A crap footballer does not have games where he is one of the top 3 dominant players on the field. He has done this numerous times in both the AFL and the VFL and even the mickey mouse of a game AFLX. His issue is confidence and focus, not talent and certainly not athletic ability.
A crap footballer doesn't last as long as he does in this league with many people vastly more qualified in their opinion then a casual fan giving him chances to string together consistently the good form he has shown he is capable of.
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Loving this thread. Too many corners of the bigfooty bomberverse are full of 300 straight posts about how Aaron Francis is a gun but needs to get fitter. I feel like in Smack we have found a spark, something important to disagree about.. that perfect dividing line between the glass being half full and almost entirely empty.
Like the drug itself, Smack has a long history of delivering brief but super intense highs followed by shaky, listless periods followed by begging for another shot at it.
They say intermittent reinforcement is the strongest kind. The list team gets bored of steady mediocrity (Jackson Merrett excluded) but they can't ever really give up the Smack.
And why would you? I love him. Totally agree with Mercurial89. He's such a weird unit. It's not ability - it's belief. There's hope. Smack really could click and in fact may have already.
Team improvement needs to come from somewhere. Win a ******* final. Bah. Screw the incremental approach. Imagine a year that involved us getting something massive out of someone unexpected. It's not going to be Aaron Francis. It's not going to be Jayden Laverde.
Smack, Stewart, Daniher forward. Hooker back. Yes please.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Everyone go out and buy a Smack bumper sticker and poster for the office. Let's make this guy a star.