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It's true he's aged 60 years in the past 15 years from watching Freo games
Toast Fremantle's 2nd 2016 National Draft Pick: Sean Darcy [Pick #38]
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It's true he's aged 60 years in the past 15 years from watching Freo games
salim malik forgets I met him at the 2013 GF eve at the GNH in Carlton.
Must have had a "senior moment"
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So you met the great man... .
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How could I forget you. A voice for reason will always be on my list of must read posts.
Can't remember which commentator (I think the Dwayne Russell masturbation machine) screeching about Hodor's goal.."He's spanked it!He's spanked it big!He's spanked it long!
And he's spanked it for his first!"
And he's spanked it for his first!"
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With Sandy out for the remainder of the season, would it be risky elevating Luke Strnadica and have him pair up with Sean?
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Has their been any mention of how many of his hitouts were to advantage?
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Forgive me if this hasn't been mentioned, but I loved it when Darcy laid that tackle, think it was in the third, and a huge HODOR! echoed throughout the stadium. All time! HODOR!
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Freo site has him at 5 last week and 8 this. The herald sun did an article after the Geelong game and said he had 54% to advantage
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His hit to Neale from a boundary throw in when Neale kicked that great goal was something wet dreams are made of.
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So 1st game:
40 hitouts - 5 to advantage - (12.5% to advantage)
2nd game:
33 hitouts - 8 to advantage - (24.2% to advantage)
Imagine this kid after a few preseasons.
That was just poor journalism. It impossible to have 40 hitouts at 54% because you can't have 21.6 hitouts. I believe the 54% refers to the amount of ruck contests he won. So he attended 74 stoppages and won the hitout in 54% or 40 of them (which was the 4th highest average for ruckman at the time).
I distinctly remember watching the draft and seeing Ross and co smiling like Cheshire cats directly after making the pick, which took all of 2 seconds to call out. Had to admit I was surprised at the time given that I remember watching the u18s and Sean was great in the ruck but not around the ground....he was also the fattest kid I have seen play u18s. He was rated as a late or rookie selection, so it was a ballsy pick that looks to have been a masterstroke.....can wait till the big fella gets 3 preseasons into him!
Champion Data report on Sean Darcy (pre-season):
"He was the Geelong Falcons' and Vic Country's No.1 ruckman. He is more of a tap ruckman than an around the ground ruck. All his ruck contest numbers ranked elite in both competitions. His 9.3 hitouts-to-advantage ranked No.1 in the TAC Cup, while his score launches and score involvements ranked elite for a ruckman. Around the ground he averaged nine disposals in both competitions."
So we got him eating right and got him fit and boom
His tap work is top of the range already and he comes across as a natural footballer. Some conditioning and some elite experience and he could be anything.
Lyon said before the game that Hodor was boarding at Xavier and was "On the sausage rolls last year!"
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Thanks for clearing this up. My old man was adamant he won 54% hitouts to advantage last week and broke all debut records. Wouldn't budge an inch! Now I can school him using maths and pretend I thought of it myself
From memory on draft day when they took him at 38 there was a few big smiles at the table including Ross. Obviously were very keen on him also doing a bit of a lopsided trade with GC to get back into second round for the opportunity to pick him up.
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I have to admit I was fairly underwhelmed at the time of our draft last year.
Already though Darcy and Cox look like 200 gamers in the making while Logue and Ryan have shown flashes.
Add in the trades and it was certainly a great offseason.
On Darcy, it's not going to get any easy for him this week. Goldy and Majak Daw to go up against or they bring in the man mountain Pruess. Massive test for him.
Already though Darcy and Cox look like 200 gamers in the making while Logue and Ryan have shown flashes.
Add in the trades and it was certainly a great offseason.
On Darcy, it's not going to get any easy for him this week. Goldy and Majak Daw to go up against or they bring in the man mountain Pruess. Massive test for him.
Not that it makes much difference but that was a ball up resulting from the skipper stripping a St Kilda backman's mark and then wrestling about about half the St Kilda team to force the stoppage.
Then Hodor turned Maestro!
