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Brownlow Medallist
I needed to read that twice.
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I needed to read that twice.
76woodenspooners
Brownlow Medallist
Sorry, that was my bad.
- Jul 3, 2001
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Midfield is the easiest spot to get a game for us if you are capable, problem is we haven’t had anyone properly put their hand up.
Fly is ruthless and I’m not sure he is the youth developer that say Malthouse was, who was an absolute top tier coach at getting youngsters to play and play well
Fly is ruthless and I’m not sure he is the youth developer that say Malthouse was, who was an absolute top tier coach at getting youngsters to play and play well
sr36
TheBrownDog
But it's the hardest to be capable. You're competing directly against the best players in the league in the most crucial roles with the biggest impact on results. You can't be inconsistent or carried and play in the centre square - you can in other roles. One thing Malthouse certainly didn't do is throw newbies into the centre square.
asongofnightsandliars
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- Jun 28, 2024
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Hardly the easiest spot in the team to get a spot for us
Nick Daicos: arguably the best player in the league
Scott Pendlebury: our best player ever and still pulls the strings
Tom Mitchell: a former Brownlow Medalist who was our top tackler and cleanrece player in 2023 before his injuries
Jack Crisp: quite literally is going for the most consecutive games without missing a game, one of the most consistent players going around
JDG: was an AA40 midfielder in a premiership year in 2023
Perryman: we've just signed him on 900k a year, he's very clearly going to play
Very hard to get into the side as a midfielder if these guys are all fit and firing
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Nail. Head . Hammer.
. Notwithstanding FJ young gun future AA mid. Ed Allan 
The Royal Sampler
Floreat Pica, Bitch!
Cough cough Mark McGough.
Plus wingmen who at times will have cameos in the centre square, Josh, Sidey, Lipinski ….maybe even Houston. And potentially McCreery!
- Dec 12, 2010
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I still think this kid could have won us the 2002 GF, and should have come in. Loved the mud.
Lipinski please. GONESKI.
Either him, or someone with the same name, lives in my old apartment building and is looking for an outdoor setting for his balcony.
Coincidentally we used to live in a different apartment block in the same suburb (Abbotsford) at the same as Jack Macrae.
Coincidentally we used to live in a different apartment block in the same suburb (Abbotsford) at the same as Jack Macrae.
- Oct 25, 2001
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It's funny, he won that ANZAC medal in the wet but I heard him say he hated playing in the wet.
He looked like a mudpie, little fat legs and all.
- Sep 3, 2019
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I still think Jimmy Bartel is the best wet weather footballer ive seen. Looked a class above when it rained. Jono Brown for a big bloke too
sr36
TheBrownDog
Doug Hawkins and Peter Daicos were pretty amazing in the wet. Everyone else would be fumbling like crazy and it didn't seem to affect them at all.
- Oct 25, 2001
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Bill Picken too. Hafey's Magpies were known as the mudpies (at least in Sunday Press headlines), t JHF ey hada lot of sound skill sets that held up in difficult conditions
Obese Arachnid
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- Jan 11, 2008
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Doug was the only player that redder eyes than me on gameday & I was in the stands.
sr36
TheBrownDog
I wonder if any modern footballer has every touched mud.
- Aug 3, 2015
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Many posters here are just far too complacent about their assessment of our midfield.
We do have huge depth and possiblity on the outside, but it is the inside where we are vulnerable.
Without Titch, we don't win the 23 GF.
In 2024, we didn't have him for most of the season.
We had to try to replace him with a combination of other players.
Others here keep saying Nick Daicos will be our elite inside mid.
In my view, this would be a tragedy. He will rip the opposition apart on the outside.
If you have a powerful inside mid with Naicos receiving, you will unleash a Black and White tsunami.
JDG likewise is best not as an inside mid but instead as semi-outside/inside and in the forward line.
The pure inside mid is the key.
If Allan becomes that guy,to support Titch, I think we are on the way to the ultimate victory in 2025.
We do have huge depth and possiblity on the outside, but it is the inside where we are vulnerable.
Without Titch, we don't win the 23 GF.
In 2024, we didn't have him for most of the season.
We had to try to replace him with a combination of other players.
Others here keep saying Nick Daicos will be our elite inside mid.
In my view, this would be a tragedy. He will rip the opposition apart on the outside.
If you have a powerful inside mid with Naicos receiving, you will unleash a Black and White tsunami.
JDG likewise is best not as an inside mid but instead as semi-outside/inside and in the forward line.
The pure inside mid is the key.
If Allan becomes that guy,to support Titch, I think we are on the way to the ultimate victory in 2025.
That’s a big if there…players will get injured, suspended, will sit on the bench to rest. You need at least 10 AFL grade midfield options across a season.
Let’s say if Fin develops well, and cements a spot on ball…that gives us flexibility to rest an Aging Pendles for finals, JDG forward, Perryman at HBF.
The problem for Fin is that he showed promise in his first year and has gone backwards ever since. I just don’t see how it can work for him, perhaps a wake up call over the off-season…maybe also seeing his brother get traded might help awaken the beast within him. We are desperately short of quality midfielders…
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Grass, maybe; but mud, unlikely.
- Oct 25, 2001
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New ploy: Pies train in mud once a week. Big game comes up (Grand Final prolly), the codeword goes out "Picken". All the Pie fans come to the game early with mutiple water bottles and we sling it out onto the pitch. Lumps of ice so we get some distance? Maybe handfulls of little ice pellets.
The water boys jog around with crates of bottles (with accidental holes in them). Then the players run out with double studs and do stamping drills in the centre square.
Games starts, manicured oppo players ask "coach what is this brown stuff?".
sr36
TheBrownDog
Are you sure? Mud or rain? I can't remember the last time I saw a muddy afl ground.
mostly rain i guess.. they are 2 players that have stood out to me who seem to handle the ball much better than most in the wet. I guess it's like the thoroughbred wet-trackers... they don't run faster in the wet, it's just that their rivals run slower
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