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Noah Balta - Welcome to Tigerland

9 intercepts marks - 1 below the highest ever.

Best game since 2020 - great to see he made his presence known in that last qtr - could be in for a big year (hopefully)

BOG today
 
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Redford said:
Absolutely a step in the right direction today. Very good game. But that doesn’t alter his previous 2022 and last week’s form.

Further, did I - or anyone else say he should be dropped ? I actually said we need him in the team playing well. Do you remover that part ? Probably not.
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Dunno, I didn't suggest you did. He's still young in KP terms and is learning the game so is going to have ups and downs. Fair enough to call it out when he doesn't perform, I only objected to your labelling of his game last week as "horrendous" which I still think was an exaggeration.

You seem very defensive of your opinion of him though. Just suggesting that you should be as quick to praise him this week as you were to judge him last.
 
Redford said:
And that’s the precise, net sum game isn’t it.

Hope we get another one from him next week. Get some of his 2020 mojo going again.
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He’s a confidence player, just needed one good game again to get him going which he had today hopefully.
 
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BT Tiger said:
Dunno, I didn't suggest you did. He's still young in KP terms and is learning the game so is going to have ups and downs. Fair enough to call it out when he doesn't perform, I only objected to your labelling of his game last week as "horrendous" which I still think was an exaggeration.

You seem very defensive of your opinion of him though. Just suggesting that you should be as quick to praise him this week as you were to judge him last.
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The game only just finished you know !! Hah hah hah.. geezuz.

Not defensive of my opinion, but rather the group of people who all made similar constructive and valid assessments only to have a hysterical RCG faction start frothing at the mouth. Exaggeration ? Maybe go to post number 4257 and you’ll see some REAL exaggeration.
 
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Way better. Maybe his best ever. Looks so much better when runs straight ahead.

This is way he’s rated so highly, chalk and cheese from last week.
 
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Good to hear Noah had a cracker of game.

Will do wonders for his confidence, and this side right now needs him at his best, especially with Broad likely to get a holiday.

Looking forward to having Notorious back with that bit of swag.
 
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BT Tiger said:
Yes, that's fair enough. Reckon he was our best player today.
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Pretty close. Balta, Hopper, D Rioli, Taranto, Baker. But I tell you what, just for you, I’ll give him 5 votes in the PRE Best Player voting and also prove to you how much of a balanced Libran I am …hah hah hah hah.

Actually, just looking at those votes, and I say this all the time, but no love for Broad ?

Did a good job - particularly when on Rankine.
 
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Redford said:
Actually, just looking at those votes, and I say this all the time, but no love for Broad ?

Did a good job - particularly when on Rankine.
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Did he go out of the game after that incident Redders?

Was seemigly playing very well prior to it.
 
craig said:
Did he go out of the game after that incident Redders?

Was seemigly playing very well prior to it.
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Maybe lost his flow a bit. Thought defensively, along with Noah, he was pretty good.

You wouldn’t wanna be playing in our backline right now the way the ball is transitioning out of our forward line, I know that for sure. Tough job.
 
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His last QTR was fantastic. Walker was threatening to take the game apart. Gave him a bath in the last 15 minutes
 
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balta is great

love the experiment of rioli into defence, but dont ever move balta from KPD ever again
 
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night vision goggles next week please.
Glasses Seinfeld GIF
 
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Outstanding. He was like a magnet to the ball when it was in the air inside defensive 50. Keep building Noah.
 
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Perfect example of what Balta can become. No dodgy dinky kicks too, he actually used his strength being his booming kick
 
Noah missed that airball. He was out of position, he threw everything at it - got air, was vulnerable, got tipped over, spilled it.

It was the finest moment of his career to date.

Back to his strengths, from the moment Balta walked into the club he was a natural running back. Good to see him running gain tonight.

It's only R2 but our project player is trending up atm.
 
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