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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Originally Posted by
comrade
That right there is why Bevo won't play him as a stay at home forward. How can he when Boyd is no more than a 10-20% chance of taking even uncontested overhead marks,
To be fair, that was contested. If not for the slight touch from the Geeling defender, he would've got the second bite. But again, he needs to take some grippo off Gowers jumper.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
To be fair, that was contested. If not for the slight touch from the Geeling defender, he would've got the second bite. But again, he needs to take some grippo off Gowers jumper.
He got 2 hands to it uncontested. The bobble allowed the (smaller) defender to kill it.
If he had anything resembling an AFL standard ability to mark a ball, it would have been a pretty straight forward grab.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Originally Posted by
comrade
He got 2 hands to it uncontested. The bobble allowed the (smaller) defender to kill it.
If he had anything resembling an AFL standard ability to mark a ball, it would have been a pretty straight forward grab.
As I said, take some of Gowers grippo. But Tom is doing a lot of positive things tonight.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Was a wonderful handball to Gowers for that goal
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Great game from him tonight, especially around the ground
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Was the team leader for contested possession all night until the last 5-8 minutes. Leading by example with 10 of his 17 contested with his 31 hit outs.
Such a smart 1%er to set up Gowers for the match sealer too.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Good effort tonight, against Geelong's weak ruck division but battled all day and had some important touches
If you kicked five goals and Tom Boyd kicked five goals, Tom Boyd kicked more goals than you.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
Was the team leader for contested possession all night until the last 5-8 minutes. Leading by example with 10 of his 17 contested with his 31 hit outs.
Such a smart 1%er to set up Gowers for the match sealer too.
Even my wife said "that was smart the way he kept that in".
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
There seems to be a lot of goodwill around Boyd from the majority of supporters loving that he is out there week in week out grinding the improvement will continue. Can anyone work out his Marking technique with the flat hands? I can’t remember seeing it before. For mine he is a few marks from being spoken about externally in a really positive light.
I still think when he drifts forward our players continue to miss him. Dahl in the last quarter on Friday night had him 40m out and instead went to the pocket. It happens frequently.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Tom's marking technique reminds me of the action volleyball players use at the net to defend against a spike.
Any wonder the ball comes off his hands accordingly.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Originally Posted by
kruder
There seems to be a lot of goodwill around Boyd from the majority of supporters loving that he is out there week in week out grinding the improvement will continue. Can anyone work out his Marking technique with the flat hands? I can’t remember seeing it before. For mine he is a few marks from being spoken about externally in a really positive light.
I still think when he drifts forward our players continue to miss him. Dahl in the last quarter on Friday night had him 40m out and instead went to the pocket. It happens frequently.
There's at least once or twice a game he's in an advantageous position and is overlooked for a bad option. I'd like to blame the fact midfielders might be unsure of his leading patterns, but some decisions seem to voluntary choices to avoid him (being they had time to weigh their choices up). Hopefully we can sort this out, before The Hun start running back page stories saying his financially poor team mates won't kick it to him out of jealousy...
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
There's at least once or twice a game he's in an advantageous position and is overlooked for a bad option. I'd like to blame the fact midfielders might be unsure of his leading patterns, but some decisions seem to voluntary choices to avoid him (being they had time to weigh their choices up). Hopefully we can sort this out, before The Hun start running back page stories saying his financially poor team mates won't kick it to him out of jealousy...
I'm not certain, but from this year I thought Bonti overtook him as hour highest paid player anyway.
I guess the one advantage of being more of a 'draft and develop' club is that you rarely lose players due to salary cap constraints.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Originally Posted by
Dancin' Douggy
The reason There's no photo of Jezza is because no matter how TINY I save it, even when it's blurry postage stamp size blob, WOOF still always tells me it's too big. It's the reason why I've never created an avatar image too. But I see these beautiful big nice clear images all the time on woof. Like the ones in this article.
Confused of Flemington.
Is this what you were after Douggy?
Have a look at this thread:
https://www.woof.net.au/forum/showth...-Post-Pictures
I use https://postimages.org/. Upload the image and then copy the hotlink for forums link and paste into your post.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Jezza didn't take that grab in the hands anyway.
Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.
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Re: Tom Boyd hasn’t had your average career but at what stage do his 2016 Grand Final credits run out?
Originally Posted by
jeemak
Jezza didn't take that grab in the hands anyway.
I KNEW someone was gonna say that. It makes no difference. This is the correct technique. This picture just illustrates it very clearly.
The fact that Jezza took this particular mark on his chest is completely beside the point.