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I was listening to this on the radio and it seemed to me that he did heaps and was one of our better players. If you saw the game - is that right?
No, didn't get alot of it but did some things that make you go wow. For a right footer he had 2 shots on goal where he just weaved onto his left as if he was a natural. He slotted both but 1 was touched of the boot.
 

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No, didn't get alot of it but did some things that make you go wow. For a right footer he had 2 shots on goal where he just weaved onto his left as if he was a natural. He slotted both but 1 was touched of the boot.
He can kick on both feet btw.
 

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When he finally kicked that goal I saw a huge amount of relief.

Good times.

Katamatite West very happy tonight.

Keep going mate!
Hopefully he can kick a set shot goal. 5 shots have been behinds so far and by a fair margin too.
 
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Looked good again. Improved significantly on last week. Not sure how many games we'll get out of him this year given he's missed so much football but he looks a very promising player.
 

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Was twice as good this week as last week.

Hopefully he'll be twice as good again next week, and twice as good again the week after and so on.

With that kind of exponential growth I predict he will kick 2,097,151 goals during the home and away season.

Bear in mind I'm the guy who compared Simpkin to Carey so I know what I'm talking about.
 
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Was twice as good this week as last week.

Hopefully he'll be twice as good again next week, and twice as good again the week after and so on.

With that kind of exponential growth I predict he will kick 2,097,151 goals during the home and away season.

Bear in mind I'm the guy who compared Simpkin to Carey so I know what I'm talking about.
Bloody hell you've mellowed out since suggesting we should drop Higgins for gaining nearly 1000m this afternoon
 

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Bloody hell you've mellowed out since suggesting we should drop Higgins for gaining nearly 1000m this afternoon
No, Higgins is sitting in the stands with Saintly35 this week listening to him piss and moan about Brad Scott for 4 quarters.

That's his punishment for not roving Preuss' taps in the last quarter when Geelong didn't nominate a ruckman.
 

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Lots to like about jy just hope in time he'll make the transition to the midfield. The last thing we need is another flanker who can't find the footy week in week out.
 
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No, Higgins is sitting in the stands with Saintly35 this week listening to him piss and moan about Brad Scott for 4 quarters.

That's his punishment for not roving Preuss' taps in the last quarter when Geelong didn't nominate a ruckman.
I understand your point about our ruckman being hung out to dry. But how about taking a look at Preuss - probably through inexperience or exhaustion - who, when effectively rucking alone, just tapped the ball to his feet every time? When he had the opportunity to put it anywhere, down the throats of some players, he just went straight to his feet. It's not all on the midfielders, in my opinion.
 

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Watch this effort 1000 times over. That is what persistence is. One of my favourite moments in the game.

It's this passage of play that is just about the most promising thing about him. We know he's got talent, you don't get drafted where he did if you can't play, but not every player has the desire and determination to put a shift in and work hard for the team with running like that.
 

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It's this passage of play that is just about the most promising thing about him. We know he's got talent, you don't get drafted where he did if you can't play, but not every player has the desire and determination to put a shift in and work hard for the team with running like that.
He comes from ******* nowhere.
 
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He comes from ******* nowhere.
I don't think that's the best way of putting it. He puts in 80m of 100% effort, coming from almost where the ball was. He covered the entire path of the ball in almost as little time as it took to get to Murdoch, which is ******* incredible.
 

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I understand your point about our ruckman being hung out to dry. But how about taking a look at Preuss - probably through inexperience or exhaustion - who, when effectively rucking alone, just tapped the ball to his feet every time? When he had the opportunity to put it anywhere, down the throats of some players, he just went straight to his feet. It's not all on the midfielders, in my opinion.
I bolded the bit that again indicts our midfielders and resigns them to not only being regaled by Saintly35 next week, but then spending the following week in the stands with me...AND MY KIDS. I was trying to think of the harshest punishment I could and couldn't beat going to the footy with my children. Honestly, it is horrific.

