... gonna get it 25 times,
like he does every week.
like he does every week.
-
Mobile App Discontinued
Due to a number of factors, support for the current BigFooty mobile app has been discontinued. Your BigFooty login will no longer work on the Tapatalk or the BigFooty App - which is based on Tapatalk.
Apologies for any inconvenience. We will try to find a replacement.
Nick Stevens is...
- Thread starter Dooky
- Start date
- Tagged users None
🥰 Love BigFooty? Join now for free.
- Banned
- #102
Yeah with an Effective disposal rate of 43% like last week...
Sorry there champ,
what the **** does that mean?
Log in to remove this Banner Ad
It means out of his 20 possessions last week, only around 8 or 9 of them were effective...
He also had 4 clangers.. His disposal is so over rated its not funny... Hope that clears that up for ya..
Edit it was 45%.. But its still 11 possessions that were ineffective..
xxxx
No.
No.
You mean he's going to get it given to him 25 times.. He never goes and actually gets it..
Lets see if you can string more than 10 words together other than................
XXXX NO...
blue gunslinger
Hall of Famer
I did see him dive into the bag behind the goals for a kick out when a point was scored. Was an accident actually as he was having a bite of a pie from a fan in the cheer squad when some pastry fell down into the bag and you know what they say..waste not want not!You mean he's going to get it given to him 25 times.. He never goes and actually gets it..
Lets see if you can string more than 10 words together other than................
XXXX NO...
While I agree with much of what you have written, the bolded commment is no less emotive and overstating the case than those you wish to argue against.
Does he win a majority of hard ball? No. Is that his job? No.
I think Nick is having some trouble adjusting from life as the number 1 midfielder in an average side, and everyone looked to him to use the footy all the time.
Now, in the space of 1 year, he has gone from number 1 to number 4, with Judd, Murphy and Gibbs being the preferred options.
IMHO, rather than look upon this as an opportunity, to run "off the leash" and with less attention, Stevens without the expectation, has got a little lazy, and even his finishing skills now don't cover for his defensive problems.
Whether or not it relates to not getting the captaincy is another issue that may be realted as well, but he should have been coming into this season in the best shape ever, knowing that as the third or fourth midfielder, he could be back to his best "running and gunning" Port type footy.
Sadly, he presented overweight, got himself suspended, and proved why he was not the best choice for captain.
Off field I;m sure he is a nice bloke, but IMO for the sake of our team and for his future, he should be dropped - just to make it clear we expect so much more from him.......not in tackling and winnig hard ball (though that would be nice), but I'd just settle for the things we know is is good at......finishing with great skills.
Yep, agree with all that, including the point about being overemotional about the whole thing. Fact is, the guy 5hits me, he's syphoned millions out of this club and given us next to nothing IMO, he's even had the nerve to admit to not putting in in his time here so yeah, I do get a little angry.
thylacine60
Post-Human
- Banned
- #112
You mean he's going to get it given to him 25 times.. He never goes and actually gets it..
Lets see if you can string more than 10 words together other than................
XXXX NO...
You might want to get to know a few of your fellow posters writing styles before running off at the keyboard like that. Numbers can be genuinely cryptic when commenting (yeah ok, particularly at night) but he has as good a handle on the club's history as anyone and an acute holistic sense of the team's core issues.
I had to find my own Rosetta Stone in order to translate his words but you start to get a feel for it after a while.
You might want to get to know a few of your fellow posters writing styles before running off at the keyboard like that. Numbers can be genuinely cryptic when commenting (yeah ok, particularly at night) but he has as good a handle on the club's history as anyone and an acute holistic sense of the team's core issues.
I had to find my own Rosetta Stone in order to translate his words but you start to get a feel for it after a while.
Thy, its all cool and been sorted...
I will endeavour to check out the posting styles b4 I comment...But when it comes to Stevo.. Ive tolerated as much defending and excuses for him than I can take..
So I tend to bite a bit harder on this subject as Stevens friggen annoys me...
You mean he's going to get it given to him 25 times.. He never goes and actually gets it..
Lets see if you can string more than 10 words together other than................
XXXX NO...
