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Senior 9. Patrick Cripps

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I can't remember which passage of play but I jumped up and yelled OMG did you see that....Cripps OMG

Think it was the crazy bloody wonderful handball to Bell

Think we have ourselves a super star folks, can't remember being this excited about one of our young guns...

He's ours, all ours :)

Cue Aphrodite some of those little laughing guys, thanks Aph
 

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Bluesque said:
I can't remember which passage of play but I jumped up and yelled OMG did you see that....Cripps OMG

Think it was the crazy bloody wonderful handball to Bell

Think we have ourselves a super star folks, can't remember being this excited about one of our young guns...

He's ours, all ours :)

Cue Aphrodite some of those little laughing guys, thanks Aph
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Yep, it was the handball over the head whilst jumping up over the tackler to Bell to score the goal. Just after Hartlett kicked the ball straight to the umpire. We all jumped up in excitement at the ground. Good stuff.
 
Bluesque said:
I can't remember which passage of play but I jumped up and yelled OMG did you see that....Cripps OMG

Think it was the crazy bloody wonderful handball to Bell

Think we have ourselves a super star folks, can't remember being this excited about one of our young guns...

He's ours, all ours :)

Cue Aphrodite some of those little laughing guys, thanks Aph
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Anytime esky ;)


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ImBlue said:
Yep, it was the handball over the head whilst jumping up over the tackler to Bell to score the goal. Just after Hartlett kicked the ball straight to the umpire. We all jumped up in excitement at the ground. Good stuff.
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Sublime moment
 
Scary to think what he could be, if Carlton develop him properly.

1. Vision - Tick
2. Inside mid - Tick
3. Composer - Tick
4. Marking - Tick
5. Speed - No - But has enough speed to get into space.
6. Hands - Is elite with the hand balls.

Like I said the Blues need to take care of him, leave him in the middle and have players like Graham etc around him.
 

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Leigh Lowther said:
reminds me of pendles in his awareness and handballing skills but cripps shows more groundwork in his tackling and contested ball.
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They both have great vision. Otherwise, Cripps inside work is beastly and Pendlebury can move through traffic and deliver by foot - kinda two different players.
 
HyphensBack said:
Bugger it, build a midfield around him
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Can't build a midfield around one player.... but everything else is spot on especially about the constant improvement. Night and day from his first game this year through to now and it's clear he's only scratching the surface.

How the same scout that highly recommended him to the club was also the one responsible for Bootsma I'll never know.
 

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Leigh Lowther said:
reminds me of pendles in his awareness and handballing skills but cripps shows more inside work in his tackling and contested ball/clearances. hes a pretty big unit so i wonder how he'll handle a tag
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with disdain
 
marleyblue said:
Here's a post with stats I posted on the main board in response to a poster banging on about us overrating Patty

No one is denying Hogan is playing great footy - he's a joint favourite with Cripps for a reason.

Like Hogan, Cripps is playing in a very difficult position for a 20yr old - inside mid, body on the line at every contest against the biggest, most physically developed mids in the game. Like Hogan, he is matching up against the opposition best inside mids - older, more physically developed opponents and excelling. If you want to look at comparisons:

Ollie Wines 1st season - 22 games, 18.8 disposals, 8.3 contested, 0.5 goals, 3.8 tackles, 2.9 clearances
Joel Selwood 1st season - 21 games, 19.2 disposals, 6.9 contested, 0.33 goals, 4.5 tackles, 3.43 clearances
Cripps 2015 season - 9 games, 22 disposals, 14 contested, 0.5 goals, 4.75 tackles, 5.88 clearances

Selwood and Wines are two of the best in the business and are recognised as having come straight into the game and dominated in the middle. I'm not suggesting he's going to reach those heights and become a star (we can dream) but the stats show very few mids come in at his age and dominate the way Cripps currently is.

Elite inside mids usually take years to get close to the sorts of numbers he is pulling out (think Kennedy, Watson, Dangerfield, Priddis) but Cripps has played 11 games and is sitting 8th in the league for contested possessions. Numbers aside, what is most exciting is his composure, vision and efficiency.

So are Carlton supporters excited by Cripps - hell yes but we certaintly aren't overrating him.
Will he win the Rising Star? It's neck and neck at the moment and injuries aside, I think it will come down to how his and Hogan's bodies hold up in the 2nd half of the year.

Stat's numbers against Selwood/Wines after their first full 2 seasons:

Selwood 2007/08 - 45 games, 22.43 disposals, 7.86 contested, 0.28 goals, 3.73 tackles, 3.45 clearances
Wines 2013/14 - 49 games, 21.6 disposals, 10 contested, 0.45 goals, 4.4 tackles, 3.9 clearances
Cripps 2015 season - 9 games, 22 disposals, 14 contested, 0.5 goals, 4.75 tackles, 5.88 clearances
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To follow up my previous post on Cripps output at this stage of his career compared to Selwood and Wines, I've taken a look at their 2015 stats to date:

Selwood - 23.6 disposals, 13.6 contested, 0.64 goals, 5.7 tackles, 7.2 clearances
Wines - 25.8 disposals, 12.5 contested, 0.5 goals, 5.6 tackles, 5.7 clearances
Cripps - 23 disposals, 14.1 contested, 0.45 goals, 5.5 tackles, 6.3 clearances

It again confirms the phenomenal numbers he is pumping out - Cripps is matching the output of two of the game's inside stars, yet Wines has played 57 games, Selwood has played almost 200 games and Patty has only just broken double figures.

Look at the improvement that Selwood and Wines managed from season 1-3 and just imagine Patty Cripps with 50 games under his belt:eek::eek::eek:
 
NavyBlue5 said:
Serious question... Is he even human?
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He indeed is. I saw him at a pub on Sydney Road a little while ago... My curiousity got the best of me and I had to talk to him about that footy show segment with Juddy and 'old Crawf'. He was eager to talk even with this girl all over him. Kindly told her to vacate while he spoke to me and my friend about footy and Juddy and everything for a while. A good bloke and a ripping footy player to boot!
 

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