I sit next to an older lady who lived in Canada for a number of years and she raves about Pykey every time he goes near the ball. I think if she was 30 years younger she might want to [insert your own thought here]
I sit next to an older lady who lived in Canada for a number of years and she raves about Pykey every time he goes near the ball. I think if she was 30 years younger she might want to [insert your own thought here]
..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC
Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN
Ok, I'll have a go Big Al
I sit next to an older lady who lived in Canada for a number of years and she raves about Pykey every time he goes near the ball. I think if she was 30 years younger she might want to [adopt him and marry me]
Nothing like a good light bulb moment.
Set to become the first ever player to score a try vs All Blacks AND kick a goal in an AFL grand final.
Great point Jono. I think Pyke is all about what goes on from him upstairs, seems to read the game really well. On many occasions this season he has been i the right place at the right time in an instinctive way. You can't teach that, it all comes down to the way the player reads the game. A good example is where he set up LRT's snap goal in the 2nd qtr yesterday. He tales team instruction and applies thought and competetive instinct to put himself in the right position.
Add to all that he is really really quick for a big guy, and has great marking skills.
The last thing, he really loves playing this game, you can see that he is committed to being the best he can be!
"We talked five times. I called him twice, and he called me twice."
Eddie McGuire
Last edited by Big Al; 20th August 2012 at 08:33 PM.
..And the Swans are the Premiers...The Ultimate Team...The Ultimate Warriors. They have overcome the highly fancied Hawks in brilliant style. Sydney the 2012 Premiers - Gerard Whately ABC
Here it is Again! - Huddo SEN
Nah I get an Izzy highlights package sent to me each week. It's usually a blank disk....
I have watched him play a fair few times this year - as a league fan I am interested to see how he fares, and although no one has been expecting miracles, he really doesn't look like he wants it badly enough.
I still think that Izzy wasn't the first choice GWS league recruit - Jarryd Hayne would have made a better convert. The right recruits with the right attitude can make it in AFL...
A thing that people tend to forget about rugby converts like Mike (I'm talking rugby union not rugby league) is that rugby players tend to kick the ball in play more often, particularly fullbacks. Therefore kicking a footy would not have been as foreign to Mike as a lot of people make out. Different, I know, but the idea of kicking whilst on the run would have been a concept reasonably familar to him.
He would have had a very good mentor in LRT who also came from a union background. As did Playfair.
So I'm sure they helped him with reading the play. However, Mike has the ability to work it out for himself. Although they kick in union on the run, the ball is much fatter, they don't kick to a target and they don't drop the ball on their foot as you do in Aussie Rules. So Mike would have put in alot of time to learn that.
Folau on the other hand has no one to mentor him with the same background and probably doesn't have Mike's footy brain. He was pretty bad on the weekend and like the Etihad surface there was little mention of Folau's future today.
Nothing like a good light bulb moment.
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