The Selwood Decade... we may never see anything like it
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We may never seen anything like it?
We’ve seen it already champ, at a much greater rate.
Don Scott in the 70’s - 680 free kicks
Whats idiotic is you missed the point entirely. Went straight over your head.
Its a thread looking at players who won the most frees who debuted over a 4 year period and then played 10 years in the midfield. Its such a small subset of actual players that its a pointless thing to look at. Highest average of tackles per game during the decade is a more interesting stat to look at as it is over a much much higher subset of players.
Beats the sh*t out of our own board where only one line of opinion is accepted and you either get in line or piss off.
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So why don’t other dumb players do the arm lift?They’re all perfect examples of his arm lift, which is the key mechanism ge employs to earn him a free for a high tackle.
Go and get the ball you’ll be protected. Always been like that.
Same with cyril rioli.
Boom.
Yes and the facts are its quite a small number compared to his overall game. A tenth.
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Plenty do.
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Just when I think you can’t make another idiotic statement, you come through with another.
read the thread again and come back to reply.
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Far more than any other player in his era.
Shown to be a good player when great players have been around him,
It’s a shame he is being remembered for dropping the shoulders. He’s a much better player than that.
Yes more then other players but still a very small portion of his overall game. Its the portion of his overall game that actually matters when evaluating his playing ability and the influence of frees on it. Youve posted the results. Its 10 percent. Tiny.
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It’s actually the biggest percentage of all players this decade. He relies on free kicks more than any other player. Shame he’s remembered for this as he was a good player in great Geelong teams.
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That’s the unfortunate truth, will always be remembered for being a for being overly reliant on free kicks. If wasn’t for this he would be widely remembered as a good player.
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He’ll be remembered as a very good footballer because he was one.
I’m sure that this will be my lasting memory too. Not dragging us off the canvass in the second quarter against Collingwood in the 2011 GF. Not for his courage, toughness and skill. Not for getting us over the line countless times. Nup. Solely for his ability to successfully exploit an AFL rule. Just a good footballer eh? I’ve seen it all now.
Wrong. Selwood (and other players) obviously uses tactics to draw high tackles from legitimate tackle attempts.
He constantly ducks and leans his head, and drops his knees to lower himself, and raises his arms to push an opponent’s arms up to his neck. It’s an obvious tactic.
There was quite a significant change made three years ago due to it.
“What we’re trying to do there is if the players’ legitimate attempt to tackle appears to be correct and that the high contact is caused by the player ducking into the tackle, dropping his knees or trying to shrug it off, then it will be a play-on call.”
Yet for whatever reason, some players (Selwood is the chief offender, as the numbers show) still somehow get away with it. It’s not his fault, it’s shocking umpiring.
He’s not actually doing anything against the rules - it should just be play-on. But he gets free kicks.
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Not a bad effort for Swallow to be so high, given he retired a few years ago now
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Duh...
Not news to anybody who watches football.
Not news to anybody who watches football.
Funny because before the 2011 finals commentators were writing articles about how he didnt deliver in finals. They dont write that anymore. His best finals performances were between 2011-16. Most of which were loses. So the theory plays better in good teams is completely debunked and the opposite is true in finals. His best finals were in losing sides.
Hawthorn supporter with tim kelly in west coast uniform avatar. Geelong have done a number on you.
Were you one of the port fans booing selwood as he recieved a best on ground award from an anzacs family because he stood up for his brother who was king hit by a cowards act from a port player? Were you one of the thousands who booed like a low life dog?
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