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And had we won last year, he would have been too. Every team has ordinary players. It is remarkable though his longevity given his lack of star quality.
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Roast Spud DMAC: 200 games of potatoes coming your way
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Not even star quality, just his basic lack of effectiveness.
He's played his whole career based on some vague notion that he is critical to our structure.
It's more the fact there's a fairly clear pattern here.
This hack is going to play 250 games, you just know it.
Watch us give him another three year extension.
He's the master of the lazy bomb down the line to a team mates disadvantage or a kick to a lead that goes straight over head.
This! He's touted as a line breaking winger with good foot skills, but even when he does manage to run on an angle and get through the defensive zone, how often does he actually kick it lace out to a team mate? So often it's just a thoughtless long bomb to not much.
**** him off to the SANFL and give Milera his role. Gallucci to the HF.
the game was lost in the second half when DMac, Rat, Jenkins and Sauce were required to hit a target inside 50. Even kicking to advantage would have given our forwards a chance.
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Summed up DMacs career with the AFC in 2 short sentences.
It's amazing to think of all of the talented footballers that have never been given a proper chance at AFL level or who just haven't been lucky with injury etc and then compare them to Mackay, who somehow will play at least 200 games despite being mediocre at best, ineffectual generally and absolutely diabolical at his worst, all while making $400,000 a year. Sometimes life is just unfair.
He had a couple of good games in 2009, bursting through the middle picking up the ball cleanly and finishing with a goal. IMO the increased physicality/congestion has hurt him. Don't question his courage - if anything he is braver than the bigger blokes who are harder to hurt. I'd guess he has laid more tackles than Jenkins.
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Probably not the best comparison. Definitely more tackles than Atkins.
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JJ only tackles when their a chance of a goal otherwise he just takes a couple steps to chase then gives up. Mackay does tackle, but he’s supposed to be an outside runner who connects to players up the field. What we get is a player who runs and then bombs it or misses simple passes...or gets rag dolled.
He's averaging about 17 touches, so a stock standard year for him. He's not hitting up targets or kicking goals, he's just back to being a pure nothing player taking up a half back spot that a much better player should be occupying.
Yeh, but imagine what our team would look like without him.
Tackles don’t mean much, I’m pretty sure I could run the length of the field with Dmac tackling me.
We would lose nothing if this lot were moved on. But hey, lets keep it all nice and comfortable here at AFC.
As a club we will start a new page on the day MacKay is given the shove. It will signal a change in culture. Why is it so ?
I won't question the way he puts his body on the line or his attempts to tackle, but the reality is that due to size and strength constraints, he's never going to be anything but a try hard at best in those situations. What he's supposed to specialise in, run and carry and elite link up disposal, he isn't very good at and certainly not good enough at to be a walk up start.
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I get sick of watching MacKay station himself in useless positions. Areas technically within our "zone" but in positions the opposition will never ever kick to and whether he mans that space or not, it makes no difference. I also get sick of watching him allow his man too much space out of pure stupidity, then it costs us a goal. Time and time again he trails his opponent by a few meters and it is because he allows too much space to make up when the ball comes his way. Oh, I am also sick of Mackay using his supposed great field kicking to kick to a contest or to our players disadvantage bringing an advantage back to a contest.
I feel like I could write a 4000 word argumentative essay in glittery red, blue and yellow pens, deliver it in a crows coloured limousine and provide a detailed 5 hour video of MacKay supporting the essay, showing his limitations and poor foot skills, played on a cinema screen in a gold class cinema, where the coaches are served free popcorn and drinks by Mila Kunis in a crows coloured bikini and the coaches still wouldnt consider dropping him.
I feel like I could write a 4000 word argumentative essay in glittery red, blue and yellow pens, deliver it in a crows coloured limousine and provide a detailed 5 hour video of MacKay supporting the essay, showing his limitations and poor foot skills, played on a cinema screen in a gold class cinema, where the coaches are served free popcorn and drinks by Mila Kunis in a crows coloured bikini and the coaches still wouldnt consider dropping him.
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There must be someone in the AFC hierarchy whose authority is above the coach's and champions Mackay's cause.
Maybe it started with Craig as you say, managing to convince "Q", let's say, to the lifelong belief that we can't do without Mackay. Ever since, coaches may start out given him the benefit of the doubt but when they realise his level of spudness, and start to think about dropping him, Q has a word to the coach "you shall not drop the potato!"
The question is, who might this "Q" be? Someone who has been around for as long as Mack has?
I’m not prepared to write Atkins off or compare him to Mackay. His best is actually BOG and he’s done this on a few occasions. Mackay best is in the top 15 on the ground and that happens once or twice a year.
If Rat can mature and cut the terrible parts of his game out (hack kicks to no one and soft inside work) he’ll be an asset to our future finals push.
If Rat can mature and cut the terrible parts of his game out (hack kicks to no one and soft inside work) he’ll be an asset to our future finals push.
So Milera performs very well at HBF, better than Mackay ever has, but we shunt him back to HFF so Mackay is safe.
This decision has brought me very close to giving up on the club.
We have dropped him before. The issue I have is where the bar is set for him to get back into the side. Seems to be much, much lower than what a kid has to consistently produce to be considered.
