The Jack Macrae Thread

[DognBones]

I agree with all the posts above..

 

[Libba39]

He's my favourite player. One of the toughest players there is, but is barely a part of the conversation. He will always take the hit, holding the ball for the extra second to help the team. I also think he is the best tackler in our team and his defensive stuff is seriously underrated. Gun.

Classic example of this in the Hawks game which possibly not too many noticed.

At the end of that game it was Macrae on the bottom of a pack getting crunched by O'meara when Libba snapped through his goal. He really is a quiet achiever and so glad to have him at the Dogs.

 

[SayerTheCreator]

"He's got ice in the veins ol' Jacko"

Clay Smith, 24.09.2016

 

[ivan rassmussen]

"Our Jacko is not wacko... he doesn't live in Neverland, just racks up kicks in Bevo-land!"

 

[Oliver G]

Hasn't been enough love for Macrae of late.

Jacko reached 700 disposals for the year on the weekend, just needs 22 against the Crows to break the H&A disposal record for any Bulldog (M. Boyd - 2012).

He is only 4 disposals behind league leader Treloar, so he could easily finish the season as the leagues biggest ball winner.

Jack is also ranked 3rd overall in the league for Goal Assists in 2019 with 21.

I also didn't hear any else mention how good his ruckwork was against the Giants.

Rucks Contested: 1
Hitouts: 1
Hitouits To Advantage: 1 (Resulted In Goal)

Now rated Elite by Champion Data in Hitout Win % and Hitouts To Advantage %.



David King clearly thinks he should be AA and I can't help but agree. He certainly deserves to be and even more certainly deserves a lot more credit from the non Supercoach/Fantasy football community.

 

[Oliver G]

Riewoldt and Brown agree...

 

[giblj]

Jacko reached 700 disposals for the year on the weekend, just needs 22 against the Crows to break the H&A disposal record for any Bulldog (M. Boyd - 2012).

22 would also put him level with Matty Boyd's total season including finals disposal record from 2009. Considering the only time he's had less than 22 touches in the last two seasons was when he did his hammy against Port last year he's a pretty good chance of doing it! Keep those hammys limber on Sunday, Jacko!

Really hope he gets AA this year, he's way overdue for that sort of recognition.

 

[TiAn_]

There was a moment in the 3Q, stoppage at our 50m arc, where he collected the ball in traffic, broke free from a tackle enough to get a handball out over his shoulder and away from the direction he was facing, over the top of a defender, to waiting Hunter.

It’s an incredible bit of play.

 

[Mantis Toboggan]

Had probably his only dip in form this year. Great to see it only last about 3 games. His hands were awesome this week. Even won a hit out. I just love the bloke.

 

[Libba39]

Champion player. I think we take for granted how good he is sometimes.

 

[Sharkey66]

Seems to me Jack sacrifices his own game at times taking the heat and doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the midfield early in games Gets whacked from piller to post but allows the other 2 to get of the leash, especially Dunkley.

 

[Libba39]

Seems to me Jack sacrifices his own game at times taking the heat and doing a lot of the heavy lifting in the midfield early in games Gets whacked from piller to post but allows the other 2 to get of the leash, especially Dunkley.

I think Dunkley takes a hammering too actually, on the bottom of packs and also in marking contests.

 

[SayerTheCreator]

Speaks volumes that despite being 2nd in the Ching, he has not been unanimous BOG even once this season. Completely selfless player.

 

[lachy]

A seriously underrated player. Get's tarred a bit with Hunter's brush for dinky kicks. Other than one or two games this year, his disposal particularly going into the forward 50 has been of a very high level.

His only area for improvement is to take and nail more goals once he is within 40 meters of goal

 

[Mantis Toboggan]

A seriously underrated player. Get's tarred a bit with Hunter's brush for dinky kicks. Other than one or two games this year, his disposal particularly going into the forward 50 has been of a very high level.

His only area for improvement is to take and nail more goals once he is within 40 meters of goal

Very true. He often passes up good opportunities to kick for goal and finds a team mate instead. It’s not the worst trait in the world but he should really have a crack when he’s in a good position to do so.

 

[Oliver G]

His only area for improvement is to take and nail more goals once he is within 40 meters of goal

Very true. He often passes up good opportunities to kick for goal and finds a team mate instead. It’s not the worst trait in the world but he should really have a crack when he’s in a good position to do so.

It's strange as his accuracy in front of goal is well above the competition average.

