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List Mgmt. Welcome Harley Reid (Pick 1, 2023 National Draft)
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Rowell was good but he certainly didn’t burst away from packs and through tacklers like Harley.
Harley is a key established member of our midfield after 5 games. He is a freak.
I think it's something to do with Brendan Fevola, he was nicknamed the fevaloosh or something apparently.
I like the J-train personally (after Snakeof course) but he needs a few more bags to live up to that moniker!
Not sure about Waterman, but can confirm that Fevola was in the habit of referring to himself in the third person as "The Fevolution" during his time in Brisbane, which often did get reduced by others to "loosh".
Mate every Vic club will be cumming hard for Reid....Collingwood, Carlton, Geelong, Tigers....all of them will try.
From what I've seen and heard though, he doesn't strike me as a one (contract) and done guy.
Just enjoy watching him
Think you're seriously underrating Rowell's first games before he went down.
He was bursting through tackles and packs.
Nine Brownlow votes in games 2-4 in an average side pretty much tells you how good he was.
Much more effective. He was as dominant as you’d ever see for a first year player.
Definitely not as pleasing on the eye as Harley, not many are
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Rowells kicking is a bit dinky floaty up and under helicopter Matt Rosa-ish.
Agree he was awesome until one of our spuds broke him.
Agree he was awesome until one of our spuds broke him.
He's a very good player, but he kicks like a fresh convert from another code
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Much more effective. He was as dominant as you’d ever see for a first year player.
Definitely not as pleasing on the eye as Harley, not many are
I think people are forgetting how good Rowell was before he hurt his shoulder.
What Harley did on the weekend, Rowell did 3 times in his first 4 games before getting injured in the first quarter of his 5th game.
Rowell’s debut game was pretty good but not special and then he went on a tear.
In rounds 2-4 he got 30 coaches votes & 9 Brownlow votes.
We were talking about whether he could win the rising star/brownlow double.
I think people have very short memories.
The smile brothers!
We didn't break him, he destroyed us in the first game of the covid hub.
GC played Geelong a few weeks later and they made a big deal of talking up targeting him during the week. Selwood or Danger went out of their way to smash him and busted his shoulder.
Yeah, we ****ed up his knee the second time around, not the first.
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Yep. All paid in the next 3 years.
I don’t know if this is based on what I posted on here a while ago, but yes this is what I heard too, from one of the Geelong physios who was treating me lol
They were like - only way to stop the campaigner is to injure him
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Incidentally Harley's game on the weekend was statistically quite similar to his final game last year in the Wild Card Round against Geelong Falcons where he had 27 disposals, 16 contested possessions, 8 clearances, 4 inside 50s and a goal.
That was one of his better games at Talent League, but it's good to see that there is no drop in form despite jumping a number of levels of magnitude in professionalism and quality. Often times even the top rated talents outputs diminish dramatically (particularly those playing roles such as inside midfielder or key forward). Or it takes them years to find their rhythm (ala Petracca), but not Harley.
That was one of his better games at Talent League, but it's good to see that there is no drop in form despite jumping a number of levels of magnitude in professionalism and quality. Often times even the top rated talents outputs diminish dramatically (particularly those playing roles such as inside midfielder or key forward). Or it takes them years to find their rhythm (ala Petracca), but not Harley.
Yep - partly of chatter I read on here and reading between the lines in comments the Geelong players made after the game.
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