Player Watch #13 Clayton Oliver – UNPRECEDENTED 4x B&F, 3x AA, 2x AFLCA Winner and Premiership Player (formerly)

[Scythe94]

OK, I've removed about three pages of posts.

Please do not use this thread to speculate about Oliver's private life – medical or otherwise.

Regardless of the veracity of your rumour, or what you know/have heard, if it's not public knowledge, just don't post it.

I don't want to turn this place into Demonland, but if you can't see the potential harm that this sort of rumour-spreading can cause (regardless of your intentions), then perhaps it's best if you take a bit of a break.

Thanks.

 

[stabler]

Looks the goods, but it's a bit weird that his surname and given name are the wrong way around. Freaks me out a bit.

Like the first letters of Dom Tyson's given name and surname

 

[stabler]

Ps judging by Claytons' responses to the Facebook posts about him , it looks like he's across all the social media platforms and i reckon he just might read bigfooty too...

so if you're reading this Clay, we love you, you big red fire engine. Welcome aboard son.

 

[TheCount]

Ps judging by Claytons' responses to the Facebook posts about him , it looks like he's across all the social media platforms and i reckon he just might read bigfooty too...

so if you're reading this Clay, we love you, you big red fire engine. Welcome aboard son.

I'm now patiently waiting for a new member to the Bigfooty Melbourne boards with a curious amount of inside information about the club and the user name BigRedFireEngine ...

 

[Proper Gander]

Couldn't be Dez! could he?

 

[Cannon82]

The problem with recruiting redheads is they're notoriously difficult to get rid of. Bad enough delisting a normal player who has tried his guts out but failed to make the grade; worse still with a ranga because you know the poor hapless bloke has been consigned to a life of stacking shelves or cleaning out septic tanks.

 

[ponsdale]

The problem with recruiting redheads is they're notoriously difficult to get rid of. Bad enough delisting a normal player who has tried his guts out but failed to make the grade; worse still with a ranga because you know the poor hapless bloke has been consigned to a life of stacking shelves or cleaning out septic tanks.

His ranganess certainly made him easier to spot in the highlights package.

 

[Proper Gander]

His ranganess certainly made him easier to spot in the highlights package.

I like that bit. You can pick him out at a fair distance so don't have to whiplash check the screen, which will take some of the joy out of those matches deep into the finals

 

[PerfectFooty]

The problem with recruiting redheads is they're notoriously difficult to get rid of. Bad enough delisting a normal player who has tried his guts out but failed to make the grade; worse still with a ranga because you know the poor hapless bloke has been consigned to a life of stacking shelves or cleaning out septic tanks.

Our club has a long proud history of sacking redheads

 

[givemethecure]

Remember when Bate dyed his hair? And then got on youtube? And then just got all weird and health guy style?

 

[Theseventhhamster]

Our club has a long proud history of sacking redheads

Easily the best part of recruiting them.

 

[Proper Gander]

Our club has a long proud history of sacking redheads

He has a point of difference though. He's a NEW ERA redhead.

 

[Cannon82]

Our club has a long proud history of sacking redheads

Certainly jettisoned plenty of them but it took a long time to do it.

 

[Topkent]

Oi. What's wrong with Clayton as a first name? Wash your mouth out

And everyone talking about those bounces. Did they work? I'd rather a player with a horrible bouncing action that works than a silky bouncing action that looks great but doesn't. Watching those bounces as an MSDS sufferer, I was 100% expecting them to end in Spencer-esque capers, which you would probably expect from more than 1 MFC player (TMac, anyone?) but they didn't. They went straight back into his grasp. All 3...

Those bounces won't work at afl level
I dunno if he was trying his opposite hand but he had to slow down to get the bounce an if you get tackled while bouncing it's automatic holding the ball

He looked like a basketballer trying it for the first time

 

[Demon 16]

Won't matter, inside mids don't get to take many bounces in the AFL.

 

[stabler]

Maybe Clay's bounces are like Jesse's set shot routine - looks ugly but gets the job done

 

[PerfectFooty]

Certainly jettisoned plenty of them but it took a long time to do it.

True, it took the club forever to get rid of that Norm Smith fellow

 

[givemethecure]

Like the first letters of Dom Tyson's given name and surname

Tom Dyson? Tim Dixon? Terry Dimpkins? Tarzan Dipstick? Tippity Cricket? Tapp Derwillicuddy?

 

[harry000]

I love the part on the highlight footage where he headbutts his own team mate out of the way love that hunger.

 

[harry000]

Also, everyone is commenting on the infamous 3 terrible bounces. Haven't heard mention of the perfect bounce later on in the video.

 

[Topkent]

Im certain those 3 bounces cant be his actual technique

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Never in his AFL career will he ever get that much time and space to run with the ball. The bounces aren't impressive, it's his intent in every situation (in close or in space) to take the game on. Brings his teammates into the contest too.

 

[Topkent]

Whats more important is we have another genuinenly tough kid who will put his hand up in round 1 for selection

Young guns in Brayshaw, Viney, Tyson with unknown potential of Petracca, Trenners and Oliver
Some solid back up talent in Vanders, Melksham, Bugg and Watts to go with the senior talent of Vince and Jones

 

[schmuttt]

Whats more important is we have another genuinenly tough kid who will put his hand up in round 1 for selection

Young guns in Brayshaw, Viney, Tyson with unknown potential of Petracca, Trenners and Oliver
Some solid back up talent in Vanders, Melksham, Bugg and Watts to go with the senior talent of Vince and Jones

Yep. I think the biggest improvement in 2016 is when we go to the VFL and look at our depth, it is going to be made up of Kennedy/Watts/ANB/Stretch/JKH/Oliver/Trengove/Weideman, rather than Terlich/M Jones/Riley/Bail etc (I know Terlich and M Jones are still there but they won't play 5 games between them in 2016). It isn't so obvious as a point of improvement but I'm confident we'll see the benefits on the field when we get a couple injuries.

 

[Djcjdees]

Those bounces won't work at afl level
I dunno if he was trying his opposite hand but he had to slow down to get the bounce an if you get tackled while bouncing it's automatic holding the ball

He looked like a basketballer trying it for the first time

Point is, they are no worse than TMac's bounces, that don't work half the time..

 

[Topkent]

Point is, they are no worse than TMac's bounces, that don't work half the time..

The technique im talking about not the decision or the outcome