The Toolman
Team Captain
What is 199cm tall. Weighs 104kg. Has played a tad under 100 games. Is 28 yrs of age (prime). Is athletic and is probably the most imposing looking speciman on a football field. And still has no idea what to do on a footy field?
Answer: Biglands.
I know Biglands has his supporters here, but please start thinking rationally. As soon as Matty Clarke is ready, he must be rushed back into the side at the expense of Rhett Biglands.
The stats tell us that he had 8 posessions and made 4 clangers. That's 50%. What the stats do not tell us, is that one clangar in particular in the first quarter was the initial point when the game turned.
But even more damning, was that late in the last quarter, when we just couldn't find a way to get a goal, Biglands was at his most inept. I was sitting in the new stand (as a guest of a Cats supporter. Damn, I'll drink their beer and wine and eat their food!!!) Brett Reilly had just marked the ball late in the game just on the flank about 55m out. Obviously we had tried everything to get a goal. And it was obvious that the only way to get it was for a bomb outside 50 or a contested mark. The Cats had all other options covered. Reilly was tired, as all players were, and so he was never going to kick a bomb. He hung onto the ball looking for an option. You could see he was thinking 'I need a big tall down there to take a mark'. There was a paddock behind the conjestion. Biglands was about 20 metres wide of Reilly and he was the one that should have busted a gut to get down to the goal square to make a contest. What did this lump of meat do? He stood there. Just stood there next to his opponent. Happy to let someone else do the work. In the end, Reilly got the ball to Welsh who promptly kicked a point.
My point being is that Rhett Biglands doesn't think. He doesn't use his massive frame and he doesn't use his tiny brain. Critics of Matty Clarke always bring out the old chestnut that he doesn't take marks around the ground. Clarkey does work hard. He makes a contest and he is a tap ruckman par excellence. Rhett Biglands averages one mark per game and does little else.
It's time to go....Rhett!
Answer: Biglands.
I know Biglands has his supporters here, but please start thinking rationally. As soon as Matty Clarke is ready, he must be rushed back into the side at the expense of Rhett Biglands.
The stats tell us that he had 8 posessions and made 4 clangers. That's 50%. What the stats do not tell us, is that one clangar in particular in the first quarter was the initial point when the game turned.
But even more damning, was that late in the last quarter, when we just couldn't find a way to get a goal, Biglands was at his most inept. I was sitting in the new stand (as a guest of a Cats supporter. Damn, I'll drink their beer and wine and eat their food!!!) Brett Reilly had just marked the ball late in the game just on the flank about 55m out. Obviously we had tried everything to get a goal. And it was obvious that the only way to get it was for a bomb outside 50 or a contested mark. The Cats had all other options covered. Reilly was tired, as all players were, and so he was never going to kick a bomb. He hung onto the ball looking for an option. You could see he was thinking 'I need a big tall down there to take a mark'. There was a paddock behind the conjestion. Biglands was about 20 metres wide of Reilly and he was the one that should have busted a gut to get down to the goal square to make a contest. What did this lump of meat do? He stood there. Just stood there next to his opponent. Happy to let someone else do the work. In the end, Reilly got the ball to Welsh who promptly kicked a point.
My point being is that Rhett Biglands doesn't think. He doesn't use his massive frame and he doesn't use his tiny brain. Critics of Matty Clarke always bring out the old chestnut that he doesn't take marks around the ground. Clarkey does work hard. He makes a contest and he is a tap ruckman par excellence. Rhett Biglands averages one mark per game and does little else.
It's time to go....Rhett!
Sad but true
