Delisted Paddy McCartin

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Dat grab.

Spoiler

Put spoiler tags in cos it's hella slow!

 

[joop]

Already averages more marks and disposals than the Million Dollar Baby Boyd.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Already averages more marks and disposals than the Million Dollar Baby Boyd.

Less Falcons but

 

[Kilroy]

 

[CHBench]

 

[joop]

You can see his confidence growing, he's going to explode at some point this year.

 

[Dr Spaceman]

You can see his confidence growing, he's going to explode at some point this year.

And when that happens, so will we

 

[King_Steele]

http://www.saints.com.au/video/2016-05-10/mccartin-vfl-round-5

Kicked 2 goals in a promising display.

 

[King_Steele]

WOW. What a game from Paddy.



Paddy McCartin:
K H D M G B
9 2 11 10 2 1

http://www.saints.com.au/video/2016-05-22/postmatch-paddy-mccartin-rd-9


2016 Statistical Rankings

Ranked 15th in Marks Inside 50 Per Game

Ranked 9th among rising stars in Total Goals

Ranked 5th among rising stars in Total Contested Marks

Ranked 3rd among rising stars in Total Marks Inside 50

Ranked 4th among rising stars in Marks Per Game

Ranked 8th among rising stars in Goals Per Game

Ranked 2nd among rising stars in Contested Marks Per Game

Ranked 2nd among rising stars in Marks Inside 50 Per Game

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

A lot of cliches in that interview but I enjoyed 'We're all pretty good mates [him, Skunk and Bruce] the three of us, so was really good to get on the end of a few together'. 'I loved every minute of it [playing with them]'

Good to hear. I reckon those three might play a few games together in the next few years.

 

[goodie23]

Had to be done

 

[Sir Skid]

Paddy growing every game before our eyes.

Has a lot more strings to his bow than I first thought. His awareness is just sublime at times and already playing well beyond his years.

#Dermthegerm you look foolish and I love that

 

[bird_man]

Big story in today's Herald Sun for Paddy fans, is someone able to cut and paste it?

 

[saintbatty]

Big story in today's Herald Sun for Paddy fans, is someone able to cut and paste it?

Paddy McCartin showing why St Kilda chose him with No.1 draft pick as marking becomes biggest asset

May 31, 2016 7:30pm

JON RALPH Herald Sun

PADDY McClunk.

Clunky McClunk.

Or just maybe Buckets Junior.

Only 12 games into his AFL career, St Kilda’s No.1 pick Paddy McCartin is already being apportioned new nicknames by the week.

All of them centre around his phenomenal ability to pluck the ball from the sky in the manner so many try but few can master.

St Kilda’s social media team hashtags most of his photos with that one-word description: Clunk.

It is exactly what came to mind when he went back crazy-brave with the flight into a pack of five players against Collingwood and snaffled the one-grab mark.

Or when the game was on the line against Hawthorn in Round 4 and he destroyed a pack of five players with 3.45 left on the clock.

When the dust settled Paddy was left standing after another huge clunk, his matchwinning shot at goal just failing to come back with the breeze.

After spending large chunks of the first three quarters on the bench McCartin’s huge last quarter against Fremantle helped haul his side across the line.

He is far from the perfect package, but impatient fans who wondered if he would make it are suddenly swallowing their words.

The club that brought you rare contested marking freaks in Tony Lockett and Stewart “Buckets” Loewe and Nick Riewoldt, has another rolling off the procession line.

All weekend the football media forensically discussed ducking and concussions and tanking and goalkicking conversion rates.

Stewart Loewe was known for his incredible marking ability.

Yet there is still room in football to draw breath and just wonder at the majesty of a player’s innate skill as we think ahead to the player he might become.

High marking is still the game’s greatest gift, and in McCartin St Kilda fans have a master of the craft.

From the same player who fans wondered last year might be a bit slow, a bit limited, a bit too stocky, a bit one-dimensional.

After 490 contested marks as a fellow Geelong Falcon, Brisbane legend Jon Brown knows a little about one-grab marking.

“I watched him live on Sunday and he is a better athlete than I thought. He has got that jumping ability and he can twist his body in the air,’’ he said.

“He has a good awareness of where his body is in space and that’s imperative for a good contested mark.

“You need to have a presence in a pack and he has got that in spades.

“I watched him live on Sunday and he is a better athlete than I thought. He has got that jumping ability and he can twist his body in the air." - Jonathan Brown

“He is a big lump of a lad and he needs to be chiselled up a bit more, but he has the rare ability to come in straight away and want the footy and want to put the game on his shoulders.”

