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dont hear much on the east coast but has been caught doing something he should not have been doing. otherwise i thought on form he would be in the team:confused: :confused:
Eagle_Fan
1 May 2003, 22:24
Is that a question? Or have you heard something concrete?
I'd doubt it though.
Voice of Reason
2 May 2003, 00:50
Gotta be injured - don't think he played for Subi last week.
Black Thunder
2 May 2003, 01:02
Originally posted by Eagle_Fan
Is that a question? Or have you heard something concrete?
I'd doubt it though.
I think it was a question of bewilderment as to how he's not in the team.
In terms of form he's been one of our best so its pretty disapoting for him.
Mr Eagle
2 May 2003, 13:01
It was a match up thing last week...surely not again?
Black Thunder
2 May 2003, 13:06
Originally posted by Mr Eagle
It was a match up thing last week...surely not again?
I think he's got an injury concern, there are plenty of players he can play on from Mellbourne - Leoncelli, Vardy, Walsh, Johnstone, even Robertson just off the top of my head.
TheRealBuzz
2 May 2003, 13:37
http://www.astrology-online.com/horoscope/crab.jpg
;)
Au_Blue#24
2 May 2003, 13:55
Hey, woodsy may have a head like a smashed crab, but in terms of footy abillity, he is far from the crustacean you are alluding to !!
davers11
2 May 2003, 14:14
No injury problem he is playing for subi this week, he is just out of favour at the moment.
players seem to fall out of favour pretty quickly it seems
Maybe he broke some team rule and the club just aren't telling anyone. Would certainly explain his unexpected dumping from the side.
I'm not sure Wooden has really been all that great for us- I also get the impression that so far this year he's been particularly unexceptional when playing away
, something which the powers that be probably don't want to encourage.
Look at his last 3 games- excellent effort on Milne at Subi, but certainly nothing to write home about regarding his other to tagging targets- Mcleod and Crawford. Shane Crawford played his best game of the year so far against us, with 28 touches and a goal, and this on a day when Gardiner completed dominated the ruck. Its hard to suggest that Wooden did an adequate job on him- iirc Crawford had a blinder of a final quarter, and probably won the game for Hawthorn.
Against Adelaide, Wooden was tagging Mcleod- again, Mcleod played his best game of the season so far, booting 3 goals, and getting a lazy 28 touches. McLeod was the game breaker for Adelaide, and Wooden's inability to check someone who is admittedly about the best in the business could probably have been said to have cost us the game. More worrying still, Wooden laid a total of 1 tackle for the day.
So, in the past three games he's played, Wooden dominated against St Kilda's small forward on a day when the ball barely went past the halfway line, and was on the receiving end of two season high, game winning performances by opposition midfielders. You can hardly say that he's been a 'gun tagger' thus far. Realistically, he was always going to be in the firing line with Read's good form pushing himself for an inclusion.
I'm not knocking Josh, because he certainly has turned his career around over the last year, but realistically, his efforts so far this season have been mixed at best. There are other people who fulfill the same role as him, and he's going to have to work for his spot.