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David Astbury, Thank You

I think it was five minutes of football before a Richmond player actually got a kick. That is not the time to be hanging the full back. But Astbury was *smile* hopeless in this time. No *smile* idea where Daniher was. Lost.

When we swung Rance on to Daniher they were gone. Daniher is an emerging star of the game. He's probably the form forward in the AFL ATM and he's an athletic freak. Rance destroyed him.

And that left Astbury to towel up Hookless. Or sometimes Whatsisname. The spindly Giant.

Initially we wanted to get Rance onto Hookless so Rance could ignore Hookless and wreak havoc. But our champion did that to some extent anyway - just on a better opponent. However Rance was often dragged out of the area by Joe. (Essendon trying to disrupt our systems. Sacrificing the destroyed Joe. And trying to get Joe on the gallop.)

Astbury lifted and got better as the game wore on. And held our sometimes Ranceless defence together well. I like the way Assburgers rallies.
 
And wasn't it beautiful too when Joey put the icing on the cake by getting his kicking yips back, plus try to weave his way through defenders way too often and get hunted to the turf. The anguished cries of the Bummer fans were music to the ears.

I reckon Alex did this to him too - call it referred pressure, or trying too hard after you'd met your match and been brought down to earth with a thud.
 
leon said:
And wasn't it beautiful too when Joey put the icing on the cake by getting his kicking yips back, plus try to weave his way through defenders way too often and get hunted to the turf. The anguished cries of the Bummer fans were music to the ears.

I reckon Alex did this to him too - call it referred pressure, or trying too hard after you'd met your match and been brought down to earth with a thud.
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That was the moment, I reckon, leon. When you saw that Rance had broken him. :)
 
That was his best game for the club.

I have always though he was too slow, seems to be maturing well and is defending well.
 
I have said many times on this forum that he is our very own Tom Lonergan.


He may actually be better.


A colossus that allows Rance to be the beast that he is .
 
taztiger4 said:
remind me why Brisbane didn't want him please
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To be fair to our Brisbane cousins we were shopping him around at the time - and he'd just come off the knee injury and poor form.

Glad they didn't take him though.
 
nikolasmia said:
I have said many times on this forum that he is our very own Tom Lonergan.
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Good call. He might be better. Dave's an alpha male, I like that. He likes to dominate other men.

taztiger4 said:
remind me why Brisbane didn't want him please
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Leppa knew he was coming back and didn't want to lose him. ;)
 
It's not Rance like improvement but geeeez his turned his career around, fingers crossed he stays fit, huge to our majorly improved backline.
 
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