Brown says one-grab contested marking is almost impossible to learn.

“Guys like (Fremantle’s) Matty Taberner, he is developing but he drops too many marks at the moment. It’s hard to teach that rare ability to go clunk with a one-touch mark,” he said.

Geelong Falcons football director Michael Turner said the Saints had a special player on their hands.

“With his diabetes it used to happen with us and it would be with St Kilda as well, sometimes things can happen where he has a bit of an incident and need to get his sugar levels up,” Turner said.

“He tests himself quite often and pricks his finger and it’s a mental and physical distraction, but he manages that so well.”

Jeremy Cameron seems to contort his body into a marking contest before exploding to play on once he hits the ground.

Joe Daniher extends his two metre frame to its highest point to soar to a point where his defender cannot hope to stop him.

McCartin, like Loewe before him, seems to grip the ball with such force it seems to squeeze all life out of it.

“He is probably a bit more mobile than Loewe,” says Brown.

“It would surprise you how well he covers the ground. But if he ended up taking as many marks and kicking as many goal as Stewie, I think everyone at St Kilda would be pretty happy.”

 

[King_Steele]

Paddy's 2016 summary:

Games: 11

Goals: 14

Averaged 7 disposals, 4 marks & 1 goal, per game in 2016.

Season highlight: 11 disposals, 10 marks & 2 goals v Essendon, rnd 9 2016

Credit to 12Chill for the video



Apologies for not updating this thread in the second half of the year, SuperCoach got the better of me

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

While a five goal bag as a bottom age player in a critical national championships game stood out, a crunching contest in the dying seconds of the same game was equally as defining for St Kilda Recruiting and List Manager, Tony Elshaug.

The player was Paddy McCartin, and despite being ineligible for the draft in 2013, that contest put the wheels in motion for the Saints to utilise their prized No. 1 pick on the Geelong Falcons product 12 months later.

“When he kicked five goals as a 17-year-old in the national championships down in Geelong that was a defining moment – that’s rare to see a player do that,” Elshaug told saints.com.au ahead of Friday’s National Draft in Sydney.

“There was a moment late in the game where he drove through for a low ground ball and he had massive impact on the contest, breaking someone’s collarbone and it was a moment you went: ‘Oh wow, did you see that?’

“It was just a ruthless contest and it was made even more impressive by the fact he was a bottom-ager that year.”

http://www.saints.com.au/news/2016-11-24/recruiting-tales-paddy-mccartin

 

[Persevering Saint]

The game was poised and ready
When he led to the pocket
The ball was placed before him
He rose up like a rocket
He marked, then kicked for goal
The Saints' beloved son
And before the crowd could blink
Paddy had got one

He prowled the fifty metre arc
Like a bear out on the hunt
He wrestled with the backman
Got himself into the front
He marked the ball one handed
As only he could do
He smiled and walked back to kick
And Paddy had got two

The next came in a blur
As he dove out to his right
Getting to the foot of the ball
The crowd oohed at the sight
Dancing, weaving, laughing
He got himself all free
He ran, he snapped, and we all watched
As Paddy'd just got three

His eye was sharp, his mind was quick
He treated backs like boulders
He saw the ball sail in the air
And leapt upon their shoulders
None could stop him, none deny him
As up, and up, he'd soar
He marked, he kicked, the backs' heads fell
For Paddy had kicked four

They tried to double-team him
But he just burst the pack
He tapped it to the crumbers
Who noticed him run back
They passed the ball right back to him
So quick the backmen missed
Before they knew it, off he'd gone
Paddy had his fifth

The opposition hung their heads
Their hopes had all been sunk
By this boy once from the Falcons
Now the man, called Clunk McClunk
The siren rang, and we smiled sadly
For we realised we'd been starting
To see the legend born before our eyes
The one and only, the McCartin.

 

[Persevering Saint]

http://www.saints.com.au/news/2017-02-20/he-hasnt-missed-a-beat

'He hasn’t missed a beat'

St Kilda key forward Josh Bruce says his partner in crime Paddy McCartin has put together an impressive pre-season on the track, following an injury-plagued 2016.

The highly rated McCartin endured an arduous second season in the game, with three separate concussions and a broken collarbone marring his year...

