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640MD Redleg

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One handball he gave this week was so quick, straight to our bloke running past....goal  I need to look it up   3rd quarter I think, with an opponent over his shoulder   really great     Go Dees

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11 minutes ago, 640MD said:

One handball he gave this week was so quick, straight to our bloke running past....goal  I need to look it up   3rd quarter I think, with an opponent over his shoulder   really great     Go Dees

To Sparrow, I think. Sensational!

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To understand Spargo's game you need to watch those highlight packages like what The Mighty Demons does on YouTube, showing every possession through the course of a game.

Watching those you realise that he just doesn't waste it with ball in hand, and there's no more important spot to do that than entering inside 50. I'll put my hand up and say I was very ambivalent about Spargs as an AFL player, he has proved me so wrong. Well done lad

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For a long time being short has been seen as a disadvantage for afl footballers, and in many ways it is.

But Spargo uses his status as being low to the ground to change direction quickly with quick steps and baulks and then to deliver short sharp kicks. Add in the free kicks he draws (at times cheekily) and he takes advantage of his lack of stature.

He played a little on the wing on the weekend I think. I’d still love to see him get the occasional centre bounce, he might get pushed around but I think he’d be really creative in there. 

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The importance Sparg’s role is greatly underrated in the media, and perhaps on here. As a small forward, he is every bit as important to our team ‘values’ and performance as are Kossi and Nibbler.

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3 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

For a long time being short has been seen as a disadvantage for afl footballers, and in many ways it is.

But Spargo uses his status as being low to the ground to change direction quickly with quick steps and baulks and then to deliver short sharp kicks. Add in the free kicks he draws (at times cheekily) and he takes advantage of his lack of stature.

He played a little on the wing on the weekend I think. I’d still love to see him get the occasional centre bounce, he might get pushed around but I think he’d be really creative in there. 

He was an All Australian under 16 team member playing majority as an on baller.

What a lot don't realise is that he was a dominant junior player as playing as an on baller was his natural position. 

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4 hours ago, Doggas front teeth said:

To understand Spargo's game you need to watch those highlight packages like what The Mighty Demons does on YouTube, showing every possession through the course of a game.

Watching those you realise that he just doesn't waste it with ball in hand, and there's no more important spot to do that than entering inside 50. I'll put my hand up and say I was very ambivalent about Spargs as an AFL player, he has proved me so wrong. Well done lad

I always knew he had a footy brain a cut above the team average but figured he had no other assets.

Then he kicked a goal in the finals against the Hawks a few years back..after the first quarter siren and right on his limit ( which then was 35 to 40 metres) and I started to wonder what he could become.

It took a while but I'm a fan even if he smiles even less than TMac

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5 hours ago, Engorged Onion said:

Does he still get ridiculed for not being able to kick over a jam tin? #spargomyths

He can’t kick over a jam tin, but while the jam tin lid is untouched - he can kick anywhere on the side of the tin that faces him…

Very accurate.

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39 minutes ago, rpfc said:

He can’t kick over a jam tin, but while the jam tin lid is untouched - he can kick anywhere on the side of the tin that faces him…

Very accurate.

Too complex and nuanced for me mate. As Pauline once said …”please explain?”

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He can’t kick over a jam tin, but while the jam tin lid is untouched - he can kick anywhere on the side of the tin that faces him…

Very accurate.

he knows his capabilities that’s his strength.  He won’t be a strong mid or a electric kosssy like forward 

he’s a smart thinker who sets up scoring opportunities (“assists” is the statistical term) 

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Surely this is the thread where we discuss whether @picket fence should change his profile name to:

@picketspargo

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@spargopicketfence

I don’t think I’ve seen an acceptance of making a wrong call as yet?

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2 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Excuse my ignorance but what is a 'money kick'.  Has another americanism crept into our great game?

They've just coined it for this article,, it's not the new 'quarterback'.

Spargs is the number 1 player in the league for percentage of kicks inside 50 that result in a mark.

This may help too:

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