Paddy

[portosaint]

Battle is still only 19.

And has lots of upside.

[congorozides]

O'Rourke pick 2 in 2012 draft.
God that was a shocker.
GWS could have got Wines, Macrae or Grundy instead.

[skeptic]

He’s copped a lot of flak this week but here’s my questions...

Of Paddy, Bruce and Membrey, who played the best game?

[saintspremiers]

He’s copped a lot of flak this week but here’s my questions...

Of Paddy, Bruce and Membrey, who played the best game?

Paddy.

[stonecold]

He’s copped a lot of flak this week but here’s my questions...

Of Paddy, Bruce and Membrey, who played the best game?

Paddy.

This!!!!!

Could have had Plugger in our forward line last week and he would have struggled!!!!!

[Joffa Burns]

He’s copped a lot of flak this week but here’s my questions...

Of Paddy, Bruce and Membrey, who played the best game?

Paddy.

This!!!!!

Could have had Plugger in our forward line last week and he would have struggled!!!!!

I agree, Plugger would have struggled on Friday, but only because he's in his fifties.

Put a 22 year old Plugger on that magnificent ground in pristine conditions against Scott Thompson and he'd still have kicked 7 or 8 with limited opportunity.

[Drake Huggins]

He’s copped a lot of flak this week but here’s my questions...

Of Paddy, Bruce and Membrey, who played the best game?

Paddy.

Agreed. That's what was so frightening and concerning about that performance.

[skeptic]

He’s copped a lot of flak this week but here’s my questions...

Of Paddy, Bruce and Membrey, who played the best game?

Paddy.

Agreed. That's what was so frightening and concerning about that performance.

It says a lot about the criticism directed at him here this week

[saynta]

Paddy will be fine. Have a bit of faith guys. I'm sure we will see a better effort from him this weekend.

I'm looking forward to attending the match with some of my family.

[stonecold]

He’s copped a lot of flak this week but here’s my questions...

Of Paddy, Bruce and Membrey, who played the best game?

Paddy.

This!!!!!

Could have had Plugger in our forward line last week and he would have struggled!!!!!

I agree, Plugger would have struggled on Friday, but only because he's in his fifties.

Put a 22 year old Plugger on that magnificent ground in pristine conditions against Scott Thompson and he'd still have kicked 7 or 8 with limited opportunity.

7 or 8 Jaffa?????

Let go of it oldman!!!!!

[Con Gorozidis]

Watching Charlie Curnow and Todd Marshall play makes me realise how far off it Paddy really is.
Younger, taller and miles more athletic and skilful. Miles fitter.

[MC Gusto]

Give paddy 50 games and make your judgement then

[MC Gusto]

Watching Charlie Curnow and Todd Marshall play makes me realise how far off it Paddy really is.
Younger, taller and miles more athletic and skilful. Miles fitter.

You should probably just barrack for the blues...although you’d prob just bag weitering the whole time !

[congorozides]

Watching Charlie Curnow and Todd Marshall play makes me realise how far off it Paddy really is.
Younger, taller and miles more athletic and skilful. Miles fitter.

You should probably just barrack for the blues...although you’d prob just bag weitering the whole time !

Call it as I see it.
Weitering looks pretty s*** atm.

[stonecold]

Watching Charlie Curnow and Todd Marshall play makes me realise how far off it Paddy really is.
Younger, taller and miles more athletic and skilful. Miles fitter.

You should probably just barrack for the blues...although you’d prob just bag weitering the whole time !

Call it as I see it.
Weitering looks pretty s*** atm.

Don't think he was talking to you, although you may have let something out of the bag!!!!!

[magnifisaint]

Watching Charlie Curnow and Todd Marshall play makes me realise how far off it Paddy really is.
Younger, taller and miles more athletic and skilful. Miles fitter.

You should probably just barrack for the blues...although you’d prob just bag weitering the whole time !

Call it as I see it.
Weitering looks pretty s*** atm.

Don't think he was talking to you, although you may have let something out of the bag!!!!!

You need to stop with the exclamation marks. It doesn't validate your dribble

[stonecold]

Watching Charlie Curnow and Todd Marshall play makes me realise how far off it Paddy really is.
Younger, taller and miles more athletic and skilful. Miles fitter.

You should probably just barrack for the blues...although you’d prob just bag weitering the whole time !

Call it as I see it.
Weitering looks pretty s*** atm.

Don't think he was talking to you, although you may have let something out of the bag!!!!!

You need to stop with the exclamation marks. It doesn't validate your dribble

You need to get a new avatar, totally inappropriate in current day and age!!!!!

