What about Tyrone Deledio?HumanMeatball - here's a preview of a Zeboyz
Bottom 50:
#1 Brett Deledio (GWS)
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Lids is a Giants DH who left the mighty Tigers to win a flag
How did that work out for ya **********
RICHMOND PREMIERS 2017!!!!!!!!!
Who???
So, the guy on the right is Libba, but who's the guy on the left?Yeah I was asking that about quite a few Richmond players the other day. Here's a better picture of Roberts
Yep, sure, absolutely, no doubt, me too.
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Player 45 - Fletcher Roberts
Pictured: Even more treasured than his premiership medallion is his role as official ambassador to the Batting Above His Average Association (BAHAA)
Fletcher Roberts is the reigning Premiership full-back who has just passed the baton over to Alex Rance, in a changing of the guard unrivalled since Henry Winkler handed in his blue cardigan for a black leather jacket after the first few episodes of Happy Days.
Fletch is known as "Sid" around the Bulldogs for his similarity in appearance to the Pixar character of the same name.
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Pictured: You be the judge
The only real obvious tie-in is that the Ice Age is when Sid would have to start his time-trial if he wants to finish with the main group. Fletch is slow, like really slow. He's the only player in the AFL that runs slower than TireBoyz thinks.
This is quite the disadvantage in the modern era of quick KPFs who lead to the ball. Zoning has helped a little bit but as the zone breaks down on turnover, Fletch's ambling efforts to cover his opponent made little difference.
And old-fashioned 'punch ball away' full-back with a decent left peg, Fletch might have been a decent full back in the 1980s especially noting as a Footscray player he'd never have to line up on the no 1 goal-kicker of the 1980s Simon Beasley (there's some trivia for you kids).
Fletch did start the year in the seniors and managed 8 games before he was sent back to the VFL. Twice more he played one AFL game and was then dropped, once against Sydney's Sam Reid and the second against Taylor "only twice as good in GFs as Nick Riewoldt" Walker.
The Bulldogs marketing team did have a sense of humour about it though, apparently releasing this short video:
Pictured: this video went for a length of time that normally necessitates an immediate consultation for nasal-spray
Fletch, Sid, you'll always have a 2016 medallion. Welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2017.
Nathan Broad is the photographer who took the best photo ever taken of an AFL premiership medal.
HumanMeatball - here's a preview of a Zeboyz
Bottom 50:
#1 Brett Deledio (GWS)
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Lids is a Giants DH who left the mighty Tigers to win a flag
How did that work out for ya **********
RICHMOND PREMIERS 2017!!!!!!!!!
Maybe Coaching Genius Luke Beveridge will finally unlock Kurt Tippett's hidden potential?* Probably wouldn't be our worst player next year
Can you send the double cobras there too?Maybe Coaching Genius Luke Beveridge will finally unlock Kurt Tippett's hidden potential?
And maybe he will hurt himself every time he contests.Maybe Coaching Genius Luke Beveridge will finally unlock Kurt Tippett's hidden potential?
Player 43 - Shane Kersten
Pictured: Shane Kersten getting into the spirit of round 16 "Buddhist Round" which is the 14th most popular themed round on the AFL calendar
Shane Kersten is a Fremantle forward. I could probably stop this entry here and the Bay would nod sagely, but for shits and giggles let us continue.
On the face of it he had a decent year. Crossing from Geelong to WA, Shane stepped back in time to become part of the new Fremantle. Obviously attracted by Ross Lyon's penchant for attacking gameplay Shane faced his former side first up where he performed about as well as a Ross Lyon forward does without the extreme umpire protection that Nick Riewoldt gets.
As the season wore on, Kersten was up and down more than Jake Stringer after a year 12 formal. Despite a few quiet games early he managed to kick the winning goal in round 5 against North Melbourne, which is a lot like high-fiving yourself for breaking into an unlocked Escort. I cannot confirm or deny that I only used that car as an example because Kersten's first car and his first girlfriend were both old escorts, right down to the leather interior. Nor will I assert that his dad paid for both of them.
He did kick 2.3 against Essendon and kicked a couple against eventual premiers Richmond, who still haven't beaten the Bulldogs for a number of years. He had a few shockers too - when Kersten goes missing, he really goes missing. Perhaps accepting Malaysian Airlines as a player sponsor wasn't a great idea.
After back to back 4 disposal games (against Queensland powerhouse the Lions and his former club Geelong) Kersten was sent back to the WAFL, where he was recalled after a massive 6 possession game. Great discipline Ross.
Finishing the year against the Swans where his game was described as Deserves a Logie for his performance as the invisible man. 1 he then had one final game against Essendon where, in desperation, Ross threw Kersten back to form part of the standard Ross Lyon 16 man defense. If he can't kick goals at least he found a place where he could cause them (3 of his 8 touches were clangers).
As Forest Gump might have said of Kersten this year, his games were like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get (Gump was too stupid to look at the box where it tells you exactly what you're gonna get). I guess melting under pressure is part of the deal too.
Fun fact: Kersten was named after a 1953 movie starring Alan Ladd which became the benchmark for all Westerns to follow.
Shane, congratulations of getting to Fremantle to play with your best mate, Joel Hamling. Welcome to the Bottom 50 for 2017.
Deserved inclusion. Missed his incredible ability to fumble and kicking “skills” that make Taylor Adams look like Darren Jarman but I’ll give it a solid 8/10 (unlike most of Trav’s work)Player 41 - Travis Colyer
Pictured: Travis concentrates intently during the falcon training drill
Travis Colyer is a 175cm, 75kg player for Essendon proving they've stopped giving some of their players the weird Mexican stuff Danky found at a garage sale.
Described as "speedy", Travis does have pace. He utilizes this pace during games to run to locations on the field where the ball isn't. Despite years of solid leadership* at Tullamarine, nobody has bothered correcting this flaw.
An early second round pick in the 2009 draft, Travis is described as forward although he did play on the wing a fair bit this year. Managing 11 effective disposals per game and about half a goal, Colyer is the type of guy that would get forgotten in team photos and then given the label "not pictured" when it comes out because it's too much effort to get the team together again, especially at a club like Essendon where some of their best work is 'off-site' anyway.
Capable of a decent game here and there, in fairness to Travis he did manage to curtail the influence of Andrew "hardman" Gaff in one game against the Weagles. Opposite this, he went unsighted in his second game against Brisbane and was very poor against perennial finals chokers Adelaide and Geelong.
His name has already been thrown up in trade discussions on the Essendon board, which is a place that has a similar grip on reality as Belle Gibson. Not a bad analogy really considering her penchant for alternatives to 'traditional medicine', her lying, her undue media attention and word has it her unit has a spongey floor too. On top of all that she was fined for dodgy practices. Ta da.
The words that would describe Trav are 'ineffective' or 'inconsequential'. The best word to describe him is 'in', as in 'in the Bottom 50 for 2017'.
