Originally Posted by Dosser
Actually lets give them Fev :-)
Actually lets give them Fev :-)
Improvement but as Wayne Carey said on One a Specialist Forward really should be shooting 60% or more. I think Sam's is very low like 28 or 38%. Yes he has improved but not enough Carey reckons that Specialist Forwards in Premiership teams generally shoot more than 60%. I know both Buddy and Cloke have played in premiership teams. In Buddy's case he kicks so many scores he is going to hurt you anyway. With Cloke I don't think he hurts you any near as much as Buddy even though Buddy's % is lower as he doesn't kick anywhere as many scores. But imagine if Buddy was kicking at over 60% the Hawks would be unbeatable.
Reid got his butt kicked by Buddy last night. I'm not all that impressed with him.
Won't be the first defender that happens to this year. However I'm not as enthused about Ben Reid as some others on here. Still that could be because of the prison jumper he wears each weekend.
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If Reid was playing one out against Buddy then his coach is an idiot. Last year we used two players on him one when he was deep in the forwardline and one when he went for a run down the ground. It still did us little good but other teams do the same thing and sometimes it works. He has a huge engine and is so quick the most talls can't go with him. Rotating between a tall and a tall winger type on him is the only way to at least manage the damage. It is my opinion that he may just be the most versatile full forward ever, he can play mids, back and forward and he hurts opposition every time. I pity whoever draws the short straw and has to stand him
My impression was that he found it hard to get into the game at first, then had a spell in the midfield and was nearly as destructive as Goodes. Very dangerous player.
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
Yes he is exceedingly dangerous in the midfield and just like Goodsie he is very athletic.
It brought a smile to my face every time Buddy took a mark or kicked a goal on Reid. We've already seen how good he can be, so every poor game makes it that little bit easier for us to lure him across. A new life, in sunny Sydney, playing with his brother and not being a Collingwood player should give him a psychological boost to get back to his AA best.
Officially on the Reid and Sumner bandwagon!
What I got out of last nights match was that Ben Ried is probably a worse kick than Sam. Their old man was an AFL footballer (no one game wonder) so what in the heck was he doing when he taught them to kick. They both throw the ball across their body as they do with their leg when kicking. That OTF from a kick out in the last quarter was woeful.
Really? I thought Ben has a really rated left boot. Long precise kicks out of the back half is what I've heard a lot about so I find your assessment surprising.
Maybe he had an off day?
Quote: "What I got out of last nights match..."
I heard you the first time. However you also went on to wonder how their dad taught them to kick, so I was just providing the evidence contradictory to that.
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