Sure thing.
Giving you statistical evidence of him humbling one of the best forwards on current form isn't "exactly overwhelming evidence" that he hasn't been disgusting since the JLT.

Nice try.

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There is also another elephant in the room, what if our injury list will always be this bad? Most of our GWS pick ups in particular are not exactly durable like Touhy was.
That was always a problem for me in our trades, not so much with our drafting. I wonder if we took this into account back then and maybe can improve on this aspect in the future.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

Tuohey didn't play a game of AFL footy until he was 22 and a half so we're still miles in front with Marchbank.
Keep dredging though. I'm sure you and Braithy can come up with something that holds up to scrutiny before the year is out.

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One swallow does not a summer make. Humbling one of the "best forwards" you say? One that is well known for having frequent quiet games.How long did he play on him for exactly? 60% game time at best? Was Darling used as a decoy? What did Plowman do with the ball? Did he use it well? "Statistical evidence" can be misleading sometimes. Your so called overwhelming evidence isn't overwhelming at all it's probably not even correct. What else you got??

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

Yeah, 3rd highest goal kicker in the AFL this year. Decoy.
As for Plowman, second highest disposal efficiency in the team on the day. Keep digging.

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What strange logic.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

You are the one digging mate, seem to remember Darling copping a nasty left hip knock in the first quarter of that game as well. I repeat; what else have you got?

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

'seem to remember Darling copping a nasty left hip knock in the first quarter of that game as well...'

seriously....

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

Yes,he was injured in a marking contest.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

Smithy, what do you see as our positives at the moment?

Fisher, Curnow, Mckay, Cripps, Dow, SPS our drafting has been good for the last 3 years. Still plenty of positives and I'm still bullish on where we will be in 5 years.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

Yeah, we are coming from a fair way back mate.

I more confident of our path now than I have been for the last decade or so.

We are all Blueboys on here and all want success again.

It will happen.

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

Hope you are watching the game today, how do you think he's going?

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"Then joked and said he (Jack himself) probably wouldn't even need to play until round 2 against Collingwood."

These role players like Plowman, Mullett, Lamb ect always look amazing in good teams and awful in poor teams. Every team has them.

Basically, a dominant midfield means forwards get more opportunity to look good. A weak midfield means the defenders are constantly under siege.

We won't really know how good our forwards, defenders, flankers etc are until we have a full strength mature midfield.

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does that mean they're deciding now to fastrack the rebuild?

i'm not sure why you relentlessly defend plowman. he is what he is. he's not the elite defender you make out, but he's also never our worst. he's a role player in a bottom 3 team backline. he's not electric, he's not tall, he's not small. not fast etc. no booming kick out of defense like say suckling. he is quite vanilla, but yes, he does a job.

can you name one of the top 6 teams where he'd be getting a game? our end game (after this torridly shitty rebuild) is to be one of the best teams in the afl. right now, I can't see him being a top 6 defender on an elite team. hope that changes, but his physical tools (imo) just aren't there.



it's a good point someone made about our GWS rejects we've picked up. the good ones like marchbank are constantly banged up, and the rest are real middle of the road (kennedy, plowman etc) to down right ordinary - sumner, jacksh etc

I disagree totally. From the games I have seen he works to the team structure and is one of a number playing team defence. He is not slow, he is just not explosive. Graham is slow and Plowman easily outdoes him for pace.

Who knows who Plow would play for - remember Laidler - from us to Sydney...it always depends on what a team thinks they need. I think he would end up at a lot of other clubs (even Richmond or Adelaide) biut I cannot prove it (just as you cannot prove he would not) but I think Plow has done a terrific job in a backline that has not functioned well - some see his mistakes (Hi Agro) somne see that in almost every instance where the Carlton backs are there in numbers, Plow is one of them, supporting, talking, assisting. I think he is a ripper. A superstar - no but a dependable backman who will play the role week in week out doing whatever/playing on whoever,. and always trying to work to the team's good, not his own. Essendon* could use a few like him.

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