Analysis Defence
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Shows how heavily we rely on those guys. If our midfield can improve at the stoppages and win more clearances, we'll be hard to beat in the finals.
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Also shows that some people still don't give Lonergan the credit he deserves, you never hear him mentioned in "Who is the best defender?" discussions when he can wipe an opponent completely out of a game when he's on.
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EFA: and a forward line that doesn't rely on a single target.
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Agree.
It's a coin toss between Harry and domsy over who is the best defender in the comp IMO.
Star he is.
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I guess it's like having a 3m steel mesh security fence down there sometimes, whit3y- topped by a metre of rolls of barbed wire! Hence the term "fence".
"None shall pass!!"
Other teams "fences" are often wobbly 1m affairs constructed from chicken wire.
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That's a pretty amazing stat for Harry- considering a lot of people thought he'd been pretty quiet in the first half of the season. Thanks for putting that info up, gysenn.
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Are Taylor and Lonergan in the mix for AA?
Last time I looked we had no one predicted except possibly Hawkins. Now we seem to have the #2 brownlow chance, the best forward and the 3 best defenders in the comp!
Last time I looked we had no one predicted except possibly Hawkins. Now we seem to have the #2 brownlow chance, the best forward and the 3 best defenders in the comp!
Not sure it's a reliance, three blokes. If it was just HT I'd call it a reliance. Sounds like bloody good coaching and some seriously talented defenders.
Really shows how well Jared Rivers has been travelling this year. Easy for a bloke playing 3rd string fwd every week, but doing his job very nicely.
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Wonder how much training against Hawkins, the best 1v1 forward, has contributed to this.
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And vice versa! Would love to see some footage of these two going at it for 20 minutes.
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Equal top on the ladder with the three best defenders, the best key forward and the best midfielder (in Ablett's absence).
Yet we're considered a long shot to win anything this year....
Yet we're considered a long shot to win anything this year....
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Impossible to answer. It's like the shield and spear paradox.
["What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?"]
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Would we have recruited Taylor if Egan didn't suffer his ultimately career ending injury?
I doubt it. Would have been a fair mistake though!
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No Sir.
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Still can't believe he was just... you know playing against Freo and WCs reserves sides for all that time and nothing...
