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Midfielders who kick goals

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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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I’m struggling to remember the last time we had one of these.

A genuine midfielder, not a Schneider or Goddard that sometimes went in.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Gresham, Billings, Coffield and Clark will do this in a decent team with a decent coach. All good kicks


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Gresham yes.

Clark and Coffield maybe.

Billings. LOL. No.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 9:20pm Gresham yes.

Clark and Coffield maybe.

Billings. LOL. No.

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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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CURLY wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 10:21pm
Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 9:20pm Gresham yes.

Clark and Coffield maybe.

Billings. LOL. No.

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Jack Billings
78 games
57 goals

Jade Gresham
55 games
69 goals

Notice any difference curls?


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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fugazi wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 8:52pm Gresham, Billings, Coffield and Clark will do this in a decent team with a decent coach. All good kicks

I agree


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Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 9:20pm Gresham yes.

Clark and Coffield maybe.

Billings. LOL. No.
Billings' kicking for goal borders substandard. Today 3 or 4 of his kicks were smothered by Port players. He has a long way to go but let's not get too concerned, it's only his 5th season in the AFL. :)


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Ape_Man wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 8:42pm I’m struggling to remember the last time we had one of these.

A genuine midfielder, not a Schneider or Goddard that sometimes went in.
I think it was prob Luke Ball 04 & 05


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 10:23pm
CURLY wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 10:21pm
Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 9:20pm Gresham yes.

Clark and Coffield maybe.

Billings. LOL. No.

What’s wrong with you?
Jack Billings
78 games
57 goals

Jade Gresham
55 games
69 goals

Notice any difference curls?

I noticed that those numbers prove your wrong.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Saintmatt wrote:
Ape_Man wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 8:42pm I’m struggling to remember the last time we had one of these.

A genuine midfielder, not a Schneider or Goddard that sometimes went in.
I think it was prob Luke Ball 04 & 05
I’m a massive Luke Ball fan, but I do not consider him a goal kicking midfielder.

It magnifies our terrible history of goal kicking midfielders if Luke Ball is even in the conversation.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Gresh will be one, Billings will too... hes had a 30 touch 5 goal game not many players can do that.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Viscount Jeremiah wrote:Gresh will be one, Billings will too... hes had a 30 touch 5 goal game not many players can do that.
That was a magnificent game, but not as a midfielder.

I would love to see him play in middle though.

I’ve said here before that I want to see a bounce with Steven, Billings and Acres.

Not every bounce, but to be really positive. It’s speed, skill and grunt.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 10:23pm
CURLY wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 10:21pm
Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 9:20pm Gresham yes.

Clark and Coffield maybe.

Billings. LOL. No.

What’s wrong with you?
Jack Billings
78 games
57 goals

Jade Gresham
55 games
69 goals

Notice any difference curls?
Hey unfair Con, you've left out the behinds Billings has kicked....we're not behindaphobics here . ..behinds ARE points too.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Gresh is basically already there


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Con Gorozidis wrote:Gresh is basically already there
He is, except for the fact he doesn’t play midfield.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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My response to this observation is to ask if we can afford to have all of Armitage, Dunstan, Steele and Ross in the same side

Armo would be closing in on 100 goals from 160 odd games

By comparison Steven would be just over 100 from about the same number of games

Dunstan probably replicates the same strike rate on goal

But Steele is well down - more a handball and tackle player indicating a lack of pace so possessions under pressure or tackling because he does not have ball in hand

We used to have Gram kicking goals from half back - his leg speed and long kicking delivering

Who in our mids has leg speed and the ability to kick long?

We will hopefully see Acres and Freeman contributing to our midfield rotations - and Armitage who is a class act and a warrior blighted by injury over recent seasons has shown what we have always known he can when injury free

So the question is Dunstan, Ross and Steele

Ross replicates Steele in regards getting thru at goal

So there are some questions to be asked

And I reckon it goes to a problem we have

Plenty of grunt - but past that?

That same question is one I ask about our tail which is our Achilles heel

Players who can not take the game on, win it off their own boot and pick up 3 Brownlow votes in the process

So we continue the search


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I look forward to Acres being selected again soon. It will give Richo another talented first rounder that he can ignore in favour of ordinary, turnover-prone grunts. I will then be able to ponder whether the St Kilda football club would be better coached by Alan Richardson or a potato.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Seb Ross has 13 goals from 96 games.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Ape_Man wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 11:03pm
Con Gorozidis wrote:Gresh is basically already there
He is, except for the fact he doesn’t play midfield.
Yes he does.
Not a lot.
But he does.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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vacuous space wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 11:40pm I look forward to Acres being selected again soon. It will give Richo another talented first rounder that he can ignore in favour of ordinary, turnover-prone grunts. I will then be able to ponder whether the St Kilda football club would be better coached by Alan Richardson or a potato.
I’m excited by the return of Acres, he’s the X factor through the middle of the ground.

We should be signing him up to a long term deal as soon as we can.


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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CURLY wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 10:32pm
Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 10:23pm
CURLY wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 10:21pm
Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 9:20pm Gresham yes.

Clark and Coffield maybe.

Billings. LOL. No.

What’s wrong with you?
Jack Billings
78 games
57 goals

Jade Gresham
55 games
69 goals

Notice any difference curls?

I noticed that those numbers prove your wrong.
LOL
How so curls.
Do tell!


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Re: Midfielders who kick goals

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Con Gorozidis wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 11:56pm
Ape_Man wrote: Sat 07 Jul 2018 11:03pm
Con Gorozidis wrote:Gresh is basically already there
He is, except for the fact he doesn’t play midfield.
Yes he does.
Not a lot.
But he does.
That was my point earlier. Part timers don't count


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