I feel Nick is out of position. Not a back.
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I feel Nick is out of position. Not a back.
I think I need to pull myself up as well.I was and have been critical of Nick over sometine but never abusive or derogatory toward him. Ive also complimented when he plays well. I don't use 'spud', 'hack' etc. He is a fantasitc person and die hard loyal Lion, I love him in that respect. Sometimes I find he lacks awareness and compure, and his decision making can be an issue and he can get caught out defensively. He makes me nervous and that what evokes tje dtrong response. You can never question his effort though. Im not going to watch the replay and come back and list the times I found he had bad moments in all areas of the game, but there were plenty (I think those moments were reflected in the fan reaction on the live thread) , least of which as Withos hospital hand pass thar set him up. At the same time, if he did the job on Breust (I actually didn't think he was on him much) them full credit to him. Im willing to adjust my assesment and ill watch closely for it on replay. Small forwards are our cryptonite and he was put in the team to do a job and did. Also with 'pace of the game' stuff, it is hard to adjust to AFL level after playing NEAFL for so long. ROBBO is polarising, its the cut and thrust of AFL fandom. Players shouldn't be abused but I have seen plenty of venom aimed at lots of players. I hope he plays consistant high level footy going forward and will try to not drop my bundle on him so quickly going forward.
Thank god Robbo put that up .From Mark Robinson's The Tackle. It's alright this week.
4. IT’S NOT UNSOCIABLE HAWKS, IT’S THE ANNOYING HAWKS
Be it Conor Glass rubbing an opponent’s hair, or Ben Stratton continually punching and pushing Charlie Cameron, or James Sicily belting Lincoln McCarthy in the guts behind the play, the Hawks are annoying.
Sicily is looking at a suspension and his undisciplined acts continue to hurt him as a footballer and his footy team.
The Stratton interaction with Cameron was weird. As he manhandled Cameron, the field umpire was laughing.
Didn’t the league say it was clamping down on that rubbish off the ball and would pay free kicks? What is Cameron supposed to do, just stand there and take it as the umpire laughed?
6. HARRIS ANDREWS
The Brisbane backman is Dustin Fletcher reincarnated: Tall, athletic, a marker, a spoiler and with go-go gadget arms.
He’s not as clumsy at giving away the occasional strange free kick as Fletcher did, but the traits that made Fletcher a champion — and surely a walk-up Hall of Fame inductee in 2020 — are evident in Harris.
He had a couple of goals kicked on him against the Hawks, but he stopped another 10.
Andrews has that special quality of getting a fist to the ball just as his opponent is about to mark it. He was the highest-ranked player on the ground with 20 disposals and nine marks. Boy, he is quality.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/a...-round-11-ng-7ec315267ecb628936e3dbd78b7d4f6a
I for one am a big supporter of Nick. Makes some mistakes (as most of them do) but does a lot of work unseen by many watchers who only seem to focus on the negatives. It'a team game and he is a team player.Good stuff Jason. I was proud of Nicks game last night. One error at the start of the game. Keeping Breust to that level of no influence is no mugs effort. Breust is a top bloke and congratulated Nick on his game and stated he finds it very hard to play against him. Very good rap for Nick. Proud Dad in spite of some of the ordinary comments from Lions "supporters" on this forum.
The lead up to Sicily wacking Linc started on the boundary line about 1-2 minutes earlier. Watch the replay & you will see Linc whisper sweet nothings into Sicily's ear after Sicily stuffed up & Sicily immediately bailed up but was too close to the umps to do anything. Sicily is a weak minded gutless sniping campaigner and now sits directly behind Cameron as the biggest sniping dog playing.From Mark Robinson's The Tackle. It's alright this week.
4. IT’S NOT UNSOCIABLE HAWKS, IT’S THE ANNOYING HAWKS
Be it Conor Glass rubbing an opponent’s hair, or Ben Stratton continually punching and pushing Charlie Cameron, or James Sicily belting Lincoln McCarthy in the guts behind the play, the Hawks are annoying.
Sicily is looking at a suspension and his undisciplined acts continue to hurt him as a footballer and his footy team.
The Stratton interaction with Cameron was weird. As he manhandled Cameron, the field umpire was laughing.
Didn’t the league say it was clamping down on that rubbish off the ball and would pay free kicks? What is Cameron supposed to do, just stand there and take it as the umpire laughed?
6. HARRIS ANDREWS
The Brisbane backman is Dustin Fletcher reincarnated: Tall, athletic, a marker, a spoiler and with go-go gadget arms.
He’s not as clumsy at giving away the occasional strange free kick as Fletcher did, but the traits that made Fletcher a champion — and surely a walk-up Hall of Fame inductee in 2020 — are evident in Harris.
He had a couple of goals kicked on him against the Hawks, but he stopped another 10.
