Past #18: Shaun Atley - delisted end '21 - 237 NM games / 44 NM goals - thanks Ats

[Devil Fish]

He’s had a few awful weeks but I can say that about a few of our players

He is hardly injured and I would sign him just on that basis considering our horrible track record

He's hardly injured because he's attack on the ball, or the player with the ball, is poor.

 

[SunnyBoner]

He's hardly injured because he's attack on the ball, or the player with the ball, is poor.

He's had a good year but I'm sure we're the only club in the league who was keen to sign him up to a three year deal.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Hbf time

 

[Horizons_00]

Feels like the contract has made him complacent lol

 

[lockheed]

Feels like the contract has made him complacent lol

You may be right, but let's wait till next week before we rush to rash conclusions.

 

[Horizons_00]

You may be right, but let's wait till next week before we rush to rash conclusions.

Was a tongue in cheek comment mate

 

[The Nostradamus]

Needs a decent game today, been average for over a month, would be droppable

 

[roos_fanatic08]

Won’t ever take the next step. Even though We really need him to, especially because of his speed.

But I get the feeling he will always be mid teens two tackle a game type player.

 

[The Nostradamus]

Play him hbf so we don't have as many plodders back there

 

[LB2Snake]

Invisible today

Happens often

 

[Moti]

Play him in the middle, just see how it goes.


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[tazaa]

Loving that contract extension is Atts!! Onya Shauno

 

[Waynesworld]

Needs to be moved back. Forward experiment has not worked. He just never looks dangerous or threatens enough up forward and we really miss the run off half back.

 

[Whereitallbegan]

Really tired of the needs to be moved back, needs to be moved forward, needs to be moved into the midfield talk.....what we really needed to do, was move him on, but alas, some moron with half a brain thinks that he is going to be of some use while we push for top 4 and a flag in the hopefully near future. can anybody put forward a plausible argument as to what use that would be.

 

[archereleven]

Really tired of the needs to be moved back, needs to be moved forward, needs to be moved into the midfield talk.....what we really needed to do, was move him on, but alas, some moron with half a brain thinks that he is going to be of some use while we push for top 4 and a flag in the hopefully near future. can anybody put forward a plausible argument as to what use that would be.

I doubt anyone can make an argument mate.

Pearl Jam had a song that perfectly described Shaun as a footballer - Nothingman

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[GreatBradScott]

Really tired of the needs to be moved back, needs to be moved forward, needs to be moved into the midfield talk.....what we really needed to do, was move him on, but alas, some moron with half a brain thinks that he is going to be of some use while we push for top 4 and a flag in the hopefully near future. can anybody put forward a plausible argument as to what use that would be.

Their only argument would be when/if we sign Polec, and potentially a few others, he gets a bit more freedom to downhill ski.

But I agree, just find him a bit vanilla to be honest.

 

[mouncey2franklin]

If I weren't so lazy I would try to sit down and compare Atley's stats pre and post new contract.

I seem to recall him being genuinely good in the first half of the year.

I'm talking could easily fit into Richmond as a forward good.

Lately he has been more meh than a cheap Chinese hatchback.

Would make perfect sense, too, given Bradley's 'you're here to buy houses' philosophy.

Well as somebody in the top 25% of earners on the North list, Atley is on his way to being a real estate mogul.

And he only has to perform for a few weeks every three years! Genius, really.

 

[Quivorir]

I sometimes wonder if some of you people watch the same game as the rest of us.

He's been pretty consistent(ly okay) all year.

 

[Whereitallbegan]

I'm watching the games,

I sometimes wonder if some of you people watch the same game as the rest of us.

He's been pretty consistent(ly okay) all year.

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I'm watching the games, just not looking at the stats, with certain players, they only muddy the water.

 

[mouncey2franklin]

I sometimes wonder if some of you people watch the same game as the rest of us.

He's been pretty consistent(ly okay) all year.

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According to those stats, his past month or two has been well below par.

Inside-50s are down.
Goals (and even shots on goal) are down.
Goal assists have disappeared.

Remember he is in the team as a forward.

On the upside, he has committed less clangers lately, apart from the Sydney game. That is good.
And his overall possession count is pretty consistent, apart from the last two weeks.

How about going an entire season with only one contested mark? That has to be some kind of record.*

*Edit. Yeah, it is his record, from 2011. Two matches away from equaling his own PB. Go you good thing.

 

[naturally north]

well hope his brother can get the ball to him cause currently he can't find it him ******* self.

Statistically the worst year he's had since 2011.

 

[see see]

just find him a bit vanilla to be honest.

This guy's played 150+ games now and would be lucky to have been named in our best players in 10 of them.

I'd be more than happy if we traded for his brother, provided it's Shaun going the other way as part of the deal. He's basically Sam Power with leg speed.

 

[Billy Not Really]

Expected a boost after his contract being done and dusted, he's just gotten even more flat. He started the year off well, finished it off in a very underwhelming fashion.

 

[DarwinRoo]

Vanilla is an ice cream flavour. In football terms its up there with quarterback as football jargon said by people who don't know as much as they think they do

 

[mouncey2franklin]

He's basically Sam Power with leg speed.

I wish I had thought of that. Astute and apt.