Or is it a reflection on you?????!!!!!

[congorozides]

Todd Marshall is only 19 years old and already has 8 goals this season as a 199cm fwd.

Paddy is 22. 193cm. 1 goal.

[David-Lee]

How many times can it be said the guy was averaging a concussion every 3.5 games up to 2018. Poor lad looked into a stiff wind and he went down.
Lots of keyboard experts discuss why... from form to physiology to his footy brain.

I have bagged his play plenty and if you can find it I wrote an eloquent piece ( tickets on myself are now selling 3 for $1) on how my years of studying human psychology led me to believe he lacked passion for the footy.


All, some or none may be true but whatever is going on Paddy is less. He lacks passion he is afraid. Why wouldn't he be? Every 4 games he gets his bell rung and one of these times it might lead to losing his career or God forbid... permanent injury...so regardless of my opinion on the man's draft position or lack of footy statistics or personal passion...I see fear and I have never been wrong about fear. The club is doing a great disservice if he is not seeing a mental health professional.

Imagine being a roofer.
You climb up on the roof and something- maybe the wind maybe your footing maybe the roof surface or rain or a co worker....something happens and you fall.
You recover and after a while you go back to work and get on the roof...a bit tenative, a bit woobly, then stand. Yep, you're right. You do a couple of roofs...then BAM! You fall off again. DAMN! Didn't see that coming you were careful and more thoughtful of the processes, but it happened.

Now imagine that happening over and over and over and over. You've fallen off 6 of the last 22 roofs you worked on..first, you lose your job and probably get a medical review for your plumbing licensure...your insurance cancels and no builder wants you on site because you are a proven liability.

Now you have thought it over and sat up late nights going through every fall and think you see the reasons why. You fully recover physically but mentally?

You get a gig from your old boss who has had you since you were an apprentice and has an investment he hopes to recoup because at one time you were the biggest and strongest apprentice scoring the highest at TAFE practical and theory.

But as you climb the ladder onto that first roof...you are consumed with fear. You move slowly, every step is calculated, a slight breeze sets off alarm bells- am I going to fall today?

To me Paddy is playing terrified. He needs more than game time to recover.

[perfectionist]

Useless

[magnifisaint]

Useless

you can add absolutely to that

[spert]

Needed to take some of those marks he dropped- just an ordinary player so far this season. I want him to do well, but it's clear to me that since all his concussions, he is not hitting the contests as hard as when he started out.

[Con Gorozidis]

Looks humungous in the rooms.

[perfectionist]

Looks humungous in the rooms.

I think he has been eating "humungous" in the rooms.

[The Barometer]

How many times can it be said the guy was averaging a concussion every 3.5 games up to 2018. Poor lad looked into a stiff wind and he went down.
Lots of keyboard experts discuss why... from form to physiology to his footy brain.

I have bagged his play plenty and if you can find it I wrote an eloquent piece ( tickets on myself are now selling 3 for $1) on how my years of studying human psychology led me to believe he lacked passion for the footy.


All, some or none may be true but whatever is going on Paddy is less. He lacks passion he is afraid. Why wouldn't he be? Every 4 games he gets his bell rung and one of these times it might lead to losing his career or God forbid... permanent injury...so regardless of my opinion on the man's draft position or lack of footy statistics or personal passion...I see fear and I have never been wrong about fear. The club is doing a great disservice if he is not seeing a mental health professional.

Imagine being a roofer.
You climb up on the roof and something- maybe the wind maybe your footing maybe the roof surface or rain or a co worker....something happens and you fall.
You recover and after a while you go back to work and get on the roof...a bit tenative, a bit woobly, then stand. Yep, you're right. You do a couple of roofs...then BAM! You fall off again. DAMN! Didn't see that coming you were careful and more thoughtful of the processes, but it happened.

Now imagine that happening over and over and over and over. You've fallen off 6 of the last 22 roofs you worked on..first, you lose your job and probably get a medical review for your plumbing licensure...your insurance cancels and no builder wants you on site because you are a proven liability.

Now you have thought it over and sat up late nights going through every fall and think you see the reasons why. You fully recover physically but mentally?

You get a gig from your old boss who has had you since you were an apprentice and has an investment he hopes to recoup because at one time you were the biggest and strongest apprentice scoring the highest at TAFE practical and theory.

But as you climb the ladder onto that first roof...you are consumed with fear. You move slowly, every step is calculated, a slight breeze sets off alarm bells- am I going to fall today?

To me Paddy is playing terrified. He needs more than game time to recover.

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Good post