Player Watch Nathan Murphy (Retired 2024)

[The Royal Sampler]

I think Wilson has more to offer than Murphy. I would like to see him get more opportunity and particularly a decent block of VFL first.

 

[sr36]

I think Wilson has more to offer than Murphy. I would like to see him get more opportunity and particularly a decent block of VFL first.

He's got a side step and can create space at least. Both lack pace though, go to ground a lot and take an eternity to get up.

 

[jackcass]

How can we be hard against the cap with this list? Thanks Ned you total *******.
I'd rather leave the list spot open & get somebody mid year as a rookie.
There just is absolutely nothing there. We all know it & I suspect the club does now as well.

Not sure how that would work. I'd have thought he gets paid so he's effectively on our list anyway in much the same way as Gibbs at the Crows this year. Hard to fill his spot if he is.

 

[sr36]

Not sure how that would work. I'd have thought he gets paid so he's effectively on our list anyway in much the same way as Gibbs at the Crows this year. Hard to fill his spot if he is.

You can delist and payout. The salary counts towards cap, but there is an available list spot. We never do it though and I really doubt that they'd do it with such a whole hearted kid who appears really popular.

 

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[ANewDawn]

Sounds like he has a good back up plan if he is delisted.

 

[Markfs]

My uni degrees never helped my kicking....

 

[Billys Back]

Sorry but is that a real uni?

 

[manicpie]

Sorry but is that a real uni?

Doesn't sound like it, if anything it's in Adelaide and nothing good can come of that

 

[Horaceg]

Sounds like he has a good back up plan if he is delisted.

All careers end at some point, he is on top of it, kid should be congratulated.

 

[Markfs]

Sorry but is that a real uni?

evidently they did an online uni accreditation course involving answering 40 multiple choice questions....

 

[Countrypie]

My uni degrees never helped my kicking....

I knew there was a reason I never went

 

[Markfs]

I knew there was a reason I never went

you can read books and get a better education. It's all just an expensive part of a job interview process.

 

[sr36]

He'll be the local PE teacher, captain of both the footy team and the cricket team. Play footy till he's 40. Cricket to he's 50. He'll play golf off 2 and briefly hold the course record. He's a legend waiting to happen - just not in the AFL

 

[Markfs]

He'll be the local PE teacher, captain of both the footy team and the cricket team. Play footy till he's 40. Cricket to he's 50. He'll play golf off 2 and briefly hold the course record. He's a legend waiting to happen - just not in the AFL

and throughout it all, he will continue to fall over at the merest provocation.

 

[ANewDawn]

He'll be the local PE teacher, captain of both the footy team and the cricket team. Play footy till he's 40. Cricket to he's 50. He'll play golf off 2 and briefly hold the course record. He's a legend waiting to happen - just not in the AFL

Speaking of PE staff. Footscray Tech in the mid 80s had the great PE combination of just retired Bulldog's captain Geoff Jennings as HOD and Australian basket player and Olympic Women's and national coach Ray Tomlinson. As permanent emergency teacher there for 2 years, I collected sports equipment from them several times a day, as very few other than regular teachers were actually game enough to take extras classes into a room. Fantastic blokes who'd readily hand a footy or cricket set over to you and advise the best relatively secluded spot to take the kids to avoid public exposure and damage.

 

[TakingThePies]

He'll be playing Round 1.

 

[JoinDate]

Good on him for getting an education.

 

[legendstatus]

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[gouki88]

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Probably not until next year, given he's contracted

 

[Markfs]

Speaking of PE staff. Footscray Tech in the mid 80s had the great PE combination of just retired Bulldog's captain Geoff Jennings as HOD and Australian basket player and Olympic Women's and national coach Ray Tomlinson. As permanent emergency teacher there for 2 years, I collected sports equipment from them several times a day, as very few other than regular teachers were actually game enough to take extras classes into a room. Fantastic blokes who'd readily hand a footy or cricket set over to you and advise the best relatively secluded spot to take the kids to avoid public exposure and damage.

so you're taking kids to a secluded spot to avoid damage?

 

[partypie]

Sorry but is that a real uni?

No, it's not exactly the highest rated university in Australia, but any educational endeavours undertaken to help shape an athletes's post-sporting career should be lauded, not ridiculed.

 

[ANewDawn]

so you're taking kids to a secluded spot to avoid damage?

Yes, somewhere away from buildings, windows, other kids etc. They were wild students at that school in those days.

 

[ANewDawn]

Good on him for getting an education.

Plenty of players do a qualification these days. Essendon Football Club and Swinburne worked together 10 years back to get as many players as possible involved in courses and made doing them as easy a task as possible. There has long been an emphasis in clubs on life after football.

 

[Markfs]

Plenty of players do a qualification these days. Essendon Football Club and Swinburne worked together 10 years back to get as many players as possible involved in courses and made doing them as easy a task as possible. There has long been an emphasis in clubs on life after football.

of course players in the semi-prof days used to work while they were playing..... but I think that put too many demands on a kid straight out of school who hasnt done a days work in his life. Of course, a lot of players go straight to SEN or Fox or similar and manage to avoid work for their entire lives.