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.

 

[Topkent]

The club was peddling something similar later in the year. Something like the most under 22 players that played in the season, which included Kynan Brown's 6 minutes on field. Made me more angry about it when they name-dropped as one of the young players in our team.

That and the Gus stuff as our reason for not making finals. Gtfo mate.

I think it was some bullshit like over 2 weeks we played x amount of kids but it was like 3 in 3 out and one of them was Brown for 6 mins. We talked about it on the board here haha.

 

[schmuttt]

Yeah, we half arsed it last year with playing kids then cherry picked stats to make it look like we were playing a young team.

 

[Topkent]

Can't find the actual post but it was around the Brisbane game. We played 8 kids under 22, dropped 3 and then replaced them with 3 kids then trumpeted how we played 11 kids over 2 weeks

Was an out for us losing games at the time

 

[tomcruise]

Can't find the actual post but it was around the Brisbane game. We played 8 kids under 22, dropped 3 and then replaced them with 3 kids then trumpeted how we played 11 kids over 2 weeks

Was an out for us losing games at the time

Yeah, that's right. Jesus, worse than I remembered.

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

I said it at the time, Goodwin was doing it to make himself look good/give himself an excuse for dumbass fans to swallow but there was absolutely zero commitment to it, was just out on necessity with injury. Making Brown sub deep into the 4th quarter for two games was infuriating. As soon as vets were ready to play again they were back in the side. Couldn't even bring himself to give Jefferson a game while playing 3 KPFs a game, said it all really.

 

[Topkent]

I said it at the time, Goodwin was doing it to make himself look good but there was absolutely zero commitment to it, was just out on necessity with injury, Making Brown sub deep into the 4th quarter for two games was infuriating. As soon as vets were ready to play again they were back in the side. Couldn't even bring himself to give Jefferson a game while playing 3 KPFs a game, said it all really.

3 pretty dog shit key forward as well, not like any of them were shooting the lights out and unstoppable.
Christ its December and I'm still annoyed lol

 

[schmuttt]

I said it at the time, Goodwin was doing it to make himself look good/give himself an excuse for dumbass fans to swallow but there was absolutely zero commitment to it, was just out on necessity with injury. Making Brown sub deep into the 4th quarter for two games was infuriating. As soon as vets were ready to play again they were back in the side. Couldn't even bring himself to give Jefferson a game while playing 3 KPFs a game, said it all really.

Thought we stuffed up not giving him a game tbh, nothing to lose with finals gone should have just given him a taste. Also his VFL form was fairly solid.

 

[SugarHealey]

The Goodwin factor is the problem. I’m fine with his maintaining a focus on good defensive structure, both Grand Finalists this year had that, but if after the year we had he doesn’t understand that better ball movement in attack is needed for better scoring then we’re going nowhere.

I'm not sure how much is Goody's fault and how much is Lever's.
Somewhere between the two, i suspect.

I have witnessed Maysie trying to bight off a long kick into the corridor from deep D50... both with success and with error.
So I don't think its Maysies idea to go long down the line, time and time again.
Maxy might have some say in it, with his dominant marking out around wing/halfback.

But other than that, I don't see others instructing to go along the boundary all the time.

I like the idea of taking the short kick into play from the fullback position. Then from there, (hopefully not corralled against the boundary line) we can hit another inside option by hand or foot, or to a running player.

If we go back to the old down the line 95% of the time, I will just give it away and spend my time doing more enjoyable things.

 

[yulong]

Gonna be a break out year for Clarry I reckon, get on him for the brownlow.

 

[markm106]

Looking good so far. Keen to see what he produces this year.

 

[Squarky]

Credit where it's due, he's definitely in better shape now than he was at the start of pre-season (not hard to achieve...). Let's hope it translates into something closer to his best on the field.

 

[schmuttt]

To be honest with Trac under an injury cloud again Oliver really needs to step up in the first month of the season.