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Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« on: June 21, 2008, 06:47:53 PM »
Happy 30th birthday today. Please don't celebrate the win like Sugar  ;D.

39 disposals - at 100% efficency, 32 kicks, 7 hbs and 22 marks including the game saving one at the end where he flew in front of a leading Motlop.

Congrats to Joel  :clapping.

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2008, 07:09:45 PM »
Happy 30th birthday today. Please don't celebrate the win like Sugar  ;D.

39 disposals - at 100% efficency, 32 kicks, 7 hbs and 22 marks including the game saving one at the end where he flew in front of a leading Motlop.

Congrats to Joel  :clapping.

 :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday :birthday  :birthday  :birthday

Our mate Joel best wishes for your birthday
as you know your 11 years younger than me & my favorite player even that you know who l support
hugs & kisses from us & the kids  :cheers

the above was wrote by me not TM  ;D  :cheers
« Last Edit: June 22, 2008, 09:47:43 AM by Tigermonk »

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2008, 10:58:49 PM »
It's good that Joel is playing well - but what is his role going to be in the future?

Do we continue to play him in the back 6?

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2008, 12:35:53 AM »
It's good that Joel is playing well - but what is his role going to be in the future?

Do we continue to play him in the back 6?

Well Terry was trying to groom him as a forward when he returned from exile yet especially in the last two weeks he has played exclusively in the last line of defence. I guess depends on the opposition and the match ups. However judging by todays match winning effort he may stay in defence for next week at least.

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2008, 09:46:40 AM »
 :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday  :birthday

just call him the professional utility  ;D can play anywhere

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2008, 10:31:45 AM »
should retire at the end of the season and leave on a good note

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2008, 08:54:45 PM »
It's good that Joel is playing well - but what is his role going to be in the future?

Do we continue to play him in the back 6?

Well Terry was trying to groom him as a forward when he returned from exile yet especially in the last two weeks he has played exclusively in the last line of defence. I guess depends on the opposition and the match ups. However judging by todays match winning effort he may stay in defence for next week at least.
My guess is Bowden is helping to cover for Thursty's absence. Moore takes Thursty's role, McGuane takes Moore's role and Joel takes McGaune's role, if that makes sense. Polak took the old gorilla in Tredrea. 
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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2008, 10:33:48 AM »
should retire at the end of the season and leave on a good note

His got a at least 4 season in front of him  ;D

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2008, 10:35:36 AM »
Polak took the old gorilla in Tredrea. 

& Polak killed the Gorilla Tredrea, Now why aint the media attacking that Gorilla his really no value for the paying spectators  ;D

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2008, 11:08:44 AM »
Yes Joel did have a very good game but did he do anything different than what he has done over the past umpteen year?

He has always been brilliant drifting off his direct opponent and gaining uncontested possessions. Of the 39 possessions he gathered I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) only 5 of them were contested. He did not lay one tackle.

As a backman, this is amazing. It tells me he plays very a unaccountable and attacking style of football and rarely plays on a direct opponent. Joel doesn't run which is fine if the other defenders are running off the backline for him to pass off to but if he has to kick to a stationary target like I witnessed tim and time again on the weekend then this is a problem. It is particularly a problem if the opposition likes to flood or zone because it gives them time to set up.

It is a luxury to have this style of player in the team.

Joel is great for the SuperCoach team, great for allowing the team to regroup, hold it up and settle but he slows us down out of defense and he just doesn't defend his direct opponent.

I'm sorry to all of you who love the guy but I just don't think we can afford to have a player who gathers uncontested possessions at whim but becomes a liability against good opposition.

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2008, 11:35:19 AM »

........and he just doesn't defend his direct opponent.

Stripes
How did his direct opponent go?

ps. I think you'll find he had to kick to stationary targets because the opposition had already flooded before he even got the ball. It wasn't him kicking backwards from the wing.
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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2008, 01:05:47 PM »

........and he just doesn't defend his direct opponent.

Stripes
How did his direct opponent go?

ps. I think you'll find he had to kick to stationary targets because the opposition had already flooded before he even got the ball. It wasn't him kicking backwards from the wing.

He either didn't have an opponent, or he was playing on Ebert, who kicked 5 goals

Stripes, I agree with you 100%, the game against the Power simply proved that he's a one trick pony. He can't play in the midfield or up forward where he has to work hard for every touch, he can only pick up cheap stats by running loose down back. I will be very interested to see the coaches votes on footy classified to see how highly his game was rated by the coaches.

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2008, 01:10:30 PM »
he had a good birthday. would be great if he could have 39 possession (32 kicks!) and 23 marks every match. :)

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #13 on: June 23, 2008, 01:27:22 PM »
should retire at the end of the season and leave on a good note

His got a at least 4 season in front of him  ;D

rubbish he has  ;D

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Re: Joel Bowden - Happy 30th birthday
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2008, 01:37:34 PM »
He either didn't have an opponent, or he was playing on Ebert, who kicked 5 goals

Stripes, I agree with you 100%, the game against the Power simply proved that he's a one trick pony. He can't play in the midfield or up forward where he has to work hard for every touch, he can only pick up cheap stats by running loose down back. I will be very interested to see the coaches votes on footy classified to see how highly his game was rated by the coaches.


Joel is really going to be disappointed to hear that, because he, like me, thought that Ebert only kicked two goals.

Thank God he zoned off his player for a cheap stat when he took that mark in the last minute - that was the game, Motlopp was going to mark it easily. I would love to have somebody else like him getting so called cheap shots all day. He will get 10 votes from the coaches.

Joel should never play at Coburg again, and imho he should never have been played there at all. He is certainly in our best half dozen players and at Coburg looks like the big kid in the schoolyard - a pointless exercise.


ps - he is also a selfless, humble clubman