Who is your clubs whipping boy and why?

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Rustler

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Sep 20, 2015
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Essendon
In every club there is 1 player all supporters have high standards of. They are the player that apitimizes the team value, work rate, performance and atmosphere. When a club wins the player is regarded in the upper echelons of top effective players of that day, when a club loses they are the player everyone points the finger to. Our whipping boy for the bombers is Brent Station, we love him dearly and he can have a brilliant games but always there are 1 or 2 costly errors which affects the outcome of a match no matter if he gets 30 possessions or not. We have a jnr whipping boy in the making, Martin Gleeson. Produces efficient performances at times with similar Stanton blunders.
 

Yezeha

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Feb 10, 2014
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Collingwood
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Jesse White.

Has all the attributes to become a good player but has failed to deliver for his whole career. He also missed two very important fourth quarter set shots against Fremantle and Hawthorn in consecutive weeks earlier this year. We ultimately lost the games by 7 and 10 points respectively. Just an overall frustrating player.
 

Murraj1966

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Jun 13, 2009
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St Kilda
Shenton. He's taken the mantle strongly from Raph Clarke.

Him losing the wildman look with the beard made it far easier not to like him this year.
 

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Gollo

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Jun 4, 2015
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Tom Boyd/Jarrad Grant. Grant less so, due to most of the Bulldogs community being now used to his mediocre performances. Boyd is the AFLs whipping boy from the Dogs. We rate him, and think he is crucial to our development but generally, the rest of the AFL population like to jump on the bandwagon and criticise him whenever he has a somewhat below-par game.
 
I'd have to say Chris Masten.

When he has a ripper, or we get a decent win, everyone's on board with this guy. If we lose or he doesn't get 20+ possessions, he's rubbish.
 

doodles98

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Aug 6, 2012
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Collingwood
This year it was Toovey who replaced Goldsack and Adams as my whipping boy of choice. Got a feeling it's going to be Howe next year.
 

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Feb 24, 2013
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The GoldenBrown Heart of Victoria
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Can't think of one, maybe jus Schoenmakers when he plays defence against key forwards who are too big for him, but Ryan plays forward now. Is there any whipping boy depth in the 2015 draft?

With Suckling gone & the Cobbler playing forward, then Brad Hill will assuredly be next in line....And if he continues squibbing it up as he did the entire 2015 finals series; then deservedly so.
 

The breed

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Sep 7, 2014
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Port Adelaide
Pittard definitely.

Yeah Jasper can do the freaky breaking the lines stuff, but sometimes you just gotta laugh

Butch, good mark. good ground ball player for his size.
His kicking is just wowee, put your head in your hands, close your eyes, and wait for the crowds response type stuff
 
Probably out of Chaplin and Grigg for Richmond. I'd suggest maybe Chaplin slightly ahead at this stage.

As for why, perceived to be soft, lazy, slow and shirking his duties at times. Probably doesn't help we have Rance back there who is the complete opposite in that regard!
 

Wolftone

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Feb 1, 2012
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Sydney
Dean Towers and Brandon Jack seem to be flavour of the month. 'Bo' Derrickx could be the whipping boy but everybody seems to realise he is just not an AFL player. The club might wake up soon. Putting him on a two year contract was a mistake. But still no whipping boy as a matter of fact most of us would have loved 'bo' to make it as it would have been a classic rags to riches scenario.

I believe the other two are better than most folk think and that is probably the problem we expect too much from young or inexperienced AFL players.
 
Others might view differently, but for us maybe:
Jesse White (which I don't really understand; he's never going to consistently reach the heights he might be capable of, but he puts in, has some versatility)
Jarryd Blair (has a crack and does the team things, but some question his overall output / project a bit of frustration onto him when we don't play the kids)
Alan Toovey and Goldsack would probably be there or thereabouts for some, Toovey because his disposal by foot can be iffy, Goldsack a bit like Blair.
 

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