Is McQualter finished

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firmly believe peops see and believe what they wanna see in relation to topics like this

BAM 's BOG by "light years" has to be a prime example and would be a bloody insult to the Blakey for mine. and I still believe Minnie played a good game , but my jury's still out on a stand-up start each week for him this year, particularly if we can unearth a couple of others who can be strong defensive forwards but have a couple of other important strings to their bow ...ie take a contested mark or two and kick accurate for goal on a regular basis

anyway the bottom line's all good as far as competition for those couple of forward berths are concerned at present and i wish him (Mini) well and ditto the others who maybe in line

ps still not sure Gilbos the answer their either!!

I agree that people see what they want to see. I see daylight between Mini and Blake myself, but that still isn't my point. While loose defender is an incredibly valuable but easier role to play than extractor + goal kicker, that's not meant to disparage his 13 or so marks or belittle a great effort...

don't want to be too pedantic here BAM but good too see you have come down quite considerably from Mini's game being "light Years" away from anyone else to the virtual opposite in mere "daylight" between him and Blakey

given that a light year is the distance travelled by the speed of light in a year...The speed of light is constant, at about 300000 km per second: a light year is very nearly 10 million million km. (a fair distance you would think)

now daylight can come through the merest of cracks and is spotted in a split second so that's not much between them by comparison

If you asked that of Mini right now, the answer would be "dominated every facet of the game on Saturday night".

is also a little over the top surely ....I can think of quite a few facets that he would score a blank sheet on here regardless

not haviing a go at you M8 ...guess it's just a terminology thing here

and I agree that people see what they want to see. I see daylight between Mini and Blake myself, but that still isn't my point. While loose defender is an incredibly valuable but easier role to play than extractor + goal kicker,

that's not meant to disparage his 13 or so marks or belittle a great effort. but this is my point though BAM , because initially your post did do ust that !!!

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firmly believe peops see and believe what they wanna see in relation to topics like this

BAM 's BOG by "light years" has to be a prime example and would be a bloody insult to the Blakey for mine. and I still believe Minnie played a good game , but my jury's still out on a stand-up start each week for him this year, particularly if we can unearth a couple of others who can be strong defensive forwards but have a couple of other important strings to their bow ...ie take a contested mark or two and kick accurate for goal on a regular basis

anyway the bottom line's all good as far as competition for those couple of forward berths are concerned at present and i wish him (Mini) well and ditto the others who maybe in line

ps still not sure Gilbos the answer their either!!

I agree that people see what they want to see. I see daylight between Mini and Blake myself, but that still isn't my point. While loose defender is an incredibly valuable but easier role to play than extractor + goal kicker, that's not meant to disparage his 13 or so marks or belittle a great effort...

don't want to be too pedantic here BAM but good too see you have come down quite considerably from Mini's game being "light Years" away from anyone else to the virtual opposite in mere "daylight" between him and Blakey

given that a light year is the distance travelled by the speed of light in a year...The speed of light is constant, at about 300000 km per second: a light year is very nearly 10 million million km. (a fair distance you would think)

now daylight can come through the merest of cracks and is spotted in a split second so that's not much between them by comparison

If you asked that of Mini right now, the answer would be "dominated every facet of the game on Saturday night".

is also a little over the top surely ....I can think of quite a few facets that he would score a blank sheet on here regardless

not haviing a go at you M8 ...guess it's just a terminology thing here

and I agree that people see what they want to see. I see daylight between Mini and Blake myself, but that still isn't my point. While loose defender is an incredibly valuable but easier role to play than extractor + goal kicker,

that's not meant to disparage his 13 or so marks or belittle a great effort. but this is my point though BAM , because initially your post did do ust that !!!

Not often I enjoy a post disagreeing with me so much... I must grant, my hyperbole has been very surgically pulled apart, as I have been stitched up, I have been schooled.

On actual footy though, I stand by Mini having been heads and shoulders above the next competitor. Blake's performance was uncommonly good. Mini's was a diamond.

Blakey's 13 marks deserve credit. It takes a good player to pull off such a feat, NAB cup or not. The guys associated with numbers like that tend to be the likes of Fisher, Gilbert, Lake, Milburn, Bock, Hodge, Goddard, Taylor.... But it does fairly regularly get pulled off by less storied names as well. Blake himself did it last R3, 2010 v Collingwood, as he cracked 10 marks 4 times through 2010.

Again, not to disparage, it's uncommon.

Mini's 15 contested possessions however are a much rarer feet. The guys who put together 15 CP games are Judd and Ablett territory. There would occasionally be others, but it's just not something that happens... and that's before we look at his delivery. AFL disposal of contested possessions tends to be low%. Through 2009 (2010 numbers not pulic) CP Kicking was < 50%. Mini failed to hit a traget with 2 possessions all night (92% eff for 25 touches).

It's just unheard of. Star's aligned, the heavens parted, and for a night Andrew McQualter was an unstoppable force.

Now, as we all continue to point out, it's a NAB cup game. There's no expectation that Mini will ever do anything like that again. No expectation he'll even approach it.

Credit where due though, the reason I'm throwing around such extreme hyperbole is that game is a statistical outlier for quality. Not just for McQualter, but for anyone.