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Letting Acres and Bruce go set us back, Acres will help the Blues win a flag, Bruce would have accelerated the development of King and helped us win more games.
Unusual for chess grand master to have such a bad memory.
Blake's strike rate was that he played one good game in a couple of blue moons. Lost the game for the blues last week.
Bruce was a destabilising influence and has hardly had a kick for two years. He would accelerate Max's development like a busted shoulder helps marking.
You think that blues side can win a flag? What year oh pawn to bishops 4
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They can't all be champion footballers winning Brownlow medals and best and fairest awards. Blake was a developing footballer who needed time and had a role to play. Same with DMac
What I've always liked with Blake is that he's a tough bugger. Built like a brick shi!thouse. Never takes a backward step and when he hits...you know you've been hit
I think the main issue we had as a football club (going back to 2016/2017) was that we started topping up way before we even had a core group of youngsters that were ready to take the next step
I think we gave up way too much in the Freo trade and that just meant we stalled and stuffed up our chances of doing a proper rebuild
Letting Acres and Bruce go set us back, Acres will help the Blues win a flag, Bruce would have accelerated the development of King and helped us win more games.
Unusual for chess grand master to have such a bad memory.
Blake's strike rate was that he played one good game in a couple of blue moons. Lost the game for the blues last week.
Bruce was a destabilising influence and has hardly had a kick for two years. He would accelerate Max's development like a busted shoulder helps marking.
You think that blues side can win a flag? What year oh pawn to bishops 4
Yorkeys me great posting mate, what's happening, you seemed up and about last night, did that game stir up the loins? maybe a few tipples too?
Acres is even more overrated on this forum than Sharman. Doesn't the fact that he has been dumped by two clubs tell you something about him? He's got all of the skills, but is extremely inconsistent and, I suspect, doesn't follow instructions very well.
Players like that can sometimes improve later in their careers if they are in the right environment. So he might end up being a great pickup for Carlton. But we can't reach that conclusion on the basis of a couple of games: Acres has always been able to pull out great performances in the occasional game or two, it's sustaining his efforts over a season that he appears to struggle with. Even with our current injury-plagued lineup, I'm not sure who I'd want to drop for him out of the 22 selected to go round tonight.
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
- Jonathan Swift
Blake came into the team showing lots of promise. There was a lot to like.
Over time, he became slow and ponderous and telegraphed every move. In one of his last games for us, he had three successive kicks smothered because of this. Became a liability.
B.M wrote: ↑Sat 25 Mar 2023 9:34am
People seduced by his size
Ignorant rants about putting him in the ‘guts’ we laughable
He’s as outside as one gets
During his time with StK he was at times promising and at times hopeless- the girl with a curl
He’s been in the system 10 years - you’d expect him to be a better player!
Like Mason Wood - who his career is very similar to
Wood seems to be illustrating my point about how skillful, but inconsistent, players can sometimes improve significantly later in their careers. Acres might eventually do the same. But there was no good reason for our wanting to get him back once Freo let him go, which is presumably why we didn't try.
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
- Jonathan Swift
Yorkeys wrote: ↑Fri 07 Apr 2023 8:42pm
Carlton's McKay should get a week.
Will he.
North a bit stiff.
North have some classy young blokes.
Commentators wetting themselves over Carlton seemed unwarranted. North effectively had no full back or full fwd. Umpires seemed generous to Carlton.
The umpires were putrid. How many free kicks did the blues get in front of goal, dodgy 50m penalty that led to a goal, Roo player gets his head ripped off, no call.
Rugby League would have to be the stupidest, most moronic and over rated game of all time.
diddley wrote: ↑Thu 16 Mar 2023 10:11pm
Is push in the back still a rule?
We don't do rules any more.
Everything now is based on the vibe.
Carlton have a lot more supporters (and money) than North so their vibe is stronger.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
Now that I am old and know so much more, I know that I know so much about so little, and so little about so much.
diddley wrote: ↑Thu 16 Mar 2023 10:11pm
Is push in the back still a rule?
Unless a player is going for a speccy, two hands CANNOT be placed in the back to edge a player out. Forearms may be used, but only if the ball is within 5 metres. Having said that, many have been missed and I have noticed that a couple of teams are deliberately pushing opponents in the back with two hands into the contest in an attempt to create mayhem. Worse, they seem to be getting away with it. It will probably take a severe injury for the AFL to act. Collingwood is the worst offender (Jamie Elliott) but I have seen the Swans and Richmond players (Dylan Grimes) also do it.
