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Probably the two most maligned players at the club now. Both seem to be vying for one position next year. Who's the better player?

If you could only pick one in the 22 who'd it be? Why?

I'd take NLM over Slatts any day of the week. :thumbsu:
 
I think Slatts shows more courage and possibly a better work-rate, however at his best NLM shows more run and confidence. At this stage I would take Slatts as NLM is often too un-disciplined.
 

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kelvin_sheedy said:
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Frees Against:

Slatts 35
NLM 31
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Without knowing the stats, I would say off the top of my head that more of NLM's free kicks are quite avoidable and often a sign of frustration, whereas Slatts are 'professional free kicks'. That's how I see the two players anyway, could be wrong.
 
Slatts by quite a long way. I had a go at Knights earlier in the year for signing him onto a 2 year contract, i thought he may be a chance to be delisted. Once again, our brilliant new coach has fooled me. Slatts does the job on small forwards for us, if anything we need another Slattery type. As for Lovett-Murray, as the season went on he just went further and further downhill. And i'm not just referring to the Saints match, he shouldn't have played on Riewoldt and i think just about everyone knows that. But i can't see any place for him downback, too soft for the big forwards, not agile enough for the small. And we are tall enough down forward. Get a decent offer for him, i'd be trading him.
 
Slattery.

main reason being simply because he was the person that made every other essendon player feel compeled to win the 2nd carlton match this year :D
 
Slattery.

Always gives his all, never afraid to cop a knock, doesn't go missing, and actually knows how to play as a defender (even if he doesn't always get the job done, but then when Essendon are playing terrible footy we have a habit of allowing plenty of inside 50's to the opposition, so it isn't always the defenders fault.)

Having said that he still gives away too many frees, but he has slowly improved this year. I have been a critic of his at various times but he is still young and always looks like he is trying to improve so while he may not be our best player he still has time to grow and mature. NLM on the other hand...
 
Slattery. Lovett-Murray's best game of the season was against Hawthorn. If he played like that a high percentage of the time this thread wouldn't even be a contest, unfortunately his best is rarely ever seen. Slattery is younger, has greater consistency and is the gutsier of the two.
 

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Slattery is our in our 18 unless we decide to move either Welsh or McVeigh back to defence (or someone else comes along), which I doubt will happen. He has a lot of good qualities (courage, sacrifices his game for the team etc) but quite a few weaknesses too (lack of pace, often concedes a few goals). He's still young so has plenty of improvement left in him I hope.

NLM is more talented, but I don't know if he has a position now. His run out of defence is fantastic, and he can do a decent job on mid size, average forwards, but if he's ever matched up to stars he usually gets well beaten. He is also very dangerous up forward but we hardly ever use him there anymore.

In short I think NLM is better but more expendable. I'd like to see him used off the bench next season as a utility. He's the type who could regularly spark us and not having him regularly going up against gun forwards would rid us of his main weakness.
 
Spikey said:
Oh and:



Wouldn't Nat-Rat be fighting with Pears and others for the 3rd tall spot? Not the small defender spot....
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I think NLM's best footy is when he plays on someone smaller or of similar size. He's been asked to do some tough jobs on bigger guys this year and has found it very difficult. I have a feeling that a Pears or even McPhee will play back next year leaving one defensive spot open for them two.

NLM has dominated at times this year down back whereas Slattery best has been to break even with opponents.

I'm surprised a lot of picked Slatts. I would have thought that NLM is a fair way ahead of him.
 
Slattery for mine. He is courageous, hard at the ball and a good defender. He has decent skills and disposal and although giving away to many free kicks they are mainly due to professional free kicks and the fact that the ball is coming into our defensive 50 that much there is alot more pressure on him. He is good enough to get a run around in the midfield to add a bit more steal around the contested footy on occasions. He is still young and can only improve. This year we were dominated by the small fowards and the role he will be play on these small fowards will be so important in the coming years.

NLM although skillfull and provides much needed run of half back, his defensive side is not that great. I believe Pears should be given a chance to cement the 3rd tall next season, and players such as dempsey, myers, slatts, nash, houli, etc can provide the run of half back. To mistake prone at times and although handy on our list, I would not be unhappy if he was traded for something ok to give some of our youngers guys a spot. Is not really going to be a player that will be in the defensive group to win our next premiership.
 
they are both in our best 22! nlm can player fwd aswell, we will need him if we dont recruit a KP back this year. he was always a fwd until sheedy threw him into defence a few years ago. slats is a tough courageous player who can play mid like welsh the tagging role.
 

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I think Slattery has lost his "maligned" tag with his excellent form this year. Very impressed by him.
 
henry slattery>>nathan lovett-murray
 
cbf doing this, but:
Henry Slattery > times infinity Nathan Lovett-Murray
 

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