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Club Champion
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Masten finished below Gaff? GAFF? I like him but he was tagged out of almost every game! The only thing he was consistently was down!
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Masten was our best midfielder all year and finished 9th. Ploddus was average as usual and comes first 
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Can't say I'm not surprised though.
.Can't say I'm not surprised though.
Congratulations to Priddis. But honestly... our top 10 doesn't exactly make the most sense.
Priddis the winner?? You're shitting me.
Masten 9th?!
Gaff and Scooter?
Most of us would have said it's a 2 horse race between Emac and JK with masten a probable 3rd. Priddis top 5 perhaps. At best. I feel guilty that i'm disappointed with the result. Almost like the feeling of losing a game after leading for 3qtrs.
Priddis the winner?? You're shitting me.
Masten 9th?!
Gaff and Scooter?
Most of us would have said it's a 2 horse race between Emac and JK with masten a probable 3rd. Priddis top 5 perhaps. At best. I feel guilty that i'm disappointed with the result. Almost like the feeling of losing a game after leading for 3qtrs.
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The fact that gaff got tagged all year and masten got the freedom to run around unattended gaff was almost as influential . Gaffs effectiveness going I50 is what got him up the CC rankings even when he had bad games. Masten needs to hurt the opposition more not just rack up cheap kicks like Brent Stanton . I agree masten had his best year for the club but next year he needs to hit the score board and our forwards more .
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Claiming a Ross Glendinning medal is like boasting about a best on ground against North Melbourne. It doesn't define a players career like a Brownlow or Norm Smith. It's such a shit claim to fame claiming that Glendinning medal.
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I was kind of hoping for a jumper presentation
Fact... the much maligned midfielder is considered the best consistent player at the club, for the season, by the most informed people to judge.
As a player the endorsement by your coaches and your peers is all that matters in the end. That's a good thing for Priddis... because in 'cyberspace' there are plenty of loud obnoxious arm chair warriors ready to cut the bloke down.
Congrats on winning the club champion award for 2013.
As a player the endorsement by your coaches and your peers is all that matters in the end. That's a good thing for Priddis... because in 'cyberspace' there are plenty of loud obnoxious arm chair warriors ready to cut the bloke down.
Congrats on winning the club champion award for 2013.
Miguel Sanchez
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Seems like an appropriate time to bust out this thread.
Miguel Sanchez
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Got the ROTY and CMBC, and 9 of the top 10 (order is completely out of whack, but I maintain mine is more accurate
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WCE92_94_06
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Why Priddis Won - At the start of the year there was probably ten or so players we hoped would have a good season and possibly capable of winning a B&F. Unfortunately probably 7 of these had below average seasons. Below are the reasons why I think they had average seasons, let me know what you think!
Firstly but, you have to remember, Priddis is an inside mid, and a pretty good one at that. Although he's not quick, you don't have to be to be playing as an inside mid. He wins the footy and unfortunately for us, he's about the only one that wins the hard footy. Masten racks them, Gaff and Shuey have their days but I wouldn't say any of them are particularly good at winning a "hard" footy. He works his guts out week in week out and rarely has a poor game. For mine he is a thoroughly deserving B&F winner this year.
Shuey & Gaff
Despite what many may think, In my opinion Kerr was still our most important player in 2012, took tags away from Shuey and Gaff and still played some fantastic games. In 2013 his form dropped so not only did we lose the performance of one midfielder but we also saw a fall in the performance of either gaff or shuey who was tagged instead of Kerr. Unfortunately neither of these two are able to cope well with a tag and hence they had extremely inconsistent seasons. Couple this with the fact that Gaff particularly play extremely outside. We don't have enough quality inside mids (Priddis despite being slow is by far our best), and therefore they weren't "given" enough of the footy. There's nothing wrong with being given the footy too if that's your role.
Cox & Glass
Unfortunately these two are well past their peak. While they still had some great games, it wasn't comparable to what we have come to expect in the past.
Wellingham, Natanui, Hurn, Waters
All had significant injury problems which greatly affected us. If we have all four of these playing I generally think we are a 5 goal better side. Wellingham adds some class, Natanui is better than cox as a ruck by far, and with Hurn and Waters both playing you are almost certain to see one of them rack it up.
This post has actually been all over the shop so far but im gonna continue anyway going down a different path rating a few more players.
Smith and Sheppard
Sheppard needs to get harder and Smith has to show a little bit of interest at the least.
The Recruiters
Seriously, we have wasted that many picks in the last few years. Papertalk?? Bedford?? Morton?? Broome?? seriously what were they thinking? If you could give me three good reasons why they picked those players up, I'd be very surprised.
I don't even know what im going on about anymore
Firstly but, you have to remember, Priddis is an inside mid, and a pretty good one at that. Although he's not quick, you don't have to be to be playing as an inside mid. He wins the footy and unfortunately for us, he's about the only one that wins the hard footy. Masten racks them, Gaff and Shuey have their days but I wouldn't say any of them are particularly good at winning a "hard" footy. He works his guts out week in week out and rarely has a poor game. For mine he is a thoroughly deserving B&F winner this year.
Shuey & Gaff
Despite what many may think, In my opinion Kerr was still our most important player in 2012, took tags away from Shuey and Gaff and still played some fantastic games. In 2013 his form dropped so not only did we lose the performance of one midfielder but we also saw a fall in the performance of either gaff or shuey who was tagged instead of Kerr. Unfortunately neither of these two are able to cope well with a tag and hence they had extremely inconsistent seasons. Couple this with the fact that Gaff particularly play extremely outside. We don't have enough quality inside mids (Priddis despite being slow is by far our best), and therefore they weren't "given" enough of the footy. There's nothing wrong with being given the footy too if that's your role.
