Bodies holding together at last n we're now seeing the full player starting to emerge as he gets experience n confidence, he's a damn fine solid player.
As for the snipers moaning about him ducking for head high, it's pretty simple. That's the rules the AFL made n the umpires adjudicate to. There's a bunch of players at every club that are more than happy to exploit the stupidity of the rules as often as possible to gain an advantage to help their teams WIN.
Why should we be the only idiots in the comp not to utilise the rules as they stand to our advantage?
Players used to get a free kick if they were tackled when bouncing the ball as they were deemed not to be in possession, so K.B. used to simply throw the ball out front n flap his arms for the free, until they changed the rules to stop him out cheating everyone else.
They used to simply kick the ball out of bounds to help run down the clock n slow play down, so they changed the rules.
They used to simply walk the ball through for a point to control n hold a lead late in games, so they changed the rules.
All teams n players fudge the rules as best they can to gain advantage, ducking, holding, scragging, blocking, cribbing the mark, fumbling over the boundary. Anything they can get away with they will try, so why insult n bag our players for doing the same as every other player in the comp?
As for the snipers moaning about him ducking for head high, it's pretty simple. That's the rules the AFL made n the umpires adjudicate to. There's a bunch of players at every club that are more than happy to exploit the stupidity of the rules as often as possible to gain an advantage to help their teams WIN.
Why should we be the only idiots in the comp not to utilise the rules as they stand to our advantage?
Players used to get a free kick if they were tackled when bouncing the ball as they were deemed not to be in possession, so K.B. used to simply throw the ball out front n flap his arms for the free, until they changed the rules to stop him out cheating everyone else.
They used to simply kick the ball out of bounds to help run down the clock n slow play down, so they changed the rules.
They used to simply walk the ball through for a point to control n hold a lead late in games, so they changed the rules.
All teams n players fudge the rules as best they can to gain advantage, ducking, holding, scragging, blocking, cribbing the mark, fumbling over the boundary. Anything they can get away with they will try, so why insult n bag our players for doing the same as every other player in the comp?
