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Kosh wrote:Before this round he was the most penalised player in the league. Or joint top, possibly.
C'mon surely you know the term "penalty machine" was thrown at him trying to create negativity whilst ignoring all the positive aspects of his game,a great pro from what i see.
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ComeOnYouUll wrote:He's third in the table. Given away thirteen penalties, so about one a game. There's about sixteen players on 10+ and another ten with nine penalties.
Not really a stand out issue.
As I said, the number was from last round when he was still on 13 and nobody had more.
I didn't actually say that it was a stand out issue. I was just offering some statistical background on why some people might consider him a penalty machine.
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dayvoz wrote:C'mon surely you know the term "penalty machine" was thrown at him trying to create negativity whilst ignoring all the positive aspects of his game,a great pro from what i see.
I know nothing of the sort, and neither do you.
Personally I like Minnicheddars and feel that his positives outweigh his negatives. No point in pretending their aren't any negatives, though.
Hold on to me baby, his bony hands will do you no harm It said in the cards, we lost our souls to the Nameless One
Kosh wrote:I know nothing of the sort, and neither do you.
Personally I like Minnicheddars and feel that his positives outweigh his negatives. No point in pretending their aren't any negatives, though.
I must admit, I looked at the stats last week and he had the most penalties and the most errors in the league - but maybe this is a side effect of playing 80 mins week in week out
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OmneFC wrote:I must admit, I looked at the stats last week and he had the most penalties and the most errors in the league - but maybe this is a side effect of playing 80 mins week in week out
I think that's pretty much a certainty. Over the last few years, look at some of our leading penalty-conceders/error-makers/tackle-missers: Tickle, Westerman, now Minichiello. Manu, Fitzgibbon, Houghton and Whiting are/were others also towards the top end (especially if you look more at averages than totals for Whiting), as has been Ellis (not so much the missed tackles for him, though). Forwards playing big minutes. It's not coincidence, it's heavy involvement and the resulting fatigue, plain and simple.
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