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Nah hes right,
Stop being salty.
Jobs was a battler, shit disposal, then the drugs kicked in and he out powered everyone in the middle. Once they wore off he went back to being a battler. Its not up for debate.
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Sean Dempster came quickly to mind for me.
Was terribly ordinary and generally in and out of the team for the first several years of his career, and I always thought in his first few years for us that he pretty much only got a game because he was Ross Lyon's lovechild- who he brought with him from Sydney- but then he finally stepped it up in 2011 (at 27yo, in his 7th season), and did a lot of good shutdown jobs- resulting in a 3rd place finish in the B&F.
Then Rosco left and in his first preseason coaching us, Scott Watters stopped training mid-drill one day, after a ball was kicked to Sean, and instead of taking a relatively easy, uncontested mark, he punched it over the boundary line.
Watters was like "WTF!?" and told him his days of being ultra-defensive like that were over, and he had to go for his marks more, and Sean's game transformed practically overnight.
Resulting in himself making the AA team that following season.
Going from a guy who had averaged just 3.5 marks per game to that point in his career, to taking 155 that year, at over 7 per game. And from a guy who had taken just 30 contested marks in his previous 119 games, to one who took 26 from just 22 that season. And it would have been a similar story with his intercept mark numbers.
All while still wearing the guys he was playing on like a glove.
A pretty remarkable turnaround for a guy at 28yo, who was still in and out of the team just two years earlier, at 26yo.
Doubt he had a top 12 B&F finish in his first 6 seasons, but in his last 6 he came 3rd, 3rd, 7th (from 19 games), 3rd, 3rd and 10th (from 19).
Was terribly ordinary and generally in and out of the team for the first several years of his career, and I always thought in his first few years for us that he pretty much only got a game because he was Ross Lyon's lovechild- who he brought with him from Sydney- but then he finally stepped it up in 2011 (at 27yo, in his 7th season), and did a lot of good shutdown jobs- resulting in a 3rd place finish in the B&F.
Then Rosco left and in his first preseason coaching us, Scott Watters stopped training mid-drill one day, after a ball was kicked to Sean, and instead of taking a relatively easy, uncontested mark, he punched it over the boundary line.
Watters was like "WTF!?" and told him his days of being ultra-defensive like that were over, and he had to go for his marks more, and Sean's game transformed practically overnight.
Resulting in himself making the AA team that following season.
Going from a guy who had averaged just 3.5 marks per game to that point in his career, to taking 155 that year, at over 7 per game. And from a guy who had taken just 30 contested marks in his previous 119 games, to one who took 26 from just 22 that season. And it would have been a similar story with his intercept mark numbers.
All while still wearing the guys he was playing on like a glove.
A pretty remarkable turnaround for a guy at 28yo, who was still in and out of the team just two years earlier, at 26yo.
Doubt he had a top 12 B&F finish in his first 6 seasons, but in his last 6 he came 3rd, 3rd, 7th (from 19 games), 3rd, 3rd and 10th (from 19).
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Liam Jones - was in his last year on an AFL list after disappointing as a forward at the dogs and Carlton. In a last ditch attempt to re-invograte his career he gets thrown in defence and shines in the VFL. The form has continued for 4 years now and is one of the first players picked every week in our best 22.
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