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thylacine60 said:
ODN, check your inbox. I have sent you a message with no subject matter. I can't reveal my source or my own identity. Suffice to say... I sent it. Enough said. I expect the highest level of confidentiality on this. :cool:
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Raised the bar in the idiocy stakes :thumbsu:
 

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Mitch Robinson kicked 3 in the corresponding Bleakmond game last year and was overlooked somehow.

These awards are generally more about the media favorites for the week.

We all know Yarran is an elite talent, and that's ultimately all that matters. I've just delighted he's wearing the Navy Blue.

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There once was a dance held here, you know. Everybody was having a great time except for a couple of people standing along the walls...there was a woman with an enormous nose along one wall, very lonely and wishing someone would at least come talk to her. But she knew not many people would like to hang out with a woman with such a huge nose.

Then, lo and behold, a man with a wooden eye came up to her. He bowed and introduced himself and asked, "Would you like to dance?"

She was so excited! She said, "Would I? Would I?"

He fired right back at her, "Big nose! Big nose!" and walked away.





Oh....BTW, Yarran :thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu:
 
Yarran shoots to be round one Rising Star

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/91287/default.aspx

ALL the talk about the NAB AFL Rising Star over the past two years has centred on two players - Daniel Rich and Nic Naitanui.

Lions midfielder Rich was the runaway winner in 2009 while West Coast’s Naitanui is the hot favourite to be his successor in 2010.

So it is with some irony that the first nomination for this year’s award has gone to a player who has spent much of his career to date with the shadows of both Rich and Naitanui looming over him.

Chris Yarran’s round one nomination has come as a result of his 11-possession, three-goal performance in Carlton’s 56-point win over Richmond last Thursday.

Yarran was drafted by the Blues with pick six in the 2008 NAB AFL Draft, one pick before the Lions took fellow West Australian Rich.

It was a decision that did not go unnoticed by the harsh judge that is the football public - particularly when Rich starred for the Lions in his first year while Yarran could only manage six games.

However, the Blues forward said he never felt any pressure to live up to the stunning standard set by his former WA under-18 teammate.

"I didn’t have a great year last year but it was a good effort for Richy to come in and win it in his first year," Yarran said.

"He’s a great player and a good mate of mine as well. I wish him the best of luck and hopefully I can go on and win it this year."

Yarran grew up next door to Naitanui in Midvale in suburban Perth and considers him a close friend.

He says they still speak regularly despite now living on opposite sides of the country.

"I haven’t spoken to him since I heard I got the nomination but I send him a texty every now and again to see how he’s going," Yarran said.

"He went pretty well in the NAB series. Hopefully he can get a rising star [nomination] throughout the year. He’s favourite to win it so hopefully he can get one."

If history is anything to go by, Yarran is in a strong position to take out the main award at the end of the season as three of the winners (Rich in 2009, Sam Mitchell in 2003 and Paul Hasleby in 1999) have been round one nominations.

And Carlton's win over Richmond was a fair indication that Yarran looks set for an impressive year as he shares the small forward duties with Eddie Betts.

As similar players, Betts and Yarran could be excused for occasionally being in the same place at the same time but the 19-year-old says they have already developed an understanding.

"It’s pretty good. We do communicate a lot on the field. Around the stoppages we go one in, one out," he said.

"We don’t really get in each other's way. We get the ball to each other a lot and hopefully we can keep doing it."

Yarran and Betts have extra responsibilities as goal kickers after the off-season departure of Brendan Fevola but the younger of the two says the Blues should be able to make up for the Coleman Medallist’s absence.

"Eddie was one of our better goal kickers last year, he kicked 38 goals and has probably got the most amount of goals now that Fev is gone," he said.

"Hopefully he can give some of that experience to me and a few of the other guys and kick a few more.":thumbsu:
 

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The Old Dark Navy's said:
Will continue to put stock in that source for a little while then.

Well done to Yazz!
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Oh yes ... now it's Well Done Yarran and pats on the back all round.

Face it ODN .. You've hated Yarran from day one !! ... in fact you wanted to bash his head in with a pipe!

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Its awesome and he played well,
But its only a nomination, the youngfella has a long way to go yet
I wanna see him against a good team first
 

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I think this is the most appropriate thread to bump, I looked for another Yarran thread but couldn't find it.

I am neither a "doom and gloom", "our list is shit we should have picked Rich" pessimist, nor am I a "our coach, MC and players can do no wrong" optimist. But there are 2 things (that are really probably just the one thing) wrong with Yarran's game at the moment. They can be improved and I hope they will, but the sooner the better!

1. He seems to stand off a contest and wait for (expect?) his opponent to make a mistake upon which he can capitalise. Too many times I've seen him do this only to watch his opponent get the ball or at least get it to a teammate.

2. Rather than choose to go in for a ball, he stands off it and waits to pounce on his opponent when they get it. Probably hoping for the spill or holding the ball free.

At this stage I'm reluctant to say that this has anything to do with courage (something a few other posters have suggested) but I'm wondering whether this approach worked for him in the WAFL (and earlier) where the skills would have been poorer and the opponents not quite so fast etc etc and so Yarran developed a game style that just won't work for him in the AFL.

I hope that someone is getting in his ear about going in and getting the ball himself rather than sweating on an opponent making a mistake. His approach would seem to be preventing him from having a chance at at least another 1/2 a dozen or so possessions a week.
 
Good observations and interesting theory. A bit of Eddie mentoring could help but I think he will come to realize that head over the ball players are well looked after nowadays.

Heaven forbid we ever have a thread like that for Didak on the Collingwood board ie 'Will he ever grow a pair'. Collingwood need to do Dal Santo and drop the squib.
 

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