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Vintage Bay Mofra's Bottom 50 for 2018
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Shaun Hampson
Gold!!!!
This is also known as wangst.
Darkyprotector
Premiership Player
- Apr 10, 2017
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Always a spot available for billings
Spud in so many ways
Watched him play against
franks ton
What a wasted space
Great recruiting
TedDougChris
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- Mar 10, 2007
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what?
both of them?
how are Shazza and Darls going with the weight loss programs anyway ?
what?
both of them?
how are Shazza and Darls going with the weight loss programs anyway ?
Following jobes successful program no doubt.
- Oct 3, 2017
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It's about time you woke up and finally realized he's chihuahua poo, i told you this years ago.Player #1 - Tom Boyd
Pictured: Tom Boyd celebrates making Brian Taylor swear on MMM
In the end, there could be only one. The one. The man, the myth, the legend himself.
This summary could be very short and simple: the Bulldogs this year had statistically the worst forward 50 efficiency coupled with statistically the worst ruck division in the competition, and Tom Boyd is a million dollar ruck/forward. Putting everything into the Mofrometer in a variety of ways still led to Tom being the unanimous choice as the no 1 player this year.
Yes I am aware he was fantastic at the end of 2016, but this is the 2018 Bottom 50. Past exploits are no guarantee of future (or current) performance in a sporting theory known as 'the Mundine principle'.
Tom went at half a goal per game and 17 hit outs on average this year, coupled with roughly 7 effective disposals per game with a disposal efficiency below 65%. He managed 10 scoring shots in total for the year at 200cm and 103kgs. His metres gained average this year was 165m - most cups of luke-warm mid strength beer at Etihad travel further per game.
As a ruckman he was 'an honest battler' and as a forward he was 'looking like a resting ruckman' which might be ok for a 20 year old off the rookie list but this was a consensus pick #1 picked just ahead of Josh Kelly at 2 and Marcus Bontempelli at pick 4.
He did have the good sense to wait only 12 months prior to getting the hell out of Western Sydney (unlike half of Carlton's list that wait a few years) but even then he cost pick 6 and a former pick 3 who was also the club captain and the third best in his team player according to B&F results.
Tellingly, only a few days earlier the Giants declared he would "not be traded under any circumstances" which was about a believable as a St Kilda player saying "we'll just cuddle, I swear". That u-turn was sadly a faster change of direction than anything Tom's shown in the past 2 years.
He's also taken only 20 contested marks in the past two years despite being a man mountain and the theories on this are numerous. One of those theories talked about at length on the Bulldogs board is the small size of his hands relative to his height (seriously). This Trump theory makes sense when you consider he also is overpaid and was once orange. You know what they say - smal hands smlal... gloves. Apologies for the typos, somteimes it's hrad to type proprely with my massive hands.
Gary Lyon, the 'Wayne Carey' of the commentary world, described Boyd as extremely disappointing this year citing his lack of presence in contests. It's true given Boyd this year was overtaken by Schache who was a last minute, 2nd & 3rd rounder trade at the end of 2017 after two unproductive years at Brisbane. Schache is also two years younger than Tom and covers more ground as a forward.
Tom has done some fantastic work this year in the mental health sphere and by all accounts is a thoughtful young man, a deep thinker who is considerate of others which is almost a shame as the best tall forwards appear to be self-absorbed glory hunters with egos bigger than Vihrat Kohli on a coke bender. I'm sure being under constant scrutiny would be a little of an ego-killer but seriously Tom you're 200cm, built like a bricksh....elter, you're considered good looking by female Bulldog fans...
... relatively, you're wealthy, can surf and unusually for many footballers can string a sentence together. CRASH A BLOODY PACK WITH YOUR KNEE OUT YOU BASTARD, YOU CAN DO IT JUST BLOODY DO IT!!!
Anyway Tom you will always be a hero to Bulldog fans for your 2016 exploits and a hero to the fans of 17 other teams as they don't have your massive contract on their books (even though North could afford you, given their 'war chest' and all).
Thank you for everything and thank you for rounding out this years' Bottom 50.
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Wonderful list as usual Mofra, and delighted to see you hand Boyd the deserved #1 spot.
- Jan 19, 2017
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Brenton Davy
Brownlow Medallist
Rasputin would be highly offended.
At least he was aggressive and consistent. An a-hole, but aggressive and consistent.
And resilient. That bastard was almost impossible to kill.
- Nov 17, 2007
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Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work … you can always hit them with it.
This s**t truck was robbed of pick 1Player #4 - Jack Billings
Pictured: Jack Billings in action for Sandringham this year
Jack Billings, bless him, has the ignominy of being drafted between two of the games' brightest young stars.
Josh Kelly fromNorthGWS is in the conversation as one of the game's best midfielders, while Marcus Bontempelli already has two club B&Fs to his name - one of which was for a premiership season.
A star junior, Jack made the u18 AA team as an 'underage player' which first put him on St Kilda's radar.
Sadly Jack hasn't quite lived up to expectations as a highly touted pick #3 who was supposed to be deadly in front of goal (we now know that isn't short for 'deadly accurate' or 'deadly' in the indigenous slang for praise sense, but deadly as in coach-killer).
Billings seems a hard worker who was considered to have had incredible goal sense when drafted, yet this year in front of the sticks he went at an accuracy rate of less than 42.5% which is also the average alcohol content of the average Port Adelaide fan's 'morning pick me up'. He just isn't accurate. Asked to describe himself earlier this year in three words he replied "not good with numbers".
So there's the 14 goals 19 behinds he kicked this year. There is the fact he actually went backwards compared to his 2017 average tallies in kicks, handballs, marks, goals, behinds, tackles, contested possessions, disposal efficiency, one-percenters, bounces per game, clearances and score involvements (although he did slightly outdo his 2017 self in average clangers this year).
Then of course, there's the fact he was dropped for round 12 which would have created a huge media circus if St Kilda were in any way newsworthy this year.
To his credit Billings responded with a 54 disposal effort against a demoralised Frankston team that was coached by St Kilda's ruck coach which seems a situation so dodgy it's running as a Nationals candidate next election. An inexperienced VFL fourth gamer had the task of running with Billings which came as a total shock as the words 'inexperienced' and 'Frankston youngster' are rarely seen together in the same sentence.
As a result, Billings' name was floated in trade circles this year however Billings responded with "I'm a St Kilda person" which should disappoint fans familiar at all with VFL/AFL history. Jack was very much in the pro-recruit Hannerbery camp during the most recent trade period whose acquisition should take some of the heat away from Jack.
Also helping is Billings seemed to finish off the year much, much, much better than he started. It appears Carlton played him into form which is a good start to their rebuild. Next year hopefully the Blues can play a couple of their own players into form (and yes I'm aware this is the soy sauce portion of the write-up... Kikkoman when he's down).
Anyway Jack still seems to have talent so as long as he grows a pair he'll be fine.
Billo, Jack, he of a suspiciously short wikipedia entry. Good luck for the pre-season and welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2018.
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TedDougChris
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- Mar 10, 2007
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It's sad really
Even in failure he under achieves
At least he is consistent !!!
Chief
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Have them play his all-top team.
Starburns_
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- Mar 30, 2011
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A Bottom 50 of the 21st century would be awesome. Throw Tom Boyd, Zac Dawson, Schoenmakers, and Vickery in with Courtney Johns, Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls, and Anthony Rocca.
Dont listen to her folks, she said this exact thing to me last night.Truly the best thing on BF, cheers for the terrific read Mof
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Mofra's Bottom 50 vs Teach's Top 50.
Mofra's would win
