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Travis Varcoe
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PatrickBateman
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Really?
Rubbish he's back... It's the same uncommitted crap from him that we've seen every other week. I've watched him closely tonight and the amount of contests he's pulled out of is just awful. Only looks any good in space, like always. Of course he's not alone tonight.
Scott put him in the centre at the start of quarter 2, he didn't get anywhere near it! POINTLESS in stoppages!!!! Christensen is barging into packs and one of few really trying around the ball.
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Can we have a thread like this for every player? Or is it just Trav who we have to listen to getting ripped to shreds even if just about every one of them is down?
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Yep he's clearly the only bloke out there not at his best.
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Yet another ordinary effort from Trav, still playing the role of chip-stealing seagull to perfection.
PatrickBateman
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Spot on mate.
Even when we had a run on in the last he was absent... Kicked a goal in the 1st then went missing and made crucial errors when he had it. We need to remove him from the AFL side and keep players like Christensen in! A genuine young bloke who played a fantastic, hard contested game against great opposition on fire.
So many are saying he's going to stand up, when is it going to happen? Next week when we play a rubbish side, like we saw with Adelaide?? Not good enough!
It's the players who won't go near a pack, or put their head over the ball when it's their turn.
And right now, that's Varcoe. If he starts working like say, Christensen, we'll shut up. A first year player who works much harder than Varcoe to get the ball despite being if anything smaller.
But he wasn't alone. Yet again many many experienced players down on form.
meto
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Why the heck did Scott sub Mitch Duncan and leave the down hill skier on???
Didn't go near an inside ball, just waited for the easy outside gift, just runs little patterns around the play, we'll never win another flag relying on thelikes of him.
Loved M Duncans effort before being subbed.
Christensen, and Steve Motlop, far more potential talent than Varcoe.
Didn't go near an inside ball, just waited for the easy outside gift, just runs little patterns around the play, we'll never win another flag relying on thelikes of him.
Loved M Duncans effort before being subbed.
Christensen, and Steve Motlop, far more potential talent than Varcoe.
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Reckon some of you lot get practically giddy with excitement over bumping this topic when you see a Trav incident.
If you dont start a thread up on half the side tonight mate then you're a hypocrit and proof positive of a biased attitude towards one bloke.
Get to work!! Happy Hunting
Nup, no hypocrisy here. I have no respect for players who won't go in and get the ball. We've only got one guy like that right now and he wears number 5 on his back.
Lack of form is one thing; lack of effort something else.
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you wouldn't even think of stepping foot on a suburban footy field yet alone telling AFL players they aren't brave enough
typical male machoism at it's best, type of bloke that fires up at a pub knowing he's got 4 of his mates to back him up if in trouble.Keep your Varcoe hating up Partridge! He's gonna really stick up there in September when it matters!
PatrickBateman
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you wouldn't even think of stepping foot on a suburban footy field yet alone telling AFL players they aren't brave enough
Keep your Varcoe hating up Partridge! He's gonna really stick up there in September when it matters!
Very harsh there indeed. He's merely calling it the way it looks, which is very badly for Varcoe from a courage perspective.
Take your emotional cap off for a minute and look at what is likely to improve Varcoe for the remainder of 2011. He needs to be shaken up... he needs to be dropped if he's only going to bully weak opposition when given handball receives from the ball winners. Needs to harden up.
Vdubs
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Selwood has cost us 2 weeks in a row now, let's hope he has cleaned up his act. Varcoe was better in the first half, next week he might be up for 3/4. Like you know better than CS about getting the best out of an AFL footballer.
How does anyone here know for sure that TV is not carrying out his role under instruction, to be used as the go-to player who can actually receive, linkup and create/finish off?
Bullsh1t are these losses Selwood's fault! The hit on Guerra was with an open hand which caused a pressure wave breaking his eardrum. The sanction awarded him was ridiculous, and a player of his standing in the game deserved to be supported by the club when defending his well earned reputation as a hard but honest player.
I know this is a Varcoe bash thread - sorry for the diversion.
I know this is a Varcoe bash thread - sorry for the diversion.
What annoys me about this thread is the supporters (can we call them that?) that think Travis is not trying. Yes, he is playing badly. But a players performance does not always reflect his effort.
