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2017 Player Reviews: # 14 Michael Hibberd

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RECRUITING SUCCESS STORY

Hibberd started the season slowly recovering from injury but he quickly stamped himself as one of the club's great recruiting success stories of all time. The versatile defender added polish and experience to the Demon line up after a year off as a result of the Essendon doping scandal outcome, capping off a great season with All Australian honours. 

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Date of Birth: 3 January, 1990

Height: 186cm

Weight: 90kg

Games MFC 2017: 18

Career Total: 102

Goals MFC 2017: 1

Career Total: 18

CDFC Games: 1

CDFC Goals: 0

 

Season 2017 AFL Statistics

Kicks: 305

Handballs: 188

Disposals: 493

Marks: 97

Scores: 1 goals 1 behinds

Goal Assists: 5

Tackles: 23

Hitouts: 0

Clearances: 17

Clangers: 57

Inside 50s: 48

Rebound 50s: 123

Frees For: 18

Frees Against: 11

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DeeZone Redleg

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What a pick up Hibbo has been, what a great re-bounder, hope he stays fit and healthy and playing the way he does, brings plenty to the MFC - Thanks Michael...............................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mining for silver...struck gold !!

Thanks Efc.

Hopefully Pig will return and have a 'better' year in 2018 :rolleyes:   waxing with his fellow AA squadee ;)

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He has been a gun, best of all he has been ultra-reliable. Both he and Jetta have been rock solid all year, rarely beaten. The rest of our backline has been more variable, not bad but just variable in performance. Obviously consistency is the next piece of the puzzle if we are going to take it to the next level.

We have Hibbo and Jetta in the back, Jones and Clarry in the middle but no consistent performers in the forward line and this really concerns me. We obviously get flashes of brilliance from the likes of Jeffy and Hoges and Trac seems to be building but you can't put together a season with people varying their performance so dramatically from week to week. I think some of it can be put down to injury and not getting a solid run at it, but some must be down to training habits and preparation.

It will be interesting to see how this is addressed in the off season. By the sounds of things the leadership group is on the war path and coming down on those who's preparation and intensity has been lacking from time to time. Lets hope this brings results, Hibbo is a solid role model for any backman.

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Offensively he is an absolute weapon, and clearly an outstanding pick-up from the Peptides

Defensively he doesn’t tackle, so it will be interesting to see how his role adjusts in 2018 with the excepted acquisition of Lever, who will take over the intercept and set-up defensive position role if we are fortunate enough to recruit him

Hibberd’s kicking is absolutely extraordinary - that left boot is lethal 

I didn’t expect him to be anything like the player that he was for us in 2017

He’s a gun

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His work was fantastic from round 5 to about round 19, when the year out and an interrupted pre-season finally caught up with him.

I think he was a little lucky to be All Australian given that he missed a month, but we are owed a few, so I'm not going to complain.

For the same reason I don't think he'll finish in the top 3 in the B&F, but he'll certainly be top 5. 

All in all he was a great recruit and hopefully he can back that up with a strong 2018.

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