23 hours ago, chook fowler said:

There is something about Clarries composure, intensity at the contest and ability to release the ball to advantage by hand that is truly outstanding and as long as his body doesn't let him down must have the makings of an elite career. Also Viney seems to have gained a yard of pace - he's almost impossible to catch now and his kicking has improved out of sight. He certainly has his old man covered in that area. 

Hasn't he. I really noticed that against Collingwood. The bloke is willing himself to be great. I'm sure of it.

22 minutes ago, DemonLad5 said:

Because he is a liability to make the journey from 50m. His run up is all over the place. His accuracy has dropped this year and it doesn't take a genius to see that it needs work

So the St Kilda game and the selfless work he did against the Gold Coast count for nothing?

23 minutes ago, DemonLad5 said:

Because he is a liability to make the journey from 50m. His run up is all over the place. His accuracy has dropped this year and it doesn't take a genius to see that it needs work

17.11 is hardly a disaster accuracy wise, especially when he's something like 14.9 in set shots, when the run up is most relevant. You're making it sound like he kicks like Buddy used to at his worst. It's a complete fallacy. Who cares how we runs up? Nobody complains about Josh Kennedy.

Just now, Undeeterred said:

17.11 is hardly a disaster accuracy wise, especially when he's something like 14.9 in set shots, when the run up is most relevant. You're making it sound like he kicks like Buddy used to at his worst. It's a complete fallacy. Who cares how we runs up? Nobody complains about Josh Kennedy.

I agree in terms of his accuracy, but I think his run up does hinder his ability to kick the 'long ball' so to speak.  Anything above 45 metres seems to trouble him a little and I think this is down to his run up during set shots.  He isn't a naturally long kick of the football and a stuttering run up doesn't give him the momentum to kick it long distances.

His actual accuracy at goal is a myth, too - as you rightly point out he is a pretty good kick for goal, it was just one game where he fluffed a few that drew all the attention.  It was unwarranted.

On 09/05/2016 at 2:07 PM, Spirit of 26 said:

Saint's performance yesterday puts last week's effort into perspective.

We got closer to North than they did.  Also, North were gifted six goals directly from dodgy umpiring calls against us.  If the Umps had called the game fairly we won by a pretty substantial margin.