Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
What a West!
|
#304929 |
|
Got to feel for young Brett McCarthy down at the West.
He's got the biggest news day of his career - Kalgoorlie/ Boulder flattened by an earthquake, the Australian health system turned on its head (while WA's Tories hold out in favour of leeching and the King's Cure), Europe disappearing Pompeii-like under tons of Icelandic ash while dirty deeds go down in the exercise yard...
...and the poor bastard's got to hold the front and back pages for an all-out sponsorship sycophestival for a dancing bear cub. And word is he's under pressure to pull part three of the "Australia at War" poster series to fit in a twenty-six page lift-out tribute to its career.
A page for each kick.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#304934 |
|
What ? .... 26 pages ?
Let's see now 15 kicks last year in 10 games, that's 1.5 per game. Impressive indeed.
That means 11 kicks this year in 4 games, that's 2.75 per game. That's not just impressive , that's scary.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#304935 |
|
Oh, I don't know. I couldn't be bothered counting his total number of kicks so I just made it up. Chances are I overstated slightly - maybe it's 24 (plus a fold-out double-sided glossy hero poster makes 26).
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#304936 |
|
You'll know the hype has really wound up when he gets a page per dreadlock!
And Zorro, please use the correct Roman numerals! We do have standards here!
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 3 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#304937 |
|
Strewth Zorro , we're likely to get a phone book lift out.
Career games = 14
Career kicks = 40
Avg kicks = 2.9
What's the odds on a separate edition to commemorate this startling achievement ?
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 2 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#304953 |
|
Zorro, you've hit a rich vein of form. Keep 'em comin'!
'A page for every kick'!
Hilarious.
It's up there with 'Bow Down Before The Dockers'!
God, I love this place.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 2 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#304954 |
|
For crying out loud even Jacko seemed to have enough of hearing about him in the game I watched against Port Adeaide few weeks back, he did the right thing and mentioned the player who actually "went in hard and got the ball to him".
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 2 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#304997 |
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 2 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#305006 |
|
You try hard Zorro but you're just going to have to accept that you're not in their league. Wrap arounds, special editions...pffttt. They're going to rename the tunnel after him.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 2 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#305007 |
|
God bless you, Il Papa - I got up this morning planning to do exactly the comparison you've worked on.
In fact, if you play the figures out, Bandy was a somewhat better performer in his first 14 games than Naitanui. According to my ranking method, if both guys had played their 14 games last year, Daniel would have been the 9th ranked big man and Nic 12th. (Incidentally, Naitanui would have been ranked one spot below Kepler Bradley, which suggests he wouldn't even be getting a game if we'd drafted him!)
The other thing that kept me awake last night was the matter of young Nic's name. Now that he's joined Daniel as a recipient of this career-defining accolade, perhaps it's time that we stopped playing cruel games with his name. At the same time, we'd be less than Australian if we didn't do something with it, so, if I may, a couple of more appropriate and respectful suggestions:
Nic Nominui
Nic Bandynewie
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 2 Days ago
Re:What a West!
|
#305011 |
|
i think the award for 'newspaper of the week' has to go to the sunday times. i was more than happy to see "get rid of glass" emblazened on the front cover.
unfortunately, the eagles player to whom i thought it referred is actually sticking around.
|
|
|
|
Posted: 1 Week, 1 Day ago
Re:What a West!
|
#305127 |
|
What about this for some serious over-hyped media stats on young Nic...
In just over 12 months, Aussie newspapers have published a massive 461 stories on Nic Naitanui, including 122 where his name is prefixed with the word 'star'.
That is the equivalent of 4 stories for every handball, more than 11 reports for each fabulous kick and about 30 stories for every marvellous mark over his entire AFL career!
And that's just newspapers folks.
|
|
|
|
|
