Player Watch Callum Brown (Delisted 2022)

[Doc1763]

Credit where its due, I thought he had an influence when he came on. Hopefully, he can go on from there. just keep him away from goal - its pointless him being anywhere near them.

 

[pablo disco bar]

Maybe his found his role...professional medical sub

 

[gouki88]

My take:

I'll give you Pendles, Adams and Crisp. They're bloody good footballers.

Don't know how you could have Rantall and Macrae as more deserving.

Sidey, Daics and Bianco play too similarly and have the same exploitable weakness to play together - two of them in there at once is a stretch.

JDG roles the dice too much with his positioning and isn't yet good enough offensively as a mid to make up for his complete lack of defensive coverage.

Sier just stands around too often.

Yesterday, Callum gave us a bit of the energizer bunny around the ball that we lost with Treloar, I hope he gets a couple more games in there to see if he can back up what was a good half of footy.

Deserving may have been the wrong word. Worthwhile might be more suitable. I don't see any real AFL future with Cal Brown. He's small, terrible by foot, not strong and doesn't have much straight line speed. Lacking in a lot of the traits our midfield needs, like grunt and good ball use.

Him having one good half against one of the worst lists in the comp doesn't change my opinion

 

[sr36]

Deserving may have been the wrong word. Worthwhile might be more suitable. I don't see any real AFL future with Cal Brown. He's small, terrible by foot, not strong and doesn't have much straight line speed. Lacking in a lot of the traits our midfield needs, like grunt and good ball use.

Him having one good half against one of the worst lists in the comp doesn't change my opinion

I don't disagree with any of that. But the midfield cupboard is incredibly bare. The same weaknesses currently also apply to Rantall, and Macrae with the exception of kicking.

From what I've seen, Brown is currently comfortably a better footballer than either of them. I appreciate that most have already put a line through him, but like with Rantall, he probably won't make it to 100 games, but if he does, it will be as a mid. It seems a good time to give a few games through there, because we really don't have better options.

 

[Shannin]

If people thought Brown played well yesterday its a very very low bar. 4 of his tackles he barely touched the player. We need to move on and expect more than 2 good handballs a game.

 

[jackcass]

Haters gotta hate. Thought he was terrific yesterday. Always thought midfield was his spot.

 

[SheppPies]

Only thing stopping C. Brown and J. Noble is their size.

They can't stick tackles that an average player would stick 100% of the time.

If an opposition has any kind of momentum then they just bounce straight off them.

They both need at least another 7kg or they will continue to be burdens, both on the field and in terms of stopping a younger player from getting crucial AFL experience.

Giving him a chance in a decimated midfield next week against the inform beasts of Melbourne would be an excellent opportunity.

We ain't playing finals. This year is about development now. He ain't a fwd and I totally agree with you re size.

If it gets showed up big time and Oliver and Petracca and others just keep bouncing off him he'll know that hard time in the gym is the only thing that'll further his career.

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[Matrix10]

Only thing stopping C. Brown and J. Noble is their size.

They can't stick tackles that an average player would stick 100% of the time.

If an opposition has any kind of momentum then they just bounce straight off them.

They both need at least another 7kg or they will continue to be burdens, both on the field and in terms of stopping a younger player from getting crucial AFL experience.

Plenty of things stop C Brown from been an AFL standard player. can`t kick, can`t tackle, no leg speed. is physically weak .

 

[Captivating]

Over the top from the club.

Surprised they forgot to include the fact that he gained more metres for Adelaide than Collingwood.

 

[Captivating]

Plenty of things stop C Brown from been an AFL standard player. can`t kick, can`t tackle, no leg speed. is physically weak .

Apart from that, he's a champion

 

[Captivating]

Credit where its due, I thought he had an influence when he came on. Hopefully, he can go on from there. just keep him away from goal - its pointless him being anywhere near them.

Isn't hard when replacing who is probably the most useless player and biggest pretender on our list in Sier.

 

[domus]

Giving him a chance in a decimated midfield next week against the inform beasts of Melbourne would be an excellent opportunity.

We ain't playing finals. This year is about development now. He ain't a fwd and I totally agree with you re size.

If it gets showed up big time and Oliver and Petracca and others just keep bouncing off him he'll know that hard time in the gym is the only thing that'll further his career.

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He's already reasonably well muscled. He can't put on any more weight given his size or he would lose whatever foot speed he has and become less agile.

 

[pienut]

Plenty of things stop C Brown from been an AFL standard player. can`t kick, can`t tackle, no leg speed. is physically weak .

Calvin's tackling problem has not been size. It's that he over committed and was too often stepped around. He corrected it yesterday and got 7 in half a game. We will see if it is a fluke. He has little future if he can't be a pressure forward with guts, which he has and be able to use his good but too predictable side step to snap goals. He is unlikely to make it but not a certainty either.

 

[Jen2310]

 

[TheGreatGrundy]

This poor kid is coping a shalaking on here, come on mods, time to give this thread a rest. Cal doesn't appear to be improving at all but is still getting a game, the only thing this thread is achieving is constant sh*t being put on a kid who is trying everything he can to become a senior player

I am sure he id doing exactly as you say - but that is no reason to shut the thread. This forum is for supporters not players. Everyone has a right within limits to say what they wish.

 

[Finnishpie]

They had multiple injuries over their entire careers. Callums durability helps him get selected

Not in their last years - 2019/2020 - they didn't really. In fact, they were pretty much in the bests aground in the VFL/practice matches. All I'm saying is, I genuinely don't know if the injuries reduced their capacity at AFL level because we just didn't get a chance to see them last year beyond one game, when we were playing terribly as a team.

 

[WalterBlaknWhte]

Calvin's tackling problem has not been size...

So now we have Calvin, Callan, Callum, and Tyler at the club


Is a guy named Geoff Browne the one to stop the nepotism?

 

[Scratchy05]

If he plays every game like he did last game. Will happily have him in our best 22. Needs to continue to be played as a mid as it is his natural position. Not as a forward

 

[The Royal Sampler]

Needs to put runs on the board this year, because he hasn’t had enough of an impact to date to be confident of getting opportunities under a new coach.

 

[BuildEmUp]

Only thing stopping C. Brown and J. Noble is their size.

They can't stick tackles that an average player would stick 100% of the time.

If an opposition has any kind of momentum then they just bounce straight off them.

They both need at least another 7kg or they will continue to be burdens, both on the field and in terms of stopping a younger player from getting crucial AFL experience.

if i recall on Saturday Noble brought the huge TEX to an absolute stop...

 

[Kappa]

if i recall on Saturday Noble brought the huge TEX to an absolute stop...

you sure that wasn’t Quaynor?

 

[Anzacday]

you sure that wasn’t Quaynor?

It was.
Easily confused.

 

[Kappa]

It was.
Easily confused.

sometimes I mix the two up until I see their numbers…

 

[Jen2310]

Hopefully with a new coach, Cal be can free to have the confidence and freedom he had in 2019. Needs midfield minutes.

 

[manicpie]

Calvin's tackling problem has not been size. It's that he over committed and was too often stepped around. He corrected it yesterday and got 7 in half a game. We will see if it is a fluke. He has little future if he can't be a pressure forward with guts, which he has and be able to use his good but too predictable side step to snap goals. He is unlikely to make it but not a certainty either.

Who's Calvin?