He's pretty ordinary. Mind you so is Mayne..Thuohy from Carlton
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He's pretty ordinary. Mind you so is Mayne..Thuohy from Carlton
Stop bashing mayne if you want to see the last of him.He's pretty ordinary. Mind you so is Mayne..
Would rather Tuohy.He's pretty ordinary. Mind you so is Mayne..
He's pretty ordinary. Mind you so is Mayne..
Why other club want mayne where everybody here keep saying he is not worth it.
Why other club want mayne where everybody here keep saying he is not worth it.
Aii i just found out SA bash most freo player in the main board .Shhhhhhh!!!
Very happy to keep someone like Mayne who gives everything to the club both off and on the field. But in reality we need draft picks to get McCarthy, Hill and whoever else to the club and you can't get a second round draft pick with players that are delist material like DeBoer etc. Note, I really like the way DeBoer goes about his game and not having a crack just referring to trade value.
I prefer him to go GC for his career.Right now I think DeBoer could play Maynes role to similar effect.
Aii i just found out SA bash most freo player in the main board .
Yes but maybe less cash to splash
Right now I think DeBoer could play Maynes role to similar effect.
I really like DeBoer as a inside mid only and not being relied upon to kick a goal from outside 40m.
DeBoer and Barlow are the two players that I think our coach has at times got their positions totally wrong.
Someone that's injured.And who would De Boer replaced as an inside mid in our team when it was up and running?
Someone that's injured.
We've spent the last 4 years saying that Ross should stop playing the foot soldiers and play the kids and now some want the foot soldiers back.
The point being that the foot soldiers of now were the Balics ,Sheridans and Wellers once and full of promise. It wasn't that long ago that Suban and De Boer were considered as leaders of the club. There is going to be future players denigrated as foot soldiers . Its the nature of the beast.
I'm not buying that at all.
Maybe previously we saw Suban differently but generally speaking I would use foot soldiers to describe the one paced, vanilla, average skilled players that were highly committed to the gameplan and the team. What you saw is what you got with De Boer. Similar with guys like Tendai and Clancee. Almost zero chance of them breaking out and being seen as so much more than their current station in life.
Weller, Blakely, Langdon (if he stays) and Balic all have the potential to be more than foot soldiers from a skill level point of view.
I dont agree, how many youngsters have been glowingly endorsed on here only to be delisted or join the average group later on.
I dont agree, how many youngsters have been glowingly endorsed on here only to be delisted or join the average group later on.
Sure. Let's keep De Boer then. A premiership awaits!! So what are you advocating for then? Give Tendai another year. Convince Pav to go round one more year?
It's time to move on.
The difference is that we actually have a talented list of youngsters for the first time since Hill etc were drafted. It would be madness to remotely consider De Boer unless we were decimated by injury even worse that we were this year (is that even possible?).
It is not madness to consider DeBoer for a game of AFL when he is in really good form (possible Sandover medal in less games). It is not madness to consider any player young or experienced if they can make a contribution at AFL level.
You, Salim, me and everyone else knows its about getting the right balance between youth and experience. Ross has certainly been far to "right" for my liking in the past and youth have found it difficult to get games. But, if you simply just "play the youth" I can guarantee that our rebuild will take much longer and the youth will get their asses handed to them regularly which is going to eventually drag them down.
We need to and will move on some of the mature players but I personally hope they put a lot of thinking into DeBoer and Barlow before they consider throwing them away as well because imo they can still impact positively at AFL level.