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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on April 14, 2008, 01:50:38 PM
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Polak plays his 100th game this week against the Dogs (26 @ Rich, 73 @ Freo).
Congrats Polly :clapping.
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Well done, hope he carries over his form from yesterday we are gunna need it.
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Well done, hope he carries over his form from yesterday we are gunna need it.
Ditto. Hope Polly spends the week mainly on goalkicking as he was otherwise very good. The doggies lack height in defence so if he holds his marks there's an opportunity to kick some goals this week.
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Getting Polak & Reiwoldt for pick #8 is starting to look like fairly good peice of work.
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The dropping of Bowden left Polak under no false illusion as to where he's at after a very ordinary first 3 games.
He mostly responded well.
Let's see if he can back it up this week.
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Well done Polly. :thumbsup
Looks like he might be the perfect replacement for Richo in the forward line when he retires. Great mark, should kick a lazy 8 each week but can't kick so ends up kicking 3 or 4.
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Well done Polly. :thumbsup
Looks like he might be the perfect replacement for Richo in the forward line when he retires. Great mark, should kick a lazy 8 each week but can't kick so ends up kicking 3 or 4.
He is NOT Richo...
Surely that means he can be taught how to kick properly.
:rollin
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Well done Polly. :thumbsup
Looks like he might be the perfect replacement for Richo in the forward line when he retires. Great mark, should kick a lazy 8 each week but can't kick so ends up kicking 3 or 4.
I'd be happy with 3 or 4 goals from Polly. He's only kicked 3 goals twice in his whole career to date. Kicked 3 against the Dogs last year.
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Well done Polly. :thumbsup
Looks like he might be the perfect replacement for Richo in the forward line when he retires. Great mark, should kick a lazy 8 each week but can't kick so ends up kicking 3 or 4.
I'd be happy with 3 or 4 goals from Polly. He's only kicked 3 goals twice in his whole career to date. Kicked 3 against the Dogs last year.
lol. He should have kicked at least 5 on Sunday. I like the guy though, don't misinterpret my playful dig at him. :thumbsup
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well done to the polaxe hope to see many more in the yellow and black
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Needs a complete reconstruction of his kicking action.
If this can be done he will be a very dangerous CHF.
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Needs a complete reconstruction of his kicking action.
If this can be done he will be a very dangerous CHF.
Have others noticed that he seems to have a very distinct kicking action for set shots at goal and for his field kicking. His kicking style for shots at goal looks awkward, field kicking more natural :-\
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Needs a complete reconstruction of his kicking action.
If this can be done he will be a very dangerous CHF.
Have others noticed that he seems to have a very distinct kicking action for set shots at goal and for his field kicking. His kicking style for shots at goal looks awkward, field kicking more natural :-\
Maybe he should try a bit of Richo's tactic - go back an extra 10 and make like he's playing on. ???
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At training it looks as though he hooks his toe up and gets underneath the ball so it floats too much in the air. He was also missing just to the right when he did miss a goal.
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Polak brings up cross-country ton
Catherine Murphy
richmondfc.com.au
10:40 AM Fri 18 April, 2008
RICHMOND’S Graham Polak says his overwhelming feeling on reaching his 100-game milestone is relief.
Now in his seventh season in the AFL, Polak said he would set his sights on doubling the tally after getting to his 100 against the Western Bulldogs at Telstra Dome on Sunday.
“To come over from Fremantle and play my 100th here is a great thrill," Polak said.
“I’ve put in a lot of effort to get to this stage. I’ve still got a lot to offer, so to get this milestone is really great.
“Hopefully I’ll build on this and get another hundred under my belt.”
The Tigers’ season so far is a big contrast to this stage last year. They’re 2-2 and in the top eight, after having to wait 12 weeks for their first win last season.
But Polak said there was no danger of the side feeling content.
“We don’t want to get to ahead of ourselves,” Polak said.
“We’ve won two out of four, so we just want to build on that.
“So coming up against Bulldogs this week, who haven’t lost a game, is going to be a big test but we’re feeling pretty confident about it and we’re ready to give them a good show.
“They’re a good side and we’re going to go out there with everything to gain and just have a real crack at it.”
