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[quote author=Ryan link=topic=33427.msg892636#msg892636 date=1245641825]
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[quote author=Ryan link=topic=33427.msg887295#msg887295 date=1244889645]
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[quote author=Ryan link=topic=33427.msg886070#msg886070 date=1244680219]
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I think its very similar so much so that it looks as if they have copied their exact style.
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They haven't.
They've adopted Hawthron's 'romaing zone' style, and taken it to another level, with manic pressure starting higher up the field.
It's pretty much nothing like Geelong's gameplan.
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Agree with that although St Kilda do have a lot of bigger players through the middle (everywhere even), much like Geelong and I suspect that is what reminds DB of Geelong.
Good game last night. As was the Adelaide v Essendon game last weekend. Agree with Ryan that Essendon will not make the finals but they are a good team to watch and will continue to improve next year.
I have been really impressed with a lot of the young players coming through this year right across the competition. My pick of the lot so far has to Daniel Rich though, he's going to be a star.
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Yeah Rich looks good, but it's not hard to do so alongside Black, Power, Adcock, Sherman and Drummond.
I've been seriously impressed with Ziebell. Looking like a leader already even in that shite side.
Last night's game was simply wonderful. As good a contest as you'll see. 12-0 for the Saints, they won't win the flag though.
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They are learning to handle the pressure.
They are easily Geelongs biggest threat now.
Loved being at last weekends game, nailbiting to the end.
Fev is a big time choker.
Setanta O' H is becoming a very solid player.
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Great, another sport you know fuck all about.
Setanta would have been cut in the summer but for having another year on his contract. He's been here for 5 years now, and still hasn't got a solid position in the team. He couldn't even get a look in this year until Waite got injured. The only reason he did alright last week was due to St Kilda not really having a proper match up for him.
Fev's a choker? Fucking hell. He's one of the best kicks for goal in the last 20 years of AFL. Were you not basing your opinion on a couple of missed kicks against the Hawks and the Cats, you'd know that for years (in a truly shite Carlton side) he's been one of the comp's leading goalkickers. 99 last year in case you forgot.
He's also currently the leading scorer in the country.
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I never said he wasn't an amazing goal kicker. I said he was a choker. Just go back to last years game where he could have gotten to 100. He missed numerous kicks in the 1st hal against the hawks.
Setanta Has been playing evry well since getting in the side and to say otherwise means you either love arguing with me or haven't watched Carlton live.
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"Last year's game when he could have got 100"
What, you mean the game where he kicked 7 goals against the 2nd best side in the comp (at that time) despite having 2 players hanging off his back the entire night, and playing against a defensive set-up that Clarkson actually admitted was put there to stop him from getting to the ton?
He's won a Coleman Medal in a fucking shite side, he kicked a dozen against Collingwood years ago, he's been the Blues leading goalkicker for 6 straight years, and he's an All-australian. I could start to list some of the games where he's won the match off his own boot by kicking 8+ goals, but I'd be here all day and I'm talking to internet autism anyway.
And spare me your "I've been to see Carlton play at least 3 times live" speech please.
It actually irritates me that I'm arguing this with you.
