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Senior 9. Patrick Cripps - 2024 Brownlow Medallist - Dual Winner - Captain Colossus
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I see you watching me watching you
Crippas win last night, i immediately thougt of this 
Jatz
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Yeah them Priddis and Wines stand out as poor choices. The rest are guns
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Let’s just remember this when talking about Sam Walsh yeah
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This is actually how Cripps looked at one point. That's why his resurgence is such a testament to the man.
Yeah but it’s nice that Crippa has triumphed over adversity. I thought his message was clear last night. Players expose themselves to criticism by playing the game. I think he was telling them to ignore the criticism and strive to be your best version. If you achieve that then you haven’t got anything to worry about.
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Yeah it all comes back to that one constant he's had since day dot - that incredible willpower and mental strength, and the desire to improve in every facet.
If more of our players had what Patty has we'd already have a premiership. Its up to them to follow now and make sure it happens.
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Think most of us understood he was playing through literal back fractures and other injuries. Hardly able to move for a coach that was diabolically bad.... Yet still fighting....
I was never super ticked off by those sorts of media comments. It's the fans that ran with it and said therefore we should trade him 'while we can' that got me.... :/
My point is, he was injured…just like Walsh has been, and there’s plenty getting stuck into Walsh this season and there were plenty wanting to move Crippa on at the time on this forum.
If the guns are moderately healthy they will play as guns, if they’re not playing well then generally they are physically unable to play well.
Really no different to any level of talent in any player, look at our injury list for the last 5-6 years no chance to win premierships with that schemozzle
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I think the point being made with Cripps at the time, and Walsh this year is ... if they are injured, don't play them. The adage rings true, if you cross that line you are fit and expected to perform.
At least the fans would understand that if these guys are out for half the season, we can't expect to be winning games as frequently.
Get them fit before playing them.
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We were told he was fit. You can't blame fans for judging performance based on him being fit.
He simply should not have been playing.
Footy Classified barely acknowledged the record breaking win by Crippa. Mud Guts McGuire referred to Daicos as the coaches champion and Cripps as the umpires champion. Dirty scumbag of a show.
Throw Cerra into this group as well.
After several hamstring injuries in the past two years, bringing him straight back into the AFL after injury layoffs has seen him struggle for form.
Should have come through the VFL to gain match fitness and some semblance of form. Poor player management by the club imo.
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So after 0 votes in our win in round 0 Crippa got 10 best ons and two X 2 votes in our other 12 wins. That's right, 34 of a possible 36 votes in our last 12 wins.
What a player.
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I find this funny and it shows his own personal bias. When Craig McRae is handing Nick Daicos 10 coaches votes in games that many other players in the game played better, then it’s a bias award. All coaches favour their own players in the voting, even ours. Not that I don’t think 45 votes was a bit much, but let’s not act like the coaches award isn’t a bias award.
I wonder why Chins stopped short of acknowledging Bont who won the players award.
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We were told he was playing through things. The mattress and mummification by sports tape told us plenty to did they not? I don't need the sun to burn me to know it's hot. So his performance dropped off - it's raining in Sydney today. I don't need a weather man to tell me the sun still exists and is just not visible. Not gonna defend intentional ignorance and short sightedness. Just as it annoys me re cerra and Walsh at the moment.
the calls to move him on willfully ignored what was easily observable and well known here - just said 'while we still can get something' - worse than wanting a coach sacked is wanting a player putting long term health on the line for his team and mates gone.
It's kinda nothing to do with the separate issue of whether he should be played or not. That just tells me more about the leadership deficiencies of Teague and the issues with trust and development of the next man up than it says anything else.
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Coaches don't even vote. Bevo and Chris scott haven't for years.
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I've been having fun with a few that are going with that rhetoric.
Assume they must be a huge fan of Marc Murphy's 2011 if they're so enamoured with coaches votes...
Outstanding performance by Crippa.
ND needs to be banned from ever attending a Brownlow again. His tux was so bad it reached the attention of the pre-eminent international voice on twitter for menswear, @dieworkwear (famous for takes such as George Costanza style icon) who commented on the dangers of the shawl collar.
ND needs to be banned from ever attending a Brownlow again. His tux was so bad it reached the attention of the pre-eminent international voice on twitter for menswear, @dieworkwear (famous for takes such as George Costanza style icon) who commented on the dangers of the shawl collar.
I’ll never get twitter, but if I did, the only reason would be to follow Derek
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We all knew Cripps season in 2021 was cooked cause of a back issue. The Carlton media refuse to report it. It was so obvious how bad he was struggling from contest to contest. Stupid medicos making him play, was infuriating when we learned about it.
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Sorry I forgot, he said that Bont was the PA champion.
It's true. He was clearly physically cooked constantly. Had about 6 rolls of tape on his body alone, yet still put himself out there, only to be thrown under the bus by the outgoing coach suggesting he was fully fit and just putting it on.
Further, people on here also binned him off. Plenty here were suggesting he was selfish, injured and cooked and we should trade him back to WA.
People have quickly forgotten how he looked in this period of his career, and how Carlton fans were jumping off him. Hindsight is great now we know he's rebounded - and then some - but it wasn't just some media beat up. He physically looked cooked and a largish contingent Carlton fans were bagging him.
People don't like hearing it so much, but his mindfulness training really turned his career around. In his interviews I've seen it suggest he's just too media trained to be interesting, but they're missing the point. What might sound like orchestrated soundbites to a listener is actually his focus and how he lives his life. It's more interesting that you might think as it's an insight into the elite mindset he has, even if it sounds dry to you and me, it's what he lives day in and out.
