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Something like that.
MRP / Trib. NicNat Watch. Tribunal Edition
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I dunn
Allen gives us a lot of mobility around the ground.NN could do the JD forward rucking thing.Hickey will stay at No1 ruck no doubt.Nobody else could shoulder his workload.Waterman? Sorry mate!
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If Naitanui gets back, he's the No 1 ruck. Don't even. Look at the rucks available to Geelong, Brisbane and Richmond. They have no way to deal with Naitanui.I dunn
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I have another alternate view on Nic Nat and what he does for the team. Moving on from all the superlatives etc.
This won't be popular and it will be taken in the wrong way.
Because he is so dominating, our mids become lazy waiting for the easy tap. The opposition forget about their ruckman winning and instead set up defensively to shark our taps and sit on our mids until they turn it over.
This won't be popular and it will be taken in the wrong way.
Because he is so dominating, our mids become lazy waiting for the easy tap. The opposition forget about their ruckman winning and instead set up defensively to shark our taps and sit on our mids until they turn it over.
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Thanks gunnar. Where exactly did I say that.
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Simple question but for some unkown reason you like getting your knickers in a not.
Try again.
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What's the question?
The addition of Naitanui immediately makes us a more effective clearance side. On the other hand, "our midfielders become lazy".
Really? You post that and don't expect to be ridiculed?
Naitanui immediately makes us more potent. We become more damaging from stoppages and he brings extra physical pressure around the contest. And he's another roadblock when teams go long down the line. But nah, "our mids get lazy". Of course they do. Cutting edge stuff.
Go have another vodka + red bull.
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Look at the way people internalise tabloid/online framing.
Everyone knows Naitanui is awesome and influential.
But let's say something contrary, even if it's nonsense, because people will at least engage with it, if only to disagree and ridicule it. And that's actually more than you'll get if you just say something sensible that most people know to be obviously true. Look at the way nonsense is incentivised. All you need is someone willing to peddle it.
Everyone knows Naitanui is awesome and influential.
But let's say something contrary, even if it's nonsense, because people will at least engage with it, if only to disagree and ridicule it. And that's actually more than you'll get if you just say something sensible that most people know to be obviously true. Look at the way nonsense is incentivised. All you need is someone willing to peddle it.
Whoops- 2016. Really put a hole in us though
2016 was seen as a massive let down after 2015, but we still finished 16-6 @ 130% That would be top 2 this year (and probably most years)
There are the people who do know this explicitly, and the people who try to argue otherwise but know it deep down.
And then, there are still plenty of deadset imbeciles who measure impact on a game by DT points and number of marks per game.
Personally I think there's a bit of truth in what Candiru says as do think our mids sit on their laurels a bit at times when Nic is playing. Noticed the workrate of the mids fell off a bit when Nic played those couple of games.
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