Yeah Worrell’s gotta get a go this week
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Absolutely.
Its great (But not as good as Frampton's).
Buuuuuutttt - the issue with those two is that they don't kick it far, their kicks aren't attacking. In fact - are we entirely sure those two aren't the Bowden Brothers re-incarnated?
It’s “Thommo’s not injured, you try telling him he’s not playing” whilst Lyons is burning in the 2s. End of year, “well, whilst having his little hip cleanup, turns out the problem was much worse than expected, no wonder he could barely run, poor run of form fully excused”. Talia would have been bullshitting to keep his competitor out of his spot during 2020 as well.
I don’t give a crap if senior players want to play injured and I don’t care if our coaches select them. But excusing poor performance because they’re carrying and “brave” is the problem.
At some point the coaches need to simply say, “look, we think we’d get about the same from junior player x, so we’re going to prioritise their development. You can either go into rehab and get right or keep playing in the 2s until it sorts itself out”. How many AFC senior players do people reckon select option 2? SFA is my tip.
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So selection tonight tells us whether Worrell is ever going to ply another game with us.
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Yeah well when it comes to playing on the AFL's monster KPF's I'm picking Butts and Murray long before Frampton currently and into the future given the relative ages and experience.
Fancy using DE stat to counter the point made. You don’t need to use the footy that well to get a good DE stat as a player. Even easier for defenders who tend to kick long to contests.
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Worrel time surely
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And thats fine.
But we need to work Frampton (or Worrell) in there, its the back 6 as a group thats the issue. You can't keep carrying all these dour players.
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Kicking efficiency...
Frampton is an intercept marker and can't defend to save himself. Cannot play on the opposition key forwards.
Sure play him in a Doedee like role but on key forwards absolutely not.
When Walker spoke after signing the new contract, he spoke about his poor form in early 2020 (remember the mini-preseason halfway through the year?) and he said (and I paraphrase) "I felt it was my duty to go out each week and play to provide on-field leadership (despite my injuries and poor form)".
It struck me as so interesting that he felt he was being selfless, while observers might feel he is being selfish.
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Doedee "mutual decision to give me one week off"
Nicks to Worrell "you're in son"
Worrell "yeah but Doedee has already said I am being dropped after one week no matter how I play"
Nicks to Worrell "you're in son"
Worrell "yeah but Doedee has already said I am being dropped after one week no matter how I play"
Worrell did travel last week, it's just Curnow and McKay that might have us leaning towards Bill.
Doesn't Burgess have a mantra of playing through pain and injury?
But yeah I agree, he should have been rested ages ago. I guess having your finger dislocate three times in a game (Collingwood Game) made him and the selectors realise how banged up he is.
The management of Doedee this year has been terrible.
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And we wonder why our players are cooked at 29. Senior players playing (poorly) through injury has been a problem since Roo in 06/07 when he pretty much didn't train.
He said he is out this week.
Didn't say exactly how long though.
I think he should rest up for the year.
He said he has had issues for a long time, I think he said 6 to 8 weeks. Hasn't trained much with it.
I bet playing a guy his size as a KPD has lead to these issues.
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I don’t think anyone is currently arguing he should. It was worthwhile trialling him in a defensive key role, but he failed the first hurdle. We’ve been playing an injured Dood and midfield weapon behind the ball when we should have at least one of Worrell or Billy playing at least one of those roles.
But we prefer to play an injured senior player even though this is apparently a rebuild.
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The mini preseason was 2019 and when having to explain poor form due to playing injured, do you really reckon he’s going to say anything else? When Talia said that he’d have not soldiered on through 2020 if we’d been contending, did you believe that too? These are just excuses from selfish senior players to keep clocking up games.
No, that’s a horrible misunderstanding of what he actually said. His mantra is that you train at intensity through pain and injury and it’s there that players realise their true limits. What we do is baby them through the week because we’re shitscared of them not being able to hobble to the line on the weekend. It’s exactly the opposite of what Burgess was quoted as saying.
We have seen what Frampton offers. Delist.
Borlase is a bit undersized IMO for KPD and not really an interceptor player.I feel he is not an AFL player. Poor man's Will Gould, also yet to debut for Sydney.
Worrell looks a player. A joke he has only played one game in a rebuild period.
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It would be a shocking move for defense first Nicks to suddenly pick the worst defensive player in our entire squad this week (Frampton) with Doedee out.
Has to be Worrell. Or he should be straight on the phone to his manager asking for a trade
Has to be Worrell. Or he should be straight on the phone to his manager asking for a trade
No, I think they believe it for real, they honestly believe half form from them is better than full form from a junior because of what they add outside of the football.
Think you might have missed the sarcasm
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