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Yeah..gotta love Dermies appreciation of that old fashioned hard tough type player...he got pretty excited about Zurhaar after the collision...made a comment about thickness....I was laughing during the replay when he allowed himself to be brought down over the boundary line and decided to use his strength to land on his opponent for extra lols. Then 2 seconds later Dermie mentioned the same thing. Which means one of Dermie and me is as smart as the other - and may Thor have mercy on our souls.
reminds me of Arch on Lenny........The kid will remember his first game.
Votes again in the coaches award this week puts BC as the 6th best mid in the comp at the moment.Let's not underestimate this bloke. With this as the last year of the decade I've been wondering who the best NMFC of the decade is. Hands down it's Ben Cunnington. He's not silk but he takes his place one day in the NMFC Hall of Fame. When we're losing forget about the game and watch Cunnington go to work. This guy is elite at what he does and he's been so for a long time.
What's the bet Cunnington gets rubbed out for the head clash, and the Sydney clown gets off the elbow to the head?
In the TV interview right after the game, Ben said he was a bit shocked when he got to the ground today and found out about the Scott thing.
Didn't appear to be joking or in any way embellishing his story.
He said something like, 'as you know I don't use the social media so I was a bit shocked when I got here this morning'.
LOL.
Imagine that. Everybody else in the football world knows about it, but Ben is driving to the game this morning oblivious.
If this is really the case, that Ben just rocks up to the club for training and games and stuff, but tunes out of the media (1.0 and 2.0) beyond that, doesn't even text message or have any digital contact with people, then my admiration for him just went up another level.
Perhaps he was embellishing, perhaps somebody gave him a call last night and told him, but I dunno.
If there's one guy in the league who might have genuinely been oblivous as the drama was unfolding yesterday, this guy would be my pick.
Wonder what effect Brad leaving will have on Cunner’s performances ? Seemed very emotional post game
He had a twitter account once. Pretty sure he posted one picture of him holding a shark and then retired from the internet.
I love Cunners as much as anyone. However, I think the coaching guys need to ensure that he doesn’t end up at centre bounces on mobile opposition players. Ben, invariably, takes a snooze for half a quarter every game - he shares that with all the competition superstars. Last week it happened early in the last. He was jolted back to life immediately after his very lazy handball was blocked. However, while he was snoozing, the Bulldogs ran riot at the centre bounces. The time where the Bont literally cruised away from him and set up a goal looked really bad.
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i feel he is still somewhat underrated. he is actually a genuine top 10-15 in the league player these days.
he is on a great run in the coaches votes considering how few games we are winning.
Because alot of his best work goes unnoticed.
Sure he'll take a clean contested mark up the line and slot the occasional goal, and don't argue.
But every other possession he makes is where he truly shines, its always contested, always in the coal face, always the first to get the ball into space and allow us to run out of a contest for a push forward.
Alot of the allure of stars is big goals, running with the ball slotting from the pocket or bursting out of a pack like an elite ball user. Which is the modern player.
But Cunnington's style is from a bygone era, that while seems outdated, proves it gets the job done still and makes everyone else look better as a result of that work. Almost every club has them, the unheralded hard worker of the team who allows the big marquee names to shine.
If you were to swap Cunnington with Patrick Cripps he'd be championed as highly as Cripps is because when your entire team is full of plodders and kids and you put the team on your back week after week like he does, its no wonder he looks like a million bucks.