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I hope so.
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I hope so.
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Kako hasn’t played a game yet.
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Why? He's not seen as the best talent in the draft and every chance we have a low enough draft pick to take him.
Oh thanks, I hadn't checked recently.
I have always thought Caddy was really similar to Travis Cloke.
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I've always thought Travis Cloke would have been a great CHB
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I didn’t think much of Travis Cloke as a player sure he was handy but it pales into insignificance compared to his water boy abilities.
Top 5 contested marks I have ever seen.
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Who's the other 4?
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Cale Hooker must be in the ballpark, brilliant hands.
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If he’s seen Carey, Ablett, Lockett, Kernahan, Brown, Tredrea, Richardson, and even Modra and Capper if weekly speccies are classified as ‘contested’ , then it would be hard to squeeze Cloke in ahead of any of them.
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Yeah I had Sticks and Tredrea.
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Stewart Loewe.
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Like I said he was handy but a shit kick. I was a bit tongue in cheek as well he was definitely an above average player.
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I don’t know how many he took but the best contested mark I ever seen was Carey hands down. Just willed his way to the contest.
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Absolutely, buckets is a top 10 if not top 5.
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I never got tired of those pack marks that Ablett Sr and Nicky Winwar used to take on multiple occasions especially in their younger years. The one guy I would have loved to seen not just as an Essendon fan but just as a football purist would be J Coleman. He obviously had an uncanny ability to mark the ball in the contest.
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You know what’s just occurred to me?……who’s been shit at contested marks in our forward line????? Usssssssss!!!!! Apart from potentially Caddy who is most likely to take a contested mark to win the game!!! ……. and no you can’t name Drapes, he isn’t allowed but that’s new guy Gerren is the next big thing guy!!!!!, so yada yada yada.
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Not saying he was the best but gee Modra was a sight to see in his prime. He was better than Capper with no hands in the shoulders. To Cappers credit he got the rules changed against him… usually a sign of greatness too. But I preferred Modra and I thought for a good looking fella and footballer he was pretty understated. Was a man’s man that looked like a ladies man.
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Been saying for a long time now that we are a poor contested marking side forward of the footy. No issues in the back half but poor in the ruck and forwards and even the midfielders lack marking ability against their own type. It is why they play Cox on a wing to try and get a miss match and why they went for Jones there as well. Just trying to get something to happen.
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I hear you. That’s why I wanted to see them try Jones on the wing because he wasn’t working out in the forward line. I don’t know if he can pull it off long term but I thought he wasn’t working out in the forward line and is too good of a player to discard and not at least try in other areas of the ground. Like to see them continue with that experiment. If it doesn’t work out they can try him in defence. Cox I’m less bullish about. I hope he proves me wrong but I just don’t see where he fits in. I heard when Baldwin was playing well at training that his direct opponent was Cox. Sometimes he looks like a liability out there.
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I quite like jones on the wing. It seems to play to his strengths. Doesn’t really seem to understand the positioning of it but when he does it seems like he’ll be an AFL standard player another 10 years which is really handy
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Been saying for a long time now that we lack anything imposing in the forward half. We desperately need a presence - someone with the focal qualities that draw the ball and make defenders question their positioning… and their existence.
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Coupled with poor depth with small forwards. It's no wonder our backline is always under siege and why we constantly fall back to slow ball movement.
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If you get the mix right then you don't need heaps of elite talent.
The Hawks have little but were outstanding last year.
The Hawks have little but were outstanding last year.
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