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dalyc 
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What can you tell us about Goodyear from your magoo watching?
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stui magpie 
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Please tell me he answers to the nickname "Blimp" 
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MagpieBat
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| dalyc wrote: | | What can you tell us about Goodyear from your magoo watching? |
Speedy inside clearance mid. Very lean, but certainly not afraid to put his head over the pill. Needs to spend a pre-season or two in the gym to put some muscle onto his frame, because he still looks very toothpick-y.
Spent most of his VFL time in 2015 being thrown around the ground, nearly always playing a defensive/accountable role at either end, away from his natural habitat in the engine room (hence his often low disposal numbers). Finished 2015 playing a couple of games in the middle, which saw he get his hand on it a lot more. Got named as an emergency for the final game against Essendon.
Has been in pretty good form in the VFL over the pre-season games. Been winning a lot of contested footy from centre square/stoppage, but has noticeably been finding a lot more outside/transition ball than last year as well.
Kicking certainly not the best though, so if you're looking for an improvement in the team's footskills, Goodyear's not exactly the first one you would reach for...
My reviews...
Game 2 vs Footscray:
| Quote: | 27. Matthew Goodyear
Played as our primary (well, only really) recognised inside midfielder from the AFL ranks. Collected and won a fair bit of the ball, but he was a kid against older, bigger bodies. Kicked a ripper of a goal in the final stanza, hooking it around his body whilst running to the boundary. That it went through was as much down to luck as it was skill, but it goes in his column all the same. One of our better players on the day. |
Game 3 vs Coburg...
| Quote: | 27. Matthew Goodyear
Was quite busy across the whole game, playing centre square/stoppage mid. Found not just his expected amount of inside ball (quite a lot if it) but also a fair tally of outside ball as well, spreading and acting as a link in transition. Not the most damaging of users by foot though. Like the 2014 Jon Marsh, the ball leaves his hands as a drop punt and departs from his foot as a… well, not a drop punt.
Without stats, I’d say he finished in our top 5 for disposals and kicked the first goal of the game from a set-shot (just how an end-around-end spinning Sherrin holds its line and doesn’t veer off as though it were being tugged at by a black hole, I will never know)… |
On the whole, I like him. Certainly has tools to work with and an asset (speed) that our one-paced midfield could do with. Still very much a work in progress, but I don't begrudge him a call-up. Looking forward to seeing how he goes...
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stui magpie
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Great, so he's been practicing the Ben Johnson helicopter kick.
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MagpieBat
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Great, so he's been practicing the Ben Johnson helicopter kick. |
Doesn't need to practice. Comes quite naturally to him...  |
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Dangles
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Please tell me he answers to the nickname "Blimp" |
Or Tyres. They only call him Blimp when his skinfolds aren't too flash. |
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dalyc
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| MagpieBat wrote: | | dalyc wrote: | | What can you tell us about Goodyear from your magoo watching? |
Speedy inside clearance mid. Very lean, but certainly not afraid to put his head over the pill. Needs to spend a pre-season or two in the gym to put some muscle onto his frame, because he still looks very toothpick-y.
Spent most of his VFL time in 2015 being thrown around the ground, nearly always playing a defensive/accountable role at either end, away from his natural habitat in the engine room (hence his often low disposal numbers). Finished 2015 playing a couple of games in the middle, which saw he get his hand on it a lot more. Got named as an emergency for the final game against Essendon.
Has been in pretty good form in the VFL over the pre-season games. Been winning a lot of contested footy from centre square/stoppage, but has noticeably been finding a lot more outside/transition ball than last year.
Kicking certainly not the best though, so if you're looking for an improvement in the team's footskills, Goodyear's not exactly the first one you would reach for...
My reviews...
Game 2 vs Footscray:
| Quote: | 27. Matthew Goodyear
Played as our primary (well, only really) recognised inside midfielder from the AFL ranks. Collected and won a fair bit of the ball, but he was a kid against older, bigger bodies. Kicked a ripper of a goal in the final stanza, hooking it around his body whilst running to the boundary. That it went through was as much down to luck as it was skill, but it goes in his column all the same. One of our better players on the day. |
Game 3 vs Coburg...
| Quote: | 27. Matthew Goodyear
Was quite busy across the whole game, playing centre square/stoppage mid. Found not just his expected amount of inside ball (quite a lot if it) but also a fair tally of outside ball as well, spreading and acting as a link in transition. Not the most damaging of users by foot though. Like the 2014 Jon Marsh, the ball leaves his hands as a drop punt and departs from his foot as a… well, not a drop punt.
Without stats, I’d say he finished in our top 5 for disposals and kicked the first goal of the game from a set-shot (just how an end-around-end spinning Sherrin holds its line and doesn’t veer off as though it were being tugged at by a black hole, I will never know)… |
On the whole, I like him. Certainly has tools to work with and an asset (speed) that our one-paced midfield could do with. Still very much a work in progress, but I don't begrudge him a call-up. Looking forward to seeing how he goes... |
Thanks MB!
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Thought he did well against Geelong last week.
Need to concentrate more on his game.
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Please tell me he answers to the nickname "Blimp" |
goody.
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Why not 2010? That was a damn good year
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