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[Mr_Plow]

He's dangerous, isn't he and he looked that way before tonight.

A blend of Robert Harvey and Dangerfield may be on the cards, but of course, a long way to go.

Harvey's best was a bit before my time, but I remember him having great balance (low centre of gravity), great lateral movement, great hands and great skills.

Paddy has a ridiculous number of high-level attributes, it's extremely exciting.

 

[bluemahogany]

Jesus some of you panic quick

 

[Robert Heatley]

Average to watch as a supporter. Product needs tinkering to survive. Not horrible, not great - just bog average.

Observations; the format really showed up the attribute of 'decision making'. Silvagni did mostly the right things all the time while on ground. Macreadie while competitive and tried hard non stop, continually made decision errors. Same with a smaller sample size did Cam O'Shea. Polson struggled as well overall. All did good things as well but poor decisions means a net loss for the side.

Fisher got better as the game went on and was good. Dow good.

Agree with previous poster about Carlton trying to get 10 points on the 40 metre line 3-4 times when the better decision was to keep moving fwd and take the 6. Part of the poor decision making that lost us the games. 10 points is great but 1 point + giving the ball to the opposition on restart is a killer.

Kennedy lost a bit effectiveness in this format as inside mids not required.

Nothing much to take out of it really except Fisher and Silvagni showed good decision making and the rest struggled.

Pretty good assessment I think. My observation was the player receiving outside 40, normally had to kick off one step to have a chance at zooper goal, and usually kicked poorly.

 

[Kernafides]

Big footy knobs at their finest...writing off players from an afl x game

 

[Dadda Dave]

Why didnt i get on Dow for rising star @34 a month ago this kid will be a star

But won't that got to a KPP

 

[BLUEALLTHRU]

Liked Paddy and Fisher tonight.

 

[DangerousD]

Pickett touch it?? It's just a hit n giggle i know, but I'm not sure if he troubled the statistician tonight, a bit disappointing, i have him pencilled in for a very big year

Pretty sure he got quite a bit, both games.

 

[My name geoff]

Let me put my assesment into superlatives:

Dow - Wow!!
Pickett - Wow
Fisher - nice!
Williamson - nice!
Lebois - nice
O'Brien- nice
Silvagni- yeah ok
Macreadie - so so

The rest - rusty

 

[GT619]

To think Paddy's predominantly an inside mid too...

He's going to be lethal if we use him on a wing/flank

That’s where crippa comes in

 

[katmanblue]

Would have liked a win or two but not too fussed. Saw enough to get excited for the real stuff.
Are we really questioning Marchy after 4 x 10 min halves of an unorthodox game on a smaller field and just throwing away his entire 2017? I’ll back him in to have a great season.

Just questioning his kicking.

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[katmanblue]

Some of the comments on a pre pre season training drill in mid feb are amazing. IT MEANS NOTHING

I agree.

But that goes both ways. Lets not get too excited about the guys that looked good nor should we be too concerned about professional footballers not being able to execute basic skills.

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[The Old Dark Navy's]

Big footy knobs at their finest...writing off players from an afl x game

Ease up

 

[Benaly28]

Rubbish will play a heap

If Kerridge is best 22 were going backwards.

 

[T2B_]

Feeling well enDOWed right now.

 

[goreds]

Kennedy was good. Ticks all the right boxes, looks lean and fit. Could be the surprise for the season!

 

[Aphrodite]

Big footy knobs at their finest...writing off players from an afl x game

Give it a rest.

 

[Aphrodite]

Disgraceful Aph

Doesn't interest me.

Bring on Rnd 1.

 

[Jimmae]

Lamb was always an odd pick for this format, and it really showed, while Polson fumbled so many good chance for himself.

Hopefully this is a nice early wake up call to a few about matchday intensity.

Dow's field kicking is legit, short and sharp.

Didn't feel that way about it, but he certainly moved the footy on at pace.

Meh
Marchbank did ok in game 1 and looked a bit gassed by the end of game 2

He was playing as a mid, which clearly wrecked him. Glorified fitness drill.

 

[footyfan1978]

I've recorded off tv but not watched yet.

For those that went, did you feel you got anything more than a glorified training drills session ?

 

[F_therest]

It's never been a strength, for sure.

Got by last year with picking the easy 25-30m option. At this level, he'll need to do that again or dish it off to Willo or Simmo.

It's a bit worrying when we're supposedly going to try to play a more attacking style this year...which might mean more risky, attacking kicks from Marchbank rather than easy 20m chip kicks to a bloke in acres of space.

Silvagni's kicking was pretty average too i thought.

 

[Mr_Plow]

It's a bit worrying when we're supposedly going to try to play a more attacking style this year...which might mean more risky, attacking kicks from Marchbank rather than easy 20m chip kicks to a bloke in acres of space.

Silvagni's kicking was pretty average too i thought.

Yeah, both guys lack the ability to kick it with penetration to a target.

Silvagni can weight his kicks pretty well most of the time and get them to the right areas, just not penetrating.

 

[LordLucifer]

I watched a bit of the Saints V Bombers game when we go back from our meal out and wasn't sure what to expect.

What a load of shite that is ............ and they think it is going to catch on overseas too.

As for the mark and handball to the guy outside the arc to kick for a 'zooper', gee, how quick did I get sick of seeing that happen. What made it worse was the pissweak conversion rate from 42-44m out.

The sooner this farce is shut down the better.

 

[Cripps 'n' Blue Bloods]

If Kerridge is best 22 were going backwards.

He will not be. Only played 11 games due to Curnow being injured really. Probably a top 25 player in 2017. Would hope he’d slip to top 30ish this year.

 

[agro]

The carry on by Brayshaw and Taylor after a ten pointer, was - seriously, its only 40 metres