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177th Senior AFL Match - Round 4, 2009 - Sydney vs Carlton, SCG. This is obviously out of date. I suppose I'll update it once I could be bothered sitting down with the fixture and working it out....
Des' Weblog -
Does God believe in Atheists?Comment
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Strange list of "best" players. Davis slotted one nice goal but didn't see him do much else. And I thought Thornton came off at half time??
I was impressed by Simpkin's first quarter because I thought his defensive work and second efforts were a whole heap better than normal. He was guilty of pinging away at goal a couple of times rather than looking for a better option and didn't think he was one of the more prominent players out there.
I thought Jack's game was pretty solid - some very good defensive efforts - and I've had had him amongst the best but not rated above Moore.Comment
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Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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Pretty much exactly what I was about to write.
Very impressed by Moore today. He was very clean with the ball, ran hard through the middle and took some strong marks in the forward 50 for his three goals. Flipper was lively but uncharacteristically wasteful in front of goal. And would it be possible for him to have a longer "walk-up" for his set shots?
Braba got a lot of the ball but still not convinced by him. So much of it he gets by hanging off the back of packs rather than going in and doing the hard stuff himself.
And White looks like he's done a lot of work on his marking over the past month. The last game at the SCG he couldn't hang onto anything. But today he read the ball very well and his hands looked clean and secure. Maybe a month ago he was still suffering from the after effects of his hand injury. I hope he comes on, because (as Stella mentioned on another thread) he's a big unit and his energy, work rate and enthusiasm are impressive.Comment
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The best of the hang off the back of the pack players would have to be Nathan Buckley.Comment
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Strange list of "best" players. Davis slotted one nice goal but didn't see him do much else. And I thought Thornton came off at half time??
I was impressed by Simpkin's first quarter because I thought his defensive work and second efforts were a whole heap better than normal. He was guilty of pinging away at goal a couple of times rather than looking for a better option and didn't think he was one of the more prominent players out there.
I thought Jack's game was pretty solid - some very good defensive efforts - and I've had had him amongst the best but not rated above Moore.Comment
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Buckley is a good example. He gets a lot of the ball himself and gets a lot of clearances, so it's not like he shirks contests, but he is an outside midfielder and hugely valuable to his side. It would do his team little good if he spent much of the game diving into packs.Captain Logic is not steering this tugboat.
"[T]here are things that matter more and he's reading and thinking about them: heaven, reincarnation. Life and death are the only things that are truly a matter of life and death. Not football."Comment
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I'm not claiming that everyone has to burrow in and under to be effective. Just that you need to have a couple of real weapons to make it at AFL level, of which the ability to win contested ball is just one. And Kerr, Judd and Cousins (and Goodes for that matter) win plenty of contested ball without burrowing through packs. Often it is just running at pace, swooping on a ball that looks like it is contested, and sprinting away from the pack.
I'd love all the youngsters to make it as AFL players, even though we know that they won't. Brabazon's work rate is impressive and his improvement on last year suggests he's been working very hard on the training track too. So I'd love him to prove me wrong. It's just that I don't think that how many possessions a player racks up at ACTAFL level is a good guide, on its own, to whether a player is going to play senior AFL. Scott McMahon (have I remembered his name correctly?) and David Spriggs were ball magnets in their time too.Comment
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