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dont be surprised if ge gets a fine or a week, I wouldn’t put anything passed the AwFuL, they will just say we said after the tigers shit, no moredoriswilgus wrote:So true,Lazza^.I’m actually surprised that anyone noticed it in the first place.It seems like people are scouring through the media these days looking for something to be outraged by.But that’s the world we live in today,unfortunately.
And yet he allows it to happen and does nothing at the selection table to send a messageorie wrote:think positive wrote:Well look at them all smiles and chatty bravo boys did you enjoy that?
EXACTLY..
Are the fans and the coach the only ones hurting.. And don't tell me Bucks isn'i..
You wouldn't catch Bucks smiling after a losing performance.
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I would be surprised if he did get suspended,but as you said,with the AFL you just never know.But still it would be hard for them to justify when two Richmond players were grabbing at the genitals of another player last year,and they got nothing for it.think positive wrote:dont be surprised if ge gets a fine or a week, I wouldn’t put anything passed the AwFuL, they will just say we said after the tigers shit, no moredoriswilgus wrote:So true,Lazza^.I’m actually surprised that anyone noticed it in the first place.It seems like people are scouring through the media these days looking for something to be outraged by.But that’s the world we live in today,unfortunately.
Total bullshit, IQ didn’t even flinch, it was nothing
afl.com.au's view, post-match:Magpietothemax wrote:Hickey might be over 30, but he is in great form atm, one leg or two. This however seems largely irrelevant, because even if Grundy dominates (as he most probably will) we seem to gain little advantage as a result. Tomorrow, with our midfield lacking any big bodied mids, I think that Grundy should as thump the ball forward as much as possible.That might give us at least a 50/50 chance of going further forward. When the Swans realise what he is doing they will make adjustments accordingly, and hopefully that will open some other opportunities that can be exploited with smart coaching...K wrote:Hickey is over 30, at his fourth club, and playing on one leg.
Just saying...
I've been wondering all year how much marking can be improved with practice.JC Hartley wrote:...
Got little or no value from his ruck taps, clearance work and ball use. Grundy's marking remains his biggest weakness which he'll need to work on, especially when he plays as a forward.
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....well I did say, Hickey is in great form atm....K wrote:Pre-match...
afl.com.au's view, post-match:Magpietothemax wrote:Hickey might be over 30, but he is in great form atm, one leg or two. This however seems largely irrelevant, because even if Grundy dominates (as he most probably will) we seem to gain little advantage as a result. Tomorrow, with our midfield lacking any big bodied mids, I think that Grundy should as thump the ball forward as much as possible.That might give us at least a 50/50 chance of going further forward. When the Swans realise what he is doing they will make adjustments accordingly, and hopefully that will open some other opportunities that can be exploited with smart coaching...K wrote:Hickey is over 30, at his fourth club, and playing on one leg.
Just saying...
"Hickey a hit in battle of the big men
Brodie Grundy has had his own way in the ruck against the Swans in recent times, averaging an incredible 49 hitouts the past four times he’s faced them. But the Magpie met his match in journeyman Tom Hickey, who is in career-best form while playing his first year in red and white. The battle of the big men was relatively even in the hitouts; Grundy with 26 and Hickey 19. But the Swans’ resurgent ruckman arguably had the better of his Magpie rival around the ground and in the contests with more disposals (19-17), contested disposals (16-14) and clearances (8-6)."
this, i kinda thought along those lines when the usual grundy shit came up, but couldnt be botheredPies4shaw wrote:When Collingwood wins the hitouts (this week, 34 to 22), people try to say they aren't winning the hitouts to advantage. When it is obvious they're winning the hitouts and the hitouts to advantage (this week, 9 to 4) people try to say they aren't winning the stoppage clearances. When it is obvious they're winning the hitouts, the hitouts to advantage and the stoppage clearances (this week 30 to 23) people try to say they aren't winning the centre clearances. When it is obvious they're winning the hitouts, the hitouts to advantage, the stoppage clearances and the centre clearances (this week 10 to 5), people start using the word "arguably" - because there is nothing intelligent left to say about who won in the ruck.
But, of course, "arguably" is the word used to denote that a journalist is about to say something that has no basis in fact. Hickey attended 70 ruck contests and won a quarter of them (Darcy Cameron and Blakey both did better, statistically, than Hickey). Grundy attended 54 and won half of them. A third of Grundy's hitouts went to advantage (just 1 in 5 of Hickey's did).
Hickey got thoroughly smashed in all of the rucking aspects of the game. However, Sydney has many better footballers than Collingwood does, so they got the ball more often, one many more one-on-one contests around the ground (despite being thrashed in the contests at stoppages), outmarked Collingwood 95 to 69, outtackled Collingwood 82 to 69, had many fewer clangers (56 to 70), took 12 marks inside 50 to Collingwood's 4 (Mihocek, eg, did not take a mark for the entire game; Moore took 3 marks in defence - but none against an opponent) and consequently won the game easily.
