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Heir to dukes throne

Who is the heir to dukes throne?

  • Yengi

    Votes: 4 10.8%

  • Toure

    Votes: 16 43.2%

  • Stama

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Taggart

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Maclaren

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Iredale

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Waddingham

    Votes: 9 24.3%

  • Jovanovic

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 4 10.8%
  • Total voters
    37
grazorblade

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Love Duke, and hope he knows many fans suppory him. However, curious who you think will be the striker to take his place
 
grazorblade said:
Love Duke, and hope he knows many fans suppory him. However, curious who you think will be the striker to take his place
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Goodwin - any striker in form - Irankunda
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Play with the names but keep the style of player.

Duke is a part of the problem not the cause.

I can't vote for his replacement while the roles around him are stuffed because everyone will fail at striker if isolated.

And from the title - surely Diks would be best to replace Duke's throbber. ;)
 
Immediate future: Toure, Yengi, Iredale. Long term Jovanovic, Waddingham and other surprises. How's Botic going?
 
RIMB said:
Goodwin - any striker in form - Irankunda
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Play with the names but keep the style of player.

Duke is a part of the problem not the cause.

I can't vote for his replacement while the roles around him are stuffed because everyone will fail at striker if isolated.

And from the title - surely Diks would be best to replace Duke's throbber. ;)
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"Hair to Dick's Throb"??? WTF type of thread IS this?
 
riquelmes_laces said:
As much as I agree with this, more broadly, the slide in standards correlates with football wordwide.

The game has descended into a game of athletic prowess over technique and individual expression.
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But some have descended at a much more rapid pace e.g. Australia.
 
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riquelmes_laces said:
As much as I agree with this, more broadly, the slide in standards correlates with football wordwide.

The game has descended into a game of athletic prowess over technique and individual expression.
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ah yes I agree !
I think its the attack of the machines, irobot ? and stangely compared to the past being so far far away we have caught that directive quicker than lightning, nah not that quick took 20yrs.
 
LFC said:
ah yes I agree !
I think its the attack of the machines, irobot ? and stangely compared to the past being so far far away we have caught that directive quicker than lightning, nah not that quick took 20yrs.
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Ironically if we had maintained the old standard of selecting physical specimens at youth level, we probably would be in a better position today than the Dutch Overlord approach.
 
riquelmes_laces said:
Ironically if we had maintained the old standard of selecting physical specimens at youth level, we probably would be in a better position today than the Dutch Overlord approach.
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I've always had in my mind WHY didn't we keep some of our ol Aussie "physical" DNA mixed in the technical improvement approach.
Like I have no problem improving our players technical abilities one bit thats a given but all successful winning Clubs and NT's have their mongrel players.
Be it CB's CM's - even the modern day winning Argies in Qatar have the mongrels that are not technical prince's but they know their position very very well.
Grella is the classic example of old, we have no one like him, Jedi, they are coached out of selection.
You can name plenty right now in top flight the mongrels doing the dirty work, take the yellow for team under the pump, that all important sliding tackle that technical play makers don't do.
LFC's MacAllister beast of a player, ain't pretty all game at times ugly but damn effective !

At least talking forwards here Yengi does have some mongrel in him.
Hope he keeps improving late bloomer 25yrs, maybe best is yet to come being optimistic.
 
LFC said:
I've always had in my mind WHY didn't we keep some of our ol Aussie "physical" DNA mixed in the technical improvement approach.
Like I have no problem improving our players technical abilities one bit thats a given but all successful winning Clubs and NT's have their mongrel players.
Be it CB's CM's - even the modern day winning Argies in Qatar have the mongrels that are not technical prince's but they know their position very very well.
Grella is the classic example of old, we have no one like him, Jedi, they are coached out of selection.
You can name plenty right now in top flight the mongrels doing the dirty work, take the yellow for team under the pump, that all important sliding tackle that technical play makers don't do.
LFC's MacAllister beast of a player, ain't pretty all game at times ugly but damn effective !

At least talking forwards here Yengi does have some mongrel in him.
Hope he keeps improving late bloomer 25yrs, maybe best is yet to come being optimistic.
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Getting atheletes is pretty tricky given we compete with other codes. We mostly keep first generation immigrants in our code. These days that is mostly African immigrants
 
grazorblade said:
Getting atheletes is pretty tricky given we compete with other codes. We mostly keep first generation immigrants in our code. These days that is mostly African immigrants
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Graz we still have heaps of ethnics in NPL/Club land 3rd/4th + gens in droves, yep I'm glad africans coming through, they also have some grit between their teeth, not many would be entitled whimps personating CR7 :)
No matter the other codes regos keep increasing, trouble is we don't have a system and good management/utilities keeping them all coming to Snrs.
 
LFC said:
Graz we still have heaps of ethnics in NPL/Club land 3rd/4th + gens in droves, yep I'm glad africans coming through, they also have some grit between their teeth, not many would be entitled whimps personating CR7 :)
No matter the other codes regos keep increasing, trouble is we don't have a system and good management/utilities keeping them all coming to Snrs.
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How many ethnics if gifted enough an athelete that they got an offer to change codes would refuse it these days? Kuol was offered by afl and turned it down

They are leaving most of our players alone but the cream of the crop athletically are taken in my understanding
 
yer that is a fair question - I can only comment on the many talented kids/Jnrs I have come to know watch for eg, some up to NPL1 land and some due to politics stay just under.
These kids could play any ball code having that great hand eye co ordination and some played couple of codes - they are too damn passionate for our game mind you a couple I know luv golf and are guns at it.
I wouldn't begrudge any up and comer going somewhere for the $$.
Talking from my Sydney regions afl isn't much despite some clubs appearing, league/union at the schools but yer we can see that isn't a major concern today that I see.
Is there many ethnics in swans and that other club ? wouldn't have a clue.
I guess out west where that 2nd afl club is has been throwing $$$'s spouse they will grab some BUT they can't get a heap in the end for they can't offer them all spaces.
 
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