Anyways, we have a midfield crew who, if not elite, have an average of about 8 or 9 years in the game. They have a responsibility to Preuss to coach him through complicated situations, to out think their opponents. They didn't and they failed him. It is entirely on them, not on a second gamer who was presented with a completely unique situation made of his own dominance.
 
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I bolded the bit that again indicts our midfielders and resigns them to not only being regaled by Saintly35 next week, but then spending the following week in the stands with me...AND MY KIDS. I was trying to think of the harshest punishment I could and couldn't beat going to the footy with my children. Honestly, it is horrific.
/nominates Astrovic for Dad of the Year

Anyways, we have a midfield crew who, if not elite, have an average of about 8 or 9 years in the game. They have a responsibility to Preuss to coach him through complicated situations, to out think their opponents. They didn't and they failed him. It is entirely on them, not on a second gamer who was presented with a completely unique situation made of his own dominance.
But is it the responsibility of Higgins, Dumont, Cunnington, Swallow and Ziebell to improve Preuss' aerobic and anaerobic capacity through 120 minutes of game time? That's on Preussy. Not his fault, it's his second game of his career and he has to go with a gazelle in Stanley and an Olympic-calibre runner in Blicavs, and that's why his game was so impressive. But I don't think it's the fault of the midfield that they can't shark taps that are at Preussy's feet.
 

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But is it the responsibility of Higgins, Dumont, Cunnington, Swallow and Ziebell to improve Preuss' aerobic and anaerobic capacity through 120 minutes of game time? That's on Preussy. Not his fault, it's his second game of his career and he has to go with a gazelle in Stanley and an Olympic-calibre runner in Blicavs, and that's why his game was so impressive. But I don't think it's the fault of the midfield that they can't shark taps that are at Preussy's feet.
No, it's their fault as experienced players for not identifying what Geelong were doing and instructing Preuss on what to do in the situation to make it work to their advantage. On field leaders and all that.
 
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No, it's their fault as experienced players for not identifying what Geelong were doing and instructing Preuss on what to do in the situation to make it work to their advantage. On field leaders and all that.
But what if Preuss, cooked and exhausted and physically spent from two hours of chasing two 195cm+ midfielder/ruckmen, isn't capable of carrying out their instructions?
 

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Mic up every player and send out headphones to all the members so they can listen in at stoppages to hear Higgins scream "no Preussy **** not there" 45 times a game
Hang on, that's some circular logic going on.

If he's tapping the ball any which way but to our players, he wouldn't and shouldn't be out there. And in general play he was doing a great job, so that isn't it. Preuss did his bit and then some.

In fact he was so good, Chris Scott threw caution to the wind and said "we can't beat him, stand off him inside 50 and use the non-ruckman as an extra mid".
In eleventy billion years of watching football (roughly 3 epochs less than Horace) I have never seen a team strategically not contest the ruck. I would say it is unique in the history of football.

Which is why I say it is on our midfielders - senior players - to get around a second gamer in Preuss and tell him what to do. And they didn't. No ruckman ever expects to be in the position where they go up unopposed. Their entire career is spent training for the exact opposite. If it was Goldy I would have expected him to think it through, but Preuss is entitled to expect his mids to be there to instruct him on what to do in what is a completely unique situation.
 
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Hang on, that's some circular logic going on.

If he's tapping the ball any which way but to our players, he wouldn't and shouldn't be out there. And in general play he was doing a great job, so that isn't it. Preuss did his bit and then some.

In fact he was so good, Chris Scott threw caution to the wind and said "we can't beat him, stand off him inside 50 and use the non-ruckman as an extra mid".
In eleventy billion years of watching football (roughly 3 epochs less than Horace) I have never seen a team strategically not contest the ruck. I would say it is unique in the history of football.

Which is why I say it is on our midfielders - senior players - to get around a second gamer in Preuss and tell him what to do. And they didn't. No ruckman ever expects to be in the position where they go up unopposed. Their entire career is spent training for the exact opposite. If it was Goldy I would have expected him to think it through, but Preuss is entitled to expect his mids to be there to instruct him on what to do in what is a completely unique situation.
Do we know they didn't?
 
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