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(08-05-2021, 11:18 AM)Professer E link Wrote:I get why Murphy is there but he'd want to apply a heck of a lot more defensive pressure when he's on the ground this week or he'll give his detractors more ammo.
I don't think Murph gives a fat rat's clacker about his detractors :
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(08-05-2021, 11:52 AM)Stone Motherless link Wrote:Docherty, Williams and maybe Cuningham the only three walk up starts... And that's being very generous on their 2021 output. Injuries haven't been that unkind to us.
Injuries haven't been that unkind?
2 games ago we didn't have a key forward on the park, and we are playing jack silvagni as relief ruck for at least 4 matches now.
Our list might be smaller than it was last week, but that doesn't mean we haven't 17 names on it less than 2 weeks ago, even if some of them did play last week. Harry wasn't exactly running last week whilst on the park.
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Murphy looked very slow last week and got caught with the ball pretty much every time he got it....a nice goal at the end was about all. If it gets him to 300 then so be it....I reckon he's earned it over the journey. I think Eddie is only a bee's away from 350??
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(08-06-2021, 02:09 AM)WASurfer link Wrote:Murphy looked very slow last week and got caught with the ball pretty much every time he got it....a nice goal at the end was about all. If it gets him to 300 then so be it....I reckon he's earned it over the journey. I think Eddie is only a bee's away from 350??
I don’t begrudge Murph his 300 but I have to agree that he does look to have slowed up a lot. I looked back at some of his early games for us recently and he looked pretty damn good back then and the comparison with today is stark. Eddie though, afaic at least, can still conjure up some magic on occasions.
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(08-06-2021, 02:09 AM)WASurfer link Wrote:Murphy looked very slow last week and got caught with the ball pretty much every time he got it....a nice goal at the end was about all. If it gets him to 300 then so be it....I reckon he's earned it over the journey. I think Eddie is only a bee's away from 350??
The way Eddie has performed this year he looks like he could go to 400. He deserves to be that and an icon of the game.
At the time I was on the fence of letting Adelaide have Eddie, and by the end of it, was happy to see him gone, but Ill put my hand up and state that this decision was possibly the worst we have made as a footy club in the last 30 years (that is a massive statement in itself).
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(08-06-2021, 04:09 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:The way Eddie has performed this year he looks like he could go to 400. He deserves to be that and an icon of the game.
At the time I was on the fence of letting Adelaide have Eddie, and by the end of it, was happy to see him gone, but Ill put my hand up and state that this decision was possibly the worst we have made as a footy club in the last 30 years (that is a massive statement in itself).
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(08-06-2021, 04:09 AM)Thryleon link Wrote:The way Eddie has performed this year he looks like he could go to 400. He deserves to be that and an icon of the game.
At the time I was on the fence of letting Adelaide have Eddie, and by the end of it, was happy to see him gone, but Ill put my hand up and state that this decision was possibly the worst we have made as a footy club in the last 30 years (that is a massive statement in itself).
Well Thry, we have certainly made some doozies over that time but, you're right! If it's not the worst decision, it has to be very close behind.
The only saving grace is that Eddie would probably have retired years ago if he had stayed with us.
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