You might want to get to know a few of your fellow posters writing styles before running off at the keyboard like that. Numbers can be genuinely cryptic when commenting (yeah ok, particularly at night) but he has as good a handle on the club's history as anyone and an acute holistic sense of the team's core issues.
I had to find my own Rosetta Stone in order to translate his words but you start to get a feel for it after a while.
Yeah numbers is succinct
No touch typing there - a typo could have got me a Red
thylacine60
Post-Human
- Banned
- #115
Thy, its all cool and been sorted...
But when it comes to Stevo.. Ive tolerated as much defending and excuses for him than I can take..
All good. He broke my brain too but ya gotta love him.
Whilst I think Stevo played Ok on the weekend.. We as a team had around 70 tackles on the weekend.. Stevens had ZERO out of that 70.. I know players can have Zero tackles at times, I just find it hard to beleive that midfielders can in 120 mins of footy.....
- Sep 26, 2004
- 48,833
- 66,154
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Moderator
- #117
Stevens was the only Carlton player not to lay a tackle on the weekend.
His role may have changed but that is still not good enough.
For a leader of this club he needs to lead by example, and he doesn't do that.
He could learn a thing or 3 from Scotland.
His role may have changed but that is still not good enough.
For a leader of this club he needs to lead by example, and he doesn't do that.
He could learn a thing or 3 from Scotland.
Blue Dawn
Norm Smith Medallist
I still shake my head in amazement at the number of people around here who actually thought Stevo should be captain.
🥰 Love BigFooty? Join now for free.
thylacine60
Post-Human
- Banned
- #120
Hand up over here. How wrong can you get? This bloke is in a season long sulk. Leader? Oh dear, Thy - you idiot.
How wrong can you get? This bloke is in a season long sulk. Leader? Oh dear, Thy - you idiot.
We all know Stevens isn't the sort of gang/crash/tackle type of player, and neither was other players from the club like Craig Bradley either ..
The club values leadership and on-field direction in qualities other then some of the things that other fans are complaining about with Stevo.
At his age and with recovering from that serious neck/spinal condition he had, i don't think he'll change his style of player, or become the hard-chasing/tackling sort of magnet that some fans want him to be, so complaining about it, won't do anything, I think we should just be more supportive of the bloke, whom really has given the club decent service ...
And saying he doesn't play for the club or the jumper (as some posters have infered) is just crazy talk ..
Instead of bad mouthing him all the time, lets try and focus on the good Stevo brings to the club, for instance he had 8 contested possies on the w/end, and as well he had 25 disposals at a higher effiency rate then Marc Murphy or Chris Judd.
He is still one of the best kicks/users of the pill at this club.
Some fans on this forum (and I have been one of them on other players) are very harsh markers IMHO.
The club values leadership and on-field direction in qualities other then some of the things that other fans are complaining about with Stevo.
At his age and with recovering from that serious neck/spinal condition he had, i don't think he'll change his style of player, or become the hard-chasing/tackling sort of magnet that some fans want him to be, so complaining about it, won't do anything, I think we should just be more supportive of the bloke, whom really has given the club decent service ...
And saying he doesn't play for the club or the jumper (as some posters have infered) is just crazy talk ..
Instead of bad mouthing him all the time, lets try and focus on the good Stevo brings to the club, for instance he had 8 contested possies on the w/end, and as well he had 25 disposals at a higher effiency rate then Marc Murphy or Chris Judd.
He is still one of the best kicks/users of the pill at this club.
Some fans on this forum (and I have been one of them on other players) are very harsh markers IMHO.
Wow I didnt realise that Stevens is useless to the CFC. Mayby i'm biased because he helped my dreamteam last year. With the venom on this thread from such expert posters I would suggest that someone call Ratts and tell him Stevens shouldn't be playing. He and the coaching staff have obviously missed watching him play due to undue focus on the rolling zone.
Beloved
Brownlow Medallist
I just happen to think Stevens is getting a very raw deal amongst many of the supporters here ...
He is getting a raw deal.
Disgraceful really.
The best kick in the side.
Great on both sides of the body.
Huge tank and quick.
He was made to beat the zone.