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I was at the mar I was at Marvel stadium with brown we watched the Western Bulldogs make a mess of the Dockers my question is this what is what was Rory lorth this time last week as a player and what if he hadn't known any of his history or background what was he what is he worth today if you goone along and watch that game you go who's that 207 CM bloke who's mobile quick takes contested marks doesn't get beaten and in this age where we're looking for someone can go into the Rock went into the rck won a clearance and was the first BL down to kick the goal what's he's worth He Go one and a half 1 half million if you didn't know any of the background around it what he did there was a reminder of what he's capable of and so what was it last week guys about 310 bucks no that's a bit of a joke but there was talk that he was going to leave and that it was bware and you would be doing your homework but this is the thing you you look in your pantry before you go shopping it will worse and in your pantry you got a 207 CM bloke that can do that so the challenge and this is credit to Luke beverage who's been his greatest supporter both I don't know privately but publicly he's backed him in and backed him in send him back to the vfl too by the way but if you can win him as a coach box wi he's heart get that performance you've got a rare commodity on your hands you have and and Luke beverage isn't the first coach that's tried to do that this is the third coach or the third club that has tried to do that with Rory lob so there is massive disparity between his best football and what he's capable of athletically and you know tactically and how important he can be for a side and and his off games but if you have a if you have a team that can withstand those highs and lows and that he can lift his worst performances from a tour or three up to a five or six well then you can cope with that but he still needs to prove his ability to do that because he hasn't really done that consistently throughout his career I think a great positive buck which should help him he's he's playing with the all Australian Ruckman and he's also got good Firepower down the forward line as well we SE eug Haagen obviously Norton and dar he didn't play on the weekend so it's not like you're asking him to put the Superman cape on I think one thing one thing with it and I your to your point you're not going to do you're not going to do Rory lob any good you're not going to get closer to those more consistent performances by beating him over the head with a stick you're going to it's softly softly it's putting your arm around him and I think I think be's done that Roy LOB to an extent with Loy Bramble he's he's helped him through he's backed him from the early stages and he played his best game for him on the weekend and I think in the coaches votes BR got three lob got one wouldn't have surprised me at all if Bevo was the one that gave him those there's complexity to him too I think which is again the art of coaching is you just got to win him over and if he if they can win him over by hell they got a player he's handled Bond beautifully he's handled a lot of players beautifully and and Marcus Bonelli is now evolving from Midfield giant Superstar all-timer to someone that can go forward and impact forward of the ball in this day and age which you know we we see other players that have been doing this from the start of their career this evolution of Marcus pontelli is a for half threat at 200 at um whatever he is 6'5 is just crazy good and we're like everyone we sat back and watched it then watched every minute yeah it was it was a pleasure to watch guys the most dangerous aspect as he S have a look at this goal you called for goal the year straight away there G I've got the lab coming up just watch this one go goes to his thigh to his foot oh then picks up one handed and swings it over tell me there's a better goal than that luk no I think strong argument for gold here no doubt about it but the dangerous thing is Ed Richards was back in so he can come he can come up from our for and bond now is just playing his own roll he just does Center bances and floods forward the goal actually look in retrospect that that reminds me remember when a senior sort of pushed through those two BLS and kick that one from 50 like he had both in his hands well it's it's funny you mention Gary so the year that he's having and everyone's having big years the Chad's having a big year and Isaac and Nick's having a big year have a look at this so the highest rated season for the last five highest rated of Seasons at this point right since 2010 so Gary ABT in 2014 he was six votes clear in the brown lay medal coincidentally did his shoulder this round didn't play again he was six clear Gary Ebert the number three there in 2010 finished second in the brown low 2013 he won the brown low and Patrick Dangerfield in 2016 won the brown low that's the sort of year maret sponsor Bell had all the chat about heene and no justifiably they're getting all the plots but that's you know this makes Brad middle not I'll tell you what Dusty must have charged him in 2017 for his season not to be there must had a big last 10 weeks what the difference between Bond and P and five so F's won a couple of brown lows Bond hasn't W one yet and it was on it was on show for all to see and this is the clear difference between the two guys B obviously in the prim GE 5 in the Twilight but the kicking has been the big difference in their careers hasn't they just that ability to be able to Nail Someone and hasn't been able to do for a lot of parts of his career yeah and he cut you slaughtered you a whole different way Nathan's never been a great kick he's been a beast and a monster in other areas but when you get into the back end of your career those sorts of things become a bit more prominent hey the other one which you know we've done the Tom Stewart expose for weeks and weeks Luke Ryan was a marking has been a marking machine number one marker in the competition and we said coming in this game give him the Tom Stewart treatment well they did not not with a a dedicated James Jordan style but with different players who engaged and Riley West engaged in most of all but they just made it a one-on-one contest they need the footy in the back they need to Mark the footy in the back half this freem manal side and they took it away from them season low they don't get overlap H has a poor year a poor game Clark doesn't have the sort of game that he has cuz they're not winning free contest the ball they're actually the second least pressured team in the competition freem metal that's because they like to retain position by foot and uncontested Mark obviously the back half Bevo actually mentioned that we kept their uncontested March down so partly is how you set up at stoppage in keeping six players forward in a big big massive rebuild but it wasn't about well is about the result for the Hawks wasn't so much about that for the richond footy Club was all about one man I love the club so much it means the absolute world to all the love I received this week has just meant the absolute uh world to me so thank you everyone who sent me a message I felt so loved this week um so I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart appreciate it you've given us an incredible ride so far mate look forward to seeing you in two weeks against Freo yeah mate freshing up for the barall and we'll see how we go there we go fans Dustin Martin your Champion there he is so um all the that everyone that went along the 92,000 what however M it was needed a moment and the moment came inside the first 3 minutes when he kicked the first goal game from that point on the if you're the the promoter of the concert you just go everything else doesn't matter the game was the side show first go everyone went nuts I watch I watched luy one time he got home watched it all he looked like he's running got half red PA to be perfectly honest I don't know where he is from a fitness point of view but um what will he do now Gess um well he I take him at his word he's going to front up and he'll play the season out and then make a decision I I don't profess today mate I don't yeah the rumors were really strong last week that it was going to be his last game but that's do you reckon that would have contributed to the 92 I mean Le all of it contribut to the but if if if 5,000 people thought geez this might be the last time we actually get to see this BL on the park and and that can happen that's going to happen at the tail end of a career anyway you never know when the end's going to come be be grateful for what you got and get along I'm not sure how many walk UPS game but it feels like the momentum just grow around the day and it turned into a nice day once the fog cleared but it's inant to like if he he's adamant that he's done well yes he can retire but if he's unsure he can't retire and unretire it's against the rules the afl's close that L re completely retire completely cuz there's all that talk and conjecture about he'll go to the goal Coast Suns well he can't retire this week or next week and then all of a sudden come out of retirement of the goal Coast Suns that's against league rules so Mel Michael fixed that up years ago and he retired then quickly came out against ESS and so he either retires or he plays the year out guys if he goes somewhere else yeah well we're just thankful that we've been able to watch him play it's been absolute joy and well done to Dustin Martin