That one caught me off guard, I'll have to remember that phrase.
Eating his own balls.
Yeah, a mate picked it up from his soccer club many years ago.
I really don't know how but it just seems to work.
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That one caught me off guard, I'll have to remember that phrase.
Eating his own balls.
https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2019-06-11/skins-injury-update-rd-13“Mitch Brown is another who looks like he will put his hand up for selection following his wrist soreness. Keeping him out two weeks ago was a precaution and he has trained well since, so hopefully he will be back on the field this week.”
Missed with wrist soreness, given he was just coming back from a broken wrist. Should be putting his hand up for selection.
https://www.essendonfc.com.au/news/2019-06-11/skins-injury-update-rd-13
Whether he is actually selected or not is another story.
is that the fitness test for wrist soreness?Missed with wrist soreness, given he was just coming back from a broken wrist. Should be putting his hand up for selection.
Missed three weeks (R6-8) with a broken wrist, then in round 9 he was an emergency and played in the VFL while McKernan, Francis, Stringer, Laverde, Begley, Walla played as our forward line against Richmond. Brown then missed round 10 as a precaution due to possibly reinjuring his wrist in round 9.I'd be surprised if he wasn't selected. His form pre injury was stronger than what McKernan or Francis has been producing.
Didn't he eat his own balls...
Scared of it going down the wrong way?I like it too, but I'd be too afraid of using it in the wrong context to ever try.
is that the fitness test for wrist soreness?
Missed three weeks (R6-8) with a broken wrist, then in round 9 he was an emergency and played in the VFL while McKernan, Francis, Stringer, Laverde, Begley, Walla played as our forward line against Richmond. Brown then missed round 10 as a precaution due to possibly reinjuring his wrist in round 9.
If we've played this line up three weeks ago while Brown came back through the VFL, I don't see why he'd be straight in this time. Unless it's down to match ups?
I'm really not sure how I feel about Brown. He runs all day and on a good day can rack them up but he has bloody little impact with his possessions unless he's within scoring range. His disposal is ordinary, he's slow and he can't take a contested grab to save his life. On the plus side he regularly does get on the goal kickers list and he is a straight kick at goal. The other benefit is if we want to keep the option of Hooker as a swing man then Brown can always shift down back where he's pretty solid without being special.
When we get Stringer back I could easily see us rolling with McKernan, Stringer and Laverde as our 3 taller targets and say Begley, Fantasia and Tippa to round out the forward line.
We've got this one completely wrong again. He is not capable of playing the role we need. Yes, he can run all day but he can only get it when the game is on our terms or its being played at less than finals intensity.
Now that Stewart is injured we have effectively botched a 2 years of his development by playing Brown thinking we may scratch into finals and that is a better outcome.
We should have put Mitch to pasture last year and kept on playing Stewart who I don't rate that highly anyway but he does have enough athleticism to still develop a little bit.
You'd have got a like for the use of the word indefatigable alone.The word that sums him up, without being in any way derogatory, is ‘serviceable’. But he has 2 qualities that elevate him beyond your average serviceable types. His set-shot kicking, and his indefatigable running.
Should I also elaborate on eth-dog’s indefatigable posting.You'd have got a like for the use of the word indefatigable alone.
The word that sums him up, without being in any way derogatory, is ‘serviceable’. But he has 2 qualities that elevate him beyond your average serviceable types. His set-shot kicking, and his indefatigable running.
The Stewart development is probably world record pace for the most severely botched development of a player.
By round 5 2018 he'd shown the ability to:
- get high teens to low 20s possessions, kick a goal and apply about 50 pressure acts (my exaggeration) as probably the best defensive forward player we had;
- stood up playing genuinely as a key forward on 3 or 4 occasions and had started to one-grab contested marks while playing lower possession but big structural impact forward footy.
How many forwards in the AFL can claim the ability to do both of those things? He's just finally got a run as a 24 year old whose game knowledge and physical capability had started to match each other.
But our side tanked, primarily because the esteemed minds in our coaching panel misread the tactical trends in the game and/or failed to implement desperately needed new plans, Stewart lost confidence in his goal kicking and he was replaced with a player who has 0 physical impact on a game.
Now he hasn't been seen for over 12 months. It is mindbogglingly stupid.
Stewart was dropped because he needed to be, don’t rewrite history. Brown was then an important of our run last year.