James Sicily

[Mr Meeseeks]

Not really - was more a media thing.

Im not sure it was.

 

[Foucault1989]

There haven't been many players do what Lamb did because he managed to push the boundary all night and got away with it. Sicily was scragged and held at every opportunity and when he retaliated, he got pinged ( I believe the AFL said as much in the week following). It was a masterclass in being an annoying campaigner from Lamb but its rare that a player can tag that hard and get away with it all night almost scot free.

That said, watch him get some close attention in the next month. Maybe not this week because I don't rate Horse as a coach but in the coming months for sure. You would be cray not to try and put a fwd tagger on him and try and do what Lamb did.

Thing is, he is 23. Once he matures and gets his emotions a little bit more in check, he could be anything.

I don't disagree with any of this. He is a bloody good footballer. It will be interesting to see how he handles the attention

 

[Mr Meeseeks]

I don't disagree with any of this. He is a bloody good footballer. It will be interesting to see how he handles the attention

Indeed it will be. Personally though, I honestly dont really want to see him change much.

All the best teams need a couple of genuine mongrels. Its also easy to talk about the oppo winding him up but its easy to forget that just like a lot of the footy world, he really irritates the opposition players just as much
All teams need blokes like this. It just helps that he is an incredible talent.

 

[Plat]

Angry ranga that needs to grow up quickly ,second on the most punchable face ranking by a whisker to Toby Greene.

He's a less uglier version of Dan Hannebury.

 

[Foucault1989]

Indeed it will be. Personally though, I honestly dont really want to see him change much.

All the best teams need a couple of genuine mongrels. Its also easy to talk about the oppo winding him up but its easy to forget that just like a lot of the footy world, he really irritates the opposition players just as much
All teams need blokes like this. It just helps that he is an incredible talent.

I'd agree with that. At Carlton I hate that we gave Robinson away for nothing. I'm not saying Robbo is in the same category as Sicily but he added something different to our side. You can't have 22 vanilla footballers... You need that attitude in your side

 

[La Di Da]

Joe is clearly the shit bloke. You cant leave someone hanging like that
(imagine if he actually did give him the hi-5 haha)

He should have, would have flipped the script and made Sicily look silly.

 

[tigs2010]

You can't hate this mate

Hahaha that's gold.

Didn't Daniher dish it out to Atkins last year after he kicked a goal?

Doesn't seem to have found being on the receiving end quite as funny.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Sicily should have been high fiving the essendon midfielders because they refused to drop the ball on Daniher's head.

I'm fast coming to the conclusion that John Worsfold is taking the piss out of essendon.

 

[juss]

Gets suspended then comes back in and struts around taunting people like he's Dermot Brereton.
Absolute toss pot, wonder how Clarko felt watching that.

 

[QuietB]

This thread is hilarious. A half back taken at #56 in the draft has limitations as a player - who would have thunk

 

[Sonny Hayes]

Gets suspended then comes back in and struts around taunting people like he's Dermot Brereton.
Absolute toss pot, wonder how Clarko felt watching that.

Gets suspended and then comes back in and plays a super game and is best on ground, i reckon he would be pretty happy with that. He owed us a big game after getting suspended and he dominated.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Sicily should have been high fiving the essendon midfielders because they refused to drop the ball on Daniher's head.

I'm fast coming to the conclusion that John Worsfold is taking the piss out of essendon.

3 out the back goals during forward half stoppages with no essendon player between the player and goal side i tend to agree with you

 

[juss]

Gets suspended and then comes back in and plays a super game and is best on ground, i reckon he would be pretty happy with that. He owed us a big game after getting suspended and he dominated.

He played well, his ability is not in question. Very good player.
Flog of a bloke though, and I don't think Clarko would be a fan of the taunt he pulled, particularly after hurting his own team twice this year through silly suspensions. Not sure the humble skipper in Roughy would be happy with that behaviour either.

 

[Snake_Baker]

He played well, his ability is not in question. Very good player.
Flog of a bloke though, and I don't think Clarko would be a fan of the taunt he pulled, particularly after hurting his own team twice this year through silly suspensions. Not sure the humble skipper in Roughy would be happy with that behaviour either.

Rougy's on the way out. I doubt he would care as he's a pretty laconic bloke.

 

[KermitJagger]

I only have to go back 3 weeks to see Ziebell towel him up the moment he was made accountable. It was a true blessing in disguise for him when Higgins went down and Ziebell had to go in to the middle.

Like I stated, he looks like a millionaire against sides like essendon that absolutely overcook the ball and suffocate their forwards.

Gee wiz playing a HBF is such a piss easy job, that must be why your first rounder Shaun Atley played it so well for so many years.

 

[BF Tiger]

It’s worth it just to see him almost cry.

 

[Anja_Nees]

Everybody knows a Sicily - that guy that dishes it out but takes his bat and ball and goes home when it comes back to bite him.

Good player but to do something that stupid when you’re in the middle of a 50-odd point turnaround in a quarter is diabolical. Made it all about him.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Except he's always been a grub who gut punches off the ball and it finally bit him on the arse.

We’ll just have to ignore the part where he didn’t actually gutpunch anyone.

 

[FISTO]

Loose cannon and absolute liability

 

[andrew coombs]

B.o.g today, really special effort in the last when the game looked to be out of our reach, got us over the line in the end.[/Quote

Don't give all the credit to Sicily. Was the field umpiring crew the infamous three from the 2016 GF? If so it was nice to see they could just pick up today where they left off that day.

 

[PumpyChowdown]

His on field melts render me turgid.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

I think the umps do watch players like Sicily more closely and tend to give them less benefit of the doubt. That's a shame every player should be judged on every incident the same.

Probably the bigger issue though is that opposition players will always target and try and bait him. That's the price of being an in your face kind of player.

Personally I'm a fan

 

[SSSSSS]

Sicily is a gun. Had every right to let that maggot know what he thought of him. Disgraceful umpiring.

Keep it up James. I'll be happy to put forward a bit of money to pay for that fine.

 

[tangolikelama]

Gun. It's a shame people are laughing at his sooking instead of how much a disgrace that free kick was.

 

[Pepperlad]

IT JUST ISN'T FAIR!