 

[Braybrook Son]

I love Macrae as much as the next Dog member, however, I was watching the replay of the Giants game again today, and I must admit he needs to stop those under 15 metre kicks and handballs to a player on the ground or about to be tackled, his awareness at times is bloody shithouse. He needs to improve that, I’m sure it’s frustrating Bevo too

 

[Mantis Toboggan]

his awareness at times is bloody s**thouse.

Very harsh. For a guy who spends so much time in congestion, he rarely picks a bad option.

 

[_M_16_]

Very harsh. For a guy who spends so much time in congestion, he rarely picks a bad option.

Inside players will always have some of the lower ranked kicking efficiencies on teams. The fact they hunt the ball in packs and tight congested situations, means they are more likely making decisions and disposals in split seconds more often than those who have time. Could his disposal be a little cleaner? Sure! But I agree he rarely picks a bad option. Hardly much worse or better than any player on our team

Both Macrae and Bont have shown in previous seasons they can be dangerous with their disposals. Granted both are down on usual effectiveness this year, but they will both bounce back

 

[stevieg1969]

I love Jack! His second half in the 2016 GF flies very much under the radar. Was involved in almost all our goals after half time!

 

[giblj]

So the numbers to look out for for Jacko on Sunday:

22 disposals to set a new H&A away record for the club
23 disposals for the overall disposals in a season record for the club
40 disposals to finish the H&A season as the leading disposal winner in the league

 

[Oliver G]

700+ disposals in a home and away season has happened 10 times prior to 2019 and in each case the player was either an All Australian, Best & Fairest, Brownlow Medalist or MVP. Treloar finished with 739 and Macrae is on 700 with a game to play. Surely Jacko gets an AA nod.

Player	TM	#	GM	Ave.	Year	Awards
Wayne Richardson	COLL	748	22	34.00	1971	B&F
Chris McDermott	ADEL	720	22	32.73	1992	AA/B&F
Dane Swan	COLL	700	22	31.82	2009	AA/B&F
Dane Swan	COLL	701	22	31.86	2010	AA/B&F/MVP
Matthew Boyd	WB	701	22	31.86	2011	AA/B&F
Matthew Boyd	WB	721	22	32.77	2012	B&F
Lachie Neale	FREO	737	22	33.50	2016	B&F
Tom Mitchell	HAW	787	22	35.77	2017	AA/B&F
Matt Crouch	ADEL	726	22	33.00	2017	AA/B&F
Tom Mitchell	HAW	786	22	35.73	2018	AA/Brownlow/B&F/MVP
Adam Treloar	COLL	739	22	33.59	2019
Jack Macrae	WB	700*	21*	33.33*	2019

 

[Hard Ball Get]

So the numbers to look out for for Jacko on Sunday:

22 disposals to set a new H&A away record for the club
23 disposals for the overall disposals in a season record for the club
40 disposals to finish the H&A season as the leading disposal winner in the league

And no doubt he's well aware if all of that.

 

[dogwatch]

700+ disposals in a home and away season has happened 10 times prior to 2019 and in each case the player was either an All Australian, Best & Fairest, Brownlow Medalist or MVP. Treloar finished with 739 and Macrae is on 700 with a game to play. Surely Jacko gets an AA nod.

Player	TM	#	GM	Ave.	Year	Awards
Wayne Richardson	COLL	748	22	34.00	1971	B&F
Chris McDermott	ADEL	720	22	32.73	1992	AA/B&F
Dane Swan	COLL	700	22	31.82	2009	AA/B&F
Dane Swan	COLL	701	22	31.86	2010	AA/B&F/MVP
Matthew Boyd	WB	701	22	31.86	2011	AA/B&F
Matthew Boyd	WB	721	22	32.77	2012	B&F
Lachie Neale	FREO	737	22	33.50	2016	B&F
Tom Mitchell	HAW	787	22	35.77	2017	AA/B&F
Matt Crouch	ADEL	726	22	33.00	2017	AA/B&F
Tom Mitchell	HAW	786	22	35.73	2018	AA/Brownlow/B&F/MVP
Adam Treloar	COLL	739	22	33.59	2019
Jack Macrae	WB	700*	21*	33.33*	2019

All but 2 of them since 2009. I wonder why.

 

[Oliver G]

Well Jack fell just three disposals short of being the number one ball winner in 2019 finishing with 736 in the home and away season.

But he certainly has smashed the all-time Bulldogs record of most disposals in a season (M. Boyd - 722 - 2009) and still has at least one more game.