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Bye Bye Jack Higgins!
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Higgins was playing great footy in 2018 before his head trauma.
My angst at his departure has waned. Bloody hard to crack our midfield. Even for the other young mids remaining.
Hope he goes well after all he's been through.
My angst at his departure has waned. Bloody hard to crack our midfield. Even for the other young mids remaining.
Hope he goes well after all he's been through.
Makes you wonder how many players at AFL level are happy to just be earning a very good wage for playing footy and couldn't give a toss about winning flags ... and by extension how much clubs weigh that up when they go recruiting.
Wish you hadn’t used the fish analogy - I like Higgo but now picture him as a toad fish
Wont get a touch against Richmond with Baker breathing down his neck
Gee Baker and Higlet are a good comparison. Baker a better footballer in virtually every category.
I suspect in a year's time he may be struggling to get a game at the saints as well.
I suspect in a year's time he may be struggling to get a game at the saints as well.
Couldn't kick over a jam jar at the tigers and disposal efficiency iffy and tortoise slow. I hope he gets his 150 games with Saints and no September/October turkey with gravy. Not a big loss
Apparently carved it up in the match simulation for the Saints the other day. Both he & Butler kicked a few goals between them.
How good that our offcuts are standouts at other clubs?
How good that our offcuts are standouts at other clubs?
I look forward to seeing Markov play a full season this year.
Still not sure we won't regret losing Higgins. Some seem to forget that he was returning from brain surgery last year.
With such a strong, successful team with plenty of depth and an AFL Salary Cap in place, it's only natural that we will have players leaving who we wish wouldn't. But if we're going to have to lose good players, it's better a small forward where we have a few than a tall back.
How would we regret losing Higgo when he wanted to leave, and we wanted him to stay?
I don’t think we,ll regret Higgo going. Then again I didn’t think we’d regret Butler going....
We have won a further 2 premierships since 2017 without Butler and Higgins.
Its safe to say we have done ok without them.
Its safe to say we have done ok without them.
Yeah not losing any sleep over either of them. Would have been happy for both to stay but understand why they left and no issue with it.
That said Butler was in very ordinary form the last season and a half with us; injuries didn't help him. He started off on fire at the Saints but reckon he got worked out a bit late in the season. He will find a lot more work put into him this season; he won't catch teams off guard.
I like Higgo but he has some real limitations IMHO. Kicking and pace at the head of the list. For a small player he's not that quick and his field kicking is pretty ordinary. In his favour he does have a good footy brain.
