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Pick 29: Shai Bolton
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The biggest criticism of Shai is a four quarter performance. He just can’t string that together.
But his second quarter was electric. Literally tore Ports midfield a new one on his own.
Gave away the 50 with a rueful point to the scoreboard after a soft push in the back.
I can take that.
Footy needs done scoreboard pointing every now and then
(Maybe another for entering the exclusion zone which want smart whoever did it)
How many players point to the scoreboard and no 50? Heaps!
Shai does it, wearing a Richmond jumper, 50m penalty. Why am I not surprised?
DS
Dissent is dissent except when it isn't. The beauty is it's how each umpire interprets it. How sensitive they are. Appears they are always on eggshells when we play.
Does this petulant *smile* game after game n regularly costs us stupid 50 metre penalties and goals. Kills momentum and hurts the team over and over again. We could cover this sort of stupid *smile* when we were the premium team n winning flags, now it just opens the door for opposition sides to step back into games by us giving up 2 or 3 of these stupid penalties a game.
the difference between Bolton and Richo's foibles is that I'm not certain Richo's were fixable, whereas Bolton's most if not all of is (kicking for goal, inconsistent efforts, selfishness, etc). Bolton has the capacity to be the best in the league by a fair margin if he completely applies himself
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Vlossy benefited massively from not being asked to play on a 2 metre opponent.
Miller and Young changed our whole structure today. Even when Gibcus (rip) was playing, he didn't actually play on an opponent. The two stoppers meant that Nick could be Nick. Which we know is a very good thing for him to be.
Said to my son pre game that Shai would need to play more of a leaders type game today which I thought was exactly what he did. Not as flashy as usual but far more team oriented and worked as hard as Ive seen defensively. Some of the errors IMO were Shai trying to pick his best option rather than putting his boot through it.
I could handle losing Baker but not Shai
Shai grew up a bit yesterday & came of age as a senior player in one of his most mature performances in memory.
Looked so focused, hungry & put the team on his back. Also kicked the goals he needed to.
We know he's a superstar but more of this please. Just great.
Looked so focused, hungry & put the team on his back. Also kicked the goals he needed to.
We know he's a superstar but more of this please. Just great.
