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Great work 57
Grand Uncle Horace
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... and I must say "I do not believe he exists - Ling" has elite skills
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Take a bow Brewer (academy). Wonderful effort and effective smother.
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Done nothing
Odds for Ling to play a senior game?
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Limited vision with which to go by but from what I’ve seen he has composure, generally a very good decision maker and he is a “creative” kick of the ball.
By creative I mean (not so much today) the way he is able to almost deliberately kick the ball off the side of the boot to hit angles. He showed it playing juniors too. I don’t think we have another player on our list that can do that.
Looking forward to him getting more games under his belt.
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Grand Uncle Horace
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Blakey having a rest... done a bit...needs to recover and fire up in the 2nd half
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Just went in there. Was forward
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Just went onto the ball in spurts towards the end there.
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9/4 on
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Not anytime soon I wouldn’t have thought. Still getting his feel for the game back but you can see what he is able to offer.
Loves a tackle too. Can see him eventually becoming outside/inside as he doesn’t shirk the contest and earlier backed himself into a marking contest (and came off second best).
Grand Uncle Horace
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Have I misunderstood your post? I was most impressed by how the Kid read the ball and put in
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You have. I like him.
(Limited vision is OF Ling from my perspective, not a flaw for Ling, but I see how you read it that way).
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This was a good mark by Academy player Pawle in 1st qtr
Grand Uncle Horace
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Otherwise I can see Horsey debuting Ling in the back pocket as a long term replacement for Smith. "If only he would kick it sideways or preferably backwards." said a certain Clydesdale.
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Yes it was
Grand Uncle Horace
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No problems young fellow.
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I can see Ling playing better at the highest level, it’s easy to see why we selected him when we did. He is one player that has class written all over him in my opinion!
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He looks too creative for that, even Horse would recognise that...
Wing or half back I would expect. We will want to get the ball into his hands.
Grand Uncle Horace
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His ball use is so good, I fear he will be used just in returning the ball from when it goes over the goal umps hat.
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I don’t mind the look of Reynolds either. He is raw and a ways off senior football, but he looked pretty quick and he competes. Skills and decision making look good too.
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Blakey starting the third in the middle.
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And bang!
