Very Jaded
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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 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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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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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” 🫡
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