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How many touches did he get in the VFL before making his way back into the senior side?He was dropped early last year.
How many touches did he get in the VFL before making his way back into the senior side?
surely this is mostly a function of time on ground? he doesn't 'work harder' than anyone lol. he's never been near the top of our time trials. he mostly plods arounds for 2 hours racking up kilometres. i guess that's what makes a good footballer for us hey...View attachment 1954779
Bloke is on tin legs and still works harder than 95% of the AFL.
His spot is there for the taking, you’ve just got to demonstrate you’re willing to take it off him.
Name and rank top 10 whipping boys?At least he is not alone. I think we have around 10 whipping boys atm.
Name and rank top 10 whipping boys?
Hepp ain’t in my top 5…
My list (1. Being the biggest whipping boy):
1. Weiderman - recruited to play forward
2. Weiderman - trialled back
3. Hind - on the rise post elbow & port brain farts
4. Kelly - steady in 4
5. McGrath - dropped 6 places after first 3 games then jumped back up 2 after port
6. Hepple - felt that this being the Hepple thread, he should have been higher but go read the other threads
6.5 Sheil - mostly because of the deal
7. Tsatas - solid here at 7
8. Menzie - feel like the guys who don’t come with a price tag / high pick get some leeway
9. Jones - down 7 after last 2 weeks
10. Stringer - down but on the rise again
Honourable mention Parish.
Got point.No Cox love?
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surely this is mostly a function of time on ground? he doesn't 'work harder' than anyone lol. he's never been near the top of our time trials. he mostly plods arounds for 2 hours racking up kilometres. i guess that's what makes a good footballer for us hey...
i suppose i shouldn't even bother given it's the 'tom scully medal' a player who virtually everyone agrees was mediocre. so what is the point of this stat?
Would have thought that’s exactly the point. I would say even in his pomp before his legs left I would say strong runner, not super elite runner though.
Now it’s pure hard yakka, if it was a function of time on ground there would be plenty of footballers cruising past him but the harsh reality is that they are clearly not putting in like he does on a week to week basis.
Given this side’s issue is week to week baseline effort, you can certainly understand why he is getting picked.
As an aside. Most of the footballers in the screenshot above are high 80’s tog and into the 90’s, Heppell is at 86 and the ones at below 86 are the endurance superfreaks that break records and blow up GPS units, fair company for a bloke with spaghetti legs.
and the ugly in the end according to your avatar. Given Ridley's problem, astute list management having him down back so far.The good is well in front of the bad.
Watching him life today he gets to the right spots but just too slowly.think it's now the right time to move for someone more dynamic in his role.