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Pick 29: Shai Bolton
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Get rid of the blonde tips
Step 2
Get to training today and practice the ball drop . Can’t have the ridiculous situation of last night of kicking around the corner when you are 23.5 metres out from goal directly in front . Also hands on top and bottom of ball is completely flawed . Why hasn’t anyone corrected this is behind belief . Shai is a star player with awesome skills , but you need to do the basics right . Any player who can’t kick a straight kick from 30 metres out has some serious issues . He even lays back on the kick
Get rid of the blonde tips
Step 2
Get to training today and practice the ball drop . Can’t have the ridiculous situation of last night of kicking around the corner when you are 23.5 metres out from goal directly in front . Also hands on top and bottom of ball is completely flawed . Why hasn’t anyone corrected this is behind belief . Shai is a star player with awesome skills , but you need to do the basics right . Any player who can’t kick a straight kick from 30 metres out has some serious issues . He even lays back on the kick
Still a star and genuine match winner , the thing is when your a match winner you can also be a match loser.
Im still hoping the graph goes up by simply minimising the basic errors , imho very overrated in the foot skill department.
I think will se a match winning performance next week .
Last night proved how important he is to us , we need Shai to play well often.
Im still hoping the graph goes up by simply minimising the basic errors , imho very overrated in the foot skill department.
I think will se a match winning performance next week .
Last night proved how important he is to us , we need Shai to play well often.
Was looking at his new hair do . Lots of Hollywood about Shai . Needs to stop . You’re right , needs head in the game . Not on the big screen
Yep that was a brilliant mark by Shai & if Jeremey Howe had taken it we'd barely hear the end of it. But the commentators underminned it for whatever reason.
Brief, more like surprised, yell from Brayshaw, but that's it. Amazing. As bad as Draper given GOTY last season compared to Shai's creative one.
Good coaches don't roast their players in the media. You can bet Dimma will speak to him about it. As he said, the onus is on the player to kick the goal. Shai didn't, and has missed more than he should. It will be addressed.
Most likely answer is the posters complaining about it are folliclly challenged.
I’ve always said why wreck a great head with hair , for the record I’m not fussed with the do
FFS letting players be themselves has won us 3 flags. Whingeing about his hair is *smile* stupid.
The guy is a generational talent, yeh frustarting at times but he's still a kid.
Don't give a flying .... about players hair choices, but when you've got talent to burn just take an extra 5 seconds to actually concentrate on the task at hand and execute. Drop punt, across the body - I reckon 90% of AFL players can slot those kicks at training backwards over their head. But for whatever reason theres a few (shai isn't alone) that rush during a pressure moment and so get too close to man on mark, fluff the ball drop, get off balance etc when they just need to chill and execute - whatever their preferred method is.
Jack is so good of recent years at stopping and methodically going through his action - including across body (even when not required). Reckon Dusty is better at slowing down a bit too and at least getting 10m back from the mark before playing on. They should share their thoughts with some others
Shai has the potential to be one of the top five or six players in the league if he can tidy up his finishing. He just misses too many easy goals he should kick. Dusty in his prime and even now always nailed the key chances like Shai had in the last.
Plenty of players do them now, that's not the problem though. It's the little grey bit between the ears that makes you go back, take a breath or two n focus on what you still need to do to finish the job. Shai too often just faffs around twitches n bangs the ball on his boot as if he's having a few beers n playing kick to kick down the park with often similar results.
Yep. The old drive for show n putt for dough. Always comes down to the ability to finish the job, unfortunately Shai's got brilliant show in pretty much all aspects of the game bar the little cherry on top of finishing consistently.
Suggest they haven’t when he one hand at the bottom of the ball and the other at the top . Then he leans back and doesn’t kick through the ball . Mmmmmmmm
