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So all other talls are allowed to take time to develop,Yet Patto cant afford that because he,s at Richmond.He lost almost 2yrs of his development because of Simmo,s injury.Harry said:
At the end of 2009 we'll see who is right regarding how many games Vickery will play. My money is on 15+ providing he has a good pre-season and is injury free, I'd like to see some people claim 5 games or less.
benny_furs said:
I’d be really happy if he played 10, and wouldn’t consider a 5 game season a disappointment at all.
benny_furs said:
If he dominates the first 3 or 4 rounds of VFL playing first ruck then yeah, 15 would be great. Until he does that though I don't see the point in calling him up. I also don't really see the point in predictions when at best we've got scant evidence of how good he is. Even if you've seen every junior game he's played they're all largely irrelevant compared to what he does against men early next year.
GoodOne said:
the one major major difference your overlooking are the real reasons one got chopped & one got taken on.
It wasn't Collards attitude that saw him get the ax, it was his fitness. Hislop has no priors in that regard, trains extremely hard & has a very well cut body.
CptJonno2Madcow2005 said:
Patto is about to enter his 5th season, surely enough time to start making his mark.
Patto also had the grand total of 3 contested marks last season, Jack Reiwoldt who is 2 and a half years his junior took more than 5 times that.
This draft willl go down as another dissapointment the only player that'll be along term player with us is Vickery, all the rest will be flops especially the recycled crap.
As for that fella Harry going on about Patto you better listen to him b/c he is on the money. Oh dear the 2004 draft thank god Deledio was around or else the club would have turned that into a dog's breakfast as well.
As for that fella Harry going on about Patto you better listen to him b/c he is on the money. Oh dear the 2004 draft thank god Deledio was around or else the club would have turned that into a dog's breakfast as well.
Leysy Days said:
Reiwoldt played as a key forward all year. Key forwards take far more contested marks than back up ruckmen for obvious reasons. Robert Campbell took a grand total of 11 contested marks all year for the premiers, is in his prime and played most of every game. Mark Blake played 25 games for the best team in the comp and took a grand total of 5.
Disco08 said:
Yep, the days of Ruckman taking pack marks are over, teams no longer put the ball into dispute round the ground. The only place they’ll do it voluntarily is inside 50 when a contested mark will lead to a shot on goal.
Most times. The Tiges actually used the long kick out to the ruckman, usually Simmonds, to get effect a few times this year. It seemed most times they were just happy to get the ball to ground though as the set play meant they had the numbers around the fall. They'll still also kick down the wing/flanks when all options are tied up and the ruckman usually parks himself under it then too. Bloody hard to mark it in that situation though as the numbers suggest.
Disco08 said:
That not really being set up with the expectation of a contested mark being taken, the goal of that is the ruck creates the contest and bring the ball to ground where our smalls have outnumbered theirs. It’s old school 1980’s style kick out strategy.
Disco08 said:
Helped by the fact that Newman is one of the best practitioners of the dying art of the Torpedo the modern era has seen
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