Player Watch Wayne Milera

[Squiba]

Nah, Rat's very good in traffic.

Rat is definitely an above average player at cutting through traffic, however, he achieves this by taking a lot of short steps and can get caught out once the opposition work out his style.

Milera seems to have superior breakaway speed to make that space once he is loose, which gives him an advantage.

If Rat replicates this form, our outside brigade of Rat, Milera, Seed and Smith is probably of the best quality we have had in a long time.

 

[FantasticShirt]

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Brilliant. The view at the game was better.

I like to think of that a gif as Milera being Crows and Boak being port’s season

 

[Squiba]

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Looked brilliant at the ground from the opposite side, leaving his man, intercepting the attempted pass, taking the opponent out of the contest, and lacing out a kick to a bloke in space. Beautiful.

 

[GrommoT]

Brilliant. The view at the game was better.

I like to think of that a gif as Milera being Crows and Boak being port’s season

Torpedoed



[ maybe not quite but pleasant to think so ]

 

[Tex Danger]

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Ha did boak actually make slick that off the knee due to the anticipated contact to come (which was after the mis kick)

No wonder Port fans get into Tex so much when they have a captain who can stand up in the crunch match defining moments

 

[Redleg Crow]

Good:
Rockliff, Motlop and Watts being exactly who we thought they were

 

[Scorpus]

Good:
Rockliff, Motlop and Watts being exactly who we thought they were

To be fair, we didn't get a good look at Watts last night because he wasn't playing

 

[hey shorty]

To be fair, we didn't get a good look at Watts last night because he wasn't playing

Theres a reason their original clubs didn't want them

 

[Kenny Dee]

Ha did boak actually make slick that off the knee due to the anticipated contact to come (which was after the mis kick)

No wonder Port fans get into Tex so much when they have a captain who can stand up in the crunch match defining moments

He sure did knee the ball

 

[displacedaussie]

Milera leaving his man to impact that contest with Boak was awesome. In person it was one of my favourite plays of the night (I was right next to the Crows bench so had a decent close up view!)

He’s gonna be a star.

 

[Shaz2012]

What has surprised me most about Milera is his intercept pack marking. Really puts his body on the line and still manages to pull down those marks. When you add that to the skills he has with his disposal, his pace, his ability to move through traffic and now his ability to shrug off and palm off tackles, he really is looking like an absolute beauty of a player. If he can stay fit, he is going to be a 300 game player for us.

 

[Crow till I die]

What has surprised me most about Milera is his intercept pack marking. Really puts his body on the line and still manages to pull down those marks. When you add that to the skills he has with his disposal, his pace, his ability to move through traffic and now his ability to shrug off and palm off tackles, he really is looking like an absolute beauty of a player. If he can stay fit, he is going to be a 300 game player for us.

He does. He is best suited to the half back role and the club should lock him down there. With brown and laird we have some real quality smalls there. Doedee plays the intercept 3rd tall defender role superbly and talia is talia..a premier key defender. Keath and hartigan fight it out for the fullback berth but on form keath looks very stable and should get first crack...as big kev used to say...i'm excited

 

[Shaz2012]

He does. He is best suited to the half back role and the club should lock him down there. With brown and laird we have some real quality smalls there. Doedee plays the intercept 3rd tall defender role superbly and talia is talia..a premier key defender. Keath and hartigan fight it out for the fullback berth but on form keath looks very stable and should get first crack...as big kev used to say...i'm excited

And then add Smith back in there. We have a really high quality backline going into next year. The thing I am most excited about our backline next year is that Ben Hart hasn't been signed on yet

 

[Crow till I die]

And then add Smith back in there. We have a really high quality backline going into next year. The thing I am most excited about our backline next year is that Ben Hart hasn't been signed on yet

Ahh..i forgot to add that i think smith and seedsman will be on the wings next year..2 guys that can run and carry then send it 60 metres deep into the forward line. As long as we have all back on deck for preseason and the fitness program is sorted, we will be very dangerous next year..particularly with rankine running around in our forward line!!

 

[GreyCrow]

I truly hope the club recognise HB is his spot for now

 

[BunjiMac]

I love how this 20 year old boy is becoming a man.

You can see the growing confidence in his strength and body.

He's shrugging players and attacking contests with great confidence and the best bit is his real weapons of agility, evasiveness and elite disposal by foot have really started to shine.

I can't wait to see what another pre season is going to produce.

 

[Mike Smyth]

I fear them once Gray and Ryder are past their best i.e. next year.

 

[Sanders]

Yeah I’m onboard. As I said in GBU, have been blown away by his development recently.

Gonna be a star. Def A grade quality

 

[Big Gazoongas]

My critisism of Wayne was his intensity and attack on player and ball. I didn't think he'd improve much in that area.
We'll I've been gobsmacked with where Wayne is at and the 10 fold improvement he has made......happy to say I was way off on that call.

Love what Wayne is doing and his physicality attack on opposition players with the ball.......magnificent to watch.

 

[potatoe]

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Incredible. Earlier in this quarter he missed Polec in a pretty weak tackle and he was let known about it. It was so good to see him learn from that and lay Boak out.


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[1990crow]

Loved his game. But..
Stil fumbled a bit and missed a tackle that led to a goal. Probably a concentration thing.

 

[Tex Danger]

Loved his game. But..
Stil fumbled a bit and missed a tackle that led to a goal. Probably a concentration thing.

The 2 memorable fumbles to me (1 cost us a goal) were in Q1 which I’d put more down to nerves in a big game. Putting that aside and playing how he did shoes done maturity too

 

[Golumless]

Right now never jumping off the Milera bandwagon is working well for me.

 

[StonesThrow]

Incredible. Earlier in this quarter he missed Polec in a pretty weak tackle and he was let known about it. It was so good to see him learn from that and lay Boak out.


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I think he has a problem in deciding whether to bump or not. In his first year he made some bumps that should have been tackles. It seems that's his first instinct. Looking at that Polec play, he braces to bump early but then realises he's probably going to collect his head so changes his mind. He then puts in a soft tackle attempt.

Still learning the physical side of the game, but he's made huge inroads this year. It's surprising how strong he is as he doesn't really look it.

 

[Smoooothy]

he has an insane ability to "part the seas" and find gaps where there shouldn't be any. this kids has had a McLeod type breakout year