Enright's epic handballs

[THE CAT WRANGLER]

Awesome play

 

[vealesy]

Possibly the best passage of play from a team this year...

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Anyone have it on youtube or know when it happened in the game?

 

[dazbroncos]

Anyone have it on youtube or know when it happened in the game?

it was last qtr int the Dons game....

Play came from chb with Mackie starting it I think clearing the C wing.... and it went from there....

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[Copernicus]

It just stands out to me because most handballs these days are really short ones to a player running past. Not usually used as an offensive weapon.

Unless it's Boris doing it.

He's been doing it for years. Not constantly, but he's one of the few players who will commit to a 25-30 meter handball to a bloke in space.

 

[CatAttack84]

Could it have been called a 'mark' when Stevie J took it? It travelled the required distance.

Nope, as the laws of the game state a mark needs to be the acceptance from a kick.

 

[CatAttack84]

Epic. Along with SJ's laconic 40 yard gridiron pass.. Truly blessed.

It was wasn't it? I shamelessly yelled "go long, GO LONG!" in my best Ace Ventura impersonation.

 

[footscore]

this passage of play is quite breathtaking http://www.afl.com.au/video/smart-r...ventType=in50Mark&seek=6034&videoQuality=high

 

[footscore]

also, watch Blicavs through that passage of play, he's the reason why the goal eventuated and he continued to run forward and could have actually received the handball from Smedts as his opponent dropped off him.

And whoever was on Johnson, why on earth would you allow him to continue running forward all alone after he was one of the blokes involved in the play.
Really poor defensive work by Essendon and it's little signs like that which make you wonder when their drop off will come like the previous two seasons.

 

[volcboy]

also, watch Blicavs through that passage of play, he's the reason why the goal eventuated and he continued to run forward and could have actually received the handball from Smedts as his opponent dropped off him.

And whoever was on Johnson, why on earth would you allow him to continue running forward all alone after he was one of the blokes involved in the play.
Really poor defensive work by Essendon and it's little signs like that which make you wonder when their drop off will come like the previous two seasons.

Jobe Watson was on Johnson. You can see him get sucked back towards Enright when SJ handballs it over his shoulder, then realise too late that Johnson has continued his run. He also looks spent...

 

[Topper]

That was the best handball i've seen.

Normally handballs are the boring whatever action of our game, that Handball to SJ got me out of my seat shaking my head and laughing.

Thanks for the link, i'd had a quick look and couldn't find it over the weekend

 

[burto]

I think Enright can handball further than I can kick

 

[Scottland2007]

Nope, as the laws of the game state a mark needs to be the acceptance from a kick.

Thanx.

 

[Farmer2Goggin]

Ridiculously skilled , to hit SJ up from that distance without him having to break stride was truly as thing of beauty.
The level of understanding our senior guys have about each other is almost telepathic and is one of the things that underpin our success.

 

[Strangled Cat]

Those hand passes are epic alright, I've never seen anything like them before. If anyone said to me before I'd seen him to them, that a player can hand pass in excess of 30 metres I would have said that not only wasn't it possible, but also dumb, because you may as well just kick it. That's until you see them and you just can't help but marvel at the skill, execution and that damn right effectiveness of them.

 

[CatAttack84]

... is almost telepathic and is one of the things that underpin our success.

Sssshh, you just gave away our secret.

 

[rocker_oz33]

These are pretty good from boris.

 

[jpzhawk]

I may be a hawk supporter, but I also love our game and appreciate brilliance when it happens. Well Enright's handball on Friday night was nothing short of brilliance !!! Wow !!! I would say it's one of the best handballs of all time and just beautiful to watch. The fact the Johnson was then able to bang a pass from the boundry and hit the leading forward, was it Stokes ? aswell was the icing on a teriffic passage of play. The Hawks give me plenty of great passages and highlights but that handball of Enright's was a Fu@#ing rippa !
Can someone post a clip of it ?
Cheers and see you in round 15 for what is shaping up to be yet another epic battle.

 

[RegHickeyStand]

That was the best handball i've seen.

Normally handballs are the boring whatever action of our game, that Handball to SJ got me out of my seat shaking my head and laughing.

Thanks for the link, i'd had a quick look and couldn't find it over the weekend

The best handball you say?

 

[FredLeDeux]

The best handball you say?

Good call RHS, this one is not just Handball of the Year, it's Handball of the Millennium.

 

[dazbroncos]

I actually think that the one in the Dons game was more impressive purely because it was across his body to a moving SJ who he hit IN STRIDE 25 m away .....

But im splitting hairs...

A shorter list for Boris is things he has done badly since 2007.....

Guy is just a brilliant, once in a millennium type player...

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[FredLeDeux]

I actually think that the one in the Dons game was more impressive purely because it was across his body to a moving SJ who he hit IN STRIDE 25 m away .....

But im splitting hairs...


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Personal choice, of course, but I used to see Polly do Essendon-type ones from the ruck even before his feet hit the deck - much to the enjoyment of Goggin and Wade!
But I have never, ever seen anything like the NM one.
I'll keep 'em both and let you have my final decision in 10-15 years time.

 

[vinum coupe]

I'm with Topper. That recent handball was the best. Easily.
The other one was more clever though.

 

[FredLeDeux]

That makes me happier with my choice of the NM one.

 

[dazbroncos]

I'm with Topper. That recent handball was the best. Easily.
The other one was more clever though.

fair point...

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[And_ROOS]

Looking forward to his token epic handball this weekend