Charlie Gardiner
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Charlie Gardiner
I thought it was another great effort tonight. He's been superb IMO so far.
Apart from his miss in Q4.
Him and Riewoldt on opposite wings leading up this year!
Amazing depth of tall forwards really, Kosi, G, Roo, Charlie, Gardy, with Schneids and Milney roving
Apart from his miss in Q4.
Him and Riewoldt on opposite wings leading up this year!
Amazing depth of tall forwards really, Kosi, G, Roo, Charlie, Gardy, with Schneids and Milney roving
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ROO ISN'T A WING HE NEEDS TO BE AT HALF FORWARD
but your right bout everything else we will have a great forward line but we need bot forget the reason we don't have a premiership ... you know ... that evil word ... INJURIES
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but your right bout everything else we will have a great forward line but we need bot forget the reason we don't have a premiership ... you know ... that evil word ... INJURIES
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Re: Charlie Gardiner
we have it over every other team in the competition when it comes to tall forwards and we should exploit this to the maxdcstkfc wrote:I thought it was another great effort tonight. He's been superb IMO so far.
Apart from his miss in Q4.
Him and Riewoldt on opposite wings leading up this year!
Amazing depth of tall forwards really, Kosi, G, Roo, Charlie, Gardy, with Schneids and Milney roving
that we were still able to win without kosi and fraser out there speaks volumes for our increased depth
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Re: Charlie Gardiner
Everything seems to indicate that RL agrees with you.bigcarl wrote:we have it over every other team in the competition when it comes to tall forwards and we should exploit this to the max
They should only play AFL games now when it's raining. Slow games of footy are so much better to watch.
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Further to that, the game was actually won without Roo out there as well.bigcarl wrote:we have it over every other team in the competition when it comes to tall forwards and we should exploit this to the maxdcstkfc wrote:I thought it was another great effort tonight. He's been superb IMO so far.
Apart from his miss in Q4.
Him and Riewoldt on opposite wings leading up this year!
Amazing depth of tall forwards really, Kosi, G, Roo, Charlie, Gardy, with Schneids and Milney roving
that we were still able to win without kosi and fraser out there speaks volumes for our increased depth
Commented to my offsider in the last that Bally was making our forward line look tall.
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What that proves is a tall forward line may be overated. Again it proves midfielders win games. Just look at the best players in the last quarter.Iceman234 wrote:Further to that, the game was actually won without Roo out there as well.bigcarl wrote:we have it over every other team in the competition when it comes to tall forwards and we should exploit this to the maxdcstkfc wrote:I thought it was another great effort tonight. He's been superb IMO so far.
Apart from his miss in Q4.
Him and Riewoldt on opposite wings leading up this year!
Amazing depth of tall forwards really, Kosi, G, Roo, Charlie, Gardy, with Schneids and Milney roving
that we were still able to win without kosi and fraser out there speaks volumes for our increased depth
Commented to my offsider in the last that Bally was making our forward line look tall.
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I have been skeptical of Gardiner since day one and will continue to be until he gets some runs on the board in the real thing, but I must admit, he was great tonight, that last quarter was unbelievable, his last mark to save the game was just great...
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Spot on P66.plugger66 wrote:What that proves is a tall forward line may be overated. Again it proves midfielders win games. Just look at the best players in the last quarter.Iceman234 wrote:Further to that, the game was actually won without Roo out there as well.bigcarl wrote:we have it over every other team in the competition when it comes to tall forwards and we should exploit this to the maxdcstkfc wrote:I thought it was another great effort tonight. He's been superb IMO so far.
Apart from his miss in Q4.
Him and Riewoldt on opposite wings leading up this year!
Amazing depth of tall forwards really, Kosi, G, Roo, Charlie, Gardy, with Schneids and Milney roving
that we were still able to win without kosi and fraser out there speaks volumes for our increased depth
Commented to my offsider in the last that Bally was making our forward line look tall.
And it also shows a possible new depth of our goal kicking mids, something we haven't been able to reliably fall back on for the last couple of years.
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I think what it shows...and what RL is striving for is that every player needs to do their bit.....
It also shows that to have the options of different structures is good....and RL set the forward line u in diffeent ways tonight at different stage of the game.