Andrews has that special quality of getting a fist to the ball just as his opponent is about to mark it. He was the highest-ranked player on the ground with 20 disposals and nine marks. Boy, he is quality.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/a...-round-11-ng-7ec315267ecb628936e3dbd78b7d4f6a
Your right, people forget our reserve grade have won every game and flogged everyone including the Suns, GWS and the Swans. Our reserves are going into the firsts for their chance and the step up is huge.Some of the comments made are unfortunately very poor. He took his time readjusting back to the pace of senior level but looked comfortable soon enough. We’ve lacked someone that can do jobs on players like Breust for a long time. Hopefully Nick can continue to build. Certainly gives his all.
He was certainly running harder into space this game. But presumably he was also fulfilling his defensive requirements which we know the coaches are big on. Although he was listed as only having one tackle.Lewy was back to playing his trademark style on the weekend. It's hard to work out what he was doing last week and possibly his other earlier games. I wonder if he was trying too hard to play a defensive game previously and this week he was given more freedom to attack?
The job Bushie did on Buckley in the Grand final was brilliant, buckley was blowing up like a $2 watch he couldn't get the ball and his team mates were avoiding him he was beaten so bad.I have said it before, but Nick Robbo will be our Robert Copeland when we having a crack at it. Bushie was never a highlight reel (in a team of highlight reels) but when you needed someone to go and do a job, he was the man - just go and ask FIGJAM.
Agree 100% MacMum. I chose to not visit the game day thread in big footy anymore specifically because I find a lot of posts disgusting when it comes to our playing list and coach's. Its unbelievable that we are 7 wins out of 11 games yet the brave experts we have feel the need to tee off with their childish and dis-respectful comments about our team who are WINNING. I am at a loss as to why it has gotten worse this year compared to last when we were not even close to how we are now.Sick to death with all the whinging negative people on here, week after week it goes on.
Yes, sometimes some eyebrow raising selections, but come game day they usually have got it right.....otherwise we wouldn't be 4th on the ladder!
In Fages and Co we trust!
At the game I thought Nick did some good things, only noticed him getting caught once, maybe another time. As I say what I saw at the game.I think I need to pull myself up as well.
These guys are just kids who lead a generally disciplined life and play for the club and for we supporters.
Some are obviously nowhere near as competent as others ,it's not their fault , it's a random game which calls for split second decisions that by their nature can sometimes go wrong.
I think everyone here is overall very supportive of our players ,they're well paid of course , but any random criticism on game day is borne out of personal frustration that things haven't gone our way.
It's a team game ,everyone who plays puts themselves up for criticism at some point, but personal derogatory comments should be avoided, you have to be brave to line up and we know they're all doing their best.
Yep the Rayner non Mark was pretty clear on the replay. Was actually a very good call by the umpire. They made a lot of mistakes but that wasn't onere; raynor ‘mark’ not paid down low. He got his hands under it first grab but laid an egg under his body and it touched the ground.
I didn’t catch it all but on Sunday’s footy show Fagan specifically mentioned raynor, the fact he had been under pressure to hold his spot in recent weeks, but that fagan liked to see players like him push through it on the seniors than go back to reserves and he got some reward last night.
Kane cornes (again Sunday footy show) moved Andrews into his rolling AA team this week dropping Moore.
During the call they mentioned Zorko was leading the league in inside 50’s, tackles inside 50, pressure acts and something else. Neale and Lyons have freed him up to play forward of the ball a bit more. (ha. Previous post covers this. It was goal assists as the fourth stat - but not league leading by the looks of things)
Taylor in the 2nd quarter was massive. There was a play where he had 3 possessions in defensive 50 helping run it out of defence then followed the play up field and got involved again at our 50m line.
Liked the look of answerth a few times really took the game on through the middle.
Overall we probably could have won that by 10 goals. Shoddy goal kicking both actual points but also not reflected on scoreboard like the hipwood and keays smothers in the 2nd quarter.
At the game I thought Nick did some good things, only noticed him getting caught once, maybe another time. As I say what I saw at the game.
All players even the best make mistakes , some just get pigeon holed for it , more than likely their highlight reel is not silk but workman like.
Speaking of clangers.
I lost it in the second.
Apologies to anyone in section 29 , my stand up spray at the umps was a bit over the top with the F bomb and full of rage, kind of embarrassed myself tbh and maybe a little lucky everbody else was going off as well.
No more F bombs , keep it in perspective , you can have passion , but remember where you are .
Only a game and would of been kids around us , not on.
So frustrated with the umps , but that's really no excuse.
Might just make a mental note to let other people go off at the umps and keep my voice for the celebrations.
So.
No more F bombs, keep it in perspective ,you can have passion, but remember where you are.
Might have to write that out 100 times.
What we saw again is no matter how good your form is in the neafl it is always going to take players a bit of time too adjust to the pace and time difference when going from that to AFL level.
Keays is the example, especially early he looked once again fumbly and rushed but got better as the game went on. Think he will be better for the run.
I though Robertson adjusted better as the game wore on but he still gets posession and stops a bit too long to scan the field which leaves him to bomb it long after we've had a chain of short passes. Still he severely restricted breust which was a really good effort.