- Oct 7, 2012
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Look I love Bev as much as the next guy calling himself 'straight' should. In particular order, I love his guns, his delivering us a long awaited impossible flag, his craggy granite jaw, his love of his players, his Barret hatred, his self mown windswept surfer locks...
BUT
Bev does s**t sometimes that really annoys me.
Last year Bev played mid beast, Josh Dunkley (who is only a slightly better kick than his Dad - and that is really saying nothing good) forward. It was inexplicable and a horror show.watching poor Josh line up set shots. Horrific.
Bev eventually changed his mind (a rarity) and played Josh in the guts and that was all she wrote. However it took divine intervention from Bont Himself to make this happen. Bont let slip in an interview last yr that he went to Bev to suggest the very thing that many of us had been screaming about for weeks.
NOW this season I am praying for some more divine Bont intervention as I really lurve Bev BUT...
1 - Did Jackson Trengove run over Bev's dog after shitting in his conrnflakes after bedding his wife? Jeebus Bev - JT may be like the Titanic - a slow turning accident about to happen with ball in hand - BUT he is our best one on one contested defender by a Peter Street.So C'mon Bev, pick JT every week at FB and build our defence around him.
And 2 - Players who kick PIE FLOATERs suck in the backline. Some may recognise the reference to the abhorrent sounding SA dish of a pie floating in pea soup that somehow works. Well Caleb Daniel in the backline doesnt work. In cricket parlance, a 'pie' chucker is a bowler who bowls up balls that are very easy to smash for six. In footy a player who kicks a pie floater is someone who lacks penetration and speed on their kicking allowing Oppo zones to compress and pick their kicks off, creating turnovers and as we all know, a lot of Oppo goals come from turnovers.
So I know Bev loves Caleb Daniel back as a 'quarterback' but he plays like a quarterback with a busted shoulder. All twisting and turning, stopping and propping and evading while he searches for the perfect 30m pass as he knows be will have to kick a PIE FLOATER after 40m and the risk of his kick being picked off and scored against goes up exponentially. Meanwhile fwd momentum stops and the Oppo zone compresses. And when we don't have the ball our defenders are frantically looking around to ensure little CD isn't isolated deep on a 'big" bloke (read 80% of the AFL population). Just one more thing for our harried defenders to worry about.
WTF Bev?
It's bad enough watching Hunter kick his PIE FLOATERS further upfield while doing his dinky little dances as he stops and props constantly to kill our fwd momentum while he searches for a perfect kick within his limitations. And then win a BnF while he does it. But not deep in the backline Bev - C'mon.
So rather than post my annoyance in every thread its here. It's done. I feel better.
BUT
Bev does s**t sometimes that really annoys me.
Last year Bev played mid beast, Josh Dunkley (who is only a slightly better kick than his Dad - and that is really saying nothing good) forward. It was inexplicable and a horror show.watching poor Josh line up set shots. Horrific.
Bev eventually changed his mind (a rarity) and played Josh in the guts and that was all she wrote. However it took divine intervention from Bont Himself to make this happen. Bont let slip in an interview last yr that he went to Bev to suggest the very thing that many of us had been screaming about for weeks.
NOW this season I am praying for some more divine Bont intervention as I really lurve Bev BUT...
1 - Did Jackson Trengove run over Bev's dog after shitting in his conrnflakes after bedding his wife? Jeebus Bev - JT may be like the Titanic - a slow turning accident about to happen with ball in hand - BUT he is our best one on one contested defender by a Peter Street.So C'mon Bev, pick JT every week at FB and build our defence around him.
And 2 - Players who kick PIE FLOATERs suck in the backline. Some may recognise the reference to the abhorrent sounding SA dish of a pie floating in pea soup that somehow works. Well Caleb Daniel in the backline doesnt work. In cricket parlance, a 'pie' chucker is a bowler who bowls up balls that are very easy to smash for six. In footy a player who kicks a pie floater is someone who lacks penetration and speed on their kicking allowing Oppo zones to compress and pick their kicks off, creating turnovers and as we all know, a lot of Oppo goals come from turnovers.
So I know Bev loves Caleb Daniel back as a 'quarterback' but he plays like a quarterback with a busted shoulder. All twisting and turning, stopping and propping and evading while he searches for the perfect 30m pass as he knows be will have to kick a PIE FLOATER after 40m and the risk of his kick being picked off and scored against goes up exponentially. Meanwhile fwd momentum stops and the Oppo zone compresses. And when we don't have the ball our defenders are frantically looking around to ensure little CD isn't isolated deep on a 'big" bloke (read 80% of the AFL population). Just one more thing for our harried defenders to worry about.
WTF Bev?
It's bad enough watching Hunter kick his PIE FLOATERS further upfield while doing his dinky little dances as he stops and props constantly to kill our fwd momentum while he searches for a perfect kick within his limitations. And then win a BnF while he does it. But not deep in the backline Bev - C'mon.
So rather than post my annoyance in every thread its here. It's done. I feel better.
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