Strikes me like the type can play anywhere. I reckon less risk playing forward when he hasn’t played with the ones D all year.
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Strikes me like the type can play anywhere. I reckon less risk playing forward when he hasn’t played with the ones D all year.
if he came in fo Bolton, I agree
if he came in for Short, I disagree
A Pickett debut would double my excitement of this game I reckon
and im already pretty *smile* excited
Wrong. Our forwards have been doing a shed load of running in the last few weeks, playing high and creating space for Lynch and Jack.
As much as I love the look of this guy, he doesn’t have the AFL tank yet to play forward and isn’t immersed enough in our defensive structures to play back.
This is the conundrum facing the MC and I think they’ll play it safe and leave him out. Probably a wise decision too.
Marks like Leo Barry or Liam Ryans win premierships. Marlion Pickett has form. The likelihood of him taking a team lifting mark at a critical time is reasonably high. Will Jayden Short run back with the flight when the game is white hot? Well, no. We know Shorty is there for his right and left legs. But he has been scrubbing kicks to them for a month now. Ordinary players rarely turn around bad form in a final. In fact, ordinary players in bad form dont play finals. Brandon Ellis has been strong and tough the last month and he knows the system. He goes back for Shortys role. Yeah, it'll go sideways to Bachar or Nick, but that's OK. Thats better than a 50m turnover. Marlion runs the wing. He's tough, he's composed and he lifts in the big moment. you saw his leadership and connection with Nank last week, igniting one of the greatest comebacks in Tiger history. We could send Marlion into the middle with Nank for 10 minutes if we had to. and its a great story.
Out: Short
In: Pickett
c'mon MC.
fortune favours the brave.
Out: Short
In: Pickett
c'mon MC.
fortune favours the brave.
They are exceptions, outliers. Well drilled, focused teams win most Grand Finals a lot more often than one magical mark wins a Grand Final.
We don't need fortune to win the big one. We just need to do what we've been doing.
My memory must be failing me but I can't remember a Grand Final being lost because of a panicked turnover
Yes, plural, but I can't even remember one.
Enlighten us then, how many were lost by one panicked turnover?
Some romantic stuff in here. Nothing wrong with that, but we don’t need to play Marlion.
Wrong plural Rumpole.
Panicked turnoverS lose grandfinals
And you may need to go back in the archives
All the way to 2017.
Some posters are conveniently overlooking the fact that twice in the last quarter on Saturday Marlion strolled through the ch back line and calmly kicked the ball over his team mates head straight to the Essendon player behind him.
Marlion looks like Andrew McLeod when he runs but his kicking to team mates lets him down.
Needs another preseason to acclimatize to the pace and fitness level of the AFL
Marlion looks like Andrew McLeod when he runs but his kicking to team mates lets him down.
Needs another preseason to acclimatize to the pace and fitness level of the AFL
Just send Marlion vs Jayden out on a few old fashioned One vs One at training tomorrow & see who comes out on top. Winner gets selected.
I know where my money is!
Pick-ett
I know where my money is!
Pick-ett
So you're saying if Adelaide had a Pickett type inclusion they would have won? 2017 is more evidence of a well drilled and focused team winning Grand Finals more than a Leo Barry type moment of brilliance, but whatever, have the last word and we can leave it at that.
