I dont think you understand the term 'challenging the tackler"
Coach Sam Mitchell on his players staging for free kicks
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I dont think you understand the term 'challenging the tackler"
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yeah, it means dropping at the knees, leaning the head back and leaning into the tackle and challenging the tackler to not give a free away. Pathetic by McRae
Going to McRae is like shooting Bambi. Grab the popcorn fellas...incoming!
Mitchell is a master manipulator. He's said this publicly so when the medianwill question every potential stage and give benefit of the doubt to the hawk player "why would they stage, the coach doesn't endorse it"
Dude, if it's that obvious to even you - it hardly makes him a master.
Playing for free kicks is not the same as staging.
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Daicos was rewarded for it multiple times in a Grand Final. Culture?
Not always - but it usually is.
The lunge forward that Cerra does every single time he's tackled or even near the ball is using staging to play for a Free Kick.
Have you played any sports ever ?
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what are you on about? You support staging?
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Melbourne have a few. Spargo and Hunter are others.
Also Kosi at times.
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you had to go back 7 years to find it
We have a couple of incidents but our coach never supports it like McRae did with all of this 'challenging the the tackler'/'it's an art' nonsense.
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Agreed. And Goodwin doesn't like it. Unlike mcRae who endorsed it.
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False. Watson has never "self proclaimed" himself as the Wizard. This is entirely the media's doing. It was started by Cal Twomey and Channel 7's commentators such as BT have enthusiastically run with it. You remind me of the clowns who hung shιt on Cyril because Bruce McAvaney said he was "delicious".
As for the the goal celebration... yeah... let's all pile onto an 18 year old kid for kicking a great goal in his 3rd game that put Hawthorn within 20 points of Geelong at the 12 minute mark of the last quarter when the Hawks seemed to have all the momentum, having kicked 2.4 to 0.0 and looking like a sneaky chance of making it a close finish.
He should've just hung his head in shame instead of trying to fire up his teammates with 20 minutes left in the game.
You tosser.
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Was that the one for the free when Stewart flattened him after we’d kicked a goal? Like the Sicily one in round 1?False. Watson has never "self proclaimed" himself as the Wizard. This is entirely the media's doing. It was started by Cal Twomey and Channel 7's commentators such as BT have enthusiastically run with it. You remind me of the clowns who hung shιt on Cyril because Bruce McAvaney said he was "delicious".
As for the the goal celebration... yeah... let's all pile onto an 18 year old kid for kicking a great goal in his 3rd game that put Hawthorn within 20 points of Geelong at the 12 minute mark of the last quarter when the Hawks seemed to have all the momentum, having kicked 2.4 to 0.0 and looking like a sneaky chance of making it a close finish.
He should've just hung his head in shame instead of trying to fire up his teammates with 20 minutes left in the game.
You tosser.
Oh, no they didn’t pay that faaaaaarken obvious one. Amateurs would be a complement
Geelong train for it. It is a key component of their game plan.
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Delete this post before more people read it and get brain damage.
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We sit dead last on the average frees for with just the 14.3, so our return on investment is failing. But I counted four Hawthorn smalls staging and ducking on Monday, although I'll give Bruest a mulligan because he's normally better than that. Ginnivan, Watson & Moore though - yeesh.
The Easter Monday game always has the same response which can be summarised that all free kicks paid to Geelong are wrong and all free kicks paid to Hawthorn are correct
It's embarrassing
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You don’t know what staging is
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Yep, staging and drawing free kicks are different things. The first one sucks, the second is just cheeky.
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