Toast Rory Sloane- 2013 Club Champion

[StonesThrow]

I agree both Laird and Brown, for the most part, fared better with the ball in hand than restricting their opponents goal scoring output. They both had good and bad games in that respect and Laird more so than Brown needs to work on his positioning a bit.

In saying all that I think they were both pretty unlucky this season with the amount of turnovers and quick rebounding the opposition seemed be able to constantly execute with ease. This allowed them to be caught out easily and gifted many more goals to the small forwards than they deserved.

You would have to be blind to not notice that they both have strong 1 on 1 capabilities. It has been rare the last few seasons that everyone is confident in our small defenders going into the future. So that says something.

 

[lunacy]

Imagin if we get Betts in FA period, we would actually go into next year with very little fear about our small forwards and small defenders for the first time in AFC history.

 

[SnookAU]

http://www.afc.com.au/news/2013-09-07/from-tears-to-triumph-sloane - Interview is awesome.

Notables.

Smack is staying 100%.
Rory is desperate to never leave now, after crying drunk in the toilet to his bro when drafted saying he didn't want to go to adelaide
VB is captain next year.

 

[Golumless]

http://www.afc.com.au/news/2013-09-07/from-tears-to-triumph-sloane - Interview is awesome.

Notables.

Smack is staying 100%.
Rory is desperate to never leave now, after crying drunk in the toilet to his bro when drafted saying he didn't want to go to adelaide
VB is captain next year.

Think your taking what he is saying on face value.

Remember Sloane works with these guys and is going to give them the benefit of the doubt, he isn't going to say "Oh Smack absolutely hates Adelaide and want to go home" or "You know what, i think VB is a terrible captain"

I do believe him when he says he doesn't want to leave because you can see that when he plays, he bleeds for the club.

 

[Sanders]

To see the true value of defensively minded players, B&F voting is a good place to start. These guys will rarely get Brownlow votes or media plaudits, but they are hugely valued internally when they do their job well. They'll rarely actually win a B&F, but there are probably very few people outside of Crows die-hards who would have had Talia tied 3rd with Dangerfield and Luke Brown 6th in our B&F.

Van Berlo's performance in the B&F is incredibly telling.

This is exactly right

If a players performance in a role doesn't show up in the stats that's ok, the coaches recognise the job he does

If they don't rate the job he does, it becomes a little more difficult to defend

 

[skoobydoo]

Cameron ling just called and wanted to know why you never watched him play.

Touch'e.......Tell Lingy I really liked his work

 

[Allefgib]

Touch'e.......Tell Lingy I really liked his work

I couldn't really get a word in around him rambling on about how Sam Jacobs would play better standing on his head. ..