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    Re: Clay Smith recounts fairytale finish to tough year

    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    All of them? Can we handle the bandwidth?
    The guy with the ugliest kicking style in football kicked 8 goals 1 in the finals series.

    2 goals per game from a small forward is outstanding. If he played every game and maintained that average he would have finished 8th in the Coleman medal. Only Jack Redpath managed to average 2 goals per game during the year, and that was only from 10 games.

    FWIW Jake Stringer's 2015 AA year he average 2.55 goals per game, Dickson 2.17 in 2015. Prior to that you have to go back to 2011 to find a Bulldog that managed it (Hall and Gia).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    The guy with the ugliest kicking style in football kicked 8 goals 1 in the finals series.

    2 goals per game from a small forward is outstanding. If he played every game and maintained that average he would have finished 8th in the Coleman medal. Only Jack Redpath managed to average 2 goals per game during the year, and that was only from 10 games.

    FWIW Jake Stringer's 2015 AA year he average 2.55 goals per game, Dickson 2.17 in 2015. Prior to that you have to go back to 2011 to find a Bulldog that managed it (Hall and Gia).

    That's some damn fine use of bandwidth, right there.

    Those goalkicking stats are pretty ordinary for the years 2012-2014. I guess we were finding our defensive mindset is a big reason. God we were an ugly team to watch in those years. Anyone who sat through that deserved a premiership.
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    Re: Clay Smith recounts fairytale finish to tough year

    Quote Originally Posted by Mofra View Post
    The guy with the ugliest kicking style in football kicked 8 goals 1 in the finals series.

    2 goals per game from a small forward is outstanding. If he played every game and maintained that average he would have finished 8th in the Coleman medal. Only Jack Redpath managed to average 2 goals per game during the year, and that was only from 10 games.

    FWIW Jake Stringer's 2015 AA year he average 2.55 goals per game, Dickson 2.17 in 2015. Prior to that you have to go back to 2011 to find a Bulldog that managed it (Hall and Gia).
    Picken also kicked 8 during the finals and to me was the player of the finals (across all 4)
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    Re: Clay Smith recounts fairytale finish to tough year

    Quote Originally Posted by bornadog View Post
    Picken also kicked 8 during the finals and to me was the player of the finals (across all 4)
    For us he was player of the Finals series by the length of the straight.

    I think Kennedy was a deserving winner of the official award.

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    Re: Clay Smith recounts fairytale finish to tough year

    Yep, Picken was our best. Smith was pretty good though and excellent when it counted.
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    Re: Clay Smith recounts fairytale finish to tough year

    Smith was so important for us when he made his comeback after the 3rd knee reco. He not only kicked goals in the finals, his tackling in the forward 50 was enormous.

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