quality physically, mentally and skill wise. Even then we have limited input to their development because they play in other systems under non club aligned people.
The northern academies are benefitting from a limitless pool of kids and direct development at junior levels. Itād be like us running the jets and cannons development pathways and being able to match whenever for whoever.
For example Sicily, Lever, Touk Miller, Butters, Xerri, Rayner as the elite talents If we were going on the last 10 years of drafts from just two of the under performing u18 teams which probably have an equal number of kids playing AFL as Sydneyās zone.
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meh, if he was some madman at the contest sure but he seems imminately replaceable there and has no other weapons, if he had made that competition around the ball a mighty strength then maybe but mostly its alsoā¦ middling
Itās a joke how much of an advantage it gives the northern teams - Bloods culture bullshiit itās a farking free kick year after year
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You forgot the elephant in the room. Smith is a poor kick by AFL standards.
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I donāt see Hobbs reaching Adams level as he has a bit of pace which Hobbs lacks.
Sounds like Clakko is on the prowl looking for experienced leaders coming free from other clubs.
Like what we should be doing ā¦
Pull collective fingers out Bombers
Thanks for excluding those who donāt sit.
But you make a good point about the theatre goers and their chin wagging- they just couldnāt cope with Essendon sitting top 4 and got into someoneās ear and made sure the Geelong game round 17 was a timely return to their comfort zone of a 40- 50% return for the season.
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Especially because half of of the good kids in our zone are father/sons. Weāll seems like that anyway.
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ā ā ā ā Luke Parker.
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We need to be in on Luke Parker. If we trade out Shiel we are incredibly thin for vet mids to block Tsatasā development. Or we could play Parker forward and keep Archie Perkins out of the side.
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Iāll repeatā¦ā ā ā ā Luke Parker
Donāt want any of those Cola ā ā ā ā ā thanks.
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This is actually a good point. Iām keen on Parker but would hate to see him played as an inside mid ahead of guys like Hobbs and Tsatas.
Iād plonk him in the forward pocket. But then is he getting games ahead of Kako, Perkins or any other forward we want to develop?
Do you actually attend games? Or just like to take baseless pot shots at people that hand over their hard earned, year after year, to watch their team dish up crap week in, week out?
Iāve never seen such anger and frustration like I have this year in amongst the faithful.
And yes, I like to take my kids and try to make it as enjoyable as I can for them. Especially when we are dishing up steaming piles of excrement.
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Hope they do. Trade out their future while blowing their salary cap just before Tasi comes in. If they donāt win a flag itāll be a long long way back for them
Could you imagine Luke Parker at The Hanger shrugging his shoulders at the scared players? That is the veritable cat amongst the pigeons.
Maybe thatās what we need, a purebred mongrel showing the younger guys how to grow a set.
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