Jaded No More
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Go watch the third quarter again. Instrumental. This guy had barely no pre season, a mountain of personal issues to deal with, and is playing with a busted hand. The glaring lack of understanding and empathy is totally unnecessary. This guy has carried our side more than once and you can’t find me one player at Casey who could come in and be half as good as he is, even at his current lower output. 10 pressure acts, equal second highest clearance, highest goal assists. And he did not pull up short, he avoided a suspension. To suggest Clarry is nothing but incredibly brave and tough is plain wrong. Try playing with a dislocated finger.- 38 replies
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They’re playing Norf, which is good as they’ll win and the pressure will come right off. I certainly don’t want to play a 0-5 Brisbane coming off a loss to a bottom side!
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This. JT has such a good eye for talent. It is one thing to get it right in the first round, but he repeatedly nails it in rounds 2,3,4 and even into the rookie draft. He is by far our biggest asset and should he ever think of leaving I would lock him at Casey fields and throw away the key.
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Now this, this is an interstate trip worth taking. Get on the wines, watch your team win, get on the wines again! The Barossa is beautiful. As for the money the SA government has tipped in, the amount of tourism this round generates is well worth it for them. You literally wouldn’t think twice about Adelaide as a school holiday destination if there was no Gather Round. It’s certainly less wasteful than throwing money away at Comm games only to cancel them 🙄
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Wow there are some absolute nobodies in that list taken by Adelaide. It’s no wonder they are where they are. Who is Fisher McAsey? 😂
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They SAY they don't, but lets not pretend like the MRO doesn't have distinct bias in play.
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I didn't follow Billings closely at St Kilda, because well, who cares about St Kilda. I know he's had a lot of injuries throughout his career, but was he struggling with injuries a lot last year too? If he's still building back his fitness, it could certainly explain the fumbles, miss kicks and poor tackling we saw from him last night. Fatigue does that to you, and for someone still getting back into match fitness, a 5 day break would be so hard. Ben Brown and Petty's poor goal kicking IMO was also fatigue related. Both with minimal pre seasons, coming back from serious injuries, and both struggling off a 5 day break.
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I have to say, I thought Adelaide in general were very fair last night. I was especially impressed with Walker who I expected would try and absolutely smash into May. He had plenty of opportunities but didn’t. Same with the rest of their forwards. They also received a lot of frees that frankly they didn’t deserve for high contact, BUT unlike Port, their players weren’t throwing themselves around. It was just the umpires being horrible and getting sucked in by the crowd.
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I agree and I certainly think we aim to break even in all stats, but win the contested ball and defensive efforts.
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I don't think so. The real stat is how damaging are the clearances that we win, versus the ones the opposition win. When we win a centre clearance it's almost always resulting in an inside 50. No so much our opponents. We also score very highly for centre clearances. I am not so fussed about pure numbers, it's about outcomes and I think we are just as happy to attack from half back after losing a centre clearance, as we are to attack from a centre clearance itself. It's the around the ground contested stuff that really matters.
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Kosi has to learn, and I rather he misses games early on in the season and realises the MRO will come down hard on him, than get suspended ahead of or during finals again. He is still young, but gees he has to just cut it out. He is not achieving anything except hurting the team. And for those who say it's laughable if he gets suspended, well if the shoe was on the other foot and Maynard did that to on of our players, you'd be out for blood. It is just not a necessary action, especially to leave the ground and then raise the elbow. That is, and will continue to be a suspendable action!
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He is selfless and does what he is asked to do, but isn't it lovely to have another mid in the rotation who can step up and deliver when one of our A+ graders is struggling with injury or illness (like Clarry and Viney were last night). His defensive work is fantastic, really underrated, and his ability to impact the scoreboard is second only behind Trac... who would have 40 goals a year if he could kick straight.
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Billings plays a different role. I’m less annoyed about the goal kicking, Petty had a stinker too, and more annoyed about the number of missed tackles to be honest.
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That happens with forwards sometimes, especially when we lose the inside 50 count so comprehensively in the first half. What is amazing is how big of an impact that man has on a match off so few possessions. He can have a 3 minute burst in a game and kill the opposition. Like Kosi, give him an inch and he will take a mile and 3 goals.
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Sometimes your best players at 50% are better than your next available at 100%. Tell me who would be better tonight, May with 3 broken ribs or Tomlinson? AWM and Tholstrup would not have had the impact Chandler had today even with a sore knee. And Schache wouldn’t have taken away a good defender and halved contests like Brown did for three quarters. Hell Clarry with his busted hand was pivotal to turning the game in the third quarter. Elite players find a way and they are irreplaceable, so you play them as often as you can when there are critical wins on the line. If we played West Coast today May wouldn’t have played. Nor Oliver.
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If graded medium we will go the tribunal and argue to downgrade it to low since there was no impact.
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May with the 6 votes. Two for each broken rib he played with tonight. An absolute warrior!
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Optics = bad = gone One day this boy will miss a Grand Final. He should only get a week as impact is low. But really just unnecessary.
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McAdams would be a good replacement for Kosi. Any chance? Kosi has got to just stop leaving the ground and raising his elbow. It always looks bad and for such a good player he’s missing too much footy for too many stupid decisions.
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How good is Windsor? Blown away by his poise, footy IQ, and ability to win the contest. 10/10 drafting again.
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Brown subbed off in the last. Clarry with a busted hand doing his best
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Also hi to David King who said we won’t make the 8
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How funny is Adelaide booing Lever.
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We were absolutely cooked in the last. We put the foot down in the third knowing we would run out of gas in the last. That last quarter was just professional defensive slog. Brilliant. Don’t underestimate how tough these two games were.
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Steven May take an absolute bow. What a star!!! A great team performance, against the umps, off a 5 day break, against a team that desperately needed a win at their home ground. So proud of this club, after all the garbage we had thrown at us this off season, we didn’t let it impact us instead we said “watch this” 🫡
