Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

[Remi Moses]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

Going to say the same thing, O'Brien and Maxwell have murdered us lately!

[Sockeye Salmon]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

Does anyone write about Chris Judd being an ordinary shot for goal?

[Ghost Dog]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

Dogs carry the weight of expectation. Pressure certainly on Coons to perform.

Anyway, It's not important because you can't change the past.
57 years or last year, the only important game is the next one.
Said with great respect to all the fans that have stuck by them and suffered, but like any athlete, fans have to put the past behind them and focus on the next game. Otherwise, its too much, gets over analyzed and negative.

[The Underdog]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

Does anyone write about Chris Judd being an ordinary shot for goal?

No but as much as I hate to say it Judd has been the best player on the team he's on for about 7 years. Cooney has been the most talented for about 4 but not consistently the best.
Judd has also always projected as a mature leader to the media (and they lap it up), Cooney still projects as smart arse schoolboy.
Judd gets the benefit of the doubt, sometimes unfairly, but Cooney is a long way behind him in most aspects.

[AndrewP6]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

Judd has also always projected as a mature leader to the media (and they lap it up), Cooney still projects as smart arse schoolboy.

Disagree with this assessment. One thing I wouldn't say is that he's a smart arse. Was only a year or two back that he would barely speak, now he's quite open when speaking during interviews and so on. Larrikin, knockabout, yes, but IMO he's no smart arse.

Sorry for the 'a' words, moderators!

[GVGjr]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

This is true. Which is why the esky lid fiasco is also very disappointing.

Understand he needs to get away and I have no problem with this but to act how he did was disappointing.

The club and the player would have known how bad his injuries were and yet he still couldn't help himself and risked further injury with a juvenile act. Now his injuries that interrupted his pre-season are being used to explain a sub-par performance.
It's a factor for sure but how much slack should we really be cutting him?

[Topdog]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

Does anyone write about Chris Judd being an ordinary shot for goal?

No

Actually Mike S has written and spoken about it several times.

[Desipura]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

The club and the player would have known how bad his injuries were and yet he still couldn't help himself and risked further injury with a juvenile act. Now his injuries that interrupted his pre-season are being used to explain a sub-par performance.
It's a factor for sure but how much slack should we really be cutting him?

Fair call, could you see Granty, Johnno, Buckley, Hird or Judd doing that during the off season?

No, they will be putting 100 per cent into their rehab knowing how close we/they are to winning a premiership.
There are 15 other teams striving for glory, you cannot take any shortcuts and have to do everything possible to get ahead of your opponents.

How badly does he want it? He is one of our most important players, without him at his best, we will not win a premiership.
Lack of preseason aside, he should be nailing those goals

[ratsmac]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

Jake Niall is a very good football analyst and writer.
Hutchison is a bin scavenging gossip journo

Hahaha, so true.

[ratsmac]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

Disagree with this assessment. One thing I wouldn't say is that he's a smart arse. Was only a year or two back that he would barely speak, now he's quite open when speaking during interviews and so on. Larrikin, knockabout, yes, but IMO he's no smart arse.

Sorry for the 'a' words, moderators!

Well said Andrew. When I hear the words "smart arse," Stephen Milne come to mind and not Adam Cooney.

[LostDoggy]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

25-30 is usually when an AFL footballer hits their peak, Cooney is currently heading into that area.

[Topdog]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

Fair call, could you see Granty, Johnno, Buckley, Hird or Judd doing that during the off season?

I agree I couldn't see it for the first 4 but to be fair who knows what they got up to. Social media wasn't really around then. Judd is known to have done the odd stupid thing whilst on end of year breaks.

[GVGjr]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

How badly does he want it? He is one of our most important players, without him at his best, we will not win a premiership.
Lack of preseason aside, he should be nailing those goals

I don't think he is as committed yet to getting the best out of himself as he should be but then again a lot of naturally talented players are like that.
I also don't think the injury interrupted pre-season is a good reason for him missing goals.

I believe they club had a special session this week that focused on goal kicking but I wonder if they had players on the mark or just gave the group open looks at the goals and still thought it was a good session.

[GVGjr]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

25-30 is usually when an AFL footballer hits their peak, Cooney is currently heading into that area.

He's had issues with knees and hamstrings so I don't think we can fully count on him getting better in that age bracket. He might however, become more consistent.

[Mantis]

Re: Jake Niall Kicks Cooney out of bounds

I believe they club had a special session this week that focused on goal kicking but I wonder if they had players on the mark or just gave the group open looks at the goals and still thought it was a good session.

I watched them have goal kicking practice at a recovery session a few weeks back. I sat directly behind a group who had to kick from about 40m on a 45 deg angle. There was a cross-wind blowing meaning that a kick of normal penetration needed to be started just outside the right hand goal post in order to register a goal. The conversion rate would have been no better than 20% and I was staggered to see how many players started the ball in the middle of the goals even on there 3rd or 4th attempt only to watch the ball miss to the left.