Player Watch Izak Rankine Part II - Welcome to Adelaide

[cmndstab]

I guess if Rankine is going to miss a few weeks, this is the best time of the season for him to do it, with games coming up against West Coast, Hawthorn and Richmond. If we are relying on him to win those matches, we really are cooked.

Good chance for somebody to come into the side. We've already got Murphy, McHenry, Sholl and Hamill in, so it might actually be one of our recent recruits? Or hell, I'd take Schoenberg or Berry, even.

 

[earlsta]

unlucky but I think it’s a minor one hopefully, didn’t seem like he was in too much pain.

How’s about that stoppage at the end though, hits the ball at pace and absolutely burns off Jack Crisp

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Jack Crisp

Age

30

Ht

190cm

Wt

91kg

Pos.

D/M

Career

Season

Last 5

D

21.2

5star

K

11.5

4star

HB

9.7

5star

M

4.6

4star

T

4.0

5star

MG

307.6

4star

D

17.7

4star

K

10.7

4star

HB

7.0

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.6

3star

MG

307.6

4star

D

14.4

4star

K

8.4

4star

HB

6.0

4star

M

2.8

3star

T

3.0

5star

who is very quick himself, he just went into top gear in a couple of metres and just left Crisp for dead.

It’s Judd WCE pace, you have something like that in a stoppage and it causes all sorts of issues for the other team. Cameron is fast but he doesn’t have what Rankine possesses, not many in the league do.

 

[earlsta]

You never ever see this happen in AFL either, last guy I’d see do this was eagles Judd 04-07

Yeah the disposal sucked the end but the pace and agility…

 

[StickerMan]

This guy is just scratching the surface of how good he can be.

Look out 2025 and load up on him for the Brownlow.

We still won't make the 8 and will probably be much of the same with Nicks in the driver's seat, but at least we will have Izak to watch.

 

[Soggy2112]

This guy is just scratching the surface of how good he can be.

Look out 2025 and load up on him for the Brownlow.

We still won't make the 8 and will probably be much of the same with Nicks in the driver's seat, but at least we will have Izak to watch.

At least in terms of our midfield we don’t have to worry about a lack of talent. Dawson, Rankine, Soligo is as good as anyones

 

[Crow till I die]

unlucky but I think it’s a minor one hopefully, didn’t seem like he was in too much pain.

How’s about that stoppage at the end though, hits the ball at pace and absolutely burns off Jack Crisp who is very quick himself, he just went into top gear in a couple of metres and just left Crisp for dead.

It’s Judd WCE pace, you have something like that in a stoppage and it causes all sorts of issues for the other team. Cameron is fast but he doesn’t have what Rankine possesses, not many in the league do.

Exactly why he has elite mid potential. He is of greatest value in the middle doing that and feeding the forwards

 

[Soggy2112]

unlucky but I think it’s a minor one hopefully, didn’t seem like he was in too much pain.

How’s about that stoppage at the end though, hits the ball at pace and absolutely burns off Jack Crisp who is very quick himself, he just went into top gear in a couple of metres and just left Crisp for dead.

It’s Judd WCE pace, you have something like that in a stoppage and it causes all sorts of issues for the other team. Cameron is fast but he doesn’t have what Rankine possesses, not many in the league do.

Real shame he missed the handball to Dawson on that one in the first quarter.

The way he shrugged the tackle and then from a standing start burnt a couple players who aren’t slow. Very few in the comp capable of doing that.

 

[Firewalker]

Rankine choosing to run 20+ metres rather than kicking the ball to Keays in the dying moments

 

[Soggy2112]

Rankine choosing to run 20+ metres rather than kicking the ball to Keays in the dying moments

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Kind of shows the issue with our slingshot ball movement preference, it’s all or nothing. 5 players all running towards goal. Would it not be an idea for one of them to present up at Rankine?

 

[FR0GGY]

The bloke has zero qualms about winning the hard ball either.

 

[Go the Guts]

At least in terms of our midfield we don’t have to worry about a lack of talent. Dawson, Rankine, Soligo is as good as anyones

And yet when the crap hit the fan today, Nicks went straight for Laird & Crouch in the centre.

I really hope we don't piss Rankine's career away with our list in the state it is. Dawson's too for that matter.

 

[GrommoT]

Well, it's nice to know we spent pick 5 on an elite mid. We didn't draft him, but it's progress?

I wonder who out of him & Luko was our target back in 2018 - always thought we were saving our draft picks to try and get one from GC to pick one of them.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

And yet when the crap hit the fan today, Nicks went straight for Laird & Crouch in the centre.

I really hope we don't piss Rankine's career away with our list in the state it is. Dawson's too for that matter.

Having both Crouch & Laird in the middle, particularly when the game is on the line is problematic.

Rankine's CBA's need to go to Rachele & Schoenberg next weekend.

 

[MrBarry]

The bloke has zero qualms about winning the hard ball either.

He's so much stronger than I realised, doesn't look it but has that insane powerful ability to shrug tackles.

