Player Watch #4 Dustin Martin

[Tiger V]

needs to get back to basic dusty type football and to stop lairising

 

[TheLoungeLizard]

Give him a week in the Reserves, no pressure, no expectations, just run himself into form

 

[JackNah_8]

Martin has been pretty flat lately, don't know if he has lost the drive or passion

 

[BC9_]

Our midfielders so far this season:

• Dion Prestia - 11 tackles
• Jack Graham - 11 tackles
• Kamdyn McIntosh - 9 tackles
• Trent Cotchin - 5 tackles
• Kane Lambert - 5 tackles
• Shane Edwards - 4 tackles
• Dustin Martin - 0 tackles

 

[banana_bus]

He's a millionaire now. Millionaires don't tackle.

 

[DontArgue4]

Our midfielders so far this season:

• Dion Prestia - 11 tackles
• Jack Graham - 11 tackles
• Kamdyn McIntosh - 9 tackles
• Trent Cotchin - 5 tackles
• Kane Lambert - 5 tackles
• Shane Edwards - 4 tackles
• Dustin Martin - 0 tackles

we seem to have gone back to our 2016 "tackling" standards lol

dusty is SOOOO lazy around the contest, if he doesnt win the ball he just watches

 

[French Tiger]

He's a millionaire now. Millionaires don't tackle.

He is playing like one as well. Every time he gets it he tries to pull off some miracle kick or try to take 3 tackers on, bloody banana from 15 out on a slight angle. He is becoming a momentum killer & sometimes just needs to do the team thing.

 

[JackNah_8]

He's a millionaire now. Millionaires don't tackle.

Martin is set for life now lol His manager has organised plenty of endorsements for him to promote....e.g. Bonds

 

[BC9_]

we seem to have gone back to our 2016 "tackling" standards lol

dusty is SOOOO lazy around the contest, if he doesnt win the ball he just watches

In the first two rounds of the 2016 season, Martin had 7 tackles

2017 - 5 tackles.

2018 - 6 tackles.

Stuff Bonds, it is no wonder he's lagging around the field like he's got s**t groins, we need to get Dusty into something higher quality and more comfortable, like a pair of Calvin Klein's Ralph Carr u campaigner.

 

[dothebowdenshuffle]

Big test of our leadership right now from coaches down, especially how to get Dusty playing to a consistent high level. Last night was a lazy undisciplined effort and he needs an absolute rocket to work a hell of a lot hardee

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[Tiger V]

Martin has been pretty flat lately, don't know if he has lost the drive or passion

for what he is getting paid he better find both and soon

 

[SavDog23]

Needs to start finding his own ball and tackling again like in 2017.
Hopefully last night was a wake up call for him (and the team) that he needs to put 100% effort in every match whether he's being tagged or not.
It's just not acceptable.

 

[_Wang_]

That kick into the centre last night was purely moronic

 

[Sir_Rancelot]

I don't think we will ever see Dusty play they way he played in 2017.
In the next year or so I think the club will have some extremely hard decisions to make.

 

[Cotchin 9]

Dusty is a pretty self driven guy, loves playing the game. It’s not as if he’s disinterested, he just doesn’t look right. Not sure what it is.

 

[Shazza_]

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.

if he is carrying an injury why dont they give him a few weeks off so it heals ? dimma loves to flog an injured horse

remember a presser a few years ago where he said "our players will play injured thats just how it is"

 

[Shazza_]

In the first two rounds of the 2016 season, Martin had 7 tackles

2017 - 5 tackles.

2018 - 6 tackles.

Stuff Bonds, it is no wonder he's lagging around the field like he's got s**t groins, we need to get Dusty into something higher quality and more comfortable, like a pair of Calvin Klein's Ralph Carr u campaigner.

needs to free willy and go commando

underwear is unnatural

 

[Spagman]

Last night was probably the worst game he's played for us. Keep him in against GWS but if he spuds that game up, then a week in the VFL wouldn't hurt him. If he's injured, he should be rested as last night he actually was a liability on the field.

 

[tora tora tora]

Put a tagger on him and he is beaten instantly. Giants have a tagger too, de Boer. Nullified Merret completely. Dusty may as well stay in Melbourne

 

[Roachy8]

Fly him to Auckland for some "fatherly love"?

 

[thefendoff]

Has just lost the hunger for the contest. Doesn’t look like he’s trying. Wants the easy ball out the back so much.

 

[DustinsGuns]

Honestly had him worst on last night.

Sure there were players who had worse outputs, but I think his game was closest to his 0 than his 100 compared to any others

 

[tugga]

lol He won't get dropped.

 

[db26]

Don't want to hear exuses on a 7 year contract big bucks we fought so hard to keep him needs to perform simple as that . As people said cut the cute stuff first of all get back to basics.

 

[Greg Tivendale]

That kick into the centre last night was purely moronic

It wasn't moronic actually. Dusty in 2017 would have hit that target and we would have gotten a goal from it. It's those types of kicks that are high risk-high reward and only the best players pull it off.

Unfortunately for him at moment he's not playing at his usual level.