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[satchmopugdog]

I was eavesdropping at a restaurant the other night(that's what you do when you eat alone) to some people talking about the soccer player Ronaldhino and how he can make defenders go "How did he do that?"
I immediately thought of one Swans/Brisbane game at the SCG (2004????)when MOL rolled with the bal and handballed it aound/between /over /whatever Jared Brennan's legs(another silky skilled mercurial player) and the look on his face was "How did he do that?"
It is sad to see that in the 6 weeks that I have been away that this has happened to MOL

[ScottH]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Which one is "the old one"?

It's the one before the new one!!!

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by satchmopugdog
I was eavesdropping at a restaurant the other night(that's what you do when you eat alone) to some people talking about the soccer player Ronaldhino and how he can make defenders go "How did he do that?"
I immediately thought of one Swans/Brisbane game at the SCG (2004????)when MOL rolled with the bal and handballed it aound/between /over /whatever Jared Brennan's legs(another silky skilled mercurial player) and the look on his face was "How did he do that?"
It is sad to see that in the 6 weeks that I have been away that this has happened to MOL

He can still do those things. A few weeks before, against Geelong I think, his hands were good and he was creative. However, he has struggled to get involved this year.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by dendol
I guess chewing up all that time kicking zero points allowed Leo's mark to be the last one for the game. If there was an extra minute after that mark, Leo might have gone on one of his special runs and had a "brain explosion of the century".

Mickey won us the game by shanking those kicks. Make no mistake about that.

And Luke Ablett too - if he hadn't passed it to Cousins for a goal, then we wouldn't have kicked the goals later that won us the game.

Thanks to the butterfly also...

[Sanecow]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
And Luke Ablett too - if he hadn't passed it to Cousins for a goal, then we wouldn't have kicked the goals later that won us the game.

Thanks to the butterfly also...

I know you're being facetious but that kick and goal has been seriously suggested as a (positive) turning point in the game. I think that there seemed to be a lift in intensity from the Swans following the incident.

[NMWBloods]

Really? IIRC we went a bit flat after that for about 5 minutes - they kicked another goal and missed a couple of other opportunities.

[Sanecow]

The Eagles took shots on goal all day. It's not a useful measurement of the Swans intensity.

[NMWBloods]

Originally posted by Sanecow
The Eagles took shots on goal all day. It's not a useful measurement of the Swans intensity.

Not so much in the second quarter, and it was only one thing anyway.

[Agent 86]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Really? IIRC we went a bit flat after that for about 5 minutes - they kicked another goal and missed a couple of other opportunities.

A lot of people (including me, at the time) thought we were gone if we didn't kick the next goal after the Ablett "pass". We didn't. We did (understandably) panic for a bit - but it was short-lived. The fighting spirit was still there & we somehow managed to pull it back.

[NMWBloods]

When Banfield ran into goal I thought it was gone.

[Schneiderman]

MOL is still the most elusive forward we have, and the one who can create havoc with the oppositions defensive plans. He plays both tall and crumber roles very well, and would earn a spot even on current form in every single one of the other 15 clubs forward lines.

He kicked 52 goals last year, and some of those goals (like v Essendon at the Dome or the one from a Jones error in the PF) were just awesome. He is our answer to Farmer, Davey, Williams or N Brown, and that he can play at that level even only sporadically, considering his injuries, is a real boon to the team.

If we had another play with even half of MOL's abilities on the list, then I'd be all for resting him more often. But we dont.

And as to the point of whether he takes a key defender or not, he needs a defender of quality to prevent him scoring goals. The week he kicks three he is manned up by a weaker defender, but the week he gets a key defender and is less influential, it allows a ROK or Davis to increase their output.

He is still critical to our team.

[dendol]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
And Luke Ablett too - if he hadn't passed it to Cousins for a goal, then we wouldn't have kicked the goals later that won us the game.

Thanks to the butterfly also...

I dont know how a butterfly could affect the outcome of the game, but I spilt a bit of beer on a WCE supporter in front of my at the start of the 4th qtr. He gave met he dirtiest look, swore at me, and then shouted "comeon eagles!".

Our players heard it, thought it was wrong of him to treat me this way and decided that the best way to punish him was to win the game.

In retrospect, I won us the GF, not MOL's great 4th qtr marking performance.

[NMWBloods]

The butterfly distracted Banfield just as he was kicking for goal!

[ROK Lobster]

Originally posted by dendol
I dont know how a butterfly could affect the outcome of the game, but I spilt a bit of beer on a WCE supporter in front of my at the start of the 4th qtr. He gave met he dirtiest look, swore at me, and then shouted "comeon eagles!".

Our players heard it, thought it was wrong of him to treat me this way and decided that the best way to punish him was to win the game.

In retrospect, I won us the GF, not MOL's great 4th qtr marking performance.

I think that is fair enough. You have certainly done as much as LRT and there are plenty here prepared to give him a Norm Smith medal.

[The Big Cat]

Originally posted by dendol

In retrospect, I won us the GF, not MOL's great 4th qtr marking performance.

MOL was one-out in the forward line when he took a couple of those marks! He spills them and the WCE are away. He won us the game. He kicks a goal with one of those kicks and it's back to the centre. More WCE goals? Who knows? All I know is that we won the game and part of the series of events which led up to that win was MOL taking those marks and not kicking goals! That is cemented in history. Any theory about MOL getting a goal or goals puts the outcome of the game into the realms of summising. MOL's performance thus inextricably led to the victorious outcome. No argument! Incidently Noggies kick to Cousins is in the same category.