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Buckley is my hero said:
Pendlebury is arguably our greatest ever player. If it wasn’t for the screw up transition in coaching from Mick Malthouse to Nathan Buckley, Pendlebury would be a triple premiership player. Instead he had to wait till the end of his career to secure a second premiership medal. Having said that Pendlebury is only human, like the rest of us. You can’t fight off Father Time. It gets to us all. I want to remember the way he was, not the way he is today chasing GWS players half his age around a football field. I wish he would retire now and go assistant coaching at another club before he takes on a senior coaching job in the next five years. He owes to himself to follow his dream and coach another AFL club.
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Play him sub - he'll kill it if he comes on fresh with lots of others running being brought down to his level.
 
manicmagpie said:
Yeah, imagine it’s the last quarter on grand final day at the end of the longest season ever and it’s [emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]] degrees, you really think the oldest player on the field is going to be the one dominating and securing the flag for us?

Oh, wait…
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What, so because he was able to do it at [emoji639][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]], he’ll also be able to do it at [emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]]? What about [emoji640][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]? Or [emoji640][emoji638]? Perhaps he should play until he’s [emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]?
 

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Re above post, unfortunately this is a problem with Tapatalk and it seems they are not in a hurry to fix it.

If you open a browser and go to BF website and post in there,, it doesn't seem to be a problem.
 
sr36 said:
Play him sub - he'll kill it if he comes on fresh with lots of others running being brought down to his level.
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That would be panicking. The “fresh runner” benefit that a sub has is more likely to be about an ability to “outspread”(ugh, what a term) the more tired opposition. For Pendles to do that as a sub the others would need to play about nine quarters of footy before he came on.

Pendles has never had explosive speed. His ability at stoppage has been ball reading and anticipation

Everyone looks slow when the other team kills them with pressure.

Need to see more than one game.


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sideswipe said:
That would be panicking. The “fresh runner” benefit that a sub has is more likely to be about an ability to “outspread”(ugh, what a term) the more tired opposition. For Pendles to do that as a sub the others would need to play about nine quarters of footy before he came on.

Pendles has never had explosive speed. His ability at stoppage has been ball reading and anticipation

Everyone looks slow when the other team kills them with pressure.

Need to see more than one game.


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Ultimately, I don't think we can go in with Pendles, Sidey and Lippa side by side in the midfield if we want to defend fast breaks from the opposition. It's just too slow. The hardest running slingshot teams will exploit it. It's our Achilles heel.
 
Genuine question - going into the Giants game, would it have been intended that Pendlebury would attend [emoji638][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]] centre bounces ([emoji638] clearances, [emoji637] tackle) and Jack Crisp only three centre bounces, or did the coaching team just lose control of things under the pressure and injuries on the day?

(I’m not sure that either answer provides much comfort.)



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LuckyLee said:
What, so because he was able to do it at [emoji639][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]], he’ll also be able to do it at [emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]]? What about [emoji640][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]? Or [emoji640][emoji638]? Perhaps he should play until he’s [emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]?
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The point is that Pendles has always been an endurance runner, not a sprinter. The season is always at its fastest in the first couple of rounds and always settles down for the long slog, which is where I'm confident Pendles will continue to show his worth.

There's some hysterical "We can't let the children see him this way" commentary on here that makes Pendles sound like a great grandparent with a terminal illness. We need to see what happens in other conditions and in games where the whole team doesn't misfire before we start booking him a one way flight to a Swiss clinic.
 
manicmagpie said:
The point is that Pendles has always been an endurance runner, not a sprinter. The season is always at its fastest in the first couple of rounds and always settles down for the long slog, which is where I'm confident Pendles will continue to show his worth.

There's some hysterical "We can't let the children see him this way" commentary on here that makes Pendles sound like a great grandparent with a terminal illness. We need to see what happens in other conditions and in games where the whole team doesn't misfire before we start booking him a one way flight to a Swiss clinic.
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LuckyLee said:
We all love Pendles but, realistically, who’s more likely to fade over a season - a player in late-[emoji639][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]’s or mid-[emoji638][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]’s?


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I think the way Pendlebury looks after himself generally means that he is able to maintain his level better than most younger players. He takes his recovery very seriously. Most young players don't.
 
Pleasedontfail11 said:
I think the way Pendlebury looks after himself generally means that he is able to maintain his level better than most younger players. He takes his recovery very seriously. Most young players don't.
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So what? To this day, Greg Norman looks after himself better than most current tour golfers. But he ceased being able to compete with them 25 years ago. All professional athletes have an expiry date.


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LuckyLee said:
So what? To this day, Greg Norman looks after himself better than most current tour golfers. But he ceased being able to compete with them 25 years ago. All professional athletes have an expiry date.


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True, but Pendles isn’t there yet.
 

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jmac[emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji639]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]] said:
True, but Pendles isn’t there yet.
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I actually agree with you. I’m angry that Fly & Co put him in the position of having to attend twenty centre bounces. I mean, WTF! It was appalling coaching.

If we expect, or need, Scott Pendlebury at age thirty-eight to be our most prominent midfielder, then we are truly stuffed.

What the hell did we spend the off-season working on? Surely it can’t have been that?


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sideswipe said:
So it’s only [emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]][emoji639]]LuckyLee who has the pox


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I have no idea how to fix this problem so I’ve reverted to typing numbers in word form to get around the poxus numericus.


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Fat Jesus said:
Pendles will end up having a great year.
He will know when it's time to give the game up.
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You are god's own son. Ffs you have nailed it. Pendles is not like any other male crittur that ever walked the earth, dude recognises his limitations/ageing and will happily pass the batton on. Anychance we can take what Pendles has an inject it into the pestilence that is running lose on the world? Near dead and still trying to prove something.

No offense intended weighty son of the great one. I just think it is reasonable to expect Pendles will try and ekk out everything he can from what is likely to be one of the greatest football careers ever. I would be disappointed if he didn't. I would expect with his mentality and drive that his belief would extend beyond reality. It has already extended what most expected. The assumption that he will overcome what the vast majority of humans can't is a burden a champion like Pendles should not have to bear. I am pretty sure the pies and fly are professional enough to recognise this and would have already had plans and a discussion with Pendles.

His retirement is a non-issue. He will give it his all this year and is not going to be last picked, thats all we need to know.
 

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