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Player Watch Welcome to Hawthorn, Denver Grainger-Barras (delisted 2024)
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That blows my theory out of the water. Where in conception his mother farted at the wrong time, resulting in Denver’s occasional brain fart moments…
Ka Norkers
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I am not sure if any people think DGB has ADHD ( from afar, I don't ) but I think it just morphed into a chat on ADHD, which is incredibly common and vastly underdiagnosed.
It gets missed all the time. The tests to diagnose Neurodivergence are pathetically weak and people are routinely misdiagnosed and even medicated for personality disorders instead of adhd/asd etc. Particularly for women. For whatever reason, psychiatrists have a tendency to diagnose borderline personality disorder instead of autism in women. A lot of people get a correct diagnosis after their kids get diagnosed!
The tests rely on observations of behaviour by third parties (teachers and parents) but behaviour can/will be different in different contexts.
Edit: not to suggest denver does or doesnt have adhd or to suggest it is or isnt known to him or the club.
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My best mate has been on anti-depressants since his teens, he's only just been diagnosed with ADHD. So basically, he's been on the wrong medication for most of his life.
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This just in
Denver sleeps nude in oxygen tent that he believes gives him sexual powers
Denver sleeps nude in oxygen tent that he believes gives him sexual powers
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I blame society.
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It's never Lupus!
The general drift of the discussion is that this is something that could be fixed if it got picked up. After all, if it has been diagnosed and treated but with no benefit, the discussion would be worse than meaningless.
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He may come good, but I don't think it will be for us unfortunately.
He's 4 years in the system and the last defender picked when all are fit and available. Something drastic would need to happen or change IMO.
Time will tell.
I agree with Backhawk.
If we're talking about our pool of tall defenders, these guys are ahead of DGB:
Sicily, Frost, Blanck, Scrimshaw, Serong, Weddle (if he plays that role), and more than likely next year, Phillips and McCabe.
And you can probably add Josh Battle to that list.
There was some very pointed criticism of DGB this week in Zane Littlejohn's report.
He has 8 games to play in 2024 to salvage his spot on the list.
If we're talking about our pool of tall defenders, these guys are ahead of DGB:
Sicily, Frost, Blanck, Scrimshaw, Serong, Weddle (if he plays that role), and more than likely next year, Phillips and McCabe.
And you can probably add Josh Battle to that list.
There was some very pointed criticism of DGB this week in Zane Littlejohn's report.
He has 8 games to play in 2024 to salvage his spot on the list.
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This is the nub of it for me. Unless he is injured he will have the opportunity to show growth at Box Hill. If he can't show growth around the same issues Littejohn criticises him for every match, then he would be lucky to be offered a contract from us.
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HUGE last minute from DGB.
Hopefully that is the confidence he needs
Hopefully that is the confidence he needs
Just won em the game!!
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LET THIS MAN HAVE A CRACK AT THE SICILY ROLE!! That last minute is why we drafted him.
I got the outside word
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He made a couple of nice spoils in the last too. How was the rest of his day?
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A decent game from DGB, didn’t notice any dumb free kicks given away either.
10 min of the last quarter was perfect and helped us win the the game. Spoils and Marks he was doing it all!
10 min of the last quarter was perfect and helped us win the the game. Spoils and Marks he was doing it all!
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Hopefully the coach pumped him up and made him feel so proud that he believes he can do it.
Maybe get him playing the role that we had Scrimshaw playing before this year as Scrimshaw looks like he gone to that kind of role that Stratton played and not Birchall any more.
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Very pleased for him, his last 10 minutes was AFL quality……. But calls for his promotion based on 10 minutes are very premature, Serong is way ahead of DGB.
Let’s hope we look back in time and this was his break out moment
Let’s hope we look back in time and this was his break out moment
Was he suffering with cramp, like the commentary was suggesting? or was this just a little bit of hyperbole?
bigconornash
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What a clunk from DGB. Two game saving efforts. Hopefully signs of whats to come.
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