Softest player in the AFL
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Wow this thread is a bit of a throw back!
I remember back in the mid 2000s, this topic would come up quite often and you’d see ‘receivers’ cop a bashing for their high uncontested possession rates. It was just when widely available stats were starting to go beyond ‘kick, Mark, handball’.
Was always a pretty quick indicator that someone had no idea what they were talking about too...
I remember back in the mid 2000s, this topic would come up quite often and you’d see ‘receivers’ cop a bashing for their high uncontested possession rates. It was just when widely available stats were starting to go beyond ‘kick, Mark, handball’.
Was always a pretty quick indicator that someone had no idea what they were talking about too...
Agreed. I reckon anyone who plays AFL football, or any level of football for that matter, has a fair degree of courage. Pretty laughable for “coodabeens” on BF to be casting aspersions on AFL player’s intestinal fortitude.
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Dustin Martin. Keeps running away from players with ball tucked in.
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Bont is a horrible suggestion, but I assume that's a troll. Suckling, Schache, Dale, Lloyd and JJ would be our softest.
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Miers? Really? I think there's heaps softer from GFC.
I genuinely think the hair fools people
Memory of his dive when Houli brushed past him in 2019.
Who do you think is softer?
And yes the hair doesn't help haha.
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More mentally soft, misses easy goals when the team is under pressure.
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Dangerfield has dived before but I think you'd struggle to mount a case that he's soft.
Using the criteria of size relativity etc, I'd say Blicavs is an obvious one. He is getting better but he doesn't play like a guy his size when it gets physical a lot of the time.
Jack Henry up until recently I'd have put in that category but he impressed my with his courage a few times in the finals.
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He can't have done it too many times. He kicked 19.6 this season and while he missed a dolly in the GF he also kicked one when we were even more under the pump.
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Easier to perform when the team is going well, it's when they've got their backs to the wall he's found wanting. It's not even just his goalkicking either - his general decision making which Geelong are under pressure goes out. There was another horrendous decision he made, possibly the week before, he shit himself and kicked blindly into the 50 for a direct turnover.
Has Chad Wingard syndrome.
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Um, exactly. The easy one he missed was when we were dominating in the second quarter, the one he slotted was when we'd just had our lead chopped to 3 points.
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Jaidyn Stephenson might be the softest player I've seen in the last 10 years. He'd probably be the softest guy on the field in local footy. Immense speed and skill though.
And it is not even close
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Interesting, so it still applies but in reverse. Had the opportunity to make it very difficult for Richmond to come back, sensed it, and fluffed the kick, but ended up kicking one later against the general flow of play.
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McLean and Hunter are the worst divers and duckers in the game by far
So add them to the softest in AFL list
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Neither are soft. Would you consider Selwood or Grimes soft? Ducking does not equal soft.
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So? Tom Hawkins missed two when we were on top.
Joel Selwood fell short of the distance when we needed a goal to stop the bleeding.
As we all know though, these 'rules' only apply when it suits.
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strongly strongly disgaree, because they play footy you think they somehow are mentally tougher or physically more withstanding than those who don't.
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Never seen this. Imagine being scared of Dyson Heppell of all people
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