Player Watch Callum Brown (Delisted 2022)

[Jonno94]

Maybe our coaching team rate the value of players differently to us.

I don't think the coaching staff rate the Browns, Madgen, WHE, etc but the cupboard is too bare to replace them.

 

[Kappa]

Maybe our coaching team rate the value of players differently to us.

Or maybe they’re human and sometimes make mistakes, Buckley sure made a few that u could never admit to.

 

[Kappa]

It will if you have a drill and the right attachment. I have done it was easy as the round hold was small.

But then it’s not a square plug anymore….

 

[Maggie5]

But then it’s not a square plug anymore….

Why would anyone want to put a square peg in a round hole anyway?

 

[stormskye]

Why would anyone want to put a square peg in a round hole anyway?

Exactly my point

 

[Maggie5]

Exactly my point

Still doable though, maybe don't try it?

 

[stui magpie]

No matter how many times you try, a square plug won’t fit in a round hole

It's easy, providing the diameter of the round hole is larger than the diagonal of the square plug. You can fit a dodecagonal plug into a round hole using the same principle.

You can't fit a round plug into a round hole if the diameter of the plug is bigger than the diameter of the round hole.

I like Callums effort. He's not a star but we can't have 22 stars, we need foot soldiers as well. If he can play a role as a bottom 6 player, great. In the meantime it's up to kids in the VFL to show enough to replace him.

 

[Maggie5]

I wonder what we would be saying about a player that was pick 35 if his last name was not Brown?

Or his brother who was pick 50 in the draft.

 

[stormskye]

I wonder what we would be saying about a player that was pick 35 if his last name was not Brown?

Or his brother who was pick 50 in the draft.

They would have been delisted. I’ll stop now

 

[Matrix10]

Great. He can do that in the vfl

He can do it in the EDFL , that’s his level

 

[Linda Lovelace]

I don't think the coaching staff rate the Browns, Madgen, WHE, etc but the cupboard is too bare to replace them.

Yep. Sh*t teams have to play sh*t players, a basic premise that a lot of people seem to miss.

But a line has to be drawn somewhere. I am confident in saying that Callum is the worst 69 (a great number for my screen name) game player in the history of the AFL.

 

[sr36]

Continues to try very hard indeed.

Someone has to make a gif of that play where the ball was to his advantage, he tapped it to his opponent, then tackled him to win the free and then handballed it to a 50/50 contest for the ball to go out of bounds. Just quintessential Callum. Poor bloke is mentally shot.

 

[domus]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at home when Gavin is talking to Cal. I wonder what his assessment of Callum's future is.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at home when Gavin is talking to Cal. I wonder what his assessment of Callum's future is.

I wouldn’t. I take absolutely no pleasure in it. I wish Cal won the lottery and just took off overseas, and I could assume he was happily hobnobbing in Monaco with the rich and famous… or whatever made him happy.

 

[domus]

I wouldn’t. I take absolutely no pleasure in it. I wish Cal won the lottery and just took off overseas, and I could assume he was happily hobnobbing in Monaco with the rich and famous… or whatever made him happy.

I didn't say I take any pleasure in Cal's struggles. I'd be interested to hear his dad's honest assessment of his ability.

 

[Linda Lovelace]

I know there was a late out but the decision to play him over Macrae is an absolute howler. Not that I think Macrae is special, but it’s obvious he deserves a fair crack before Brown who time and time again proves to be a liability. I don’t understand how coaches can get things like this so wrong so often.

This is the main thing that is concerning. We would be sh*t with or without Callum running around.

But if Craig McRae can't see what Blind Freddie can see, then we might have to question his judgement in general.

 

[stormskye]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at home when Gavin is talking to Cal. I wonder what his assessment of Callum's future is.

 

[anshell]

Someone has to make a gif of that play where the ball was to his advantage, he tapped it to his opponent, then tackled him to win the free and then handballed it to a 50/50 contest for the ball to go out of bounds. Just quintessential Callum. Poor bloke is mentally shot.

I remember that passage of play(who could forget it).I actually felt sorry for him when I saw that.He’s clearly mentally shot.He’s like a dear caught in the headlights when he gets the ball now,he literally doesn’t know what to do.It’s not doing him or the team any good having him in the team like that.He needs an extended run in the reserves to get some of confidence back.But even then I think it might be too late for him.

 

[Horaceg]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall at home when Gavin is talking to Cal. I wonder what his assessment of Callum's future is.

I think he only speaks with Tarni these days

 

[No SPIN]

I remember that passage of play(who could forget it).I actually felt sorry for him when I saw that.He’s clearly mentally shot.He’s like a dear caught in the headlights when he gets the ball now,he literally doesn’t know what to do.It’s not doing him or the team any good having him in the team like that.He needs an extended run in the reserves to get some of confidence back.But even then I think it might be too late for him.

I completely agree - he looked great in 2019. But he’s now a shadow of that player, he should take a complete break from the game IMO.

Getting psychologically battered each week is not helping anyone.

 

[The Royal Sampler]

Condolences to Cal after being delisted. We all wanted him so badly to be a success, and could always count on him giving absolutely everything he had. A quality person and hopefully set up for success post-football.

 

[rand corp]

6 years in the system and 70 games, he did well to get that much out of himself and I wish him all the best for the future

 

[Couch Coach]

If Cal doesn't get on another AFL list I would hope he would entertain the idea of being a Collingwood VFL player / future captain?

All the best to him in whatever he does.

 

[gouki88]

Condolences to Cal after being delisted. We all wanted him so badly to be a success, and could always count on him giving absolutely everything he had. A quality person and hopefully set up for success post-football.

I reckon he has the potential to be an awesome VFL grade player. Would love to still have him around Collingwood in that capacity, because he seems like a very good human and works hard.

 

[JB1975]

He's a determined little fella, hope he stays around the traps.

He had limitations, which even his desire couldn't overcome, but I enjoyed his mania.

Thanks for unstinting service.