Was also noticeable that King and MGardi hada go to point on the HF line to become marking targets.
It also shows that to have the options of different structures is good....and RL set the forward line u in diffeent ways tonight at different stage of the game.
Was also noticeable that King and MGardi hada go to point on the HF line to become marking targets.
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Re: Charlie Gardiner
footballers win games. defenders, midfielders, ruckmen and forwards.plugger66 wrote:What that proves is a tall forward line may be overated. Again it proves midfielders win games. Just look at the best players in the last quarter.
no part of the equation is more important than the other. it is a team game.
however, having a forward line which ruthlessly converts opportunities to goals (which we didn't do last year) has to help.
imo we would have won comfortably (rather than just fallen over the line) with our full compliment of tall forwards.
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The Geelong forward coach said at quarter time last week that their small forward line was a product of the limited interchange in the NAB cup - not by design. I reckon there was a bit of that in our game tonight. Once the season proper starts I think we'll see our key forwards spending most of the game on the ground up forward.saintsRrising wrote:RL set the forward line u in diffeent ways tonight at different stage of the game.
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Well I certainly agree with the last part...vacuous space wrote:The Geelong forward coach said at quarter time last week that their small forward line was a product of the limited interchange in the NAB cup - not by design. I reckon there was a bit of that in our game tonight. Once the season proper starts I think we'll see our key forwards spending most of the game on the ground up forward.saintsRrising wrote:RL set the forward line u in diffeent ways tonight at different stage of the game.
I don't think however that the various forward lines was due to limited interchange...but rather due to RL for example deliberately deciding not to play Roo in the last quarter (plus no Kosi or GTrain of course).
Roo's knee may have also been a factor in him often being at FF.
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once the season starts you won't see roo sitting on the bench for a full quarter. you want see ball siiting on the bench for 2 quarters. same with schneider, etc . next week will be the same. a bit more game time but still limited. final or no final.saintsRrising wrote:Well I certainly agree with the last part...vacuous space wrote:The Geelong forward coach said at quarter time last week that their small forward line was a product of the limited interchange in the NAB cup - not by design. I reckon there was a bit of that in our game tonight. Once the season proper starts I think we'll see our key forwards spending most of the game on the ground up forward.saintsRrising wrote:RL set the forward line u in diffeent ways tonight at different stage of the game.
I don't think however that the various forward lines was due to limited interchange...but rather due to RL for example deliberately deciding not to play Roo in the last quarter (plus no Kosi or GTrain of course).
Roo's knee may have also been a factor in him often being at FF.
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Chuck is one of those footballers who gets a chance once they've matured. At 20 his deficiencies outweighed his strengths. After 5 more years in the system, he's learnt how to play to his strengths and mitigate his weaknesses. His window is 3, maybe 4 years.
We got him at exactly the right time. He's no champion, but what he offers us is a fella with a huge tank who can take so much pressure off Rooey's knee. He's the hit up man. Roo won't need to run 20k a game.
I'm happy to have Charles with us. He'll do a job.
We got him at exactly the right time. He's no champion, but what he offers us is a fella with a huge tank who can take so much pressure off Rooey's knee. He's the hit up man. Roo won't need to run 20k a game.
I'm happy to have Charles with us. He'll do a job.
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Re: Charlie Gardiner
i was thinking to myself when watching the game "crap we are going to get over run without Roo there " and i think in the past we would have but these new kids seem to have brough a new life to the club its like they say to themselves "ok Roos not her nor kosi or frase but i can still make a differance" and thats somthing i think we have lacked in the past we used to go into our shell and try and hold on to a game where as now we actuallly attack the game and build on itIceman234 wrote:Further to that, the game was actually won without Roo out there as well.bigcarl wrote:we have it over every other team in the competition when it comes to tall forwards and we should exploit this to the maxdcstkfc wrote:I thought it was another great effort tonight. He's been superb IMO so far.
Apart from his miss in Q4.
Him and Riewoldt on opposite wings leading up this year!
Amazing depth of tall forwards really, Kosi, G, Roo, Charlie, Gardy, with Schneids and Milney roving
that we were still able to win without kosi and fraser out there speaks volumes for our increased depth
Commented to my offsider in the last that Bally was making our forward line look tall.
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