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degruch wrote:Did enough, great to see. Would love to see an unchanged side next week.
would think zac's ankle might be a problem.....
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23 touches, 2 goals and 5 tackles. Good game.
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Took him a while to get a kick - had around 11 handballs first. His initial reaction is a backwards handball. Not sure he had much in the way of assists early either. He lifted as did most in the 2nd half and scored a few goals and went in hard that will keep him in again. Mini's performing the minimum at the moment. Needs to be maximum consistently.
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Agree, hopefully 3 quarter time was his turning point for the season.linz wrote:He did well in the last quarter which I believe saved his bacon.
I for one wasn't impressed with his first 3 quarters and I don't care how many stats are thrown at me.
I believe he was soft. Maybe he got a rocket at 3 qtr time.
yep very quiet in the first 3 qtrslinz wrote:He did well in the last quarter which I believe saved his bacon.
I for one wasn't impressed with his first 3 quarters and I don't care how many stats are thrown at me.
I believe he was soft. Maybe he got a rocket at 3 qtr time.
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I think he had 11 or 12 possessions at 3/4 time, so he's picked up about 10 touches and 2 goals in "garbage time". Good to see him get involved and have an impact. We need to see that in a 4 quarter effort Mini, not just bobbing up for a good quarter every few weeks.
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Mini didn't have a kick in the first three quarters, so I can understand why some of you might not have noticed him. He was doing his job though, playing his role, as he has all year. He won a few at ground level and got them out. He chased. He pressured. Nothing super exciting, but I doubt that the team looks much at possessions when they're reviewing Mini's performance. Our front six combined for 73 possessions last night. Last week it was 69. It's a starvation diet, particularly for the smalls. It's nice that he got so many last night, but I expect he'll be 10-15 most weeks.
For all the talk on here of dropping him, I'm not sure who you'd replace him with. We've tried Steven, Heyne and Eddy and none of them have done much at all. There's such a huge difference between getting a big number of touches in a VFL midfield and doing it in an AFL forward line. His 23 this week will probably get him a week off from most of the bashers, but when he gets 11 or 12 against Richmond it will be right back to dropping Mini for the VFL midfielder of the week.
For all the talk on here of dropping him, I'm not sure who you'd replace him with. We've tried Steven, Heyne and Eddy and none of them have done much at all. There's such a huge difference between getting a big number of touches in a VFL midfield and doing it in an AFL forward line. His 23 this week will probably get him a week off from most of the bashers, but when he gets 11 or 12 against Richmond it will be right back to dropping Mini for the VFL midfielder of the week.
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See that is where we disagree.vacuous space wrote:. He was doing his job though, playing his role, as he has all year. .
I don't think that he has been playing his role. ... ie to apply forward pressure....anywhere near as well as he did last year.
When he does like last night it reveals to me what a difference it makes when he plays like they want him to.
His forward pressure has been MIA often this year....as has been his ability to "ice" the ball when opportunity presented.
Last night both of these aspects of his game where "back in town".
However Mini is no lone ranger this year in lack of 4 quarter application week in week out.
IMO RL has a vision for his finals team... Mini and Raph are part of it as are their roles. I have faith in RL's vision for making the best of our assets and is why I stuck fat after many were ripping into him after the Blues/Don's games.
Zac and Kosi are both part of that vision....but both are major "renovation" projects at present.
Let's hope that last night was Mini being back in town week in week out.
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