 

[George]

The game was poised and ready
When he led to the pocket
The ball was placed before him
He rose up like a rocket
He marked, then kicked for goal
The Saints' beloved son
And before the crowd could blink
Paddy had got one

He prowled the fifty metre arc
Like a bear out on the hunt
He wrestled with the backman
Got himself into the front
He marked the ball one handed
As only he could do
He smiled and walked back to kick
And Paddy had got two

The next came in a blur
As he dove out to his right
Getting to the foot of the ball
The crowd oohed at the sight
Dancing, weaving, laughing
He got himself all free
He ran, he snapped, and we all watched
As Paddy'd just got three

His eye was sharp, his mind was quick
He treated backs like boulders
He saw the ball sail in the air
And leapt upon their shoulders
None could stop him, none deny him
As up, and up, he'd soar
He marked, he kicked, the backs' heads fell
For Paddy had kicked four

They tried to double-team him
But he just burst the pack
He tapped it to the crumbers
Who noticed him run back
They passed the ball right back to him
So quick the backmen missed
Before they knew it, off he'd gone
Paddy had his fifth

The opposition hung their heads
Their hopes had all been sunk
By this boy once from the Falcons
Now the man, called Clunk McClunk
The siren rang, and we smiled sadly
For we realised we'd been starting
To see the legend born before our eyes
The one and only, the McCartin.

Incredible mate

 

[Persevering Saint]

http://www.saints.com.au/news/2017-02-28/mccartin-has-laid-the-foundations-says-membrey

McCartin has laid the foundations says Membrey

"Mobile key forward Tim Membrey is confident fellow spearhead Paddy McCartin has given himself the best chance to make an impact this season by compiling a strong pre-season on the track.

McCartin, 20, played 11 games in his second season in 2016, although despite showing glimpses of brilliance, the 2014 No. 1 pick endured an injury-riddled year with concussion issues and a broken collarbone holding him back.

But after weaving session after session together this summer, Membrey believes the Geelong Falcons product is ready to roam further up the ground in 2017 and provide a strong leading target to hit..."

 

[Persevering Saint]

Observations by some posters of Paddy's game, during the JLT game versus Carlton:

McCartin is playing well. If our delivery to him had been slightly better he would be dominating imo

McCartin controlling 60 arc at will

12 marks for Paddy, wonderful.

After the game:

McCartin 18 disposals 12 marks 1... Can't ask for much more!

When the game fell apart it was McCartin and Wright who really stood out.

If Members and Paddy can move around the ground more Bruce becomes a very dangerous forward again. Paddy is a bit of a Cloke on goal at times it seems where the hard looks easy and the easy looks hard, they are perfect for CHF as the kicking on goal is usually in a lower percentage spot anyway and just dropping it in the hotspot is enough to help score a goal. It seems logical to me.

McCartin: Moved really well this game and the previous one. It's good to see him with a bigger engine this year as he was doing a great job of playing that CHF role. Only thing is when he plays deep he tends to mark the ball 45+ out instead of pushing back to the square and leading making him only 35-40 out.

Big Paddy Mac with 8 inside 50s, was surprised that he has the level of fitness required to roam all over the ground like he was.

Really mobile today. He looks a lot better when he moves up the ground and he can get on the long lead. Still gets led to the ball by his opponent a bit when he plays deep

Paddy marking it all over the ground. Good to see him covering more territory. Would loved for him to kick a bag himself but understand he played a more roaming role.

One of the things that really stood out for me, was the switch from last year of Bruce and Paddy. Bruce is so much more comfortable in and around goal where he can lead and double back. Paddy today though was super impressive, especially after half time, with his capacity to push outside the 50m and take the important grab before forward entry. 12 marks outstanding and at a guess 6-7 inside 50's.

Bruce and Paddy moved beautifully today. Bruce is showing signs that he will be another "run defenders off their feet" forward in the Roo mould and will give plenty of space for the more naturally talented Paddy to work. Could be a scary good forward line in the future.

 

[Persevering Saint]

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2017/03/06/mccartin-to-spend-more-time-up-the-ground-says-teammate/

McCartin to spend more time up the ground says teammate

“On the weekend I played a little bit deeper than Paddy, he came up for the ball really well and took a game-high 12 marks on the lead.

“He’s pretty much unstoppable on the lead…He’s a beautiful field kick.

“He just seems a natural fit around the centre half-forward area. In today’s modern game you have got to get up and back so it will be good to work with him over the next couple of years.”

 

[King_Steele]

Great job Perse

 

[Brains Trust66]

Any idea on how Paddy went today in the practice match ? If he played , Richo said he was going to . Hope he played well for Sandy so he's straight back in the seniors next week.


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[Dr Spaceman]

Any idea on how Paddy went today in the practice match ? If he played , Richo said he was going to . Hope he played well for Sandy so he's straight back in the seniors next week.


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Kicked 3 - didn't play full game

Check out Sandy thread for more info