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yin-YANG
Joined: 03 Oct 2011
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Elliott up forward has huge X-factor… he is now unfortunately more of an unknown - like what is wrong with him?
If he was on his game we would have won one or two of those honourable losses and he was certainly needed to fire in the recent games against the dogs and dees!
Give Marsh a game down back… he has some toe and deserves a go.
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Joined: 08 Oct 2007
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| Right now, I'd settle for some factor of any kind. |
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neil 
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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We dont have any x factor provided you ignore Pendlebury Varcoe Elliot Fasolo and potentially Moore and Broomhead.
Exciting small forwards end up in middle unless injuries affect them
Or towards the end of their careers
If you know of any players that can kick 10 + goals at junior levels let the club know. Hopefully they will last until we can draft them. Of course every clubs talent scouts will already have watched them play.
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warburton lad
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A bloke called Motlop at Geelong is good mates with Varcoe, is out of contract, and has some 'X' Factor...
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| warburton lad wrote: | | A bloke called Motlop at Geelong is good mates with Varcoe, is out of contract, and has some 'X' Factor... |
Yes. He'd be a great get - not least because he has "small forward" pace but isn't that small. He's a reasonable upgrade on Stokes, so there's no doubt he is capable of doing the job on the big stage.
It may or may not be better for the team as a whole to recruit Motlop than to recruit Treloar - but it would certainly make for more watchable football, regardless of the result. |
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Museman
Joined: 06 Jul 2009
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Been saying we need X we also need another tall who can mark....
But when your coaches attitude is process by process (wateva the f@k that process might be) i'm not real sure he's gonna go chasing X......
X ain't process driven...X is instinct driven...and i'm pretty sure that don't sit well with the boss....
Remember "we don't think about the result, we follow the process and the result takes care of itself" |
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thompsoc
Joined: 21 Sep 2009
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| Museman wrote: | Been saying we need X we also need another tall who can mark....
But when your coaches attitude is process by process (wateva the f@k that process might be) i'm not real sure he's gonna go chasing X......
X ain't process driven...X is instinct driven...and i'm pretty sure that don't sit well with the boss....
Remember "we don't think about the result, we follow the process and the result takes care of itself" |
Well written and funny.
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Dangles
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| What'sinaname wrote: | Small forwards are show ponies and are icing on the cake. We need the cake first before we worry about the icing.
Cyril, Betts, etc wouldn't get near the ball the way we deliver it. |
I agree. Wholesale changes won't do it. it comes down to how the team operates as a unit not weather or not someone can bob up with a bit of dazzle dazzle. |
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Pies4shaw
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| I don't agree. Since Krak left, we have had no-one at the fall of the ball from Cloke's contests. There's 30 goals a year, minimum, from a competent medium-small forward, out of nothing. The thing that gets missed about the team "operating as a unit" is that the guy who kicks the "team goal" at the end of a good piece of play just happens to be kicking the goal, whereas the guy who creates one from a crumb is getting a goal that most other players wouldn't get. |
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Dangles
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| How about Chris Yarran? I think he'd go alright in the forward pocket if he was given a chance and he's getable. |
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Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| Chris Yarran? |
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Dangles
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Yes. He's a skillful player with elite speed. That's X factor isn't it? |
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Pies4shaw
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| Surely you jest? |
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Dangles
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| Absolutely not. He'd be great in a good team. You can't blame him for dropping his head at his current basketcase of a club. |
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Domesticated_Ape
Joined: 01 Oct 2012
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I'm not interested in paying a high price for a flashy small forward. A free agent would be fine, but too many of these x-factor types get picked up outside of the top 30 in the draft to make trading for them practical.
Steve Motlop, Michael Walters and Charlie Cameron are 3 recent examples. I reckon we just need to draft one, they seem to come on really quickly. |
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