Toast Luke Breust - Ready for a big season

[joeyhawker]

Excellent post - the most natural of small forwards playing the game + the team comes first mentality - a very rare commodity

When Breust doesn't kick any goals (or just 1) people on here (and in general) always talk about how he has been quiet/poor/etc.

What always seems to go unnoticed is the touches he gets and how clean he is. He also is honestly the best reader of the ball off a pack I have ever seen. Watch how many times the crumbs from a pack or a stoppage go straight into Breust's hands first. The commentators barely mention it and it is a rare skill. Other crumbers are usually getting the ball off the ground after it has spilled from a pack but Breust so often gets the crumbs directly (ie. mid air) and at pace which is amazing to watch.

The only time he is even mentioned is when he is in the clear so also kicks a goal from doing so but there are plenty of other times when the ball spills off a pack and Breust has it before the ball even touches the ground where he gives off a handball or sometimes is wrapped up in a tackle amidst the congestion.

It's special because it's rare (for others) but also because usually defenders out number forwards and therefore is less than a 50/50 contest when the ball hits the deck but Breust predicts the fall unbelievably well and swoops in to take it cleanly mid air at pace, effectively ending the 'loose ball' contest before it has begun.

Supremely underrated footballer.

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[TylerDurden]

7th on the goal kicking and people saying he's had a s**t season. Such are the standards.

3 timer and AA. Just a star.

 

[LuckyHawk]

When Breust doesn't kick any goals (or just 1) people on here (and in general) always talk about how he has been quiet/poor/etc.

What always seems to go unnoticed is the touches he gets and how clean he is. He also is honestly the best reader of the ball off a pack I have ever seen. Watch how many times the crumbs from a pack or a stoppage go straight into Breust's hands first. The commentators barely mention it and it is a rare skill. Other crumbers are usually getting the ball off the ground after it has spilled from a pack but Breust so often gets the crumbs directly (ie. mid air) and at pace which is amazing to watch.

The only time he is even mentioned is when he is in the clear so also kicks a goal from doing so but there are plenty of other times when the ball spills off a pack and Breust has it before the ball even touches the ground where he gives off a handball or sometimes is wrapped up in a tackle amidst the congestion.

It's special because it's rare (for others) but also because usually defenders out number forwards and therefore is less than a 50/50 contest when the ball hits the deck but Breust predicts the fall unbelievably well and swoops in to take it cleanly mid air at pace, effectively ending the 'loose ball' contest before it has begun.

Supremely underrated footballer.

Great post. I've been watching footy a long time and l have never seen (a) anyone handle the ball better and (b) anyone remotely
close to his ability to kick the dribble kick goal bar Cyril. He's already a Hawthorn great.

 

[Zack]

7th on the goal kicking and people saying he's had a **** season. Such are the standards.

3 timer and AA. Just a star.

That is dumbfounding the goal kicking list.

The AFL f'up of the rules changes has basically f'd up goalkicking.

After 7 games nobody but Jeremy Cameron has kicked over 17 in seven rounds... Dunstall kicked that in a game, missed 5 shots and had 12 players on him in the last 20 minutes.

Really s**t rule changes by Gil and Hock to get us to this sort of AFL footy as it's now known.