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Opinion Jarryd Lyons - Are midfielders supposed to take this long?
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Imagine how highly he'd be ranked if his first 25 of the 40 weren't as sub
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MacKay?
I was only ranking inside mids…and i don't rate Mackay in that role at all.
If you want him in, just add him to the bottom of all the other names on the list.
EDIT: Just re-read it, you may have suggested Mackay as the run and carry player. I think after 150 odd games we've seen his ceiling and it's not good enough.
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I haven't included the wingmen but I like that you've added Atkins as I think he should be part of the inner midfield conversation. Be hard to know where to rank him right now without much opportunity but I think he could rocket up the charts.
Now obviously the better players would play a higher % of midfield time while others would rotate flanks more often but how's this for a couple of balanced midfield line-ups to roll through (with Thompson out 'rested'). 1 x inside/outside gun, 1 x clearance machine, 1 x skilful kicker:
A) Sloane, M Crouch, Atkins
B) B Crouch, Lyons, Wigg
Would keep the obvious focus on ball-winning but add a crucial element of skill in clearing the ball. Love to see the Crouches winning the hard ball, then releasing our precision left footers to cut the opposition apart.
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Any chance the OP can change the thread title to "David Mackay are midfielders supposed to take this long"
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That was exactly what I was suggesting but it was just a friendly troll....I don't rate MacKay either
It's going to be such an easy little win for such a long time.
It's the new "I didn't take Reilly's defensive game into account," - thing.
yep, simply forgot that a half back flank is expected to defend a bit. Understandable oversight.
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And that's not even 40 games, it's taken with a 2 year time frame and he's only played 30 games since then (at least 9 as starting sub). He has moved up almost 200 positions since the beginning of the year. Can see him pushing into top 100 players if continues getting games next year, which he should.
I still find it unbelieveable that it has taken this long for him to get a decent go at it.
Had only been doing it in the sanfl for 4 years
Surely after he kicked 4 goals against the Pies at the MCG all those years ago, that they would have thought we should stick with him for a few more games.
Great to see him doing well now
Had only been doing it in the sanfl for 4 years
Surely after he kicked 4 goals against the Pies at the MCG all those years ago, that they would have thought we should stick with him for a few more games.
Great to see him doing well now
The sub was a horrible rule.
sure was, glad that it is gone now.
But Lyon should have still been getting games regardless
I don't think he is too far away from having a 30 posesion game
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I dunno, season and a half / season and two-thirds sounds about right to me.
Not for Lyons. Darth has been known to post that if not for the sub rule, Lyons wouldn't have played anywhere near as many games and it actually kept his career going. Lucky bugger.
#NotAFLStandard #LastManInFirstDropped #BlueCollar #Unfit #TooSlow #Plodder #Doesn'tFindEnoughOfTheBall #MackayIsBetter
Did I get them all?
I'm wondering whether he might have been branded a dead man walking after he was omitted earlier in the year. Worth a look.
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Shame he cant kick it over a jam tin.
DE and meters gained is good; and he can hit a target and kick a goal, which is better than a few of our mids.
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could actually hit it though
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