Aside from Papley, without Buddy the swans have no other focul point up forward to kick a winning score.
A couple of town criers down back, a court jester for a ruckman and a half decent bunch of eunuchs elsewhere
RTOI required in order to prop up sunk stadium funding...as ordered by the Comptroller of the Govt Treasury funding the third tranch of this tax payer funded stadium upgrade!
Yep...the only reason i can think of is they want to see how his back holds up in real match conditions as there's still a slim question mark
Otherwise he should be straight in.
This might be partly Goody though as if you recall his pressors he keeps mentioning "zero risk" on player fitness.
Surely if he can play Casey he can play seniors?
Is there a point when you become so risk averse however, that it ends up biting you in the behind and costing the team instead?
So Neale picks the ball up and blind turns away from potential tackles, but then runs straight into a tackler.
Had prior.... 4 umps.
That's immediately HTB right there...blow the whistle.
But nup..... im gonna give Neale all the time in the world to get out of this tackle even though he's already had more than sufficient prior.
So what happens.... tackler spins him around as Neale's trying to escape tackle and Neale ends up on the turf with one arm pinged.
After all that the umpire finally makes the call..... dangerous tackle!
So whose fault is the end result?
It's the umpire for not calling HTB immediately Neale spun away from his opponents and straight into that tackle.
Ditector of Umpiring &/or AFL need to fix this blight on the game & pronto.
Sits back and calls for the ball to be delivered most of the time & most of the time from behind.
If it falls into his 'preferred' drop zone he looks great and occasionally a million $$
When it doesn't ...well.
And it often doesn't, which then sees him sooking for it a la Richo.
The diff is of course that Richo had a massive tank and worked his opponents over by running them allover the park and capitalising on the fall out. Nick Reiwoldt the same. If Hogan had that work ethic/attitude he'd probably be a diff kettle of fish.
Might be looking to get a fair chunk of real game time into him and see how his back pulls up for the following week?
Get a bit of touch/form as well before returning.
Pretty sure the FD will want him back in ASAP subject to fitness / reasonable form.
No.1 for goal averages so far
No. 6 for score involvements &
No. 3 for inside 50 ground ball gets (a smidgen behind Clarry & Tracc who are equal 1st)