Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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2009 Shane.
The entire contribution for 2009.
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
Re:Team of the Week
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Natanui's game against crab side Essendon or Sandilands game against best side in comp. Sandilands game... hands down was better
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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Actually, Mooney, Hawkins and Podsiadly all had good games.
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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I'll get in on this...
Actually, Mike Pearce deserved the spot over Nats this week - more disposals, more marks, more tackles and more goals. Stats aren't everything, but apart from faint (feint) memories of commentator gush/slush, it's the only form of empirical evidence available - impressions don't count didley-squat (unless you're an Indigenous footballer from WA in front of the Tribunal for doing white-fella stuff).
I like Nats, but Pearce had a better game - for that matter, so did Flinchy.
Sandi...well, Sandi is just a run-of-the-mill, extraordinary, dominating AA ruckman (week in, week out) - too consistent to consistently consider.
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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Sure, you can look at stats and be mislead but that is not the case here. I saw both games. Natawhoiey had an average game. He did a couple of decent things which were more luck than skill. Other than that he was quiet and only stood out due to the media's infactuation with him(every tap he gets sees the commentators pump him up) and the rest of the sides complete lack of skill. The game was terrible making him look competent in comparison.
Sandi's touches were fantastic. The contested marking and link work around the ground was spectacular and he did plenty of work in the middle. Much more than Natawhoiey.
I also don't get this expectations thing. Does that mean if Fyfe comes in next week and gets a couple of hit outs as the third man he should be thrown in the ruck role? I certainly don't expect him to get a hit out so it would exceed my expectations.
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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As for the Sandi can't get in every week bullcarp - there will be weeks that he doesn't deserve to make the team, he will have his off-days, as with any player in the AFL.
On Sunday he was near his best - the all Australian and 'form' ruckman absolutely dominating the top team and one of the best ruck combos in the AFL. And he did it for all 4 quarters, not just the second...
He deserved the spot in the team, however fictional it is.
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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Now, I'm just a dim-witted, one eyed, stats obsessed bigot but it was my understanding that you'd spat the dummy and weren't going to keep arguing that your opinion is more correct than anyone else's opinion.
For poetic effect, I may have exaggerated how little of the game I saw earlier - one doesn't like to admit certain things in public. He was not great. He was enthusastic. He was lively. He was full of pain killers. Great he was not.
Sandilands on the other hand was majestic and played one of the best games of his career. I'd prefer to acknowledge the best being best rather than the young being different.
But you obviously will beg to differ. Well, not beg. You'll act all snooty and superior - but you'll still differ...then you'll give me a clearance stat.
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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Despite the media juggernaut that has created the Cult Figure of Nic Nat, I like the lad's game. Sure he looks like a liquorice ChupaChup, but I'm sure the WC merch dept can turn over some crass bucks from that. Liquorice ChupaChups perhaps?
Let's face it, Nic Nat is the Look! a Bear the Weags need right now to detract from th craptabulousness of its entire coaching box. And Denial Kerr. As a young big bloke Natanui will only get better; the ruckman's craft is long earnt. Cox still sucks.
Sandilands was berated for more than a couple of seasons for being 211cm, but not making his taps count, handballing too often, and not taking enough grabs. Now he's rounding out his skills.
In two weeks, 1 ruckman will get learned a lesson or 4. That is, if WC even play him, for fear of tarnishing an emerging brand, and disenfranchising its stakeholder base.
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
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I stuffed up a Google search a while ago and found myself reading an article on mobile hat racks. Notacluey said something along the lines of; if the opposing ruckman jumps early, it gives me (Notacluey) a chance to dodge around and take clear possession.
Fine, good thinking. (for a hat rack)
I clearly remember the Fox commentators last Sunday being very glowing to Sandi for his second and third attacks on the ball in the rucks. I think it was Healey that said something like; That's a big area Sandilands has improved. He not only gets the tap, but if the mids don't get the ball, he goes in and gets it himself.
Now that is a great ruckman doing something special. And he does it more than 13 times a game.
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