Cox & Glass
Unfortunately these two are well past their peak. While they still had some great games, it wasn't comparable to what we have come to expect in the past.
Wellingham, Natanui, Hurn, Waters
All had significant injury problems which greatly affected us. If we have all four of these playing I generally think we are a 5 goal better side. Wellingham adds some class, Natanui is better than cox as a ruck by far, and with Hurn and Waters both playing you are almost certain to see one of them rack it up.
This post has actually been all over the shop so far but im gonna continue anyway going down a different path rating a few more players.
Smith and Sheppard
Sheppard needs to get harder and Smith has to show a little bit of interest at the least.
The Recruiters
Seriously, we have wasted that many picks in the last few years. Papertalk?? Bedford?? Morton?? Broome?? seriously what were they thinking? If you could give me three good reasons why they picked those players up, I'd be very surprised.
I don't even know what im going on about anymore
Miguel Sanchez
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You could probably use better examples of wasted draft picks than three speculative rookie draft selections and pick 88...
This isn't really the place anyway.
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On an unrelated note, the entire coaching staff were umm not retained at the end of the year after coaching a premiership favourite to 13th. Due in part to a poor gameplan; poor team selection; poor structures; poor development...
But yes, they were the guys building around Matt and seeing Matts skill set as integral.
As midfield mainstays go in a poor midfield in a poorly performing side that finished 13th he's pretty good.
WCE92_94_06
Rookie
Why don't we go down to the High school athletics carnivals and just pick up the quickest runners there then? They'd be speculative picks it won't matter if they fail.
It's like that what the Eagles recruiters think at times. Why not pick up a proven player at state level, at least you know they might be able to cope. We picked up a Papertalk who was struggling to get 10 disposals in the WAFL reserves. seriously?? You can't honestly back that up as a good selection?
Morton - Was clearly proven not to be upto AFL standard, watch a wafl game this year, he was barely upto that standard. Yeah but your gonna say he was a top 5 draft pick!! Yeah but playing big boys footy is a little different to U18s
Bedford - Delisted by Geelong and was clearly never going to make it.
Broome - I didn't mind so much, he was at least someone who had showed a bit prior to getting drafted (four or five goals in a wafl colts grand final I think?) The other three all mentioned above had either struggled and were clearly not up to the level or hadn't shown enough to even consider being drafted. chuck in Oakley nicholls too.
EDIT ** Yeah I'm not really sure why ive posted this here ** Maybe move please mods??
It's like that what the Eagles recruiters think at times. Why not pick up a proven player at state level, at least you know they might be able to cope. We picked up a Papertalk who was struggling to get 10 disposals in the WAFL reserves. seriously?? You can't honestly back that up as a good selection?
Morton - Was clearly proven not to be upto AFL standard, watch a wafl game this year, he was barely upto that standard. Yeah but your gonna say he was a top 5 draft pick!! Yeah but playing big boys footy is a little different to U18s
Bedford - Delisted by Geelong and was clearly never going to make it.
Broome - I didn't mind so much, he was at least someone who had showed a bit prior to getting drafted (four or five goals in a wafl colts grand final I think?) The other three all mentioned above had either struggled and were clearly not up to the level or hadn't shown enough to even consider being drafted. chuck in Oakley nicholls too.
EDIT ** Yeah I'm not really sure why ive posted this here ** Maybe move please mods??
Who the **** is Bedford?
Smeg Head
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Well done Priddis, bit dissapointed my man for next year didn't win it but then he did have a stinker of a last few rounds (most of the team did mind you!)
A real disconnect between the MC and bigfooty groupthink, particularly Gaff finishing higher than Masten. Loved that one.
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It's a shame Mackenzie didn't win this. Definitely need to overhaul the points system as this is the biggest B&F robbery since Banfield over Mainwaring in 1996.
without going back through the stats or record books when Priddis doesnt play , our midfield gets really flogged . Im not saying priddis is really great its just that we dont have enough tough nuts in and under and if we had players llike Judd or cousins or similar users of the balls priddis dishes out , priddis would look better
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lol. Priddis doesn't miss that many games.
Neither Cousins or Judd were particularly gifted as far as disposal went.
Arthaus
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i agree wholeheartedly!!!!!!!!!...he does work his guts out week in week out, and its so damn frustrating to watch him get the ball again, after just having it 25 times before that, dispose of it poorly, and watch the ball come flying back over his head towards the opps inside 50..again..but he doesnt give up, there he goes again, lo+behold he's a ball magnet, he's got it again..what a clearance machine, goddamn i wish someone else would get it before he does!!??...and therein lies the problem - if only we had another inside mid who could get the ball before priddis does, and then not only dispose of it cleanly, but intelligently and effectively, and do that more often than not!
am i missing something..is it rocket science i'm not understanding..all this time with priddis, its slowly dawned on me that many priddbashers are right, in that he's taking up a space that could be used better.
and this is my question "why cant we replace priddis with an inside mid who can do what he does-clear the ball (maybe not as well,given)-and who can also dispose better than priddis??? i mean every team has one (or two,or three)..the depressing part of the award was that he was going to try harder to improve himself..how long does it take to learn to dispose properly..he's nearly at the end of his career.
and its a sad story if slow old ploddus is our best inside mid..i suspect those inside mid dynamics are going to shift this season, lets hope so.
but seriously, i do agree with you re gaff, shuey and to a lesser degree, masten-they all need to score more..this season.
(look, i know it seems harsh on priddis,he's a loyal hardworking unit,and given what weve had re mids around him,we'd have been worse off without him..however after the clean sweep we've had with personnal, to me he stands out as the last obstacle to a new era...i could be wrong-with all the new mids around him, he might suddenly appear sensational,and be the flavour of the season!? - stranger things have happened, look at our 2013 season.)
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