Is Hall finished?

[timthefish]

no

[Legs Akimbo]

since hall had a bad first game back i guess we had better get rid of goodes as well since he's had a bad few weeks! seems like everyone loves players when they are good then then very next week wants to ship them off to some remote island!

I don't want him to be washed up, but a dispassionate appraisal of his last 2 years of footy leaves me to believe (i) he is washed up and (ii) we play better without him because we are less one-dimensional. What they want to do is kick it to him when he is in position and to others when he is not. But it is just not happening. the mid fielders are are too Hall conscious and just tend to kick to him and hope. But he has lost a yard of pace, he was never a great contested mark and seldom takes any now (at all), and his kicking is only average. So, what is left?

And yes, some of the delivery is crap, but good players make @@@@ into strawberry jam. Barry Hall no longer has that capacity.

Considering where he is at and where the team is at, some hard questions need to be asked at the end of the year.

[sprite]

Let's see how he goes in couple of day games - he is usually pretty average in night games.

BTW what were the conditions like - no tv and SEN commentary except foe Andrew Thompson was biased rubbish.

[Plugger46]

I think this question has been answered... Played a blinder on the weekend, after two solid performances.

Plenty to offer.

[Xie Shan]

I think this question has been answered... Played a blinder on the weekend, after two solid performances.

Plenty to offer.

Yes, I had my doubts about how much he still had to offer us but full credit to him, he's been solid the past few weeks.

[Lohengrin]

Let's see how he goes against good opposition first.

[Xie Shan]

Let's see how he goes against good opposition first.

Um...Geelong? Unless you were referring to Scarlett being absent...

[Lohengrin]

Um...Geelong? Unless you were referring to Scarlett being absent...

Um... Harry Taylor!

Bomber Thompson was quite comfortable to leave Taylor there to get comprehensively beaten as it was a good learning experience for him and Geelong were never in any danger of losing.

[TheGrimReaper]

Hall is far from finished. Hopefully has a big season next year, to prove his critics wrong.

[Legs Akimbo]

His improvement over the last two rounds is perhaps as much to do with Goodes moving to FF and his move further afield. I agree he has played well in the last few games, but feel that his value to the team next year is dependent on playing as a CHF not a FF.

[Plugger46]

His improvement over the last two rounds is perhaps as much to do with Goodes moving to FF and his move further afield. I agree he has played well in the last few games, but feel that his value to the team next year is dependent on playing as a CHF not a FF.

Agree but he has always played his best footy at CHF in my opinion, so nothing has changed.

Probably not the player he was, but 'finished' was premature and ridiculous.

People forgot how well he had played in some of the games, prior to the Staker incident.

[ScottH]

I don't thin khe is finished, I think there are plenty more blondes out there for him.

[DST]

When he has actually played this year he has looked very good.

No surprise that he struggled between his two enforced holidays and for a couple of weeks afterwards as he came back.

When you are over 30, it takes longer to readjust to the tempo of things.

DST

[Lucky Knickers]

When you are over 30, it takes longer to readjust to the tempo of things.

I've noticed that too.
As our remaining games are night time I was glad to see Baz sticking marks.

[Robbo]

He played well on Saturday, but the reality is he was opposed to a first year player.

He wouldn't of got a kick on Scarlett.