(03-26-2021, 01:34 AM)PaulP date Wrote:DeGoey, Elliott and I think Cox as well, are not easy match ups. You won't find many defenders that can go with those blokes, especially when they're firing. Our other defenders must have a secret stash of short straws just to spite him.I agree, but it's not just in those contests that our players get judged.
It's dropping chest marks, fumbling pick ups in the clear, missing targets or bombing the ball mindlessly to nobody. In fairness Plowman wasn't on his own in this regard.
Can you recall what MM did to Mitch Robinson after his goal line brain fade, can imagine what he would have said / done to Jones? I suspect Jones would have been put in a taxi with a torn up contract before leaving the ground!
Can you imagine what MM would have done to Levi, Big H or Cripps after yet another uncontested chest mark hit the deck?
( For the statisticians I offer a fans perspective. Regardless of what AFL statisticians claim, a 200cm leading KPF or KPD is not in a marking contest when they are 2m or 3m ahead of an opponent and drop or take a chest mark! Was any chest mark considered contested back in Stick's or Doull's day? )
We've done it for so long I fear it is contagious!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"