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Is it too late to nominate Tom McDonald for NAB Rising Star?

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I think Brisbane's Green will walk it in this week... his was a truly amazing game as a sub who came on and turned the whole game around for them.

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I think Brisbane's Green will walk it in this week... his was a truly amazing game as a sub who came on and turned the whole game around for them.

Let's be fair here. Green had four disposals. Three were goals, sure, but he touched the ball four times, and only featured for about 25 minutes.

Tom McDonald played 100% of the game (btw, I like this about Neeld. He'll keep players on the ground for the entire game if need be) and dominated his opponent(s).

Green was good. McDonald was better.

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Let's be fair here. Green had four disposals. Three were goals, sure, but he touched the ball four times, and only featured for about 25 minutes.

Tom McDonald played 100% of the game (btw, I like this about Neeld. He'll keep players on the ground for the entire game if need be) and dominated his opponent(s).

Green was good. McDonald was better.

Lets be fairer here, Hurley could have kicked at least 4 pretty easily. McDonald saved a couple of goals with great efforts, but he could have leaked a few as well. Green came on and undeniably won a game, that gets the nod for me any day of the week.
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Lets be fairer here, Hurley could have kicked at least 4 pretty easily. McDonald saved a couple of goals with great efforts, but he could have leaked a few as well. Green came on and undeniably won a game, that gets the nod for me any day of the week.

'Undeniably won a game'? Really? He sure helped, no doubt, but I think there were plenty of Brisbane players who played out of their skins in the last quarter. Green wasn't the only one. They kicked 8 goals.

Would it not be fair to say that, since he kicked the last goal, Polkinghorne 'undeniably won' them the game?

I'm being a bit facetious here, but I fundamentally disagree with your argument that, since Green kicked three of eight goals, he won Brisbane the game. He didn't. He played a role. Just like McDonald did. McDonald stood up in the last quarter (like many MFC players did), and though he didn't kick three goals and thus grab the attention, he still stood up.

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Dylan Sheil got the nod this week. Seems with GWS & GC we've gone well away from the tradition of taking rising stars from sides that win on the weekend. Oh well, spose it gives the Franchises a chance to pump out more positive media releases to reaffirm their existence?

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One quarter, no matter how good, would turn the award into a joke.

Well, I got it wrong and you are vindicated :-) But as far as turning the award into a joke, I disagree... this award is for the Rising Star and if a player shows enough in a quarter of football to indicate that they will be a star, then they are deserving of a nomination; particularly if in that quarter they are able to inspire their far more experienced team mates to an unlikely victory.

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McDonald is too inconspicuous to ever win a nomination for this. He doesn't have the flair of a mid or forward, and he doesn't have a "trick" like Rivers did in his winning year (play reading). He's just not the sort of player that gets people talking; he'll play 50 games before anyone outside the club even knows who he is. If he keeps playing the way he has been then that's fine with me.

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Nominee was Shiel of GWS who played quite well in a losing side so I guess that's fair enough.

I just hope the club continues to produce one or two players every week who play well in losing sides.

I just hope our club continues to produce one or two players every week who play well in winning sides.

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Love the way Tom goes about it. He surely makes his share of clangers at the moment but I like the way he keeps going on, trusting his run. And while on trust, despite the occasional stuff ups it is noticeable that his team mates continue to look for him in transition. Probably won't get a nom this week but I really rate the way he is developing.

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