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    Quote Originally Posted by swantastic View Post
    Spot on about MELCHO Jeffers
    Stop shouting you lot
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    Quote Originally Posted by swantastic View Post
    Bit harsh NMW he and Kirky have been the best Swans players by a mile this year.
    Not harsh. He's having a great season. Doesn't mean I think he's ready for either AA or Brownlow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NMWBloods View Post
    Not harsh. He's having a great season. Doesn't mean I think he's ready for either AA or Brownlow.
    Kirky will poll very well in the Charlie this year and Melcho will get a few too .As for AA IMHO both of them will make it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by swantastic View Post
    Kirky will poll very well in the Charlie this year and Melcho will get a few too .As for AA IMHO both of them will make it.
    Sadly Kirk's not eligible though - and his lack of "flash factor" means he probably won't get all he deserves anyway.

    Kirk really should be close to having wrapped up an AA spot by now - though I suspect again he may get overlooked because he's not as fashionable or flashy as the likes of the Kerrs, Burgoynes, Blacks of this world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liz View Post
    Sadly Kirk's not eligible though - and his lack of "flash factor" means he probably won't get all he deserves anyway.

    Kirk really should be close to having wrapped up an AA spot by now - though I suspect again he may get overlooked because he's not as fashionable or flashy as the likes of the Kerrs, Burgoynes, Blacks of this world.
    Why is Kirky not eligible? I can't recall him being in trouble with the tribunal this year.

    He's usually polled pretty well in the past, and with the usual 'flashy' Swans in Hall and Goodes having a downer of a season I reckon he could poll a few.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ugg View Post
    Why is Kirky not eligible? I can't recall him being in trouble with the tribunal this year.
    He got a reprimand after the Port game when he bumped Chad Cornes front on. Was a bit stiff IMO (and the Fox Sports News team) because he was contesting the ball rather than bumping a player already with his head over the ball. And when he realised he was going to collide front on with Cornes he did all he could to shift his body so that most of the contact was to the shoulder rather than head on. But it was deemed to be negligent contact by the MRP and the Swans chose not to fight it, given he'd have missed a game had he lost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by swantastic View Post
    Kirky will poll very well in the Charlie this year and Melcho will get a few too .As for AA IMHO both of them will make it.
    'Eski will get some votes, but won't win. Kirk will definitely get votes - should do pretty well.

    'Eski won't make AA. Should be in line in 2008 or 2009 though.

    Kirk's problem with AA is that they will normally pick a pure midfielder rather than a tagger/midfielder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NMWBloods View Post
    'Eski will get some votes, but won't win. Kirk will definitely get votes - should do pretty well.

    'Eski won't make AA. Should be in line in 2008 or 2009 though.

    Kirk's problem with AA is that they will normally pick a pure midfielder rather than a tagger/midfielder.
    and ling probably would get any tagger midfield spot ahead of kirk this year
    Theres not much left to say

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    Quote Originally Posted by NMWBloods View Post
    Kirk's problem with AA is that they will normally pick a pure midfielder rather than a tagger/midfielder.
    Anyone labelling Kirk as a tagger has no idea, though. He is averaging well over 20 possessions a game at the same time as keeping the likes of Shaun Burgoyne, Paul Hasleby and Scott West to a mere fraction of their normal output.

    According to this week's record, he got double figure clearances last week - and a check of the stats table they put in there shows he's close to double the average clearance rate of all midfielders over the whole season.

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    It'll be harder this year with the new selection criteria where midfielders can only be named in the midfield or on the bench.

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    A number of the pundits had Kirk in their AA team at the half way point - & he's only got better since then while a number of the Ferraris have dropped off. Bizarrely enough given his start to the season, Goodes' last 6-7 weeks must have him in the frame too. He's been good to excellent over that time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by liz View Post
    Anyone labelling Kirk as a tagger has no idea, though. He is averaging well over 20 possessions a game at the same time as keeping the likes of Shaun Burgoyne, Paul Hasleby and Scott West to a mere fraction of their normal output.

    According to this week's record, he got double figure clearances last week - and a check of the stats table they put in there shows he's close to double the average clearance rate of all midfielders over the whole season.
    Yes, but he is still a combo, and his disposal is below the quality of the top midfielders.
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