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Prestia !!

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Never gets spoken about in terms of being amongst the elite midfielders of the comp - but he should. Edwards too.

Apart from Dusty they downplay under value most of our players.

Mids Prestia, Edwards and Cotch don’t get the accolades they deserve - there’s a Brownlow, AA‘s and Best and Fairest in that group - they ignore Prestia, Cotch finally getting some as three time premiership capt and Bolton starting to get profile.

Same with our backs
 
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Brodders17

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Ok.

So Richmond is weak at clearance. Well. Sit down. Chimp will usually zone. Form up to defend. Force the turnover and we rebound from HB.

But if it really matters Chimp will dominate clearance. And Chimp is really good at clearance. (Not like Clangerdog or Selhasbeen.) Chimp wipes his arse with these All Australians when the game is on. (See recent final.)

And much as I love Chimp I have to concede that the best clearance player at Richmond is Dion Prestia, when he's set to the task.

Did you read the *smile* blathering of the "Richmond can't clearance" fraternity?

Dion dispatches myths like this.

Half fit he can stop them or start us.

The most underrated player in the AFL. Dion Prestia.
A stat somewhere said our centre square clearance differential across the finals (+30 I think) was the most ever recorded.
 
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TigerMasochist

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Apart from Dusty they downplay under value most of our players.
Yep. One star n a whole mob of dime a dozen *smile* role players :rotfl1 :rotfl1 :rotfl1
I love it when the experts start dribblin about star players n stats. Whenever I dribble that much crap I wipe my arse. Them experts just never seem to realise how much *smile* is dribblin down their chins.
 

tigerman

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Ok.

So Richmond is weak at clearance. Well. Sit down. Chimp will usually zone. Form up to defend. Force the turnover and we rebound from HB.

But if it really matters Chimp will dominate clearance. And Chimp is really good at clearance. (Not like Clangerdog or Selhasbeen.) Chimp wipes his arse with these All Australians when the game is on. (See recent final.)

And much as I love Chimp I have to concede that the best clearance player at Richmond is Dion Prestia, when he's set to the task.

Did you read the *smile* blathering of the "Richmond can't clearance" fraternity?

Dion dispatches myths like this.

Half fit he can stop them or start us.

The most underrated player in the AFL. Dion Prestia.
Loving your work Captain Blood.

What a very astute move getting Dion to the RFC has been. He has battled his body the whole time he has been with us, we are so much better when he is in the side.

In no particular order, Meatball, Shedda and Nank.............a few handy inclusions just before the finals.
 
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DavidSSS

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It isn't just the clearances which matter, it is how we impact on the opposition clearances when they get the ball. You notice when we play badly that the opposition clearances are high quality into their forward 50. When we play well the opposition might get clearances but they are under pressure and allow our defence to repel the attack.

There are clearances, and there are clearances: if you can pressure opposition clearances so they are low quality they have far less impact.

DS
 
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123cups

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It isn't just the clearances which matter, it is how we impact on the opposition clearances when they get the ball. You notice when we play badly that the opposition clearances are high quality into their forward 50. When we play well the opposition might get clearances but they are under pressure and allow our defence to repel the attack.

There are clearances, and there are clearances: if you can pressure opposition clearances so they are low quality they have far less impact.

DS
Agree with this. Taps into the idea there are two ways to be better than your opposition...

- get better yourself
- make them worse

Everyone does both, it took time for us to become the best at the second one. In 2013-2015 we were close to being a top 4 team. In 2016, our obsession was to score 2 more goals per game. From 2017, we became magicians at making the opposition play worse in every part of the ground.

Like you said, one of the ways we make them worse is how we let certain types of clearances through.

Early in the wet, it seemed like Geelong had a few good first possession clearances... they were fast, unpredictable, hard to influence. But when the weather dried up, they went for their 2nd or 3rd possession clearances and were less effective. They became easier to influence, more predictable, etc.

I have no idea how we make their clearances worse, but Prestia (and Cotchin/Edwards in particular) must be doing something right!
 
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nikolasmia

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Prestia, Lambert, Martin Edwards seem to rotate mid forward same as Bolton, all guns, Prestia might be the second best of the lot,

Smart, Tough, Quick, Agile, goal kicking inside outside midfielder who lifts a cog in big finals, and kicks goals.

Basically the meat ball, is a big mac !
 
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tigerman

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Prestia, Lambert, Martin Edwards seem to rotate mid forward same as Bolton, all guns, Prestia might be the second best of the lot,

Smart, Tough, Quick, Agile, goal kicking inside outside midfielder who lifts a cog in big finals, and kicks goals.

Basically the meat ball, is a big mac !
I reckon Dion deserves better than "meat ball", he's so much better than that, filet mignon would be much more appropriate.
 

Mr Brightside

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When people talk of our midfield it’s always Dusty and the Skip who get mentioned first and fair enough, both Brownlow medalist and both 2 of the best we’ve had, however even though our midfield is the best drilled combination/ team of mids , our 3rd and 4th mids Prestia and Shedda are equally underrated and have only a very small mids who you could argue a better.
 
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DavidSSS

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I'd reckon a carpet bag steak. Perfect eye fillet, stuffed with oysters!

Accompanied by a 389.

Nah, lose the oysters (sorry, can't stand seafood) and go with a 707 ;)

Prestia is just an amazing centre and essential to what we do, so glad he made it back for the end of the season.

DS
 

Bernie

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Nah, lose the oysters (sorry, can't stand seafood) and go with a 707 ;)

Prestia is just an amazing centre and essential to what we do, so glad he made it back for the end of the season.

DS
Ah, 407.

Back in the day before FBT, 1628 was a good lunch.
 

tigerman

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Nah, lose the oysters (sorry, can't stand seafood) and go with a 707 ;)

Prestia is just an amazing centre and essential to what we do, so glad he made it back for the end of the season.

DS
How about our man 707...... Bond, James Bond, a Vodka Martini, shaken, not stirred.