I was just watching the start of AFL teams on fox.

First they were looking at st kildas next 5 games and Shaw said only against melbourne in round 10 is a certainty to win....

Second they were looking at the Rising star nominations for this year and they got to Aussie and Brian Taylor said that he was there on sunday and he basically doesnt rate him at all, he said he has no tricks, no speed or flare, basically he isnt anything special.

I hate this bloke, he always seems to give us crap all the time

Sorry thought i would vent

I was just watching the start of AFL teams on fox.

First they were looking at st kildas next 5 games and Shaw said only against melbourne in round 10 is a certainty to win....

Second they were looking at the Rising star nominations for this year and they got to Aussie and Brian Taylor said that he was there on sunday and he basically doesnt rate him at all, he said he has no tricks, no speed or flare, basically he isnt anything special.

I hate this bloke, he always seems to give us crap all the time

Sorry thought i would vent

Danny Hughes certainly Hated Brian Taylor back in the eighties. Those games were legendary!! My Dad and i always said those two should have just been put on the back of a flat bed truck and driven round the 'G on any Queens Birthday Pre-Match!!

Second they were looking at the Rising star nominations for this year and they got to Aussie and Brian Taylor said that he was there on sunday and he basically doesnt rate him at all, he said he has no tricks, no speed or flare, basically he isnt anything special.

He's the reason MMM are getting smashed in the ratings. The kid has only played 5 games. It took his love child Davis about 100 games to play a good game and still he plays 1 good game out of every 10. Never trust a man with a moustache they always have something to hide.

he basically doesnt rate him at all, he said he has no tricks, no speed or flare, basically he isnt anything special.

I love it when an aboriginal small forward comes along they have to have these three attributes for them to be any good...

my first thoughts when i read taylor's comments was that his very dry sense of humour was at play. are you sure that wasn't the case?

I love it when an aboriginal small forward comes along they have to have these three attributes for them to be any good...

True, all you have to do is scratch the surface a little and these kinds of attitudes become evident especially with guys like Taylor, Hunt etc. Anyway I'd rather a player who can do the basics well than have an arsenal of 'tricks' regardless of their racial background.

Anyway from what I saw of Aussie on the weekend he looks a gem, I think he'll turn out to be a guy who can end up having an influence in the middle. He seems to relish physical contact, good skills set, strong mark and decent defensive attributes. He is very raw at this stage and I look forward to watching his progress over the next few seasons.

Unfortunately based upon Aussie's performances so far Taylor is 100% correct. He hasn't shown any tricks or flair, or even an outstanding amount of raw speed when carrying the footy (all traits that are somewhat expected of aboriginal forward pockets, just look at Davey, Davey, Lovett etc).

However, what he has shown is that he is an excellent "old-fashioned" style of small-forward in that he has a terrific work rate inside the forward 50 both offensively and defensively, can read the ball well coming in as well as off the hands of the packs, knows where to move in order to free up space to lead into and has excellent disposal, both field-passing and goal-kicking.

he was there on sunday and he basically doesnt rate him at all, he said he has no tricks, no speed or flare, basically he isnt anything special.

I find this quite surprising to hear, cause I was listening to the MMM coverage during the game, and he was getting quite excited over Aussie's possessions. One of his co-callers asked him if he was the new Leon, and he said something along the lines, that he just could be

We have Davey for tricks, Flair and speed. Aussie gives us some contested possies, a good kick on goal and some defensive pressure (what is this not quick business, he runs down opponents causing them to rush a kick, how quick is he supposed to be after 5 games at afl level??)

Aussie is a find, Dont care what BT thinks, he is a fat tool who played for collingwood, his opinion means a pinch of [censored] in the real world.

what i liked most about aussie is that he seemed to do genuine crumber things. he dropped off packs to where the ball would fall, he looped around looking for the ball to spill, and he seemed to constatly be running into the right spaces. we havnt had anyone do that for a while imo. even davey was never a genuine crumber, he was a really really quick goal sneak. daveys goals are often based around ball spill and he is faster than everyone. aussie seems to look for the ball off packs.

Brian Taylor thinks the sun shines out of Leon Davis' behind, yet he doesn't rate Aussie.

A wet garbage bag > Brian Taylor's opinion.

I love it when an aboriginal small forward comes along they have to have these three attributes for them to be any good...

Agreed. Stereotyping at its worst, and says a lot more about BT than it does about Aussie.

As long as he is kicking goals and/or making a positive contribution to the team, who gives a rats about anything else.

God I hate Leon Davis. Apparently he gets a game this weekend...I can think of at least 50 players more worthy than him.

I am hearing you re: Leon Davis...Extremely overated, annoying, soft, lazy. wanderer and plays for Collingwood.

Yet that tool BT and about a million Collingwood supporters think he is brilliant. The igniter, pfft, I'll tell you what he can do with his igniter.

Can't stand Brian Taylor, but my sarcasm dectors have gone off, and I reckon he attempting to be humorous.

OR, sometimes he just picks any topic which all people seem to agree on, and goes against it. But I'd say he was trying to be funny.

In any event, Wonaeamirri's goal against Brisbane was a fair "trick".

I watched it and He did have a wry smile, and tony Shaw was sucked in and backed Aussie to the hilt. I think it was prob more to do with a bit of controversy than a real thought.

I was just watching the start of AFL teams on fox.

First they were looking at st kildas next 5 games and Shaw said only against melbourne in round 10 is a certainty to win....

Second they were looking at the Rising star nominations for this year and they got to Aussie and Brian Taylor said that he was there on sunday and he basically doesnt rate him at all, he said he has no tricks, no speed or flare, basically he isnt anything special.

I hate this bloke, he always seems to give us crap all the time

Sorry thought i would vent

Relax Mousey, Brian Taylor has a moustache and therefore cannot be taken seriously. Not only is he lost in the late70's, he is lost in a late 70's porno flick!

Brian Taylor or Bristle is a [censored]!!

The way that he has a pocket tsunami everytime his man leon touches the footy or even goes near it - well, we all need our cult heroes!!

Leon Davis will forever be haunted by not touching the footy in 79 minutes of grand final action! is a terrible player and a poor man's aaron davey!!

so far, aussie has shown a willingness to work hard both with and without the ball, he is very instinctive, knows how to read the ball well and also appears to be blessed with good skills...

we shall make better decisions after the season but in a struggling team, he has managed to be a ray of sunshine!!

I love it when an aboriginal small forward comes along they have to have these three attributes for them to be any good...

No Speed? WTF?

He contested a pack mark outside 50 and then was the first to run onto the ball 25 metres out.

No Speed! He is a [censored] jet

he does bag us. i sent in a SMS to Triple m bagging him and won texter of the round and won 2 AFL memberships. Text in give him [censored]. u might win something

Was listening to MMM at the game, Taylor claimed several times early that the crowd was around 10,000 and that cricket idiot referred to the crowd as "the small melbourne supporter base" all day.

Danny Hughes towelled that fat tool up repeatedly, it's no wonder he hates us.

Didn't The Life of Brian claim he knew that Judd to MFC was a fait accompli?