Mick McGuane rates every AFL team’s midfield from 1-18
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Subscriber only Geelong s ability to win the ball and use it effectively from inside the contest to outside the contest has the Cats boasting the premier midfield of the competition, according to former Collingwood and Carlton player Mick McGuane. The Pies premiership player and dual All-Australian ranks the Cats engine room at No.1 in the league. McGuane based his assessment on strength at stoppages and a balance between contested and uncontested possessions, and he looked for effective ball-users and good decision-makers. Also, importantly, the need to be good transition runners.
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UNM Lobo forward Rod Brown grabs a rebound early in Sunday’s game against the Rice Owls at Tudor Fieldhouse in Houston. (Photo courtesy Maria Lysaker for UNM Athletics)
Here are some extra notes, quotes, tweets, stats and whatever else I could find in the old notebook that didn’t fit in print after Tuesday’s 104-65 Lobos win over NAIA school Our Lady of the Lake in Houston, Texas:
Bully ball
OK, so the opponents haven’t been the type of physical team that the Lobos will see soon in Mountain West play. Certainly not in the paint.
But the schedule is what it is and at this point UNM’s three newcomer forwards have been nothing short of dominant down low. Rod Brown (6-foot-7, 218-pounds), Bayron Matos (6-9, 215) and Valdir Manuel (6-10, 225) have done everything asked of them to help carry over the Lobo coaching staff’s primary point of emphasis from the unique offseason in which U
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UNM Lobo senior Makuach Maluach is one of the few familiar faces fans will see on this season’s Lobos roster. UNM tips off the season Sunday in Houston against the Rice Owls. (Photo courtesy UNM Athletics)
In the rare pre-game Emptying the Notebook, here are a few notes, quotes, stats, videos, tweets, and whatever else I could empty out of the old notebook about this new-look Lobo hoops roster before its first game Sunday in Houston against the Rice Owls.
For starters
It’s been 283 days since the Lobos last played a college basketball game. A lot has changed.
Was Adelaide s 2020 draft performance proof they re a spooked club?
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2020-12-10T09:04+11:00
Has Adelaideâs issues retaining interstate players at their club factored into their draft decision making?
The Crows took five players in Tuesday nightâs National Draft, four of which were local products.
This included top selection Riley Thilthorpe at pick two and draft bolter Luke Pedlar at pick 11.
Adelaide has been hit hard by the trade period in the last decade, with Phil Davis, Jack Gunston, Patrick Dangerfield, Jarryd Lyons, Jake Lever, Charlie Cameron, Mitch McGovern, Eddie Betts, Hugh Greenwood, Cam Ellis-Yolmen, Alex Keath, Kyle Hartigan, Brad Crouch, Rory Atkins and more departing the club.