The idea that he needs to be "shaken up" is just bizarre. You mean because player and coach don't know this already? Of course, if only the likes of PatrickBateman and Meto could wander down to the club and have a word to Chris Scott, all would be fine. Please...
The idea that he needs to be "shaken up" is just bizarre. You mean because player and coach don't know this already? Of course, if only the likes of PatrickBateman and Meto could wander down to the club and have a word to Chris Scott, all would be fine. Please...
Vdubs
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Rubbish. What is any player doing slapping a guy in the temple area behind the play? Never again, open hand or not. Costly. Ottens?? What will that lead to? Time for Simpson to show his stuff.
Varcoe-BASH THREAD??
Actually, it was not the temple area. It was the ear, hence the punctured ear drum. InnocentBystandr is also correct, an open palm to the ear can cause the injury. Even if it's not that hard. Why Geelong did not argue this I don't know. Enough of blaming Selwood...it's the guys that run out onto the field who are responsible. Why so sure we would have won if he played anyway?
do you even watch the games?
duncan like many others was awful in the first half, and operating at 40% disposal efficiency.
and yes varcoe was ordinary, but he had a lot of team mates with him tonight.
meto
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Love your choice of words, Mitch was awful, Varcoe was ordinary!
Varcoe is like a frightened little boy out there, throws to 3rd gear when approaching a physical contest or circles about out of harms way.
Roll the video and see how desparately involved Mitch Duncan was, makes your bloke look like the chicken he is.
Least Duncan attempts to get a hard ball and successfully I might add, unlike Varcoe!
What's wrong with Scott, just chuck the bloke down to the two's, make him earn a game, like he does the kids.
Varcoe in the team is one reason why we lost, no physicality.
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Vdubs
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Your last statement is typical of your bias, but you wanted a reply no doubt. If that is your ONE reason for us losing, you obviously have no clue.
Vdubs
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Your last statement I agree with.
Your point about his intention and site of impact is pure conjecture. In the heat of the moment, for Selwood to whack him hard enough to cause him to fall, with the force on the ear which is in the temple area btw, is reckless, dangerous, and costly. Don't try giving an anatomy lesson here. The tympanic part of the temporal bone contains the bony passage from the auricle, which is the ear.FWIW.
meto
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Carn't believe your pathetic distraction strategy, trying to talk about Selwood, it's all about Varcoe, and how pathetically weak he's been.
You deny reality sunshine!
sentence structure not your strong point?
you have taken 2 separate comments and put them in the same context.
motlop was the same, yet he has "far more potential talent than Varcoe".
go on, roll the video, you have made a claim now time to back it up.
so, again, you have managed to target one player out of 22 and lay the loss squarely on his shoulders.
Vdubs
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Goes with the Decoy theory. Had Selwood been available, what would we be crapping on about today?
Think this thread has officially crossed over into the twilight zone to be honest, can't believe anyone is still making excuses for Varcoe after last nights effort.
Apart from Meto who should just be ignored when it comes to any discussion about Varcoe, those criticising him are pretty much on the money while those bending over backwards to find some reason/excuse for his form are really getting desperate.
If his first half was "better" last night I'd hate to see him play a bad half, and if he's "playing to instructions" then it's time for new ones, though I strongly doubt any coach would instruct any player to hang out of contests in the manner he does, or butcher the ball on the rare occasions he does get his hands on it.
Quite frankly it's reached the stage where it's embarrassing watching him run around in the blue and white hoops.
Can't understand what CS was thinking putting him in at the center bounces so often.
Apart from Meto who should just be ignored when it comes to any discussion about Varcoe, those criticising him are pretty much on the money while those bending over backwards to find some reason/excuse for his form are really getting desperate.
If his first half was "better" last night I'd hate to see him play a bad half, and if he's "playing to instructions" then it's time for new ones, though I strongly doubt any coach would instruct any player to hang out of contests in the manner he does, or butcher the ball on the rare occasions he does get his hands on it.
Quite frankly it's reached the stage where it's embarrassing watching him run around in the blue and white hoops.
Can't understand what CS was thinking putting him in at the center bounces so often.
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