Charles Sutton Medal

[angelopetraglia]

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What vacuous shit.

A star driven league. Absolute pollution.

Horrific take. Look at Pies. A star driven team didn't win the flag. It was 23 players playing their role on the day that won the cup.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Charles Sutton Medal

mmm Bullldogs social media having a crack at Lions B&F result ...

https://x.com/westernbulldogs/status/1709552501329211491?s=20

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Charles Sutton Medal

Winning 5 V/@AFL B&Fs before turning 28 years old

Dick Reynolds
Alan Ruthven
Kevin Murray
Bob Skilton
John Schultz
Gary Dempsey
Leigh Matthews
John Murphy
Garry Wilson
Matthew Pavlich
Nick Riewoldt
Chris Judd
MARCUS BONTEMPELLI

[FrediKanoute]

Re: Charles Sutton Medal

JJ fininished 13th after only playing 11 games, which is the equivilanent of 5th if he played every game. Good comeback on what he had produced in prior years.

Amazing when you play a guy in his position

[azabob]

Re: Charles Sutton Medal

Can any of you really believe how privileged we are to see Marcus Bontempelli play AFL?

An absolute star. I can't wait to see him hold aloft the premiership cup one more time before he retires.

[Mantis]

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Jon Ralph

"The Bont 5 best and fairests in ten completed seasons. What a mega star. But Macrae and Smith 14th and 15th sums up what went wrong for the Dogs. In a star driven league Beveridge didn?t maximise his talent"

Out of a really strong field Jon Ralph is the worst scribe in the game... he's ****ing ordinary.

[angelopetraglia]

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Out of a really strong field Jon Ralph is the worst scribe in the game... he's ****ing ordinary.

The new generation of journos don't compare to the old school.

Who can write a great storytelling piece on the game these days? Greg Baum, Rohan Connelly, Martin Flangan ... any younger people have the same type of stoytelling skill? Robbo, another from the old school can do a great, insightful interview piece. Maybe I'm not across them, but the newere generation appear to be chasing the story but don't have the intelligence or skill to actually take the reader on any kind of journey.

[Bornadog]

Re: Charles Sutton Medal

What a find this bloke was.

[Grantysghost]

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Bailey Williams 12th is a pretty average season from him. Need him to push up into that top ten.
English 7th is a surpise to me.

[Grantysghost]

Re: Charles Sutton Medal

A ruckman won our B&F last year....

A tagger don't you mean?

[Grantysghost]

Re: Charles Sutton Medal

mmm Bullldogs social media having a crack at Lions B&F result ...

https://x.com/westernbulldogs/status...329211491?s=20

Dunkley fourth fair first season.

[angelopetraglia]

Re: Charles Sutton Medal

Dunkley fourth fair first season.

Nah. Let's run the opposite narrative. He won last year. He finished fourth this year. He has gone backwards and played so poorly he could not take votes off Neale and cost Bont the Brownlow.

Let's run with that. It makes me feel better.

[mjp]

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Out of a really strong field Jon Ralph is the worst scribe in the game... he's ****ing ordinary.

Is he wrong though?

I don't blame Beveridge for the performances of two individuals but based on talent and past performance, those two should not be finishing mid-teams in the B&F. I noted yesterday Jack Macrae has had a 27x goal assist season (Bont had 24 this year for comparison)...this year he had 13.

[mjp]

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Nah. Let's run the opposite narrative. He won last year. He finished fourth this year. He has gone backwards and played so poorly he could not take votes off Neale and cost Bont the Brownlow.

Let's run with that. It makes me feel better.

And he tagged De Goey in the GF...who kicked 2x CRUCIAL goals.

[Mantis]

Re: Charles Sutton Medal

Is he wrong though?

I don't blame Beveridge for the performances of two individuals but based on talent and past performance, those two should not be finishing mid-teams in the B&F. I noted yesterday Jack Macrae has had a 27x goal assist season (Bont had 24 this year for comparison)...this year he had 13.

It's just lazy journalism to insinuate that Beveridge was at fault for the drop off in output of both of these players.

It's true they both had very poor years... so why not dig deeper into why that was the case instead of just blaming the coach based on the roles they were asked to play?