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Bucks2014
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| 69 years a MAGPIE wrote: | | Absolutely pissed when the doggies grabbed him at 4 in the draft. Reckon DH would have dropped his jaw to the floor if the Bont was still available at 5. |
Think you mean 6. Very unfortunate, he was a bolter at one stage they were thinking around pick 40. My favourite player other than our captain. What a gun he is.
Pick 1: Tom Boyd (GWS)
Pick 2: Josh Kelly (GWS)
Pick 3: Jack Billings (St Kilda)
Pick 4: Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)
Pick 5: Kade Kolodjashnij (Gold Coast)
Pick 6: Matthew Scharenberg (Collingwood)
Pick 7: James Aish (Brisbane)
Pick 8: Luke McDonald (F/S – North Melbourne)
Pick 9: Christian Salem (Melbourne)
Pick 10: Nathan Freeman (Collingwood)
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jackcass 
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| Bucks2014 wrote: | | 69 years a MAGPIE wrote: | | Absolutely pissed when the doggies grabbed him at 4 in the draft. Reckon DH would have dropped his jaw to the floor if the Bont was still available at 5. |
Think you mean 6. Very unfortunate, he was a bolter at one stage they were thinking around pick 40. My favourite player other than our captain. What a gun he is.
Pick 1: Tom Boyd (GWS)
Pick 2: Josh Kelly (GWS)
Pick 3: Jack Billings (St Kilda)
Pick 4: Marcus Bontempelli (Western Bulldogs)
Pick 5: Kade Kolodjashnij (Gold Coast)
Pick 6: Matthew Scharenberg (Collingwood)
Pick 7: James Aish (Brisbane)
Pick 8: Luke McDonald (F/S – North Melbourne)
Pick 9: Christian Salem (Melbourne)
Pick 10: Nathan Freeman (Collingwood) |
Nah 5. Suns were always into Kolodjashnij so if Bont had have gotten past the Doggies he was ours I reckon. |
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5 from the wing on debut
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| magpieazza wrote: | | 5 from the wing on debut wrote: | | magpieazza wrote: | I too am a believer of the high pressure/team defense game, run up run back run up run back and so on.
If you like to watch teams who play for eachother, have cohesion and high press please have a look at Liverpool, English premier league, this season, they will win it or go at least top four.
Jurgen Klopp has molded his team into a team of gut busting runners who follow an established game plan. He has world class strikers who sit on the bench if they dont do the team thing.
He also is a great communicator and players play for him.....alot of love and strong bonds made in a short amount of time. (Luke Beveridge comes to mind). Maybe Bux has got strong bonds, IDK Im not privy to that.
Apart from bonds and love etc, Im afraid we need to have a team of mobile endurance runners to start with as a platform. Perhaps medium forwards that can take a grab and can run all day ( Ben Lennon? ) could become valuable players.
The one thing that frustrates me about Cloke is that he can run all day and he can take a grab, but somehow it hasn't clicked for him, whereby once he was as influential as they came. I still believe he is worth more than a third round pick. If he goes to the dogs Beveridge may turn him around and what a bargain pick up that will be to our direct competitor. |
That Cloke can run all day is a historical statement just as Peter McKenna can kick a lot of goals. It was once true but it's not true now.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't the only game this year that Cloke was able to take strong marks against GWS? Wasn't that the game that he wore the apparently too sticky glove, and once the glove was eliminated so was his strong marking? |
I have to say that Clokes' running ability is not in question, without looking at direct gps numbers, he runs the pants off all key position defenders, as stated by various media scribes.
His marking has dropped off admittedly but you don't lose that sort of talent overnight, for Clokey its a confidence thing and it would not surprise me at all if he started clunking them again. |
I haven't looked at any stats or figures to back up what I have said, it's just my opinion based upon what I have seen, as is what I will say below.
I wouldn't say that Cloke has ever been much of a pack mark as he has never really been a jumper. He has been a strong one on one mark if the ball comes in quickly enough to allow for that, or he has been a strong mark leading well up the ground as opponents his size were not able to keep up with him.
Excluding the GWS game which was the sticky glove outlier, his marking is on the slide. I don't know that it can be put down to confidence. He has trouble getting away from his opponents to mark like he used to. That can only be because he has been told not to, or is unable to. Given that I have read that the club wanted him to lose weight to become more mobile (I will assume that is true) the likely reason is that he is unable to get away from his opponents.
The other issue is the defensive pressure that he puts on the opposition. Has he made many tackles this year that have resulted in turnovers and goals? Has he chased and harassed defenders? What I have seen tells me that he hasn't. Why would that be? He doesn't want to, or he is unable to? I don't for a second think that he is not trying. I believe that he just can't do it any more.
I have no animosity towards him. I like him. I remember his first game vividly. It's just as I think his form hit the skids last season (2015) and it has continued to decline from there.
If he goes to the Dogs and I am wrong and he does well I will be happy for him, but not if he does it on the back of a drop in weight that he could have done, but did not do, with us. |
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HAL
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| Maybe you should tell him how you feel about him. |
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Bucks2014
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I don't mind this pick up, terrible 2016 but so did his mates.
If he could kick 30-40 a year and continue with his defensive pressure then it's definitely a win.
The worry for me is the rumoured 4 years.
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RudeBoy
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| Bucks2014 wrote: | I don't mind this pick up, terrible 2016 but so did his mates.
If he could kick 30-40 a year and continue with his defensive pressure then it's definitely a win.
The worry for me is the rumoured 4 years. |
Let's hope the 4th year is performance based. I'm not opposed to getting him, but to be honest, I really don't know how good/bad he is as I haven't watched enough Docker games. |
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stui magpie 
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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| 69 years a MAGPIE wrote: | | Absolutely pissed when the doggies grabbed him at 4 in the draft. Reckon DH would have dropped his jaw to the floor if the Bont was still available at 5. |
No chance his jaw would have hit the floor, his todger would have stood up so hard and fast it would have near fractured his jaw and given him whiplash.
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MagpieBat
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How have you not won an award for your mastery of the English language...?
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stui magpie
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Do multiple warnings count as awards? 
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MagpieBat
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Not around here, no...
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stui magpie
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Funny that. Several bosses over the years have said similar.  
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piedys 
Heeeeeeere's Dyso!!!
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Do multiple warnings count as awards? |
Me too! We should compile our collection and see if we have the NBB record!
| stui magpie wrote: | | Funny that. Several bosses over the years have said similar. |
Just mount the written warnings in A4-size frames along the wall in the study hall-of-fame like I do.
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stui magpie
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I'd need a longer hall.
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Dave The Man 
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I find it interesting we hear nothing about him on Trade Radio this week
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Raw Hammer
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Rumour is that he's considering Bris as a destination option. Good. Chase Fufe in 12 months.
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