melbournemartin
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...for Liam Jurrah to put in some effort?
I am rarely someone who creates threads to pot individual players. I have posted here many thousands of times and it is simply not my style. And of course, like all other Melbourne players, I love watching Liam Jurrah.
He is, however, the laziest player on our team. Forget Morton, forget Bennell and forget Davey. Liam Jurrah is currently doing the bare minimum. It is only that he is so freakin' talented that his bare minimum still lets him average 2.5 goals a game.
He isn't going for marks in a lot of packs. Instead, he roves for the crumbs but not at the fall of the ball. He is normally lurking around several metres away so that he is in the clear if he, on the odd chance, gets a nice cheapy.
He makes one lead and if that fails, there isn't anything else. There was a prime example where he lead to half forward. Howe was nearby and was kicked to instead. Howe then had no one to kick to because our forward line is rather short and Collingwood had pushed back. And where was Liam? Standing 15 metres from Howe spectating. He wasn't huffing and puffing. You'll rarely see that. He just couldn't be arsed.
There was another one earlier where the ball was kicked long to Watts near the goal square in a one on one. The Melbourne kicker was about 60m out and waited a long time to kick it to Watts. During that time Jurrah just stood on the 50 arc and watched. It turned out that the kick was poor and fell short. Jurrah COULD have been in prime crumbing position.
Not only does he not do leads but he provides very little forward pressure. He's lightning fast and has a good tackling technique. Would it kill him to lay the odd one occasionally? In the third quarter it was said on the radio that we did not have a single tackle inside forward 50. I can barely think of a more disgraceful statistic. Jurrah finished the game with a measly 1, and I can't remember where it was.
Jeremy Howe has come in and in two games has already shown himself to be a much harder worker than Jurrah. Against Essendon he took two marks directly from kick outs and contested many others. He was up there again today. His work ethic is superb. Whilst he is a talented kid, he does not have half the talent Liam does.
Is Liam injured? I was told today that he has had a bit of a niggle in his calf. If that's the case, the bye can't come quickly enough. Jurrah is our best forward and if he is playing injured then I take back some of the harshness of my post but the points still stand. In fact, it really pains me to post something like this, but for too long Melbourne supporters have accepted mediocrity and have turned a blind eye when our favourites don't put in effort.
melbournemartin out
I am rarely someone who creates threads to pot individual players. I have posted here many thousands of times and it is simply not my style. And of course, like all other Melbourne players, I love watching Liam Jurrah.
He is, however, the laziest player on our team. Forget Morton, forget Bennell and forget Davey. Liam Jurrah is currently doing the bare minimum. It is only that he is so freakin' talented that his bare minimum still lets him average 2.5 goals a game.
He isn't going for marks in a lot of packs. Instead, he roves for the crumbs but not at the fall of the ball. He is normally lurking around several metres away so that he is in the clear if he, on the odd chance, gets a nice cheapy.
He makes one lead and if that fails, there isn't anything else. There was a prime example where he lead to half forward. Howe was nearby and was kicked to instead. Howe then had no one to kick to because our forward line is rather short and Collingwood had pushed back. And where was Liam? Standing 15 metres from Howe spectating. He wasn't huffing and puffing. You'll rarely see that. He just couldn't be arsed.
There was another one earlier where the ball was kicked long to Watts near the goal square in a one on one. The Melbourne kicker was about 60m out and waited a long time to kick it to Watts. During that time Jurrah just stood on the 50 arc and watched. It turned out that the kick was poor and fell short. Jurrah COULD have been in prime crumbing position.
Not only does he not do leads but he provides very little forward pressure. He's lightning fast and has a good tackling technique. Would it kill him to lay the odd one occasionally? In the third quarter it was said on the radio that we did not have a single tackle inside forward 50. I can barely think of a more disgraceful statistic. Jurrah finished the game with a measly 1, and I can't remember where it was.
Jeremy Howe has come in and in two games has already shown himself to be a much harder worker than Jurrah. Against Essendon he took two marks directly from kick outs and contested many others. He was up there again today. His work ethic is superb. Whilst he is a talented kid, he does not have half the talent Liam does.
Is Liam injured? I was told today that he has had a bit of a niggle in his calf. If that's the case, the bye can't come quickly enough. Jurrah is our best forward and if he is playing injured then I take back some of the harshness of my post but the points still stand. In fact, it really pains me to post something like this, but for too long Melbourne supporters have accepted mediocrity and have turned a blind eye when our favourites don't put in effort.
melbournemartin out
