Rnd 10 Match Day Thread. Sydney V North Melb. SCG. 7.50 pm.
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Fair enough to Barry. Although it''s probably fortunate I don't write "stupid comment" in reply to every very stupid comment you write about Macca ... most threads you post on would rival the length of Tippett's thread!
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He was certainly on Thomas for some of the time that he was running amok. Q1 was not great for McV but he improved throughout the night (thank goodness). As I noted last week, he was just about the best ball user in the team, he now regularly misses targets. Still important for us though.Comment
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He was certainly on Thomas for some of the time that he was running amok. Q1 was not great for McV but he improved throughout the night (thank goodness). As I noted last week, he was just about the best ball user in the team, he now regularly misses targets. Still important for us though.Comment
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From observations at the ground, McVeigh was awful in the 1st quarter and a half, goals not withstanding. He was caught out multiple times in defence and was outpaced by Petrie in one play. He certainly improved as the night went on. Watching the replay his defensive lapses in the first half were not as noticeable on TV, probably because he was not in screen shot when he looked like he was tagging Peter Brady....Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09Comment
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Harrys per club (not counting Harrisons). Well, by absolute number, Saint Kilda win. But really, we need to correct for total number of players (far more have played for the Saints than for the Suns, for example). So if we calculate Harrys per 1000 players for a club, Carlton win. Good to see that the Hawks "Harry index" is abysmal.
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And the top 10 first names: Harry just scrapes in at number 10.
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last one i promise as i think it is a really important measure on an outside player near a contest
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a great example of an outside player near a contest is the next few minutes after the Lindsay thomas first goal at the beginning of the 1st qtr
at the centre bounce
Llloyd is on the wing next to Gibson
North win the contest and drive it forward and quick as a flash Lloyd leaves Gibson......has 15 metres on him already to race to where the ball is dropping to the pack........tick to Lloyd in reading this play better then Gibson and tick he has spread harder then Gibson and tick he has made an extra number around the contest
Lloyd gets within a couple of metres of the contest and he is genuinely bouncing around.......almost timid?.....almost hesitant?......maybe?........or is he ready to spread hard in a millisecond ?
Hannes who has extracted the ball from the pack and lloyd has opened his body up to receive the ball while facing forward which is another tick.......Hannes doesn't quite get the ball to him........ ball spills back to Parker and Parkers get taken high....free kick parker
Lloyd has already wrapped around to the boundary a good 30m as he is sprinting forward with no Gibson to be seen two ticks !!!...........lloyd is now 40 from where he was last with Hannes and runs off the mark taken by Hewett to out number the Kangas BUT most importantly to allow a fast play forward to Heeney who grabs the ball from the contest and plays on to Buddy........tick, tick, tick boom !
but yes i would agree Lloyds body language appeared a little jumpy and hesitant back at the contest where Hannes tried to get him the ball ...........but for all the right reasons as he was the link to all this play and he had to keep moving ...........quite unbelievable actually when you watch lloyd go.........his vision is quite amazing
the 30 seconds either side of Parkers free kick we have had lloyd do about 9 things right and Gibson nil..... his opposite number....... in an outside role .......yet if we focussed on Lloyd not diving in with Hannes to win the ball we might not appreciated all the other running, linking, outnumbering he did in that 60 seconds or so !!!!
Lloyd 9 ticks and Gibson ZERO !!Comment
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Wow. Again, wasn't expecting that.
Another week of being happy!!!Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.Comment
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I guess I can indulge myself now that the game chat has died down a bit.
Harrys per club (not counting Harrisons). Well, by absolute number, Saint Kilda win. But really, we need to correct for total number of players (far more have played for the Saints than for the Suns, for example). So if we calculate Harrys per 1000 players for a club, Carlton win. Good to see that the Hawks "Harry index" is abysmal.
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And the top 10 first names: Harry just scrapes in at number 10.
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There has been a lot of talk about Lloyds game. At the time I thought he was pretty good. On the TV you only see what part of what each player does. I think of Lloyd at the link man. His positional play is good and he has great foot skills. His only real mistake of the game was kicking the ball into the man on the mark - but we all know about that one. I bet he will never do that again.
Loving the way George Hewett is developing - so composed. His left foot kick to Heeny in the goal square was fantastic.Comment
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Big fan of hewett, he definitely does have a case of the Selwood shake though. Always puts himself in a spot to draw high contact.He ate more cheese, than time allowedComment
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He did a lot of little things on Friday that largely went unnoticed but he's adapted to senior footy really well and he'll get betterComment
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