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Player Watch #21 Errol Gulden - born to play: 2024 All Australian
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I thought I read somewhere in a media report about the game that Errol was skipper for the day.
He was, did the coin toss
Would be good to know for sure … clearly Errol will be our next captain so it’s great if they’re already giving him some experience.
Gulden and Rowbottom imo
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This was the article I was referring too.
Red-hot Swans jump to second, bring Hawks back down to earth
Sydney's big guns fire as the Swans inflict another heavy defeat on Hawthorn
www.afl.com.au
Working hard in his role on the wing, acting Sydney captain Errol Gulden (25 disposals, 12 marks, one goal) offered defensive coverage, sliding into a goalkeeper role for extra security, while also adding his neat kicking when repelling back out.
That’s awesome, thanks for confirmingThis was the article I was referring too.
Red-hot Swans jump to second, bring Hawks back down to earth
Sydney's big guns fire as the Swans inflict another heavy defeat on Hawthorn
Working hard in his role on the wing, acting Sydney captain Errol Gulden (25 disposals, 12 marks, one goal) offered defensive coverage, sliding into a goalkeeper role for extra security, while also adding his neat kicking when repelling back out.
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On the couch had vision of him mic’d up for the Giants game. Hopefully will show up online soon.
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The Dylan Stephens thread is more recent than this one
Is this superstar flying under the. radar now?
Fox went on about Heeny and Warner (well deserved) I think this guy at his best is what takes us up another level. He does some odd kicks particularly early in games, but his foot is deadly. He hast quite ripped a game open yet by his already lofty standards, but think he will be out for some best ons now.
Is this superstar flying under the. radar now?
Fox went on about Heeny and Warner (well deserved) I think this guy at his best is what takes us up another level. He does some odd kicks particularly early in games, but his foot is deadly. He hast quite ripped a game open yet by his already lofty standards, but think he will be out for some best ons now.
I thought 100% ToG was the sole domain of Sir Dane.In his latest interview he talked about seeing if he could spend the entire game on field instead of resting. That's his next challenge. Good lord!
If Errol can do it, he might become Sir Errol.
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With the amount of running Errol does that would be superman shit.In his latest interview he talked about seeing if he could spend the entire game on field instead of resting. That's his next challenge. Good lord!
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Is playing more of a trad winger role this year. Is easily AA in that role. Latter half of 23 he played a more roaming role. He also had a restricted pre season - illness some said iirc.
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Could be that teams are paying more attention to him this year after his break out year in 2023.
You beat me to it and because of it some kicks are under more pressure than in 23
It may be that in part but I don’t really see Gulden getting a lot of attention in games from opponents. I suspect it’s a mix of that, playing a bit more inside which limits his free flowing running and kicking and also, probably the most important element, we just don’t need him to do what he was doing in the final two months last year when he was basically our only consistent mode of great ball movement. We were just funnelling the ball to him at every turn. The side is more well balanced this year and we aren’t desperately searching for him at all times, although we definitely still search for him.
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Wasn't aimed at you at all. I agree with your post.
It's a luxury knowing that Gulden probably has another gear to go to.
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I think this is most of the explanation. Last year he carried the team on his shoulders for much of the season, certainly the second half. There are games we wouldn't have gotten close to winning without his herculean efforts.
There are many times I've noticed he's run into space to receive (particularly after just dishing off) and has been ignored by team mates. It may be that he's trying a bit hard to get cheap possessions, short and out wide, and his team mates are following the team plan by taking a longer, more central option. It might be a deliberate dummy play by the team to open up those other options.
Despite often being overlooked, he's still racking up over 20 possessions each game. And he's still going strong late in games. If we hadn't witnessed that extraordinary back half of last season I imagine we'd be delighted with how he's contributing at the moment.
And in addition, you can’t make a reasonable analysis of how Warner and Heeney are dominating games without accounting for how worried teams are about Gulden. Just his presence opens up space through the midfield because he keeps his width and the opposition would have to be telling his opponent to stay with him as much as possible. Add in Rowbottom doing so much hard work and Jordon starting to own the defensive tagging roles and it’s just such a well oiled machine currently.
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and also that he has teammates playing better than last year, so he's not standing out as much ... which is a good thing!
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