John Smith92
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Frankly I'm outraged at JJ going higher than murphy. Deserves to make the list but I'm sure I can remember at least one positive contribution for the year.
Mofra's Bottom 50 for 2021
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You might be right, he was a very effective 23rd man on occasions, up until they let him onto the ground
John Smith92
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I'm reliably informed that he played a forward tag on someone at some point
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No way JJ will feature here. He kicked 33% of his team’s goals in the second half of the GF.
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JJ had one moment of glory this year.
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It's frankly an outrage that anyone sits higher than Murphy this year. And then Mofra gave him the wet lettuce leaf treatment anyway.
Can't tell if you're talking about JJ or Murphy. Applies to both.
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are we allowed to be racist on this subforum?
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Surprised he didn’t go number one tbh.
Nice summary of his otherwise decent career, but this year was a trainwreck on all fronts.
To add to that:
- Teague gifts him essentially a season’s worth of games. He (deservedly) gets dropped once and sooks it up in the media.
- Plays rubbish in the reserves, short steps on a couple of occasions (there is footage floating around) and somehow gets recalled the following week.
- Gets to 300 games, in Round 22, says thank you to Teague and the club by deciding not to play the following week.
- The team gets belted in his final game. Zero *s are given by his teammates, who proceed to ignore him after the final siren. This is the same club that chaired off (an opposition) Bryce Gibbs in his final game after being belted by the wooden spooners.
I know it’s not classy shitposting a 300 game veteran of your own club but FMD this guy is a fraud.
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A couple of ways to tell that isn't a finalIts true , here is a shot of him almost getting a contested possession against top Geelong forward........never mind.
St Kilda are there
Rohan has the ball
hawkman
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Does anyone even count 2020 as a genuine year?
I mean these things would never happen normally
Geelong, Port and Brisbane all choked in finals
Dangerfield and Rohan disappeared when the heat went on
Collingwood got smashed in the finals
Norf travelled around the country like someone without a home
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Player #3 - Jared Polec
Pictured: William Phelps Eno, the inventor of the one-way sign and Jared Polak's greatest career influence
Jared Polec is North's biggest profile signing in recent memory.
A former pick 5 for the Brisbane Lions, Jared then got homesick and went to Port Adelaide in 2014. Brisbane Improved after he left.
Jared Polec's wife then got homesick, and demanded Jared move to Melbourne (I assume her name is Brooke). Jared then left Port Adelaide (who improved after he left) and signed a lucrative 5 year deal with North Melbourne.
Jared played all 22 games with North in his first season at Arden St. Then after only 13 games last year, he had a big preseason and was selected in their round 1 side for 2021. He actually played the first 3 games of the season, but after his side's 128 mauling at the hands of the Bulldogs (in which he managed 7 disposals and no tackles) he was dropped.
Jared did make it back late in the season for two more games, registering 14 disposals. In total. He was then delisted and put onto the rookie list so North could be 'flexible' with list spots. Remember, this is one of the highest paid players at a club that won the spoon and is signing DFAs from expansion clubs to fill their list.
It's hard to see where it all went so wrong. Oh wait, it isn't. AFL in the modern era requires two way running, and while Jared may run faster than Rudi Giuliani's hair dye with ball in hand (an increasingly rare occurrence), when it comes time to defend he musters all the energy of a hungover pot-head sloth, on sedatives. The Olympics 100m final showcased more two-way running. In 'Roast me' form, this sums up Polec's penchant for defensive workrate well:
Modern wingman just need to help their defenders out and Jared's not even on a first name basis with most of them. Some north supporters have tried to argue that it's not in his DNA as he's "an attacking wingman", but we'll test this theory shall we?
How many goals and assists would you expect an "attacking wingman" to chalk up in a regular season? In Jared's case.... zero goals, one assist. $700k doesn't seem to buy you much these days but Sydney's property market represents better value for money. You could probably buy an assistance monkey for 1/10th of that (just don't buy one from David Glascott). 395 other AFL players managed to kick a goal this year, and that's only counting players who played 5 or more games. At least he cracked the top 437 for assists. Half of the other players on the '1 assist' list don't even have their own Wikipedia page.
To top it all off Jared is 29 years old and in a team so young that the half time oranges are called 'smiley faces' so the kids will actually eat them.
