Player Watch #6: George Wardlaw - two-time RS nominee ('23 &'24) - the Warlord - managed vs Hawthorn

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Flawed Genius said:
Just make him the captain. Sole captain. Actions speak louder than words and his are screaming
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He's also a genius.

He's runs himself perpetually ragged, and yet somehow his brain finds the reserves to correctly anticipate the flight of the ball within the tightest of contests, and where his teammates are placed, even if he hasn't had time to eyeball them for like 10 seconds.
 
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Flawed Genius said:
Just make him the captain. Sole captain. Actions speak louder than words and his are screaming
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Not sure he has Harry covered yet. The two could alternate weekly. George and Harry are basically the only 2 things I wholeheartedly trust that have anything do with the Football club. From the boot suffer to the president these 2 are the only ones you know are 100% in.
 

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jay317 said:
I fear we're going to burn him out quickly. The amount he's having to expend as soon as the ball gets outside the contest to make up for LDU, Powell etc. is just not sustainable. Needs some mates.
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Way he cracks in we will be busted up before no time, iam thinking brereton, carey, ziebel trajectories .. will be held together with elastaplast in a few years.

Love watching him but dont think he will be joining the longivity club with boomer, tuckey and co.
 
He’s a freak. Does everything in fast forward. Did so in the last quarter on one leg. Sets the ultimate example for attack on the man and ball at top pace with maximum effort.

He’s the antiCAT and some blokes must feel embarrassed to look this warrior in the eye post game.
 
guapo said:
Didn’t like him spending so long on the bench in the third and the AFL app saying he was injured. Relieved when he returned and immediately resumed doing George things. Gun.
Would like to see him and Colby at a centre bounce. That would be exciting
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Testing and tapping his ankle

Wouldn’t want to send him back out unless we were sure
 
Manic. Manic, manic, manic.

He’s a throw back in a way where the entire league, especially the AFL needs to look at how he plays and why he plays that way. Because thats the true identity of Australian Rules Football on display in human form.

What’s the one thing every coach worth their salt and any coach you learnt playing footy under told you? The game is just about winning the ball at the contest, you do that and you win the game. At its core thats all footy is. See ball, get ball.

Seeing him at play juxtaposed to an entire field of athletic sleek jocks who hit their KPI’s and hit their load management for the day and just play by the books footy that adheres to an overall system and doing the bare minimum of their roles are losing sight of what this game is and most blokes just totally forget they can just do whatever they want as long as you're going from contest to contest and applying pressure you WILL win the footy eventually.

How many footballers put in third, fourth, maybe even 6 efforts in a play? How many actually use their limbs to interfere with passages of play or do they just look at the play unfolding and hope to meet it at the end? No, * that. Cut it off, make them s**t scared of you breathing down their neck.

As long as you're practicing your fundamentals at training who gives a s**t what system the opposition has when pressure is applied? The kicking and handballing will take care of itself if you work on it enough and test it against specific scenarios or situations that put your kicking ability under pressure.

If you had 22 Wardlaws of varying heights you'd win every game of footy for the year. that's how the teams in the 70s, 90s and 00s played. Because if you were able to the entire league would crumble like paper under that sort of play style, but that mentality is just dead and gone now for such an athletically minded game where long distanced running and endurance is the driving force. It’s just kinda sad that players like him or Rowell are statiscal anomalies in the game now.
 
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Billy Not Really said:
Manic. Manic, manic, manic.

He’s a throw back in a way where the entire league, especially the AFL needs to look at how he plays and why he plays that way. Because thats the true identity of Australian Rules Football on display in human form.

What’s the one thing every coach worth their salt and any coach you learnt playing footy under told you? The game is just about winning the ball at the contest, you do that and you win the game. At its core thats all footy is. See ball, get ball.

Seeing him at play juxtaposed to an entire field of athletic sleek jocks who hit their KPI’s and hit their load management for the day and just play by the books footy that adheres to an overall system and doing the bare minimum of their roles are losing sight of what this game is and most blokes just totally forget they can just do whatever they want as long as you're going from contest to contest and applying pressure you WILL win the footy eventually.

How many footballers put in third, fourth, maybe even 6 efforts in a play? How many actually use their limbs to interfere with passages of play or do they just look at the play unfolding and hope to meet it at the end? No, * that. Cut it off, make them s**t scared of you breathing down their neck.

As long as you're practicing your fundamentals at training who gives a s**t what system the opposition has when pressure is applied? The kicking and handballing will take care of itself if you work on it enough and test it against specific scenarios or situations that put your kicking ability under pressure.

If you had 22 Wardlaws of varying heights you'd win every game of footy for the year. that's how the teams in the 70s, 90s and 00s played. Because if you were able to the entire league would crumble like paper under that sort of play style, but that mentality is just dead and gone now for such an athletically minded game where long distanced running and endurance is the driving force. It’s just kinda sad that players like him or Rowell are statiscal anomalies in the game now.
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It looked like we kind of tried that early days under Shaw. With the same list but different instructions we were suddenly heaping enormous pressure on oppo ball carries. Zero corralling to be seen. Of course the boys didnt have the fitness to go for 4qtr's, and there's no guarantee of ultimate success from that strategy even if they could, but it was a fun watch. Ziebs even looked good.
 
The Butcher said:
It looked like we kind of tried that early days under Shaw. With the same list but different instructions we were suddenly heaping enormous pressure on oppo ball carries. Zero corralling to be seen. Of course the boys didnt have the fitness to go for 4qtr's, and there's no guarantee of ultimate success from that strategy even if they could, but it was a fun watch. Ziebs even looked good.
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Those wins vs Collingwood and Richmond under Shaw were the best footy we played since 2016. Falsest of false dawns, hopefully the sun is coming up soon.
 
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