Lachie Schultz (Shooter)

[K]

Silly and undisciplined from Schultz. And this when Mihocek, McStay, JdG, McCreery, ... are all missing injured.

With each new injury withdrawal (now Jamie), Schultz's stupidity looks worse and worse. If we can't kick 8+ goals and lose, he'll really owe the club...

[piffdog]

^ We’re not getting the player he was at Freo but we are getting a much better player than we lost.

I'd second this ...

He’s got another 4.6 years to go with us minimum. I’ll reassess when we’re halfway through that.

[Arch@M32]

Tony Francis was suspended in his first match for us.

[RudeBoy]

Tony Francis was suspended in his first match for us.

He put the slipper into an Eagles player on the ground - if my memory serves me correctly.

[Meredith1965]

Tony Francis was suspended in his first match for us.

He put the slipper into an Eagles player on the ground - if my memory serves me correctly.

Yes, got six weeks from memory for a light tap with the boot to the calf of a player standing over him when he was lying on the ground and had been trod on. Ludicrous penalty.

[RudeBoy]

^
I recall it differently, but memory can play tricks. I visualise Francis standing over the Eagles player, who was on the ground. In any case, it was nothing more than a light flick of his boot. I remember at the time, being thrilled that we had a player who had a bit of mongrel about him!

[Charlie Oneeye]

I remember it well. It was a limp kick..a tap really. More to do with the look of it than the force of it.

[Jezza]

[BazBoy]

I’m going to make a statement here -open to discussion

I watched Sully’s run down tackle to gain a shot at goal. He nailed it

Oh my statement!! Could be a better,tougher tackler than McCreery

[RudeBoy]

^

Ummmm......no. Nevertheless, he's a very good tackler and tough as nails. I reckon he's our Adams replacement.

[Meredith1965]

I recall it differently, but memory can play tricks. I visualise Francis standing over the Eagles player, who was on the ground. In any case, it was nothing more than a light flick of his boot. I remember at the time, being thrilled that we had a player who had a bit of mongrel about him!

Yes, memory does play tricks, Now that you have described it, you might be right. What I do know is that the .weagle player did something painful to him first - maybe raked him with stops or something. It was an instinctive reaction and very light.

[pietillidie]

^And I think the vision made it look like it was in the nads, too. Not sure if it really was, though.

[stui magpie]

Nice little article on Lachie coming up to his 100th game.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/ ... cf8058a0f0

Yes it's paywalled, no I won't post the whole article.

Summary, he struggled with the external expectations in the first month.

He knew there would be expectation given Collingwood had handed Fremantle a first-round pick, but he found the dark side of fame when those meaningless multi-bets failed to hit.

“I think in the early days I struggled to comprehend it and I let it get to me a little bit more than I should have,” Schultz told this masthead of that month where he looked a little lost as the Pies’ new forward.

“People read so much into stats and don’t know enough about what certain roles are on the field so, yeah I had to turn off my messages to the public. As soon as I didn’t kick a goal my inbox would just light-up.”

Personally, idiots who message athletes on social media abusing them because they caused them to lose money on their bets would best serve humanity by diving headfirst into a woodchipper and becoming garden fertiliser.

Then we turn to the Blake Acres strike. Acres is one of his best mates, what was supposed to be a slap on the back turned into a punch to the neck, resulting in a sit down with Fly, as above.

“Fly (McRae) sat me down and we had a really good chat about it all,” Schultz said this week. “It was a good opportunity to really see where I was at and (to) release some of that frustration I probably had.”

The 26-year-year old remains mortified about the strike and yet it might end up as a turning point, releasing the pressure valve for the former Docker.

Interesting that while he was being applauded internally in the first few rounds for doing what the club wanted, he was being bagged online for not kicking goals. The rest of the article goes into how happy he is to get to 100 games after being drafted as a 20 yr old while working as a plumber, fixing a drain in a basement. He didn't know he'd been drafted until he came up, got phone reception and had a missed call and message from Ross Lyon, along with lots of others.

Good luck tomorrow Sarge.

[Jezza]

Nice article. I think Schultz will be fine in the long run. It's just a matter of patience and adapting to a new style and system.

He was brought in for his pressure game and being able to apply pressure in the front half of the ground. 10 goals in 9 games is a modest return but it is more or less his career average. If he's kicking 30+ goals by the end of the season, he's done his job in my opinion.

[Skids]

Banner for tonight?.....

Sarge has played this place before
And torn the joint apart,
Tonight he plays game 100 and
he's guna break your heart!