 

[Harris1991]

And yet when the crap hit the fan today, Nicks went straight for Laird & Crouch in the centre.

I really hope we don't piss Rankine's career away with our list in the state it is. Dawson's too for that matter.

It will be shame if he has to waste a chunk of his career playing under the hack that is Matthew Nicks. The little champ was born to play finals football. He deserves better than Nicks, Keays, McHenry, Jones etc.

 

[Harris1991]

I'm going to the game on Sunday and was really looking forward to watching the little champ in action. The best thing that has happened to this club in a long time.

 

[footy4ever]

At least in terms of our midfield we don’t have to worry about a lack of talent. Dawson, Rankine, Soligo is as good as anyones

Oh you didn't.

 

[FR0GGY]

 

[Slime Roy]

The idea of a "Red Card" being introduced for "villains" like Izak (for his unintentional head contact with Starcevich) is an absolute farce!
The only two experts who I've heard get behind it this week were Lions Board Member, Leigh Matthews (in his Lethal Injection segment on 3AW today) & Luke Hodge, who weirdly even stated in his rant "WE were a man down" (Hmm, don't think you still have a role with Brisbane, you're supposedly an unbiased caller of the game, employed by Ch7..last I checked).
In the words of the great orator Lucas W.B. Beveridge "Your conflict of interest here is considerable"

 

[Interloperer]

The idea of a "Red Card" being introduced for "villains" like Izak (for his unintentional head contact with Starcevich) is an absolute farce!
The only two experts who I've heard get behind it this week were Lions Board Member, Leigh Matthews (in his Lethal Injection segment on 3AW today) & Luke Hodge, who weirdly even stated in his rant "WE were a man down" (Hmm, don't think you still have a role with Brisbane, you're supposedly an unbiased caller of the game, employed by Ch7..last I checked).
In the words of the great orator Lucas W.B. Beveridge "Your conflict of interest here is considerable"

The reactions to these proposals make a good bullshit detector for "You've obviously never played footy!" claims.

There's already a red card/send off rule in the laws of the game. Anybody who has played footy here has definitely played under it.

 

[brucetiki]

The reactions to these proposals make a good bullshit detector for "You've obviously never played footy!" claims.

There's already a red card/send off rule in the laws of the game. Anybody who has played footy here has definitely played under it.

There's a need for it for ammos.

There's no need for it at state league/AFL level.

 

[Soggy2112]

There's a need for it for ammos.

There's no need for it at state league/AFL level.

I see your point, the send off in ammos is largely about defusing situations.

However, taking our Crows glasses off, it was obvious from the first replay, Izak would be suspended, and he put a very important player out of the game. I think the idea that the player responsible should also be sent off is a legitimate one.

We saw it a couple years back with Stewart/Prestia. It was a close game, and it’s hard to argue that Stewart knocking Prestia out and then going on to be BOG wasn’t the deciding factor in the game.

We’re one of the few codes that doesn’t have a regularly used send off mechanism, you have to ask the question of why.

 

[Interloperer]

There's a need for it for ammos.

There's no need for it at state league/AFL level.

The only league where it doesn't exist is the AFL itself though. Every lower league, including the state leagues, has the send off rule.

I can remember a player being sent off for a 2nd reportable offence, for shoving a player into a fence at Football Park, in an SANFL Elimination final around 20 years ago. (I think the game involved North Adelaide but beyond that I don't recall specifics.)

I see your point, the send off in ammos is largely about defusing situations.

However, taking our Crows glasses off, it was obvious from the first replay, Izak would be suspended, and he put a very important player out of the game. I think the idea that the player responsible should also be sent off is a legitimate one.

We saw it a couple years back with Stewart/Prestia. It was a close game, and it’s hard to argue that Stewart knocking Prestia out and then going on to be BOG wasn’t the deciding factor in the game.

We’re one of the few codes that doesn’t have a regularly used send off mechanism, you have to ask the question of why.

The AFL seems to mostly get by with a combination of the onfield punishment generally hitting the opposition on the scoreboard for the low-tier offences. And adequate suspensions for the high-tier offences.

Since the Gill administration they've lost the appetite for suspending players though.

 

[Scorpus]

The send off would need to be adjudicated by some sort of video panel because the on field umpires are clueless and not up to making those decisions

 

[brucetiki]

The only league where it doesn't exist is the AFL itself though. Every lower league, including the state leagues, has the send off rule.

I can remember a player being sent off for a 2nd reportable offence, for shoving a player into a fence at Football Park, in an SANFL Elimination final around 20 years ago. (I think the game involved North Adelaide but beyond that I don't recall specifics.)


The AFL seems to mostly get by with a combination of the onfield punishment generally hitting the opposition on the scoreboard for the low-tier offences. And adequate suspensions for the high-tier offences.

Since the Gill administration they've lost the appetite for suspending players though.

The SANFL had it for a few years, but dropped it about 12-13 years ago.

From memory, Nathan Eagleton got sent off for two reports, and then one of the reports was subsequently withdrawn. The controversy around that lead the SANFL to drop the send off rule.