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Toast Welcome to Hawthorn, Finn Maginness “absolute Hawthorn nuffie” and a Hawk to 2027
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Finn is the best stopper in the AFL. His scalps are many.
He need to understand how Alex Rance went from being an average player to being the best.
Alex Rance a was poor distributor... to the level of being a problem for the Tigers.
But he was a great intercepter. Rance fixed his distribution issue by taking the easy kick. He kept his best trait while minimising his lowest skill.
Finn is a player all players fear. And if he can do the simple things well he will work off his target and not just beat them but destroy them.
He need to understand how Alex Rance went from being an average player to being the best.
Alex Rance a was poor distributor... to the level of being a problem for the Tigers.
But he was a great intercepter. Rance fixed his distribution issue by taking the easy kick. He kept his best trait while minimising his lowest skill.
Finn is a player all players fear. And if he can do the simple things well he will work off his target and not just beat them but destroy them.
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Alex Rance became the best by using his elbow to meet opponents' heads.
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You don’t happen to write clickbait headlines for a living?
Knowing how to stay just within the rules is a more than handy skill … especially when the rules / interpretations change so often.
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He didn't. Like martin and his high fend-offs, he could get away with whatever he wanted because he was "one of the best" but he was "one of the best" because he could get away with whatever he wanted. Like a time traveler who murdered his grand father*
*I tried this, was a hell of a way to find out I was adopted.
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Our very own Brian Lake excelled at that skill as well.
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Not even close to the same league as Rance.
This was the norm for rance:
And the imbecile commentator says "That's uncharacteristic from Alex Rance."
It is literally character defining.
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Ah, come on, tell me you don't smile every time you see Lake giving an elbow to the back of Franklin's head in the 2014 Granny, driving it into the ground. I get a little chuckle out of it.
Perhaps not career-defining for Lake, but a good moment all the same.
EDIT: I guess that in footy you can say there's a way to be properly dirty. There's dirty dirty and there's properly dirty.
Most alarming thing in this video is Jack Watts kicking a 3rd goal
Pretty sure he got Poppy in the face with a "mistimed spoil" at least once too - might've even been a pre-season game.
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Yes he did. Which triggered my interest in his behaviour. There were comments around this being standard behaviour for him when he struck poppy so I began watching out for it, and it was pretty clear he is not a player you'd want to emulate.
Your example of a Rance elbow is excellent (such a dog act) though it does not prove your point as he did not get away with it. He was reported and presumably got at least a week.
Getting back to the focus of the thread, Rance during his early years was a liability with ball in hand but was seemingly told to take the easy option with his disposal. Once he started doing that (along with using his elbows
) his value as a player greatly improved. IMO Maginness (and Frost) would benefit from the same advice. Stick to their one woods and let the rest of the team (bar our rucks) take the adventures option.
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LOL the fact that this is in a video means it was notable enough to warrant someone putting it on youtube. The twenty times a game he did the same thing and got away with it isn't ON YOUTUBE IS IT?Your example of a Rance elbow is excellent (such a dog act) though it does not prove your point as he did not get away with it. He was reported and presumably got at least a week.
Getting back to the focus of the thread, Rance during his early years was a liability with ball in hand but was seemingly told to take the easy option with his disposal. Once he started doing that (along with using his elbows
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Surely they tagged Clayton Oliver in this post?
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Frawley was doing the same well before Rance. And so was Stratton. Disposals that is.Your example of a Rance elbow is excellent (such a dog act) though it does not prove your point as he did not get away with it. He was reported and presumably got at least a week.
Getting back to the focus of the thread, Rance during his early years was a liability with ball in hand but was seemingly told to take the easy option with his disposal. Once he started doing that (along with using his elbows
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The fact that Newcombe doesn't even move at all is amazing.
He didn't even ride the bump, he just dealt with Weightman with utter indifference.
There are flies having shots at elephants that left a bigger impression.
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Insect hitting windscreen trying to slow down a semi, springs to mind.
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SOS was the master at scragging forwards without laying a hand at all
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There's a decent chew toy sound effect that goes with that pretty nicely, can't remember if it was twitter or somewhere else.
leant into that nicely did Jai. Went to a school with a guy who had a talent for putting bumps on that seemed to come with added interest. This reminds me of that.
Never saw him lay one without doing much more than planting his feet though.
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