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  • S.S. Bleeder
    Senior Player
    • Sep 2014
    • 2165

    #46
    Originally posted by rb4x
    So Marsh two weeks and Maibaum around four weeks. No mention of COR, Foote or Rose. Grundy also not worthy of a comment. Very difficult to speculate on changes when so little information is given. Reading about other teams on BF it seems that the main gripe supporters of all teams have is the disdain that their clubs treat them with injury updates or rather lack of injury updates.
    I don't mind this. It's more important than to retain your intel. than to let your supporters know what is happening.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Originally posted by Doctor
    If only we had an inside mid who could gather 30-40 possessions a game and give it to our outside runners....
    LOL. Can I say I told everyone so?

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    • Faunac8
      Senior Player
      • Mar 2014
      • 1548

      #47
      Originally posted by The Big Cat
      Saw a bloke featured on our website in the "best 5 series" who could do wonders for our centre clearance work
      Absolute legend of the game who, while revered for his toughness ( you don’t get to be known as Captain Courageous for nothing ) was also very skilled.

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      • grarmy
        Warming the Bench
        • Aug 2010
        • 406

        #48
        Originally posted by Faunac8
        Absolute legend of the game who, while revered for his toughness ( you don’t get to be known as Captain Courageous for nothing ) was also very skilled.
        Bob Skilton once said of Paul Kelly, "He plays as I would like my son to play." Imagine that on your CV.
        "Play like you can’t lose."

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        • CureTheSane
          Carpe Noctem
          • Jan 2003
          • 5032

          #49
          Originally posted by liz
          The coaches won’t.
          And I wonder why that is.
          Most players traditionally come back through the seconds to get some match fitness etc.
          Almost a disservice to Hanners to bring him back straight into the side where he may not perform as everyone expects.
          The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.

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          • AnnieH
            RWOs Black Sheep
            • Aug 2006
            • 11332

            #50
            Originally posted by grarmy
            Bob Skilton once said of Paul Kelly, "He plays as I would like my son to play." Imagine that on your CV.
            A few years ago at the BnF, Skilts and Kels were on the same table next to each other.
            Took me FOREVER to get them to stop gabbing so I could get hugs.
            The mutual respect between the two of them is beautiful.
            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.

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            • Markwebbos
              Veterans List
              • Jul 2016
              • 7186

              #51
              Some suggestions Max Gawn is carrying an injury. Gawn late to training, only walks laps - AFL.com.au

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              • Sandrevan
                Warming the Bench
                • May 2016
                • 355

                #52
                Originally posted by The Big Cat
                Saw a bloke featured on our website in the "best 5 series" who could do wonders for our centre clearance work
                We could sure use a guy who can burst away from the stoppages like that.

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                • Markwebbos
                  Veterans List
                  • Jul 2016
                  • 7186

                  #53
                  Originally posted by Sandrevan
                  We could sure use a guy who can burst away from the stoppages like that.
                  Jones?
                  Ronke?
                  Paps?

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                  • liz
                    Veteran
                    Site Admin
                    • Jan 2003
                    • 16736

                    #54
                    Originally posted by Markwebbos
                    Jones?
                    Ronke?
                    Paps?
                    Kieran Jack provided a little of it when he was at his peak. I wouldn't be surprised to see Ronke develop into a similar kind of role in the forthcoming years. The club compared him to Jack shortly after drafting him and there are similarities. He's shown decent hardball winning ability in his short time in the game, though we don't yet know if this can translate into centre clearance type work. He's probably a better overhead mark than Jack (helped by being a little taller) and maybe a better kick too, certainly better at the same age.

                    I sometimes look at our young, developing players and daydream about a current day star that they might one day emulate, based on their package of attributes. I don't have models for all of them, but some are:

                    Ronke - Robbie Gray, able to switch between the midfield and forward line, depending on where he's most needed, with a real goal sense but able to win his own ground ball too (maybe without the same smoothness of movement)
                    Florent - Shaun Higgins, providing class through traffic (without being a real get-down-and-dirty ball winner) and on the outside. Evasive and quickish, though not express.
                    Mills - Luke Hodge, starting out as a defender, moving into the midfield in his middle career and being a genuinely tough player without being a clearance machine, and then possibly returning as the general of the defence in his twilight years
                    Dawson - Jack Gunston, as a strong mark, accurate and long kick, able to play defence, wing or as a genuine third forward. Not ultra fast but a good reader of the play.

                    I realise most of them won't get to be quite as good as these models, but if they even get close, they'll be exciting to watch.

                    Sadly I don't look at any of our current crop and think "Buddy"! (Except for Buddy, of course.)

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                    • Markwebbos
                      Veterans List
                      • Jul 2016
                      • 7186

                      #55
                      Originally posted by liz
                      Sadly I don't look at any of our current crop and think "Buddy"! (Except for Buddy, of course.)
                      There's only one Buddy Franklin!

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                      • Kafka's Ghost
                        Regular in the Side
                        • Sep 2017
                        • 899

                        #56
                        Buddy is unique.

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                        • dejavoodoo44
                          Veterans List
                          • Apr 2015
                          • 8491

                          #57
                          Originally posted by grarmy
                          Bob Skilton once said of Paul Kelly, "He plays as I would like my son to play." Imagine that on your CV.
                          Would look great on anyone's CV. Except for the CV of Bob Skilton's son.

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                          • AB Swannie
                            Senior Player
                            • Mar 2017
                            • 1579

                            #58
                            After watching the the NEAFL and our bottom 6 players last week, I’m more than happy to have Hanners come straight back in. Even at his 2018 averages he’d be in our top dozen players. Plus I’m pretty sure he was named in our bests in the NEAFL last week as runner.

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                            • Hotpotato
                              Senior Player
                              • Jun 2014
                              • 2261

                              #59
                              Originally posted by AB Swannie
                              After watching the the NEAFL and our bottom 6 players last week, I’m more than happy to have Hanners come straight back in. Even at his 2018 averages he’d be in our top dozen players. Plus I’m pretty sure he was named in our bests in the NEAFL last week as runner.
                              That’s a fair point, I guess that’s how he’s assessed by the Aints.

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                              • ugg
                                Can you feel it?
                                Site Admin
                                • Jan 2003
                                • 15961

                                #60
                                In: Cameron Hannebery Rohan Towers

                                Ext bench: Hannebery Dawson Robinson Newman Papley Cameron Rohan Towers

                                In: Hannan Hunt Kent Pedersen Weideman
                                Out: Smith

                                Ext bench: Kennedy-Harris Weideman Hannan Vince Pedersen Hunt Kent Neal-Bullen
                                Last edited by ugg; 9 August 2018, 06:24 PM.
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