Player Watch Steele Sidebottom

[Markfs]

Looks cooked

yes cooked....done like a dinner.... maybe burnt around the edges. Done like a dinner. Should be served with fries and shipped out at the end of the year...

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

Having his best season for 2-3 years. Certain to be retained next year and make it to 300 games.. Will make an awesome super sub which could prolong him even further.

 

[jimmy35]

yes cooked....done like a dinner.... maybe burnt around the edges. Done like a dinner. Should be served with fries and shipped out at the end of the year...

He’s been a really important in a lot of our matches so far. Footy brain and cunning helping him make a valuable contribution.

 

[Gaspard]

He’s been a really important in a lot of our matches so far. Footy brain and cunning helping him make a valuable contribution.

He has played well and is not on the verge of being dropped. His good performances have been in games where he has been let run free, not something that will happen when the pressure goes on. Other teams have, like me, written him off a bit early and have not recognized that he still has to be actively closed down to render him ineffectual. His loss of pace and the mental pressure that puts him under when he gets the ball is the problem, and it is not solvable. His increased strength masks this a bit.

 

[Markfs]

I think he played on ed langdon

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Ed Langdon

Age

30

Ht

182cm

Wt

78kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.0

5star

K

12.1

4star

HB

9.0

5star

M

5.0

5star

T

2.3

4star

CL

1.4

4star

D

20.3

5star

K

12.8

5star

HB

7.5

4star

M

4.5

4star

T

0.8

1star

CL

1.8

4star

D

13.0

4star

K

6.4

3star

HB

6.6

4star

M

3.0

3star

T

2.4

4star

CL

0.6

3star

last week. They seemed to stay on the same side of the ground....and it seems tht langdon got 10 possessions for the game which seems a bit low for him. Maybe he took pity on steele, or maybe someone else in the pie's team was responsible for this........ I must admit that I'm nowhere as analytical as many here are about these things. They probably know why Langdon had no effect on the game.

 

[Timmy from Thomastown]

He’s been a really important in a lot of our matches so far. Footy brain and cunning helping him make a valuable contribution.

And a super low centre of gravity combined with strength, making it very difficult to tackle him successfully to draw a free kick. The best the opposition can usually can hope for when tackling sidey is to force a ball up, or let him get the possession away and try an win the ball back at the next contest.

 

[rand corp]

He's definitely lifted, maybe he saw the stop sign looming larger and had an epiphany, slammed it in reverse, lifted his game and bought himself more time.

doing PBs in the gym at his age suggests he's working harder off the field and wants another year. (Which he will certainly get on current form).

Another aspect, not factored in, is the getting used to Fly's game plan. Wings tend to play deep for most of the game, with a license to get forward when we swarm up the ground.

 

[adammania9]

I think he played on ed langdon last week. They seemed to stay on the same side of the ground....and it seems tht langdon got 10 possessions for the game which seems a bit low for him. Maybe he took pity on steele, or maybe someone else in the pie's team was responsible for this........ I must admit that I'm nowhere as analytical as many here are about these things. They probably know why Langdon had no effect on the game.

I watched a lot of the Langdon-Sidebottom matchup when I was at the game because I feared Langdon would hurt us the same way Bailey Smith did 5 weeks earlier. Sidey only gathered 11 touches but he was instrumental in minimising Langdon's influence on the game. I had him down as one of our best players on the day.

 

[Black_White]

He still runs both ways, harder and faster than many of his team mates.
In the DeGoey thread he was put up as an example of a player who transgressed when he was found “half naked” on the piss. During lockdown.
While that was inexcusable, it was one transgression in a career that includes a Premiership, AA selection, vice captain ship, taking unders to stay at Collingwood.
Compared to a player constantly embarrassing CFC, costing us a Premiership (watch the last four minutes GF 2018 carefully) and believing he is the new Dusty. When he clearly isn’t.
Sidey is Collingwood through and through. He still has more to give and while the club believe in him, he will give it.

 

[Rorzza]

Has been a special player for the Club, games played tally at CFC pushing up into rarefied air!

 

[rand corp]

A great Collingwood champion, he is playing the best footy he has produced for the last three seasons. Fly has got the wings and flanks working very well together, the teamwork, especially the running and defensive covering for each other between WHE and Steele yesterday, really was something to see.

 

[Pleasedontfail11]

I believe that Sidey still has it but he needs to be rested/made the supersub every 5 weeks or so just to keep him fresh. Hes not young and he covers so much ground playing the role he does.
Most of his best games were early in the season and today after the bye.

 

[Markfs]

vicky park made me drag this thread out of hte grave...

 

[left at home]

Why oh why

 

[JB1975]

Noticed he had his pants down again yesterday. The dirty bastard seemed to enjoy it, only pulled his shorts up with the greatest of reluctance.

Can't help himself. After nearly 280 games, you'd think he knows how to conduct himself with more maturity.

 

[jmac70]

Noticed he had his pants down again yesterday. The dirty bastard seemed to enjoy it, only pulled his shorts up with the greatest of reluctance.

Can't help himself. After nearly 280 games, you'd think he knows how to conduct himself with more maturity.

It was pants off Sunday.
Had mine off for most of the day too.

 

[DinoSoar]

Noticed he had his pants down again yesterday. The dirty bastard seemed to enjoy it, only pulled his shorts up with the greatest of reluctance.

Can't help himself. After nearly 280 games, you'd think he knows how to conduct himself with more maturity.

At least he was wearing jocks this time around

 

[JB1975]

At least he was wearing jocks this time around

Yep, but you could tell that he felt overdressed.

 

[Good Horse]

Sometimes pants just get in the way of how you are feeling. It is important to be able to express yourself, with or indeed sans pantalons. If you feel like a bit of a swing, go for it. I personally enjoy a good helicopter in mixed company, and who doesn't? If you have the rotor for it in any case, and not all do I know.

Think I need to go sculpt something now.

 

[jathanas]

Noticed he had his pants down again yesterday. The dirty bastard seemed to enjoy it, only pulled his shorts up with the greatest of reluctance.

Can't help himself. After nearly 280 games, you'd think he knows how to conduct himself with more maturity.

What I considered just as selfish is that he stubbornly refuses any form of hair removal. You can appreciate that the aesthetics were mildly unsettling.

 

[gerryg400]

Sometimes pants just get in the way of how you are feeling. It is important to be able to express yourself, with or indeed sans pantalons. If you feel like a bit of a swing, go for it. I personally enjoy a good helicopter in mixed company, and who doesn't? If you have the rotor for it in any case, and not all do I know.

Think I need to go sculpt something now.

Or avec pantalons?

 

[Good Horse]

Or avec pantalons?

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If I am going to succumb to the tyrrany of pants, I feel it is important to do so for the right reasons.

When attempting to convey a sense of appropriate gravitas, it can work.



But casual just makes me look like a moron Bulldogs supporter after a hard night on the turps

 

[Black_White]

Based on his current output he doesn’t deserve to wear the colours tbh - he won’t be at the club next year.

This post aged well.

 

[JoinDate]

If I am going to succumb to the tyrrany of pants, I feel it is important to do so for the right reasons.

When attempting to convey a sense of appropriate gravitas, it can work.

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But casual just makes me look like a moron Bulldogs supporter after a hard night on the turps

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Who stole gimpies jeans?

 

[Vicky Park]

vicky park made me drag this thread out of hte grave...