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Welcome to Richmond - Jayden Short
- Thread starter AstuteTiger
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Has really become a selfish bone-headed footballer. Continually calling for the ball when running on to his wrong foot. Then kicking it back to the opposition. Can't remember his last kick to advantage. Defensively poor. We are seeing the worst of Short at the moment.
It would be interesting to compare stats of Short and Houli on the handball receive shots for goal. I doubt either go at a high %.
Short really has returned to the footballer he was before last year, with maybe a little improvement defensively. Chasing the easy kick then bombing it down the line often to no advantage.
when The SystemProcess breaks down, ALL the role players look really *smile*.
I dont think its their fault.
if you taught a bunch of soldiers how to run up hills and storm the opposition trenches, for 5 years,
then took them up in a helicopter and told them to jump,
they'de splat.
Its Hockings fault. The *smile* contrived and conspired to make us pivot at short notice.
Does this time and time again. One year wonder. Need an upgrade.
Compare Shorts kicking to Daniel Rich. Miles apart.
Had another poor game last night. Me thinks he has been drinking his own bath water. He won the JD medal last year and he was really good in the GF but now he is just an ordinary role player. It really is disappointing to see the decline of many of our players this season, Short being one a quite a few who haven’t brought their 2020 form into 2021.
Some people really get fixed on their whipping boys.
We have about 16 bigger problems than the reigning best and fairest.
We have about 16 bigger problems than the reigning best and fairest.
If only we could throw our best player Jayden Short into the middle when we're getting killed, or up forward when we need a goal.
Short quickly looking to the RFC B&F as Woewodin does to the Brownlow....you look back and think how the *smile* did that happen?
It's a far greater injustice than Woewodin winning the Brownlow crap shoot. Absolute slap in the face to Dusty.
Shame we can't throw dusty at full back when we're leaking goals.
I'm sure you're happy we've lost a few so you can go can back to abusing short.
You're sure I'm happy we lost so I can abuse Short? Seriously?!
I'm not even abusing him. I praised him effusively last year. But he's back to his worst. And his B&F was a joke. An insult to Dustin Martin.
Agree.
they should really call it what it is;
The Better than Expected, and drop the Fairest.
its generally the same at every club, at every level.
The BtE
It's not Jayden Short's fault Richmond's Best and Fairest voting system is fundamentally flawed.
But Jayden Short was accounted by that system to be our best player in a premiership year (in reality he was in the bottom half of the top 10, a great effort). This year he'd be battling to be in our top 20 - and he's played every game, I think. I don't think he's played one good one.
We're allowed to hold him to account. It's not picking on poor little Jayden, the plucky kid who defied the odds, it's expecting our reigning B&F to do more than run to the disadvantage side of a teammate and kick it to the opposition, while playing his opponent on a leash so long you need to wait for a stoppage to work out exactly who he's on.
But Jayden Short was accounted by that system to be our best player in a premiership year (in reality he was in the bottom half of the top 10, a great effort). This year he'd be battling to be in our top 20 - and he's played every game, I think. I don't think he's played one good one.
We're allowed to hold him to account. It's not picking on poor little Jayden, the plucky kid who defied the odds, it's expecting our reigning B&F to do more than run to the disadvantage side of a teammate and kick it to the opposition, while playing his opponent on a leash so long you need to wait for a stoppage to work out exactly who he's on.
Shorty is another limited player,
who found themselves at the right place, at the right time,
and played a role very effectively in a great side,
and became a premiership hero.
theres heaps of them; towner, butler, Castagna, short, graham, Kmac, Pickett, Caddy, Soldo, Astbury, Broad, Rioli, Bellis
It doesn't diminish their place in history. every premiership side has them (* although I think we had more than most, I'd posit, because we had Dusty) They are rightly, revered Richmond premiership heroes until the end of time.
but the always, almost without exception, they look very ordinary when you're losing.
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