Last week the Tigers were 64-point winners over Polak's former club Fremantle.
The former Fremantle player admitted that it was good to get a win over the Western Australian club with which he began his AFL career.
“It’s always good to go over there and play against them but especially to get a win like that over there in front of that crowd is always satisfying. It’s probably one of those games you look at, at the start of the year.”
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/6301/Default.aspx?newsId=58141
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Well done Polly. :clapping :thumbsup
But Polak said there was no danger of the side feeling content.
“We don’t want to get to ahead of ourselves,” Polak said.
“We’ve won two out of four, so we just want to build on that.
I should bloody well hope not. We've beaten 2 bottom sides. Lost BADLY to 2 top sides. We have nothing to feel content about.
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A caller asked David King if Polak is lazy?
Kingy thinks he's been outstanding since Richo left the forward line but he's still learning. He certainly isn't lazy.
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I think he just isn't quick, especially off the mark, hence why he is so good at contested marks
Richo is quick - Polak aint Richo
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Continues to struggle.
Bring Hughes in at his expense for a week or two.
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Continues to struggle.
Bring Hughes in at his expense for a week or two.
Can you play the 3 in the same forward line, perhaps?
Reiwoldt Hughes Morton
Brown Polak Edwards
Too tall?
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Can you play the 3 in the same forward line, perhaps?
Reiwoldt Hughes Morton
Brown Polak Edwards
Too tall?
You're not advocating some kind of ...er... triangle are you? Where have I heard that before? lol.
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Yet to be convinced. Has a long way to go and if Hughes maintains his workrate and puts it together consistently at VFL level then Polak is in trouble.
GP is yet to take a game by the scruff of the neck and have a genuine match impact over his 100 games.
Jack has played less then 20 games and also kicked 3, so as the 2nd/3rd tall forward the influence on a match needs to be more pronounced.
It is all between the ears from GP, hopefully for the Tigers sake it clicks sooner rather than later.
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If Polly could kick straight at goal :-\ he would've taken the Freo game by the scruff of the neck. He had a bit of a stinker on the weekend but I guess at least he takes the best tall defender off Jack while he's still developing.
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I love Polaks hands but to me he just does not seem to be a natural foward. If he takes a grab he is always looking to dish off instead of kicking the goal himslef. Maybe he lacks confidance in his goal kicking but to me he just seems to have a backmans metality with a fowards ability to take a grab. Anybody else notice this??
Just to poach Fluffy's post from the Coburg v Collingwood thread, Polly's goalkicking is a toss of a coin for a supposed forward. After doing well to intercept the kick-in from Milburn, that miss of his in the third was a crucial miss. Instead of cancelling out Ling's goal and putting us 7 points (two kicks) up, Geelong ran it down from the second kick-in, hit the front and went on with it from there.
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What did we all think of Polak game yesterday in defence?
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Polak - Thursfeild - Rance - Moore
JON - MCGaune
Throw the like of Gourdis into the mix and we seem to finally some some tall backs.
Gaspar - Kellaway - Graham
How things change :cheers
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He had a horrible turnover early in the game that cost us a goal that Tredrea kicked. Recovered his composure sufficiently and in my opinion I felt that he was solid without being spectacular. Took some nice contested marks in the last quarter when we were slowing the game down and initiated a couple of forward thrusts. Followed up his good game last week against the Dees with another good game this week. Have felt with his age height and ability to mark he could cement a place in the side so long as the challenge is put in front of him. Seems to have turned his form around especially since the Adelaide game.
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How should the back 6 look?
Polak - Thursfeild - McMahon
Newman - Rance - Moore
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His playing well & starting to show alot of progress, in taking the opposition players on bursting away with speed his not shown before & fending off & breaking tackles, delivering the ball alot better, everyone makes a mistake now & then but his now being played in the backline, a place he should have always been kept in from when we drafted him.
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I know I have posted this before somewhere but I dont think Polak is a natural foward. He can take a grab like one but is insticts are not that of a goal kicker. He looks much better down back and thought he played a good game this week. He has copped quite a bit from some on this board and it would be nice for them to come on and say he played at least "OK" this week. But we know that wont happen as that would be like admitting they were wrong even for one game.