How much longer can Priddis be debated?

[Dark Sharks]

You're like a stuck record, you just keep repeating yourself in the hope that repetition will turn an opinion into a fact. One could just as easily spin your opinion around and lambast the other midfielders by saying, "The evidence is 7 seasons with him having the midfield built around him and not one player being better for it ...". You appear to want to claim the only one who's held up his end of the bargain is responsible for the others not holding up theirs.

Naturally you'd say that the empirical evidence I put forward in Priddis' defense is "neither here nor there", As Mandy Rice-Davies famously remarked, "Well he would say that, wouldn't he". You claimed "empirical evidence" and gave none yet are happy to bat away real empirical evidence as irrelevant. Your call that Subi improved after he left just shows how low you've sunk.

And then you fess up eventually it's what I told you all along, merely your opinion. Sadly that doesn't lead to any ipso facto because you've proven nothing, just offerred an opinion. If some of the others squeezed as much out of their ability as he does we'd be certainties for the flag.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but did you not remark recently on Mastens inability to get his arms free in a tackle? If i remember correctly you posted how Masten braces his arms into himself when he heads into a tackle, rather then lift his arms free so he can dispose of it properly, like Matt.

You'd think that after 6 years learning under Matt, Masten might have grasped this very basic under 12's technique?

It's just an example, but it's shows IMO how Matt really doesn't improve our other midfielders at all. Scooter still can't kick, fumbles as bad as mitch brown, and has zero composure in tight. Masten still gets ragdolled and can't cope with winning a contested footy either. They've both been playing under Matts wing for years.

 

[Keys]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but did you not remark recently on Mastens inability to get his arms free in a tackle? If i remember correctly you posted how Masten braces his arms into himself when he heads into a tackle, rather then lift his arms free so he can dispose of it properly, like Matt.

You'd think that after 6 years learning under Matt, Masten might have grasped this very basic under 12's technique?

It's just an example, but it's shows IMO how Matt really doesn't improve our other midfielders at all. Scooter still can't kick, fumbles as bad as mitch brown, and has zero composure in tight. Masten still gets ragdolled and can't cope with winning a contested footy either. They've both been playing under Matts wing for years.

In all fairness I don't think you can blame Priddis for those weaknesses in Masten and Selwood

 

[Dark Sharks]

In all fairness I don't think you can blame Priddis for those weaknesses in Masten and Selwood

I'm not putting it solely down to Matt. But i'm trying to find out who exactly would have obviously improved under him.

Shuey's contested ball work perhaps?

 

[ZergMinion]

I'm not putting it solely down to Matt. But i'm trying to find out who exactly would have obviously improved under him.

Shuey's contested ball work perhaps?

Call me crazy but improving a midfielders game is the job of the coaches isn't it? You guys really are expecting Matt to do everything aren't you. No wonder he falls short of your expectations

 

[Dark Sharks]

Call me crazy but improving a midfielders game is the job of the coaches isn't it? You guys really are expecting Matt to do everything aren't you. No wonder he falls short of your expectations

Well you'd think our most senior, most experienced, 'big bodied' midfielder who doesn't ever miss a game, would have had SOME say in how Swift, Stevens, Masten, Selwood and Shuey have all turned out?

 

[ZergMinion]

Well you'd think our most senior, most experienced, 'big bodied' midfielder who doesn't ever miss a game, would have had SOME say in how Swift, Stevens, Masten, Selwood and Shuey have all turned out?

He single-handedly turned Swift into a doctor and you want more?

 

[Monkey Worshipper]

He single-handedly turned Swift into a doctor and you want more?

He Eberted Ebert out of the team as well.

 

[Gizza]

But its not just Lloyd , is it? the list of admirers among the past player/media contingent is quite extensive

Sure, and among the lot of them I'm not sure they'd even be able to name our best starting 22.

 

[Gizza]

This thread is a very interesting read. One of the most underrated or overrated footballers in the comp depending on who you are talking too!

Hope he wins your BnF so this thread heats up more

There's absolutely zero doubt at all that he will win it. Won't change a single person's opinion though.

 

[94_Eagles]

There's a total of 4 games left so, doing the math:

1 quarter = 20 mins plus time on.

