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Bossdog
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I often sit back and watch the footy and wonder if what I see is real sometimes.......My favorite players can seem to do no wrong.....When they handball it to a player 1 metre away or get caught...Its not their fault...no one moved for them....no one spread.....

But if my least fav player does the same thing...he is useless...he should have done that or should have done this....

Sylvia bursts through the pack and stuffs up the kick,I can console myself that at least he got the ball and tried.....If Morton get a handball in the clear and stuffs up the kick....He is useless.......

If Morton(and I only use him as an example as I think he is the least popular player on our list with supporters) gets 4 possessions and stuffs up one....That is the one people remember....Not the three others that went where they were meant to....and set up the play.

We all have our fav players....we all have our players who we for one reason or another we don't like in our team....

What I'm trying to say is that all players make mistakes....but our perception of them differs.

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    Unless your favourite player was Matty Whelan and you were able to honestly say that he had 2142 impeccable disposals.

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    I often sit back and watch the footy and wonder if what I see is real sometimes.......My favorite players can seem to do no wrong.....When they handball it to a player 1 metre away or get caught...Its not their fault...no one moved for them....no one spread.....

    But if my least fav player does the same thing...he is useless...he should have done that or should have done this....

    Sylvia bursts through the pack and stuffs up the kick,I can console myself that at least he got the ball and tried.....If Morton get a handball in the clear and stuffs up the kick....He is useless.......

    If Morton(and I only use him as an example as I think he is the least popular player on our list with supporters) gets 4 possessions and stuffs up one....That is the one people remember....Not the three others that went where they were meant to....and set up the play.

    We all have our fav players....we all have our players who we for one reason or another we don't like in our team....

    What I'm trying to say is that all players make mistakes....but our perception of them differs.

    Funny you didn't say anything about Morton "bursting through the pack", but at least you got his average number of disposals right...

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