Yeah I think that was five minutes after Ned missed Nankervis 15 metres away under no pressure. I don't blame anyone in this team for not kicking it to Ned.
Player Watch Josh Rachele - Re-Signed to End of 2029
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Has to be dropped if we are serious, you can’t squib once let alone twice
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Spoiler alert: we aren’t serious
One of the most selfish players I think we've had.
He's not without talent and a pretty good kick for goal but when he's within 55m, 9/10 he's not even looking to pass it.
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You can’t drop your head twice in the last quarter of a close contest.
That’s completely unacceptable and has to be dropped. It’s for his own good. The season is shot so might as well be taught a hard lesson.
Fancy giving it to opposition supporters one week and the next week showing the AFL world you’re a scaredy cat. Shocking.
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Completely disagree
Dropping Rachele for making those mistakes sets the standard that some players will be punished for mistakes while others will be backed in. It's a horrible double standard to hold him accountable while Brodie Smith for example (who had to apologise for playing so badly) gets away with it.
If we drop him for that his confidence will be shot and when he returns he'll be playing on edge terrified of making a mistake. He should be backed in and given another chance, only dropped after several poor games
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They weren’t mistakes. They weren’t missed kicks. They were 2 gutless pieces of play because he was afraid of getting hurt, of putting his body on the line when there was no one ****ing there!!
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You’re not serious? He heard imaginary footsteps
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Adelaide desperately need midfielders and back flankers that can use the ball by foot. This will bring rachele and fogarty into the game. They both work hard to find space inside 50 but our ball users are rubbish besides Dawson and hinge
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What the ****?
They were obvious squibs.
I love Rash but geez, he will wish that vision accidentally gets permanently destroyed.
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Hang on, we making finals? If we drop him what’s the consequences to our season?
If you want to accept players squibbing, don’t whinge when we continue to be shit.
He’s a show poney who needs to be put in his place.
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Yes I'm serious.
In the first one he was running back but never looked backwards, he totally misjudged it and had to go up one handed to even touch the ball. His eyes were on the ball the whole time. Never looked back
In the second instance he was was stationary and the ball was kicked over his head, he misjudged it and didn't take a step or two back to adjust. He was expecting the perfect kick and it wasn't
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He didn’t need to look back. He shat his pants and ended up trying to spoil an imaginary player. The kick was perfect.
The second pass was almost perfect. Any player worth their salt jumps in the air and takes an easy uncontested mark. The entire crowd turned on him.
He shat himself, and you’d need to have rose coloured glasses on to think otherwise.
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Yeah, two misjudges….
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Nope. I rewatched it literally just then.
He wasn't spoiling the first one at all, he tapped the ball down because he barely got a fingertip to it. He was in completely the wrong position to mark it at the fall of the ball. I think it ended up hitting the side of his hand at full reach
The second one he was literally stationary and the ball was kicked, at best, to him at full stretch to mark above his head. He was in slightly the wrong position and didn't adjust. You can clearly see he was expecting to take it cleanly where he was standing and it didn't quite get to him
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Not to mention the fact that the first squib directly led to Essendon kicking the winning goal, instead of us having a shot on goal.
The first one was kicked perfectly to him. He barely got a fingertip to it because he heard footsteps instead of marking the ball. You’re making a fool of yourself. Nobody agrees with you. Nobody.
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Rachele flew from the side with his eye on the ball using one arm this year not knowing Walker was leading to the same ball.
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I wonder if he would’ve used two arms if he wasn’t so concerned with what might be coming behind him…
He wouldn't have even attempt the mark. When he misjudge the ball, he always go with one arm. Now the 2nd one was yikes using both arms.
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And so have I, he did not go hard at either contest. Both he was clear but he got spooked because he didn’t know what was behind him and piked it. Would you accept those efforts from McHenry?
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