It's amazing how Bruceys set shot kicking seems so reliable but still a very average at best field kick..
Bit tough. I have seen him to some ripper passes to fellow forwards this year.
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It's amazing how Bruceys set shot kicking seems so reliable but still a very average at best field kick..
He's pulled off a few but if you watch closely.. And I make this comment from what I see live at the games.. He still kicks several floaters, they come off the boot horribly, and sometimes tries too much with his kicks.. But hey for every s**t field kick he does he kicks 3 goals I am more than happyBit tough. I have seen him to some ripper passes to fellow forwards this year.
i reckon his field kicking this year has been quite goodHe's pulled off a few but if you watch closely.. And I make this comment from what I see live at the games.. He still kicks several floaters, they come off the boot horribly, and sometimes tries too much with his kicks.. But hey for every s**t field kick he does he kicks 3 goals I am more than happy
I may be the only one but I wouldn't swap bruce for cameron.
Sure bruce is a year older but cameron has played nearly twice as many games and as a pure fwd.
I actually think bruce is a better contested mark and applies more pressure if the ball hits the ground. His also bigger, stronger and has better body language.
By the end of 2017 I wont be surprised if bruce is the best Fwd in the league.
Loving the progress.
However, I would like defenders to quiver if they stand in line of his leads. Crunch the player when flying for the ball, they're not you're mates, karma is all in the head. Legal and ruthless. St Kilda win at all costs. If they wanna come off their man/double team, they need to pay the price and know it's not free pickings.
Certainly not saying Bruce is soft; he is anything but. He will have to get mean at some point (within the rules).
Over to you Hamill...
It's hard to crunch a player when you leap onto their shoulders and take mark of the year.
Loving the progress.
However, I would like defenders to quiver if they stand in line of his leads. Crunch the player when flying for the ball, they're not your mates, karma is all in the head. Legal and ruthless. St Kilda win at all costs. If they wanna come off their man/double team, they need to pay the price and know it's not free pickings.
Certainly not saying Bruce is soft; he is anything but. He will have to get mean at some point (within the rules).
Over to you Hamill...
This is the other exciting thing about Bruce, he's still - at least in big power forward terms - a baby. You can see he's got a big frame, and that will fill out a little more over coming pre-seasons and such. I don't want him to bulk up to the detriment of his athleticism and running, any more than Roo has. But I still think he has room to get a harder body. The attitude needed to be a wrecking ball etc when necessarily is there already, which is pleasing.Loving the progress.
However, I would like defenders to quiver if they stand in line of his leads. Crunch the player when flying for the ball, they're not your mates, karma is all in the head. Legal and ruthless. St Kilda win at all costs. If they wanna come off their man/double team, they need to pay the price and know it's not free pickings.
Certainly not saying Bruce is soft; he is anything but. He will have to get mean at some point (within the rules).
Over to you Hamill...
ive got such a man crush on Bruce'y now.
Think the wife is starting to get a bit suss co's I keep asking her to wear her hair in a bun to bed
But maybe I went too far putting a Saints jumper in her lingerie drawer
Your right.You need a break mate!
Resisting... the urge... to put... a pic of a cross-dressing Kurt Russell from Tango and Cash!Your right.
Maybe I do need a Bruce errr I mean break.
I may be the only one but I wouldn't swap bruce for cameron.
Sure bruce is a year older but cameron has played nearly twice as many games and as a pure fwd.
I actually think bruce is a better contested mark and applies more pressure if the ball hits the ground. His also bigger, stronger and has better body language.
By the end of 2017 I wont be surprised if bruce is the best Fwd in the league.
damn right!I honestly thought, after Bruce's first couple of big bags of goals, that he was just going to be a bit of a flash in the pa type of forward, and by the end of this year would be being pushed out by McCartin. I've been just waiting for his form to drop, and for him to prove to be the speculative pick 48 we traded for him. How wrong I was! He just keeps going from strength to strength, and as good as he is playing now, I don't think he has even reached his potential yet, which considering he is on track for a 60 goal year, is tantalising to say the least. He's going to be a beast, is Joshy Bruce, and I think our forward line will be the best in the comp in 3-4 years. He and McCartin and Membrey I think will compliment each other perfectly, and when you add the three Jack's: Sinclair, Billings and Loine, then gee wiz wooeee watch the flip out
I honestly thought, after Bruce's first couple of big bags of goals, that he was just going to be a bit of a flash in the pa type of forward, and by the end of this year would be being pushed out by McCartin. I've been just waiting for his form to drop, and for him to prove to be the speculative pick 48 we traded for him. How wrong I was! He just keeps going from strength to strength, and as good as he is playing now, I don't think he has even reached his potential yet, which considering he is on track for a 60 goal year, is tantalising to say the least. He's going to be a beast, is Joshy Bruce, and I think our forward line will be the best in the comp in 3-4 years. He and McCartin and Membrey I think will compliment each other perfectly, and when you add the three Jack's: Sinclair, Billings and Loine, then gee wiz wooeee watch the flip out
Menacing is probably the right word, he's got a bit of Fraser in that regard, not so much physically, but just in the way he seems to really really want it, and is willing to do the work to get it. I guess I was worried that he'd become a good ordinary forward, and forward is probably the only position where you can't be a gop. It's the confidence and the work rate that Bruce brings, which I didn't see at first, that seperates him from the Aaron Black's and Levi Casaboults of the worldI wasn't as nervous about him as you but I thought he would find it much harder once teams worked out what he could do. Aaron Black looked like he would be a decent player but once he was forced to compete he completely disappeared. Bruce has ben very good and his work rate off the ball really helps even when he does have a quiet game. He was moving constantly last week just making himself look menacing.
Menacing is probably the right word, he's got a bit of Fraser in that regard, not so much physically, but just in the way he seems to really really want it, and is willing to do the work to get it. I guess I was worried that he'd become a good ordinary forward, and forward is probably the only position where you can't be a gop. It's the confidence and the work rate that Bruce brings, which I didn't see at first, that seperates him from the Aaron Black's and Levi Casaboults of the world
Yeah I don't mean to say that he's cocky, just that he has the necessary confidence to play the position, and the self belief to keep pushing hardI met him this year and last and the vibe I got from him is one of self confidence. He isn't another FIGJAM but he has a bit of the swagger to him. I dealt with a few afl players in the 1990s and met Carey, Dunstall, Leowe, Ablett etc and they all were very self assured and some complete f wits. I think as a KPF you need to have an almost impenetrable self belief. Cloke doesn't seem to have it though- in real life he's a big softie and not what I expected at all. Stewie was probably the only one of the KPFs of that era that wasn't a dick actually.