Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
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Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
The decision of our recruiters to draft McCartin instead of Petracca will haunt us for the next 15 years.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
I think McCartin is still a little too early in his career (especially for a tall) to be making that call, but given our dire lack of midfield class, it will certainly be a talking point for quite a while yet.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
Paddy may be a good player... in the mould of Tex Walker
Petracca (who has missed a full season with an acl
Will be an absolute gun
Could one day be a top 5 player in the afl
Petracca (who has missed a full season with an acl
Will be an absolute gun
Could one day be a top 5 player in the afl
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
The thing about Christian Petracca is his disposal. He can kick and handball both sides. We only have one player on our list who can do this. He is the oldest player on our list and was our best yesterday. The one thing you can say about Paddy is that he is woefully unfit and has been since the day he arrived at the club. He is still just 20 but I fear he may lack the work ethic required. On the other hand, if his diabetes is the inhibitor then that is back on the selection group in 2014. Hindsight can be 20/20, but I would always pick a skilled, tall midfielder in the modern game.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
How right you areperfectionist wrote:The thing about Christian Petracca is his disposal. He can kick and handball both sides. We only have one player on our list who can do this. He is the oldest player on our list and was our best yesterday. The one thing you can say about Paddy is that he is woefully unfit and has been since the day he arrived at the club. He is still just 20 but I fear he may lack the work ethic required. On the other hand, if his diabetes is the inhibitor then that is back on the selection group in 2014. Hindsight can be 20/20, but I would always pick a skilled, tall midfielder in the modern game.
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My OP is not a knock on McCartin by the way. I'm knocking the recruiters.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
Agreed. We lost the plot last night on set shots. I'd give anything to be able to correct it.The Fireman wrote:that we miss easy shots in front of goal.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
Weller 3SemperFidelis wrote:Agreed. We lost the plot last night on set shots. I'd give anything to be able to correct it.The Fireman wrote:that we miss easy shots in front of goal.
Gresham 1 (poster)
Membrey 1
Lonie 1
Steele 1
All set shots.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
Yep. Any one of Weller's (at least the early two) could have steadied the ship. But, no.BackFromUSA wrote:Weller 3SemperFidelis wrote:Agreed. We lost the plot last night on set shots. I'd give anything to be able to correct it.The Fireman wrote:that we miss easy shots in front of goal.
Gresham 1 (poster)
Membrey 1
Lonie 1
Steele 1
All set shots.
I'll give Steele a first game pass, and he otherwise showed good effort.
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Lonie, OMG. Back to Sandy for the rest of the year.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
Con Gorozidis wrote:Lonie is pointless at AFL level.
It is very hard fora slow small forward to be succesful at AFL level.
Twice yesterday Lonie was easily run down when he was 10 m in the clear.
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Speaking of small forwards, what about the Gresh? I thought he looked really dangerous a few times. That over-the-shoulder goal was incredible. Surely a goal of the year nomination?saintsRrising wrote:Con Gorozidis wrote:Lonie is pointless at AFL level.
It is very hard fora slow small forward to be succesful at AFL level.
Twice yesterday Lonie was easily run down when he was 10 m in the clear.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
No I think you are missing the pointsaint-stu wrote:Yeh, it was obviously Paddy's fault we lost last night.
It was Petraccas fault they won
And while I'm at it, Tony Locketts fault we cant kick straight on set shots
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
Still prefer McCartin easily. He will be a fantastic key forward and provide structure to build around. Melbourne are obviously a year ahead of where we are why else would they take a 32 year old.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
True. if our kicking wasn't so woeful, we still would have held a 2 or 3 goal lead at halftime. It may have been a different game.SemperFidelis wrote:Agreed. We lost the plot last night on set shots. I'd give anything to be able to correct it.The Fireman wrote:that we miss easy shots in front of goal.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
Our team was far older than there's. We are the 8th eldest team this week. Melb's average age is a whole year younger.CURLY wrote:Still prefer McCartin easily. He will be a fantastic key forward and provide structure to build around. Melbourne are obviously a year ahead of where we are why else would they take a 32 year old.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
You idiot, CW. We needed a key forward for when Roo retires. It was a pragmatic selection.citywest wrote:The decision of our recruiters to draft McCartin instead of Petracca will haunt us for the next 15 years.
Time to start thinking before posting this Captain Obvious-type garbage.
Curb your enthusiasm - you’re a St.Kilda supporter!!
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
Yep playing Brown while Goddard develops Gilbert while White Geary while McKenzie and so on. We too could grab a gun 30+ year old and be better.Myron Gaines wrote:Our team was far older than there's. We are the 8th eldest team this week. Melb's average age is a whole year younger.CURLY wrote:Still prefer McCartin easily. He will be a fantastic key forward and provide structure to build around. Melbourne are obviously a year ahead of where we are why else would they take a 32 year old.
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
Yet our supporters love to rave about how good our recruiting team is.
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lol.Sainternist wrote:You idiot, CW. We needed a key forward for when Roo retires. It was a pragmatic selection.citywest wrote:The decision of our recruiters to draft McCartin instead of Petracca will haunt us for the next 15 years.
Time to start thinking before posting this Captain Obvious-type garbage.
This thread does have a look at me feel to it, doesn't it?
If we won you think he would have reappeared?
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Re: Our loss to Melbourne proves one thing.....
I think this is a hysterical response to be honest...
A guy ran around in the midfield unchecked whilst his team dominated... remind me, how great was he in the first quarter
And Paddy written off after missing the game.
Ppl need to get a grip
A guy ran around in the midfield unchecked whilst his team dominated... remind me, how great was he in the first quarter
And Paddy written off after missing the game.
Ppl need to get a grip