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Bookies have updated odds to $12 from $16 yesterday so they must already know.
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Congrats StKilda's Blake Acres as the rd6 #NABRisingStar after his two-goal 28-touch effort in the win over Melbourne on Saturday.
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Congrats Blake- Media in force tomorrow- most sports programs get a sound bite
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.@stkildafc’s Blake Acres is the round six @NAB AFL Rising Star nominee!
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-05-02/s ... g-star-nod
Congrats Blake- Media in force tomorrow- most sports programs get a sound bite
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.@stkildafc’s Blake Acres is the round six @NAB AFL Rising Star nominee!
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-05-02/s ... g-star-nod
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JUST IN | @stkildafc's Blake Acres is the Round 6 NAB Rising Star. Catch him on @TheRunHome on Wednesday
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Congrats StKilda's Blake Acres as the rd6 #NABRisingStar after his two-goal 28-touch effort in the win over Melbourne on Saturday.
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Ch 7 - talking footy obviously had early warning - so they could get the jump on media- - interview with Blake on Talking footy.
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Congrats to Bl8ke 8cres.MC Gusto wrote:nice to have a few rising stars again. was a fair wait between drinks...
lets see if we can get one (or two) more before the seasons out..
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So who else is eligible this year for us? Jade Gresham? Is Paddy or Hugh eligible? Is that it?
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There you go.kosifantutti wrote:Eligible Saints by my calculations.
Acres, Freeman, Gresham, Goddard, White, McCartin, McKenzie, Rice, O'Kearney, Coughlan, Payne
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Thanks. I actually remember reading that.kosifantutti wrote:There you go.kosifantutti wrote:Eligible Saints by my calculations.
Acres, Freeman, Gresham, Goddard, White, McCartin, McKenzie, Rice, O'Kearney, Coughlan, Payne
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Wrapt for him, that makes it 3 out 4 (inc Freeman) for the class of 2013! Well done to the recruiters...
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What did Tony do?St Chris wrote:Love it, Tony. Great work.
Congrats Blake, we'll deserved but lots of work still to do.
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He's 190cm, so he's like a young Fyfe.
Could be anything, just hope they look after the kid and do the right thing.
Tony74 said he's a popular kid who just wants to get better and do the right thing.
Could be anything, just hope they look after the kid and do the right thing.
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Dunstan and Acres lived together with a host family after moving from interstate when drafted by the Saints.
Selected with picks 18 and 19 by the club – two picks that were traded from Hawthorn along with Shane Savage for Ben McEvoy and picks 24 (Billy Hartung) and 59 (Jonathan Ceglar – rookie elevation) – the duo have an interesting friendship stemming from the moment they met.
“I remember being a bit nervous moving over to Melbourne the day after I was drafted and the night we got there our families stayed in the same hotel. I think he had a bit of a different upbringing than me and I remember finding him a little bit weird but the more I got to know him, the more I worked out that it was just him. He’s a funny guy and we’re good mates now.
“He’s a hard one to describe because he is a bit of a character. Sometimes we have a love/hate relationship because he’s a bit of a peanut and is hard to argue with because he’s dumb.
“We also played a game in the under 18s against each other that we’ve had plenty of discussions about. I think he ended up with seven possessions that day so I’ve always ripped into him about the fact that we won the championships against them and Blake had seven touches and ended up with a sore shoulder.”
Acres is St Kilda’s 24th Rising Star nominee since the award’s inception in 1993 and the fourth Saint to be nominated since the start of 2014.
St Kilda have had two winners of the award: Justin Koschitzke (2001) and Nick Riewoldt (2002).
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Bit of backstory here. I was born in Melbourne, and lived there for 34 years before moving to Perth.BigMart wrote:Bit of arrogance from Dunstan.
Blake is from Perth, and I can attest to the fact that Perth folk are a bit "dumb" as Dunstan put it.
It's how Perth people are. My 2016 Saints cap says "Member 2016", one of my neighbours asked me if that was my membership number.
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Some workmates watched the movie " Gravity", and thought it was boring because there were no aliens. Then I had to explain the movie to them, and they didn't believe it was not filmed in orbit.
I was off work for a day with bronchitis, and a workmate said not true, I should have been in ICU.
When he was in primary school, one of the kids had a bad asthma attack and spent a few days in hospital.
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This bit was pretty kind:BigMart wrote:Bit of arrogance from Dunstan.
“I couldn’t be happier for him. It’s great to see him rewarded for all the hard work he’s put in.”
But I think Blake will probably end up getting the last laugh. Is going to be a very big unit in a few years time.
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BigMart wrote:Bit of arrogance from Dunstan.
Or two Aussie mates taking the p**
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Does anyone else hear and see a bit of the Justin Koschitzke in him?
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I heard the sen interview and he says he is now 192cm tall (that's 6'4" in the old).
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Let's hope he fares better than Siposs. I think we can be pretty much sure of this given Blake has already had some 30+ disposal games in the VFL. I dont think Siposs ever went close. Even now.
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I remember reading a 2 page spread on Siposs, he was touted as the next Goddard.Con Gorozidis wrote:Let's hope he fares better than Siposs. I think we can be pretty much sure of this given Blake has already had some 30+ disposal games in the VFL. I dont think Siposs ever went close. Even now.
Lots of pressure, and sadly it hasn't worked out for a talented lad who maybe didn't tick all of the right boxes and develop.
Maybe dropping Blake twice this year will pay off, to ensure he ticks the boxes.
If you think back to Joey's interview a month ago, he said early on, he was in and out of the team.
He had to drop to VFL and work on his game.
These coaches have to learn a bit of psychology and man management, essential to nurture talent to get the best out of them.
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