Unrestricted Free Agent Reilly O’Brien
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Kane McGoodwin
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If only his so called taps to advantage were like Gawn's...
If his taps to advantage are not translating into clearances, we may a well have a ruckman who is useful around the ground!
Kane McGoodwin
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You pay too much credence to rankings.
Explain to me why if he is so elite we are poor in clearance?
This isn't about if he should have been the AA ruck, this is about people making comments that he is terrible, and wishing anyone would take him off our hands.
He is a very good ruckman, and the stats back that up. And, with regards to stats, it's one of the ways we track their form.
As for the clearances, the mids he hit to the advantage of needs to actually clear the ball. He did his job to hit to the advantage.
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Facts.
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28.6% hitouts to advantage. Same as Grundy, better than Sweet, not far off Gawn (29.4)
I think a lot of our issue with hitouts is we don’t have the speed and power to break away from the contest so it gets nullified even though we get first hands
Much more critical of ROB inability to handball or kick in tight situations which often results in a potentially positive play end up in another stoppage
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Didn’t realise how old he was, 30 next year
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At his age it might be his last year in the afl.
Ahhh. I remember when posters said the same thing about Goldstein.
When Naitanui did his knee in 2018 and Eagles had traded out Hickey I posted on the Eagles board we could do worse than bring Goldstein over with Simo, Hickmont and Petrie coaching to add some experience. Seven years later Nic is long retired and Goldy is still on a list.
Was bagged out big time as Goldy was supposidly too old.
All depends on O'Brien's mental state and fitness (injury history).
Kane McGoodwin
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Doubt it has not injury prone nor slowing down.... but probably last year as a Crow.
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Maybe first year as a neuro scientist
Kane McGoodwin
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He is keen to further his studies in Melbourne...
