Please don't let Robert Eddy be the hard luck story
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georgie girl
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Amazing isn't it, a bit better than very little, but not much.plugger66 wrote:He did better than a good job. He is going to play in his 4th GF and for someone with very limited ability it is an unbelievable effort.loris wrote:I thought Dempster did a good job........... Giansiracussa hardly had a look at the football.......... Dempster carried on from the good job he did on Steve Johnson.....2 good scalps to Smiley Dempster in his last two matches.
i agree with all of this.Kilda wrote:I think Eddy will retain his spot...he was ferocious at the contest. The one who concerns me is Mc Qualter...I would much rather have Jack Steven or Geary in the side than him. Mini is indecisive, makes unforced errors and is inaccurate in front of goal. Tonight, he was conspicuous by his absence.
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Yes after watching match again no way would I drop Eddy before McQualter. Mini is a very lucky boy at the moment for some reason. Eddy was desperate and made some good positional plays. Mini was hardly noticeable again and his tackling is not as good as Eddy's was.bergholt wrote:i agree with all of this.Kilda wrote:I think Eddy will retain his spot...he was ferocious at the contest. The one who concerns me is Mc Qualter...I would much rather have Jack Steven or Geary in the side than him. Mini is indecisive, makes unforced errors and is inaccurate in front of goal. Tonight, he was conspicuous by his absence.
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saintkid
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I've been saying that about Mini for the last 8 weeks but he has only been dropped once by Lyon this season so he has a fair amount of faith in him. I reckon Blair from the Pies offers more than Mini now so he better repay the faith if he survives this week.chook23 wrote:Yep.....bigred wrote:Eddy played his way into the Grand Final side.
Puts his head right over the ball.
Mini is the one under pressure IMO
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http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/t ... 15ox0.html
This time last year, to the great sadness of Eddy and the slice of south Gippsland that adores him, St Kilda's match committee looked straight through him too, dropping him from the grand final side in favour of Sean Dempster. Throughout a long and nervy week since Eddy held his own in the preliminary final, the prospect of lightning striking twice loomed again.
Sitting down to breakfast each morning with housemate Steven Baker - the man every third media report is saying might replace you - can't exactly have calmed Eddy's nerves. But his name was on the team sheet last night, and the words of his mother in the depths of September 2009 have been vindicated.
''There's worse things in life, you're young enough,'' Fran Eddy told her only son. ''You can bounce back and next year you can play in the grand final.''
Eddy's selection has staved off another disconsolate journey to the MCG tomorrow for his biggest fans. Mum and dad, Stuart, will be there, with little sister Renee and eldest sister Susan. Melinda, two years Rob's senior at 24, will be up early in London watching the live telecast with cousins.
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