4 quarters in 1 game = 80 mins + 4 portions of time on

Therefore, in 4 games there's ~ 320 mins + 16 portions of time on that he can be played.

 

[Tracker 101]

I'm not putting it solely down to Matt. But i'm trying to find out who exactly would have obviously improved under him.

Shuey's contested ball work perhaps?

So I take it that you think Kerr retired six years ago.

 

[Dark Sharks]

So I take it that you think Kerr retired six years ago.

Troll, in case you don't remember, Kerr spent his last few years with us plagued by injuries. And when he played he lifted everybody around him and constantly stood up in big games. There is also the fact he wore the tag every single week. So yes, i'd say he certainly helped improve the midfielders around him.

Next stupid question?

 

[Tracker 101]

Troll, in case you don't remember, Kerr spent his last few years with us plagued by injuries. And when he played he lifted everybody around him and constantly stood up in big games. There is also the fact he wore the tag every single week. So yes, i'd say he certainly helped improve the midfielders around him.

Next stupid question?

So you are suggesting that while you think he was a champion he was unable to teach his fellow midfielders anything. Your argument stinks. He was the senior midfielder at the club was he not.

 

[The Dodger]

I don't visit this deck to often these days being a bit sick of the obsessive bias of the four Jokers who inhabit it.
I let the King do the talking for me and he is doing it very well at present.
Long live the King.

am I one? am I? Ive been waiting for this moment..alright here goes..."why so serious?"

 

[Kernel Sanders]

So you are suggesting that while you think he was a champion he was unable to teach his fellow midfielders anything. Your argument stinks. He was the senior midfielder at the club was he not.

The only thing that stinks is Ploddus's putrid skills.

 

[Gizza]

To be fair to Priddis he looks a lot better when our other mids pull their fingers out and give him a hand and he doesn't have to do it all, in heavy traffic.

Or maybe it's the other way around. Our other mids look better when Priddis isn't just instantly putting the ball on his boot and helipcoptering it out of the area all the time. How do you expect the other mids to get a touch when the tap always goes to Priddis and he always just boots away?

 

[boondy]

He Eberted Ebert out of the team as well.

And you probably think he is responsible for world war 2 as well

 

[boondy]

Troll, in case you don't remember, Kerr spent his last few years with us plagued by injuries. And when he played he lifted everybody around him and constantly stood up in big games. There is also the fact he wore the tag every single week. So yes, i'd say he certainly helped improve the midfielders around him.

Next stupid question?

Kerr didnt stand up in every game , he was more of a flash in the pan player and he was hopeless when he was tagged ,

 

[Kernel Sanders]

And you probably think he is responsible for world war 2 as well

Now you are talking out of your arse

Stay on topic

 

[kerrazy]

Kerr didnt stand up in every game , he was more of a flash in the pan player and he was hopeless when he was tagged ,

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[Kernel Sanders]

Kerr didnt stand up in every game , he was more of a flash in the pan player and he was hopeless when he was tagged ,

He stood up in the games that counted.

Priddis never has and never will.

Interesting that over on the Adelaide board they are beratting playing an injured Dangerfield and some other prominent mid (most games). They say it gives less meaningful game time to the other mids.

We have our very own version, Ploddus.

 

[boondy]

Now you are talking out of your arse

Stay on topic

Talking out of Your arse is impossible and not on topic .

 

[boondy]

He stood up in the games that counted.

Priddis never has and never will.

Interesting that over on the Adelaide board they are beratting playing an injured Dangerfield and some other prominent mid (most games). They say it gives less meaningful game time to the other mids.

We have our very own version, Ploddus.

Kerr stood up in an elite team when most of the team stood up but when kerr was tagged he was useless

 

[Kernel Sanders]

Kerr stood up in an elite team when most of the team stood up but when kerr was tagged he was useless

Agreed

But broke the tag routinely in the 'big' games.

Ploddus on the other hand beats up on the struggling teams and then goes to water in the big games. It's so routine you can count on him to fail in a big game.

 

[boondy]

What are they empirical evidence of exactly?

That Shane Woewodin was the best player in football one year? Really?

They are empirical evidence of nothing that is the subject of the thread. Surely you can grasp that?

that was umpires voting no one who knows the game