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Not many big men start the élite competition at full capability.
Cheesy, but a good start. Cheese sometimes works the best!Maybe something like
Love is in the Eyre…
Tippa was one of their better players. We gave Marty Clarke a similar opportunity, and he was nowhere near as good.
He barely rates a mention in any of the training reports. My reading of his current status is that he is performing adequately but nothing special. Reports would suggest that he has been surpassed by others.
He's a tall defender. Solid. Reliable. Strong. Does what needs to be done. Nothing flashy required.
Better than ‘I feel it coming in the Eyre tonight’?
Whilst I agree with your post (it’s exactly what we do)….im going to call out the Moneyball reference.
)Another one to work with!
Seems harshly put TD, a couple of other posts recently too (on other players). All ok mate?
Obligation? What did they owe a bloke who walked out on the club while they still wanted and needed him?
That’s an incredible game at any level. Better than anything the Brown brothers produced in 6 years at Collingwood and better than anything Fin has produced either.
Moneyball on footy terms is slightly different though, I’d add, with traits rather than stats the focus. I’d regard Markov for instance, as a moneyball recruitment, with the club targeting him specifically for his speed and ability to run and carry the ball out of defence. Traits that suited our game plan well enough that his weaknesses weren’t really an issue.Whilst I agree with your post (it’s exactly what we do)….im going to call out the Moneyball reference.
It’s NOT moneyball if you have guys that do a job and a game plan to suit.
It IS money all if you have traded them in on the back of a single stat that the Pies value over all other stats.
Key point is “a single stat”.
Moneyball is always thrown around for people traded in on the cheap. The premise of it is seemingly always misunderstood.
(High horse rant over!
Moneyball was coined from a specific club doing a specific thing in a specific league.
I definitely like the idea of having more promising talls on the list, as well as some more strong mids. They probably won't all work out, of course, but the depth & competition are healthy.
Marty Clarke on return had a disease that greatly affected him..
Moneyball in the sense that we can achieve the desired amount of goals for a potentially winning score with a number of different goal kickers without having to rely on KPF kicking a bag every week to end up with the same score. Reminds me of when we had the Rocca brothers playing together. If they kicked a bag we usually won. If they didn’t we generally lost the game. Better to spread your goal kickers around. The more the better. In fact if a team has 9 or more goal kickers in a game they will nearly always win the match.Whilst I agree with your post (it’s exactly what we do)….im going to call out the Moneyball reference.
It’s NOT moneyball if you have guys that do a job and a game plan to suit.
It IS money all if you have traded them in on the back of a single stat that the Pies value over all other stats.
Key point is “a single stat”.
Moneyball is always thrown around for people traded in on the cheap. The premise of it is seemingly always misunderstood.
(High horse rant over!
