Moved Thread #1: Majak Daw -

[koshari]

I'd like to see Majak get an opportunity in a pre season game. I think he has demonstrated that his skills are good enough.

if he is as reported slotting drop punts through from outside 50 you would have to say that he has his kicking sorted.

 

[GarnerSmash]

If he is healthy and ready to go he will certainly play NAB Cup games next year.

 

[astrovic]

if he is as reported slotting drop punts through from outside 50 you would have to say that he has his kicking sorted.

From what I saw, he kicked 2 goals from outside 50, another point and one that fell agonisingly short. Got a massive roost on him.

However the Majak play I keep repeating in my head from the game was his awful, awful short pass across the defensive goals that was picked off for a Geelong goal. Terrible decision, even worse execution.

So 2 steps forwards, 1 step backwards....

 

[Flawed Genius]

I'll see if they sell clues and I'll pick some up for you hows that?

BOOM

 

[naturally north]

From what I saw, he kicked 2 goals from outside 50, another point and one that fell agonisingly short. Got a massive roost on him.

However the Majak play I keep repeating in my head from the game was his awful, awful short pass across the defensive goals that was picked off for a Geelong goal. Terrible decision, even worse execution.

So 2 steps forwards, 1 step backwards....

Not the first time thats happened and has been done before by much better credentialed players. Don't worry about Majak he'll be fine. I believe he's got another cog, and lift when playing AFL. Got a gut feeling about Majak....

 

[Chron]

The sooner people realise he is not a genuine Ruckman the better. He is an athletic forward who should play no more than 20% in the ruck.

The only way I see him getting an AFL game next year is if he goes past Hansen, Tarrent and Pedersen* as a forward. Or if Scott decides he wants a combination of Drew, Tarrent / Hansen, Pedersen* / Daw up forward. With Pedersen* or Daw assisting in the Ruck.

*Assuming Pedersen stays.

 

[astrovic]

Not the first time thats happened and has been done before by much better credentialed players. Don't worry about Majak he'll be fine. I believe he's got another cog, and lift when playing AFL. Got a gut feeling about Majak....

Yeah fair call. TBH my feeling is that if he gets a shot, his first half dozen games could be very...interesting...and cause some nervous moments until he gets control of his nerves, adjusts to the surroundings and settles in. At which point he might well go bang and start doing stuff. He's certainly showed that his best is pretty much unstoppable, the question is whether or not he has the ability to produce his best, consistently, against top shelf opponents. There's only one way to tell, and I would love to think that he has a flawless pre-season and is banging the door down round 1, demanding a spot in the team.

 

[Wells Now Williams Fan]

I'll see if they sell clues and I'll pick some up for you hows that?

Darwin"Seinfeld"Roo...You missed your calling mate

 

[LB2Snake]

Massively controversial call by the Devil Fish!!!!!!

Can we squeeze him in to the practice match teams?

V good teff. Made me laugh.

 

[Elite Master]

If he yet again doesn't get a game next year (whether that be NAB Cup or otherwise) then I'll be generally pissed. He NEEDS to get games in 2012, no more waiting, next year is his time to unleash.

Either Hansen or Tarrent goes back allowing for Daw to play forward with a few stints in the ruck..

 

[naturally north]

Darwin"Seinfeld"Roo...You missed your calling mate

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[Dig Out Ya Soul]

If he yet again doesn't get a game next year (whether that be NAB Cup or otherwise) then I'll be generally pissed. He NEEDS to get games in 2012, no more waiting, next year is his time to unleash.

Either Hansen or Tarrent goes back allowing for Daw to play forward with a few stints in the ruck..

Really agree with this. He just has to be given a couple of games or more. Giving him one or two games is not going to work out for a emerging KPP, as we have seen with others in the league, they do take a very long time to come on. Really hope, if it is benificial for the side that he gets his go over an extended period.

 

[chubbspeterson]

Really depends on what they want to do with Hamish. Maybe you slide him in against GWS, GC, Bulldogs, Melbourne or Port next year to give him about 5 games at AFL.
Thought we missed a chance to give him a game rd 23 against GWS, same with Pederson and Sirra.

 

[TheKanga]

Could be a chance for R1 2013 if he shows enough in the pre-season.
He deserves a senior game next year, even if it's against GWS or Gold Coast.

 

[Mav]

From what I saw, he kicked 2 goals from outside 50, another point and one that fell agonisingly short. Got a massive roost on him.

However the Majak play I keep repeating in my head from the game was his awful, awful short pass across the defensive goals that was picked off for a Geelong goal. Terrible decision, even worse execution.

So 2 steps forwards, 1 step backwards....

I didn't see the game. Was it similar to Scott McMahon in the final?

 

[astrovic]

I didn't see the game. Was it similar to Scott McMahon in the final?

Can't say, already blotted that memory out.

It was similar to Cotchin's one against us that Lachie/Matty Campbell picked off, or the [insert Collingwood player name here] one that Robbie Tarrant picked off.