Polec is now the most expensive rookie in the history of the AFL. Even still, it's not the worst thing about his signing - that was last year when a picture of Polec playing in a scratch match for Collingwood did the rounds in the media:
Pictured: The irony of Collingwood playing someone they aren't paying, while not being able to play Treloar who they are paying for.
Anyway I hope Jared gets back to playing good football next year. Welcome to the pointy end of the Bottom 50 for 2021.
Pictured: William Phelps Eno, the inventor of the one-way sign and Jared Polak's greatest career influence
Jared Polec is North's biggest profile signing in recent memory.
A former pick 5 for the Brisbane Lions, Jared then got homesick and went to Port Adelaide in 2014. Brisbane Improved after he left.
Jared Polec's wife then got homesick, and demanded Jared move to Melbourne (I assume her name is Brooke). Jared then left Port Adelaide (who improved after he left) and signed a lucrative 5 year deal with North Melbourne.
Jared played all 22 games with North in his first season at Arden St. Then after only 13 games last year, he had a big preseason and was selected in their round 1 side for 2021. He actually played the first 3 games of the season, but after his side's 128 mauling at the hands of the Bulldogs (in which he managed 7 disposals and no tackles) he was dropped.
Jared did make it back late in the season for two more games, registering 14 disposals. In total. He was then delisted and put onto the rookie list so North could be 'flexible' with list spots. Remember, this is one of the highest paid players at a club that won the spoon and is signing DFAs from expansion clubs to fill their list.
It's hard to see where it all went so wrong. Oh wait, it isn't. AFL in the modern era requires two way running, and while Jared may run faster than Rudi Giuliani's hair dye with ball in hand (an increasingly rare occurrence), when it comes time to defend he musters all the energy of a hungover pot-head sloth, on sedatives. The Olympics 100m final showcased more two-way running. In 'Roast me' form, this sums up Polec's penchant for defensive workrate well:
Modern wingman just need to help their defenders out and Jared's not even on a first name basis with most of them. Some north supporters have tried to argue that it's not in his DNA as he's "an attacking wingman", but we'll test this theory shall we?
How many goals and assists would you expect an "attacking wingman" to chalk up in a regular season? In Jared's case.... zero goals, one assist. $700k doesn't seem to buy you much these days but Sydney's property market represents better value for money. You could probably buy an assistance monkey for 1/10th of that (just don't buy one from David Glascott). 395 other AFL players managed to kick a goal this year, and that's only counting players who played 5 or more games. At least he cracked the top 437 for assists. Half of the other players on the '1 assist' list don't even have their own Wikipedia page.
To top it all off Jared is 29 years old and in a team so young that the half time oranges are called 'smiley faces' so the kids will actually eat them.
Polec is now the most expensive rookie in the history of the AFL. Even still, it's not the worst thing about his signing - that was last year when a picture of Polec playing in a scratch match for Collingwood did the rounds in the media:
Pictured: The irony of Collingwood playing someone they aren't paying, while not being able to play Treloar who they are paying for.
Anyway I hope Jared gets back to playing good football next year. Welcome to the pointy end of the Bottom 50 for 2021.
Dr Tigris
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Somehow, .... that was expected.
Still godo effort. Well written and some definite laughs. Especially that he is beignpaid many multiples of my wages to do ..... not very much
Still godo effort. Well written and some definite laughs. Especially that he is beignpaid many multiples of my wages to do ..... not very much
John Smith92
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If JJ goes top 2 ahead of these spuds I will bioengineer a new covid variant and shut down flightcentre for good.
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Gee, how many knocks to the head does it take to need a wank monkey?
or “wankey”, as you will.
or “wankey”, as you will.
Asking for a friend?
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Has anyone noticed the outrageous price of bananas lately?
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Man, I remember when losing Polec felt like a big loss.
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It sort of was, he was pretty good for us. But even then it was pretty obvious that he only ever viewed football as a job rather than a passion. And it turns out when you move somebody with that attitude away from home and away from the club he grew up supporting, and give him a guaranteed five year deal on 'set them up for life' type money at a club that doesn't look anywhere near winning a flag any time soon, thus taking away their only extrinsic motivators to perform, their performance dips as a result. Who could've possibly guessed?
