If Robbie has "the eye" and can snare us another Butters or two, he gets legendary status!
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It doesn't take a great eye, it just takes the ability to ignore recruiting biases that favour certain types of players over certain other types of players, often without good justification.
Just how much of the ball did Tayla Walker get? Admittedly I only watched the last 2 and half quarters, but I only saw him a couple of times. The amount of people I've heard say "Tex is back" is astounding. From memory I saw him take 1 mark and kick 1 goal.
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That’s more than he did in every single game last year so technically the commentary you’re hearing is correct.
I think the first 3 times he touched the ball he got caught holding the ball. Also gave away a blatant 50 metre that led to a goal for us.
He's back as comic relief - but then he never really went away
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If Tex's turnover in the middle of the ground for a goal to us counts as him being back, i'm all for it.
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The pumping of Ted's tyres is so bizarre. I can't tell if its due to pity or commentators having a working relationship with him.
Much more talented, much more likeable guys have been afforded half the praise he gets for his utterly diminished abilities.
Much more talented, much more likeable guys have been afforded half the praise he gets for his utterly diminished abilities.
For those writing off Hammer. This was two games ago:
PORT ADELAIDE 2.1 4.2 7.4 9.4 (58)
GEELONG 1.4 3.7 4.8 5.12 (42)
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Port Adelaide: Rockliff, Powell-Pepper, Ebert, Motlop, Wines, Hartlett, Butters
He was incredible that game. Will take more than a couple of errors in the prelim and a patchy scratch match to recommend putting him out to pasture for mine.
PORT ADELAIDE 2.1 4.2 7.4 9.4 (58)
GEELONG 1.4 3.7 4.8 5.12 (42)
BEST
Port Adelaide: Rockliff, Powell-Pepper, Ebert, Motlop, Wines, Hartlett, Butters
He was incredible that game. Will take more than a couple of errors in the prelim and a patchy scratch match to recommend putting him out to pasture for mine.
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Can remember Butters being a very popular call on this board with our 3rd selection pre draft. Robbie was smart enough to talk everyone into not taking any chances.
If he was rated outside the top 25 due to his size then every recruiter in the country should be sacked. Fact is he wasn't, he was rated in top 10-20 spots and I'm glad we picked him up. I doubt there would be 5 better players then Zak out of that draft, or 5 players who have performed better then Zak from that draft.
It wasn't a reach to get him when we did, we did well to get him before anyone else did. Credit where it's due for that to.
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I thought he had a reasonable season last year. He provided a cool head to the defence. At times though (like the Richmond final), it looked like he was struggling to keep up with the pace of the game.
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Was predicted to get picked in the 15-30 range so pick 14 is hardly a reach.
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DRAFT ANALYSIS: “A classy player who while lightly built, has fantastic athleticism and vision to impact a contest.”
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Every game Tex plays is one more game the franchise is likely to lose and one less game they get in to a player with potential.
TEX IS BACK BIG TIME!! SPREAD THE WORD!
His ratio of effort to pay scale paints him as a lazy comfortable thief. Your right I hope they keep blowing smoke up his arse.
Was predicted to get picked in the 15-30 range so pick 14 is hardly a reach.
Zak Butters
DRAFT ANALYSIS: “A classy player who while lightly built, has fantastic athleticism and vision to impact a contest.”
Zak went at #12, but 'looking back in hindsight', there's no one who went after him that's any better performed so far, and a few that went before him that haven't been anywhere near as good.
2018 AFL draft - Wikipedia
Zak went at #12, but 'looking back in hindsight', there's no one who went after him that's any better performed so far, and a few that went before him that haven't been anywhere near as good.
2018 AFL draft - Wikipedia
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Outside the Crows spudinskis, that top 20 looks wild.
The funny thing is that the best player they got from the 2018 draft (at least on form so far) was drafted to GWS.
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lol, missed that he went at 12 and not 14 as the poster I replied to claimed. Still not a reach though.Zak went at #12, but 'looking back in hindsight', there's no one who went after him that's any better performed so far, and a few that went before him that haven't been anywhere near as good.
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Interestingly pick 14 was Jackson Hately who played for the Camry Crows on Saturday after being drafted to GWS.
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Put him in charge of the young and the homesick I say.
Btw I definitely remember when Zak was drafted after jumping around my room celebrating for a while I came on here and mentioned how happy I was that we had taken him as a great reach and the response from others was that it wasn't a reach at all.
bloody rapt how it turned out.
The fact that we deliberately traded into the first round to 'target' Butters, Duursma, Rozee is impressive.
That move going after draftees takes massive balls and Parker legitimately saved this club from completely bottoming out.
That move going after draftees takes massive balls and Parker legitimately saved this club from completely bottoming out.
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Zak went at #12, but 'looking back in hindsight', there's no one who went after him that's any better performed so far, and a few that went before him that haven't been anywhere near as good.
2018 AFL draft - Wikipedia
In hindsight there’s probably no one taken ahead of him that’s been in an AA squad yet either.
(No fact checking done on my part)
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