 

[Mailman]

One of Tarrant or Hansen need to go to the back line IMO, and Daw should become that third tall in attack.

I reckon this is the best way to introduce him into seniors football. Let him play instinctively in the forward line, where any bad decision making won't hurt as badly. Scott is going to have to make some big team structural decisions this summer.

 

[King Corey]

Not the first time thats happened and has been done before by much better credentialed players. Don't worry about Majak he'll be fine. I believe he's got another cog, and lift when playing AFL. Got a gut feeling about Majak....

Yeh thought it was odd to point out when most of our team enjoy the old unforced turnover in defence.

Majak is marked ridiculously hard. I've seen kids who grew up their life with the game get NAB cup initiations and look completely lost. Maj got a run in 2011 and straight away ran to some good spots and took a couple of strong pack marks.

People seem to choose not to see these things.

 

[ROSEMVP]

Would Prefer him up forward then Tarrant.

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Lots of players make mistakes. I was less concerned with that kick than with the many times Majak seemed to do something then kind of hang around waiting to see what happened next. However, the team as a whole was less than switched on for a long time, and he was among those who stood up to almost pinch it. And I freely admit that the weekend was one of very few times I've watched an aligned club play a whole game, so I'm happy to take advice from people who go a lot on whether he's generally shown the concentration throughout games you need to be a first team player on top of the exciting bits of play the rest of us see replayed.

 

[Twinkletoes]

I was less concerned with that kick than with the many times Majak seemed to do something then kind of hang around waiting to see what happened next.

THAT is what the coaches have been hoping to eradicate from his game H to h. It's a drop off in intensity. He appears far better now than in the past though, on that front, and his fitness seems the best it's been also.

 

[Horace]

Lots of players make mistakes. I was less concerned with that kick than with the many times Majak seemed to do something then kind of hang around waiting to see what happened next. However, the team as a whole was less than switched on for a long time, and he was among those who stood up to almost pinch it. And I freely admit that the weekend was one of very few times I've watched an aligned club play a whole game, so I'm happy to take advice from people who go a lot on whether he's generally shown the concentration throughout games you need to be a first team player on top of the exciting bits of play the rest of us see replayed.

I very much liked what I saw of Majak on Sunday. Sure he made some mistakes and might have spectated occasionally but we need to remember that he was late to the game and still very much in the learning process.

The bits that really excited me were a couple of times when he judged the ball better than everyone else to take pack marks, his long kicking including the pressure goal in the last quarter and his centre bounce work.

In my view he will make it and in another 4 to 5 years we might be privileged to see on a regular basis one of the most exciting talents in the game. Mind you I often get things very very wrong. Just ask Mrs. H.

 

[Daz]

I'm sure it has a lot to do with fitness (or lack thereof). It's easy to forget that on top of being pretty unfit, Maj also had a preseason interrupted by injury and suspension.

 

[QueenslandRoo]

I hope Majak will be a star for North Melbourne. But if not, there are two other Africans waiting in the wings. Now we are in the off-season, I thought it time to share their story ...

My wife and I waited six years to adopt a child from Ethiopia. When 'the call' came, we were advised that we'd been allocated twin baby boys.

We'd have been overjoyed to adopt a child - two was amazing; and not just two but twins; and not just twins but twin boys; and not just twin boys but twin BABY boys!

When I asked the Queensland Government social worker the boy's names she informed me their names were Biniyam and Yoseph, the African version of Benjamin and Joseph, my two favourite Bible characters.

My wife and I felt like we had won the inter country adoption jackpot! Could things possibly get any better?

I blurted out in excitement: "The only way this could be any better is if they arrived form Africa fully-fledged supporters of the North Melbourne football club!"

My wife looked at me like I was an idiot. The social worker looked at me as if reconsidering our suitability to adopt.

None of us were to know what was to happen just weeks later when we travelled to Addis Ababa to meet these six-month-old boys.

As we were about to leave the orphanage where the boys had been cared for, the orphanage asked to take a photo. "Sure," we said and positioned the boys in our arms for a picture.

"We'll put them on the ground for the photo," instructed the orphanage director. We thought that strange but bent down to gently place our babies on the ground when he interrupted: "Not like that! Wait until we bring a mat to place them on."

We waited a moment as a worker was sent to fetch a mat and then watched in astonishment as they unrolled, before our eyes, a bedspread sized North Melbourne AFL mat.

Here we were, in an Ethiopian orphanage, watching them take photos of our boys on a North Melbourne mat.

Our boys are now 7-years-old and North Melbourne crazy. They HAVE to be. We tell them God ordained it to be so!

We also take is a small token that out of all the people in the world that our boys could have been placed with ... they were MEANT to be with us.

See pic below (The boy in green pants was adopted by another couple. Our boys are middle and right.) See pic below this one for boys as they are today ...

 

[The Filth Wizard]

They are stunning looking boys.

Spectacular story, Queensland Roo. For a million reasons