This.
On a day where we should be celebrating Josh’s achievement, the club has chosen to go to ground to try and support its agenda.
Absolutely ****en disgraceful.
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If you're correct, that it's his on-field performance and attitude at issue, then the coaches needs their collective heads examined.
Again, he is our leading goal assist player, and the competition's best young small forward. He plays a difficult role and still kicked 30 goals this year.
As for his attitude, he adores the club. Loves celebrating with his teammates.
The only thing that makes the slightest sense is that the club has decided to discipline him for not following instructions - and when the instructions in question seem to be "if I hear you say teeth one more time..." it just makes the club look pathetic.
What the ****... how do you group Fog with the other two?
He is a player who needs to worry about himself. There have been games this year where he has done literally nothing. Sure he has had a couple of great games. But yes Smith and Murphy are cooked. Fog isnt.
It's a horrible feeling knowing that due to our own incompetence yet another young talented player will most likely walk out.
I'm somewhat torn.
On one hand, I hope Rachele and a couple of our other gun kids ruffle feathers and request trades at season's end.
On the other hand, to protect their own arses, I'm fearful the hierarchy will circle the wagons and back Nicks in ahead of these kids.
Will set us back 5 years or more.
So rash got named in the SANFL squad..
Guess we're lining up to go cheer on the lad then yeah?
There comes a point when enough’s enough and you have to take a stand to ensure growth and change. Rachele pulling out of contests and ducking out of marks all season - he would have been told repeatedly that is not acceptable at this level. Then, with the game on the line in a Showdown, he turns his body to avoid contact rather than go for the ball. His teammates would’ve been filthy and rightly so. It’s not good enough and it can’t continue. You can’t trust him when the going gets tough and you couldn’t trust him in a final at this point. Couldn’t care less about what he says during the week or his goal celebrations but if he wants to play AFL football he has to accept it’s a contact sport and that’s all 22 not 21 putting it on the line and Josh only going for easy balls. He has 6 months to think about it, if he doesn’t like it, then retire. No point going to another club, no playing group or coach in the game are going to accept that consistent refusal to go for the hard ball.
No chance. I wouldn't want to go see a Lamborghini driving on a dirt road.
You know what I just realised.
It was his girlfriends 21st yesterday.
I wonder if she has a party this weekend and that has something to do with it. Rather than travelling interstate.
That’s what I reckon too. He only has to look at Rankine… out for weeks for a bump - and being bumped. Sends a message to them loud and clear…No... You can't say many of his efforts are bad. This is a loaded statement. Massive confirmation bias.
If "too great a percentage" was goung wrong he wouldn't be 1st in goal assists.
There is a minor problem. And in context of the AFL rubbing out Crouch for pure attack on the ball, it will have a number of young players having 2nd thoughts.
He's not perfect by anymeans, but as a 3rd year player in a bottom 4 side his numbers stack up.
Maybe he will get demoted to Amateurs.So when he plays SANFL and kicks a goal is he just gonna have no reaction?
I would do a robot celebration if I was him, just really rub it in that the club wants robots and not real human beings with passion
So when he plays SANFL and kicks a goal is he just gonna have no reaction?
I would do a robot celebration if I was him, just really rub it in that the club wants robots and not real human beings with passion
Pretend to swap a fly on his head or spill a cokeSo when he plays SANFL and kicks a goal is he just gonna have no reaction?
I would do a robot celebration if I was him, just really rub it in that the club wants robots and not real human beings with passion
Mark Ricciuto... cannot escape this either. This stink belongs ultimately to him. He has been involved in all the important decisions from the review onwards.Rory Sloane bleeding another year out of the club despite clearly being past it already last year? Team first.
I reckon there looks to be a touch of shirk about a few contests, usually the head-on or perpendicular approach contested ground ball. He's 21 and not the biggest lad out there - he's learning this stuff, and overall I'm pretty happy with when he goes and when he doesn't.I still don't get the "Rachele pulls out of contests" label.
Yes, there was one or two instances early on when he ducked his head in a marking contest, not knowing what was coming. He owned up and moved on.
But in almost every other instance people point out, he is trying to play the ball. Rather than just run blindly into an opposition tackle, he is trying to extract it and attack with it. Trying to create a bit of separation, and either cleanly grab the ball, or else knock it away from the opponent, and then run off with the ball. Sometimes when you do that, you get it wrong and the opponent runs off with the ball. Other times, you get it right and you get a clean disposal off.
For a player who gets most of his possessions in the forward half of the ground, it makes sense. A clean possession from Rachele is likely to end up with a score, whereas the opponent is still several disposals away from goal.
You can say this is dumb football, or that it messes with team structures, or whatever else if you like. But to paint it as some act of football cowardice misses the mark, in my opinion. This is not Rachele not wanting to get his hands dirty - it's him trying to maximise our scoring opportunities.
For the instance on the weekend, if Rachele had got it right (and he was just inches away from getting it right) then he would have been running forward with nobody between him and the goals. Worth the risk, rather than just wearing the tackle and neutralising the ball.
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