Senior 9. Patrick Cripps

[Aphrodite]

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

thylacine60 hope you haven't got your skinny jeans on today

 

[thylacine60]

too late

 

[thylacine60]

Beast.

stop it

 

[Mister Carlton]

stop it

No.

 

[T2B_]

 

[thylacine60]

Totally agree, especially if we're only losing Henderson to gain Carlisle. It doesn't make any sense to me.

Collier may have done his navicular. * just lost any speed they had.

 

[ShanDog]

Hoping he puts on 5kg over the preseason across the shoulders, he will then be able to shrug the tackle and his handball will go to a new level...

He will attract a bigger body mid in the next few weeks which will be interesting to watch...

I reckon this is a really interesting discussion point.

Looking at some of the stills in this thread, he is clearly a decent size right now - how much bigger do we really want him to get?

With more weight work, he will no doubt put on a couple of kg and get a lot stronger, but it there is a point where it would be a negative. He is already a 'slow' runner, so putting more bulk on won't help that.

I would like to see him building leg and core strength almost exclusively. Dont worry about the top half too much - he is already pretty big!

 

[Sublime]

His size is just fine. All that needs to be done now is to build on his natural strength progression and then he's done.

 

[thylacine60]

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Good pic this one.

there's a bad one?

 

[HARKER]

Beast.

Oh well..................there went 1 hour of productivity for the day.


We have Mark of the Week......Goal of the Week......Tackle of the week.
May be time for a Handball of the week.

 

[passmark]

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there's a bad one?

Probably not, but this one was a mix of sports action shot and Hollywood matinee idol.

 

[Blue__Balls]

Beast.

I love how in addition to placing the ball perfectly without looking - he also got it to sit up so Belly didn't even have to bend over to pick it up!

Genius, absolute flaming genius.

I don't care if he never kicks a ball again - in fact, I think we should just get him in the gym and beef him up to the point he can handball it 45m.

 

[Blueballs38]

I love how in addition to placing the ball perfectly without looking - he also got it to sit up so Belly didn't even have to bend over to pick it up!

Genius, absolute flaming genius.

I don't care if he never kicks a ball again - in fact, I think we should just get him in the gym and beef him up to the point he can handball it 45m.

What he cant already handball 45m?

 

[Blue Razor]

Gary Lyon said that 6 recruiters from opposition clubs said Cripps was a bad pick.
I wonder how many times that happens.

 

[HARKER]

Gary Lyon said that 6 recruiters from opposition clubs said Cripps was a bad pick.
I wonder how many times that happens.

Now just for Boekhorst to get his fitness up and we'll be pleading for Rogers to come back to the club.

 

[goreds]

How are your feelings to Nicky Graham this week?

Much better effort, workman like and playing within his capability...

 

[BM123]

Snap goals, Hawthorn like kicks to leading forwards and 4 HTB's.

Workman like?

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Snap goals, Hawthorn like kicks to leading forwards and 4 HTB's.

Workman like?

There's no pleasing some people.

 

[Thrawn]

Collier may have done his navicular. * just lost any speed they had.

Was he part of the infamous 34? If so, he could be taking a voluntary suspension.

 

[Sector 7G]

Was he part of the infamous 34? If so, he could be taking a voluntary suspension.

At least he knows someone to give him good nutritional advice on how to get over the break.

 

[T2B_]

I love how in addition to placing the ball perfectly without looking - he also got it to sit up so Belly didn't even have to bend over to pick it up!

Genius, absolute flaming genius.

I don't care if he never kicks a ball again - in fact, I think we should just get him in the gym and beef him up to the point he can handball it 45m.

Still can't wrap my head around how effortlessly he can do something like that.

Thing is, it's no fluke. I think I said in a post somewhere even before this game that you're likely to see him handball over his head to advantage even while being tackled in any one game.

Also kudos to Bell for the hard running past and providing an option. It's almost like he knew Crippa would get it to him. Well, I dare say he did.

 

[FoeverBlues]

Oh well..................there went 1 hour of productivity for the day.


We have Mark of the Week......Goal of the Week......Tackle of the week.
May be time for a Handball of the week.

team goal of the year

 

[FoeverBlues]

Still can't wrap my head around how effortlessly he can do something like that.

Thing is, it's no fluke. I think I said in a post somewhere even before this game that you're likely to see him handball over his head to advantage even while being tackled in any one game.

Also kudos to Bell for the hard running past and providing an option. It's almost like he knew Crippa would get it to him. Well, I dare say he did.

The Don Bradman of Footy

 

[SE_Blue]

The Don Bradman of Footy

Bit of an insult to Cripps

 

[Cringle]

Still can't wrap my head around how effortlessly he can do something like that.

Thing is, it's no fluke. I think I said in a post somewhere even before this game that you're likely to see him handball over his head to advantage even while being tackled in any one game.

Also kudos to Bell for the hard running past and providing an option. It's almost like he knew Crippa would get it to him. Well, I dare say he did.

He knows his teammates.

Defines captain material.