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What's wrong with the half-back line?

Are you saying the likes of Jason Gram are wasted running off half-back?

No use playing him in the midfield if he isn't going to do anything

agree. fix the backline, develop the midfield, and worry about the forward line once we are winning our fair share of the ball. attack off half-back is critical.

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Fork, what game were you watching?

Sorry Yze, happy to have a laugh with you about your amazing social life, Ben Cousins and David Neitz, but discuss serious football matters I will not.

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Sylvia plays like he thinks he's great. Sadly, he isn't.

Not sure what you mean by this but I am tired of watching guys who look like they can't play AND back it up with poor disposal as well as players who are one sided.

I liked what I saw from him in the last quarter when he was playing in the backline. At least when you give him a task, he doesn't look so utterly lost in space.

Agreed.

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If Sylvia had Robbos role, he would have kicked 6 and kept us in the game

Sylvia is a better kick than Robbo, is smarter, stronger, and he keeps his feet. His vertical leap is as good as or nbetter thna Robbos, and he has stronger hands. Add to that, Colin will give SECOND EFFORTS inside the forward 50

Of course, the problem with Colin at full forward is that he doesnt have a clone of himself upfield to hit him lace out on the lead.

Wow, the answer to our foward line problems, make Sylvia the focal point and watch him kick 100 for the season, how could our coaching staff over the last 4 or 5 seasons not have thought of this?

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He was our second best today behind Davey, we just have to accept he is not going to be our superstar that we need. He is an average AFL player with more upside that Neitz, Bruce, Green, White, Robbo, Mcdonald. He is a required player of the future and don't live in the past, the players 26+ aren't a part of our future, this guy is.

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Its all perfectly obvious........Yze_magic IS Colin Sylvia

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Seriously, he did not try the whole first half and was pathetic, did not waste it cos I dont think he touched it, hard to waste it when you don't get it, but wait I do remember him gettin it on the boundary and kicking to a roos players so you are completely wrong, he finally did something in the last quarter when the game was over and north had already gone home.

I had massive wraps for this kid, but he disappoints me more than 90% of the other players, he has so much talent, but is a lazy footballer who wants to argue with his opponent rather than play the game.

He is about 12 months away from being regarded as a wasted talent.


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To Colin Sylvia's credit he has turned his form around and is starting to resemble something of a player. I hope he can make further strides to become somethign the club needs....a star player!

Great to see "the kid" back playing good footy.

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1 quarter when the game is dead and buried is not "good footy"

Exactly, If he had of done it from the first bounce then I would sing his praises.

He did look ok down back though, maybe a new HBFer in the making.

Posted

FYI everyone, he had 4 inside 50s at half-time. I think many of you are underrating his performance yesterday. I also think he had the most effective possessions then anyone else on the field...or just for Melbourne...according to 774 ABC. One of the two. Probably the latter...

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He did look ok down back though, maybe a new HBFer in the making.

Hope so for his sake.

His skills are good when he gets the ball, but he tries too much to play like Nick Riewoldt. He just doesn't have the height to consistently get first hands on the incoming ball, and doesn't have the strength to work his man under the ball. Several reasonable kicks to him today were easily fisted away - if he'd just gone straight at the footy with two hands forward, at least he'd have made a contest.

His defensive skills as a forward, while laudably aggressive, are dumb. He doesn't anticipate the contest well, so he's often half a step too late to make a critical impact. He's hard at the man with the ball, but forgets about the opposition player on him - several times today he ran to a contest on the forward flank to apply pressure to the opposition ball-carrier, arrived late, and forgot about his own man, who was then able to support in the rebound. He either needs to be at the contest faster, or ensure whoever is playing on him is stopped from becoming the rebounding defender (ie. he needs to learn how to shepherd instead of trying to be the give-off option).

He looked pretty solid back there in defence. Read the incoming ball pretty well, though he's still too short to contest high balls. Plus the opposition have to worry about him because he's actually quite damaging when he runs off the half back flank - at the very least he makes the opposition play accountable football, which he doesn't do quite so well in the forward line.

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FYI everyone, he had 4 inside 50s at half-time. I think many of you are underrating his performance yesterday. I also think he had the most effective possessions then anyone else on the field...or just for Melbourne...according to 774 ABC. One of the two. Probably the latter...

Dont bother mate

Their blind hate for Colin wont let them see the facts

The kid can play. He could have 30 touches and 5 goals, and people will still bag him.

Morons.

Guest redandbluethruandthru
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yeah sylvia is a gun. a spud gun, might hurt a tiny bit for 5 minutes then nothing.

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Jesus. Just what we need. More Y_M garbage... Not even NEW Y_M garbage. This place has been almost bearable in his absence. Don't go ruining it now.


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