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| Pies4shaw wrote: | ^ No he isn't a whipping boy. He just played a poor game. The two are quite different.
My view on Wills is simple. I like him. I've advocated for his inclusion in previous seasons. I watched his last VFL game against Essendon and thought he had no impact on the game early when it was there to be won. It was my view that he would not be able to play good footy at AFL level in that form. The team then had a bye and he was picked after the bye, more or less out of necessity - we lost two mids and no-one else could be picked following the Essendon VFL game because the senior-listed mids were all useless in that match until the game was over. He played about how I thought he might on the back of what I'd seen in the VFL.
Langdon is the whipping boy - it doesn't matter who falls over in the goal square, who misses the defensive punch or which player's opponent does all the damage for the opposition, he gets the blame for it. The team has got the second best defence in the AFL and people still want him replaced by a bloke who can't run out of sight on a dark night, hasn't touched a footy in anger for 12 months and apparently can't stand up for any length of time without his ACLs falling out. |
i agree with this.
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| Presti35 wrote: | | Rupert Wills |
Hardly. He isn't up to AFL level, being honest about that doesn't make him a whipping boy.
Tom Phillips on the other hand, holy crap. Now that's a whipping boy - read the game day thread on Bigfooty and see how much flak he cops only to end up being rated as one of the best on ground by the coaches/media etc.
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Ah, fresh meat with Wells being selected.
More of a whipping senior cit than a whipping boy though.
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| More fresh meat with Magden back in the side. |
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | .....
The only possible candidate in the present lineup is Langdon. It doesn’t matter how many games he plays in a row, which players he is selected before or how many times he takes more marks than other Collingwood defender, all-time, in a preliminary final, it’s going to be his personal responsibility every time the opposition scores a goal. Moreover, Tommy is a proper whipping boy, because the better he gets and the harder he tries, the more people complain about him. |
Well Langdon’s done SFA this season
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^ He's soft, wpt. Proper footballers play through knee injuries.  |
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Feel like Callum Brown has developed into a whipping boy for some of our supporters.
Been progressing nicely this year in my opinion.
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| He was one of our best 3 again today. |
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| Maybe it's difficult to have a whipping boy when there are so many injuries, including the possible whipping boys. |
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2020; JT.
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^At least I know what his role is now.
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| Sicks Bux wrote: | | ^At least I know what his role is now. |
Very good! 
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| Presti35 wrote: | | Rupert Wills |
So... does that make him a Whippoorwill?
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| So with Josh Thomas' game yesterday the vacancy is again open. |
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