Analysis The Matt Taberner effect
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Lol at the hate.
He can ruck, he actually brought the ball to ground, he actual presented a target. The midfield was beaten soundly in q4 and the team scored 85 all things considered.
Kersten definitely should go before Tabz.
He can ruck, he actually brought the ball to ground, he actual presented a target. The midfield was beaten soundly in q4 and the team scored 85 all things considered.
Kersten definitely should go before Tabz.
Deserved a free kick for that. Was bumped off the play, his opponent not looking at the ball. Lucky we got the goal anyway. But yeah McCarthy/Kersten always tend to praise Tabs a fair bit. He does make their jobs a lot easier. Tabs does take the best defender as he has potential to be most damaging then Kersten
Yep, you do have it wrong. He dropped a mark that he should've taken, which he's been doing since day one and there were others in this game too. Time to move on, he's not good enough.
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Yep that was the reason Freo lost today. (It wasn't).
Funny how people remember things differently. The way I saw it, Taberner made good position, had the ball kicked to him and then dropped a wide open sitter. I think Kersten went up to him to try and make him feel OK due to his mental fragility.
Tabs is such a confidence player. He's done OK for being a speculative late pick. Not sure he has the tools upstairs to ever make it. Too timid; no mongrel; no arrogance; loses confidence too easily.
8 disposals, 3 marks, 2 hitouts, that's right our backup ruckman had 2 hitouts, 0 frees for but 4 against and only 34 fantasy points (the lowest for the team). Did you watch the game?
Never said it was.
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He is good enough at the level.
Lol. You have no idea do you. 2 hitouts!!! Get a clue Samantha!
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I'm not giving up on him.
Get back on the horse Tabs, you've played a few of your best games this year.
Get back on the horse Tabs, you've played a few of your best games this year.
Lol.
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How much was he actually rucking?
Grundy had around 50 at 3QT. Wasn't leading upfield and as such Collingwood had a number of turnovers in back half because they had no big target up forward. He turned it around in q4. But he is one of the elite ruckmen in the game.
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Maybe not.
Was it Tabs fault there looked like there was 100 Collingwood players lining up to have a shot on goal?
I'll watch it again to make sure he wasn't the only spud.
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When the coach turns to our best mid/overhead mark to ruck for the last 10 mins when we were technically still in it over our backup ruckman... what does that tell you?
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Exactly. Nothing wrong with being a nice guy.
I found this Q&A thing tabs did on the freo website. Bloody ironic!
Do you have a saying or motto that you live your life by: Gotta risk it to get the biscuit.
If you could ask someone to be your mentor, who would it be: Wayne Carey, I idolised him growing up, he was a great centre half forward
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* Howe was breathing down his neck for most of the game.
We all know with Tabs its between the ears with a good defender on him he lost his s**t.
We all know with Tabs its between the ears with a good defender on him he lost his s**t.
Apeness has dealt with a heap of injuries and could've rucked for us. Tabs has played 50 games, I reckon 5 have been games where he has showed something but they're not the norm and the gap to his worst games is massive.
I don't think we've ever had a player at the club so reliant on confidence. He is too good for the wafl but not up to it in the big league. I can't think of a team in the league he would have played as many games - MAYBE Brisbane or Carlton.
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We need to transplant Grey's brain into Tab's body
Can't argue that Tabs had a bad day and very few had good ones.
His greatest weakness is the one you'd think was most fixable.
Got to good and dangerous positions through great workrate but couldn't hold the marks.
At this stage we stick with him because our options are few.
His greatest weakness is the one you'd think was most fixable.
Got to good and dangerous positions through great workrate but couldn't hold the marks.
At this stage we stick with him because our options are few.
I think the opposite. His greatest weakness for elite sport is upstairs, and I don't think he can just change how his brain is wired when it comes to playing football.
An egg is a chook's way of making more chooks.
If he starts holding his marks brain wiring is good.
If he starts holding his marks brain wiring is good.
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