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wogitalia said:
To be fair to Teague, nothing he said in response actually varies to that. He had a knock that needed managing, "I don't know on the injections" and he's fine now...

Of course that just makes the fact that he's actually scoring worse without the fractured spine all the more baffling...

At this point the Teague factor is clearly a stronger correlation with Cripps being crap than anything else because no matter what the injury there has been a constant in his form falling off a cliff and I'm not saying it's the coach who can watch him forward and think he's a good forward but...
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When Teague took over halfway through 2019, Cripps averaged 117.44 for the rest of the year - on par with his average for the whole year. That included some monster scores of 194, 152, 148 and 134, so the Teague factor seemed to have negligible effect.

Last year it is really hard to know what was going on - hubs, partner unwell, lost weight to supposedly run better. This year we now know about the back issue.

The factor that I think is overlooked here is the ruckmen. Kreuzer was very predictable to Cripps - he would either win the tap, or become an extra mid on the ground, bustling the ball forward at worst. Kreuzer as we know, was injured in round 1 last year and never played again

De Koning played most of the latter half of last year, either sharing with Pittonet, or being the preferred option. Cripps averaged 108.33 with De Koning as the main ruckman (small sample of 3 games with Pittonet out of the side).

I suspect Cripps and the other Carlton mids have struggled to adapt to life without Kreuzer, particularly with TDK injured this year. Pittonet is a battler who will randomly win his share of taps, but offers no predictability. We should find out this week if my theory has any validity.
 
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Creeker said:
Wasn't that long ago, if a player had a crook left shoulder, he would tape the right.
Have a feeling if Steve Baker was still playing and knew Cripps had a sore back, he would be running into him with the elbow.
Would be great to know the extent of players injuries but I can see why clubs like keep it in house.
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Probably not an astute strategy, as the player could end up with 2 ****ed shoulders after the attention to his good one.
 
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Locus Levy Lunacy said:
When Teague took over halfway through 2019, Cripps averaged 117.44 for the rest of the year - on par with his average for the whole year. That included some monster scores of 194, 152, 148 and 134, so the Teague factor seemed to have negligible effect.

Last year it is really hard to know what was going on - hubs, partner unwell, lost weight to supposedly run better. This year we now know about the back issue.

The factor that I think is overlooked here is the ruckmen. Kreuzer was very predictable to Cripps - he would either win the tap, or become an extra mid on the ground, bustling the ball forward at worst. Kreuzer as we know, was injured in round 1 last year and never played again

De Koning played most of the latter half of last year, either sharing with Pittonet, or being the preferred option. Cripps averaged 108.33 with De Koning as the main ruckman (small sample of 3 games with Pittonet out of the side).

I suspect Cripps and the other Carlton mids have struggled to adapt to life without Kreuzer, particularly with TDK injured this year. Pittonet is a battler who will randomly win his share of taps, but offers no predictability. We should find out this week if my theory has any validity.
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Interesting. But it doesn’t explain the way in a fair few games this year Cripps has looked good until about half time and then gone missing almost completely. If it turned out he hasn’t been able to do endurance training for sone reason and is only semi fit it wouldn’t surprise me. Or is getting some kind of treatment each week that’s allowing him to play but the treatment doesn’t last for a full game …
 
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<actus said:
Interesting. But it doesn’t explain the way in a fair few games this year Cripps has looked good until about half time and then gone missing almost completely. If it turned out he hasn’t been able to do endurance training for sone reason and is only semi fit it wouldn’t surprise me. Or is getting some kind of treatment each week that’s allowing him to play but the treatment doesn’t last for a full game …
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This is where we start to have to guess. Does suggest that he missed a chunk of training and lost fitness, but it has been a fairly dramatic drop-off after half time.

Started the second half against the Dogs on the bench (for 7 minutes) and was having a conversation with someone on the phone for about 3 of those minutes (Indian bookies?). Didn't seem to be Teague as the cameras showed him looking his normal nonchalant self and not on the phone. Then went forward as a complete non-influence on anything other than my blood pressure.

I have faith and he is still in my team, but he'd want to belt out a 150-plus soon to prove all is well.
 
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Locus Levy Lunacy said:
This is where we start to have to guess. Does suggest that he missed a chunk of training and lost fitness, but it has been a fairly dramatic drop-off after half time.

Started the second half against the Dogs on the bench (for 7 minutes) and was having a conversation with someone on the phone for about 3 of those minutes (Indian bookies?). Didn't seem to be Teague as the cameras showed him looking his normal nonchalant self and not on the phone. Then went forward as a complete non-influence on anything other than my blood pressure.

I have faith and he is still in my team, but he'd want to belt out a 150-plus soon to prove all is well.
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He copped a big knee in the back from Levi near the end of the 2nd quarter & he started on the bench waiting for the painkilling injection to work.
I've had him all year as well, hopefully some big scores are coming soon. I thought he was underscored last week compared to Clayton Oliver when they both had very similar numbers
 
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