Player Watch #4 Dustin Martin

[Dunger]

Very ordinary...
Hope he's just easing into a long season...
Lacked fire in the belly for the contest, get rid of the meditation and get back to boxing!

Give dusty a break. Its hard to get excited for jlt 3.

 

[captain blood 17]

Dusty will go ballistic this weekend. The game v pies is taylor made for a bigtime player like him.


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[juss]

He wasn't great in round 1, but there were a few others in the same boat.
Good opportunity to shake off the rust. Expect an improved showing in the coming weeks.

 

[Toadvine]

A lot of the stars have looked Rusty in the opening 2 games. Important thing is he found plenty of it. He'll be much better for the run.

 

[Cdog71]

Cotch and Graham got more of the ball than they notmally do on Thurs night.
Maybe he had a down game, maybe the coaching staff changed the dynamic of those three a little to be a bit to be unpredictable.
It was a weakness last year that everyone knew what we going to do every game for the whole season.

 

[Bojangles17]

You know he’s a jet when he gets 30p and it was only a 6/10 game . Reckon oppo are better prepared for the don’t argue these days , was bought down a few times

 

[peternorth]

some elementary mistakes (kicking into man on mark) and bouncing the ball in front of an opponent. Rust.

 

[megatiger]

You know he’s a jet when he gets 30p and it was only a 6/10 game . Reckon oppo are better prepared for the don’t argue these days , was bought down a few times

Needs to stop the don't argue and replace it with the don't * with me

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

Needs to stop the don't argue and replace it with the don't **** with me

Or handball to a teammate instead.

 

[megatiger]

Or handball to a teammate instead.

After the don't * with me

 

[Bojangles17]

Or handball to a teammate instead.

Hey yeah , we do like his 55m thrusts forward though

 

[Tiger_Of_Old]

After the don't **** with me

Hey yeah , we do like his 55m thrusts forward though

Time for Dusty to be less predictable.

 

[NaturalDisaster]

You know he’s a jet when he gets 30p and it was only a 6/10 game . Reckon oppo are better prepared for the don’t argue these days , was bought down a few times

Yeah I’ve noticed his dont argues aren’t as effective as they used to be. Oppo players have worked out how to tackle him.

 

[Tiges1229]

Terrible game Thursday .

 

[NaturalDisaster]

I know it’s round 2 but what’s going on with him? His performances the last two weeks and look of disinterest along with that article about anxiety/depression has got me concerned.

Get him help, give him a week or two off if needed but something isn’t right.

 

[Boston tiger]

Needs to stop trying to play above it all and just get down and dirty and do the simple things for awhile.

 

[Sir_Rancelot]

Dusty makes me laugh, when he marks the ball on the wing he tries to slow the game down.
Then he immediately kicks into the corridor and turns the ball over FFS.
He makes absolutely no sense at all with his discussion making and leadership.

 

[BC9_]

NQR ATM.

 

[Daka]

Dusty has got complacent in my opinion because of "how good" he is sometimes he can get away with it but if you look earlier on in his career he did tackle and pressure on the ball carrier 2015 3.7 tackles, 2016 3.6 tackles, 2017 3.5 tackles were his best tackling years since 2017 premiership that dropped last year to 2.1 that's a massive difference when you factor in that Dusty is an offensive type of midfielder, no tackle so far in 2019, no one is expecting him to put up tackle numbers of a player like Rory Sloane but he needs be better than what he has been showing. look at his best games one that springs to mind is that Geelong final he had 7 tackles.

 

[Bazzar]

Hope this isn't going to be Dustys level from now on. No sparkle, no mongrel, just a good solid B+ player.

 

[Meteoric Rise]

Martin incredibly poor v Pies. Two weeks on the bounce. I think something is wrong there, pretty sure it is not physical.

 

[Tiges1229]

Can’t mentally handle 2017

 

[Nostradumbass]

Things used to happen when he got the ball, now turn overs happen. That shot on goal was atrocious as well.

 

[Joker91]

Has he done a pre-season?
Spends more than half the game 100m behind play walking with his hands on his hips.

 

[Barnzy]

Makes you wonder if he's injured. We wondered this last year when he had poor efforts and it turns out he was carrying a bad cork that bled into his knee.

He had an action eerily similar to Rance who did his ACL and he shaked it off. Something not quite right.