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He ought to consider himself a very ..VERY lucky chap !! By all accounts any faith in him form the MFC isnt being repaid with any fervour.

Wake up to yourself Juice...you have a golden opportunity to make something out of all this..otherwise it the bush for you my son!! <_<

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..........NOW HAVE A FAIR DINKUM DIP FOR CHRISTS SAKE!

Agree totally- needs to really put in- or out the door. Hopefully has been given kicking coaching as seems to lack total confidence in this .If he had of kicked goals instead of points we may not have been talking like this.

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Agree totally- needs to really put in- or out the door. Hopefully has been given kicking coaching as seems to lack total confidence in this .If he had of kicked goals instead of points we may not have been talking like this.

Exactly right! Seems to be Melbourne's version of Chris Gayle?! Just looks disinterested!


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Exactly right! Seems to be Melbourne's version of Chris Gayle?! Just looks disinterested!

Chris Gayle Rocks, Newton doesn't (or hasn't to this point!)

Wonder how many games he will play in 2010? i am not confident at all.

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Good luck Juice, Work on your game you have the talent show the knockers why the football club beleaves in you. In a stronger forward line your chance will come grab it with both hands.

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Chris Gayle Rocks, Newton doesn't (or hasn't to this point!)

Wonder how many games he will play in 2010? i am not confident at all.

Chris Gayle only rocks cos he plays for the other mob.

If he was ours he'd be lambasted.

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Good luck Juice, Work on your game you have the talent show the knockers why the football club beleaves in you. In a stronger forward line your chance will come grab it with both hands.

Yeah Juice..... Both Hands mate.... Not your forehead!!!! :mellow:

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Pick 6 in the rookie draft!

Last chance you'd think ;)

his last chance, was this year, what a spud, he makes B Grgic look like Rflower, hes a digrace he should be down at wangaratta rovers.

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Newton = dud.... waste of space!

Our FD is honourable......... and thats the ONLY reason he has a guernsey .............. be it a Casey one.

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The fact was that at the end of 2008, our key forward options for the future were Miller and Newton, with the likely addition of Jack Watts. We also knew Bate could play decent footy on a flank. We had no idea Liam Jurrah was going to announce himself as a highly promising 2nd/3rd tall forward. We had to stick with Newton, and for whatever reason decided a 2 year deal would be a good idea.

The club was wrong in giving Newton a 2 year deal, but now it seems to only have cost us a rookie pick in a weak draft. We now have a player who has the following attributes.

Defensive pressure - has improved to average for a key forward

Strength - poor but should be improving

Field kicking - average

Goal kicking - poor

Marking - sometimes reasonable, often poor

Speed and Athleticism - okay

Hunger, desperation, appropriately used physicality - non-existent

Reading of the play - not too bad

X-factor - might be hiding in their somewhere.

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pick 6 in a rookie draft is paying way to much for him. i want his manager to organise my chrissy bonus for me. how he got what he got is unreal.


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The fact was that at the end of 2008, our key forward options for the future were Miller and Newton, with the likely addition of Jack Watts. We also knew Bate could play decent footy on a flank. We had no idea Liam Jurrah was going to announce himself as a highly promising 2nd/3rd tall forward. We had to stick with Newton, and for whatever reason decided a 2 year deal would be a good idea.

The club was wrong in giving Newton a 2 year deal, but now it seems to only have cost us a rookie pick in a weak draft. We now have a player who has the following attributes.

Defensive pressure - has improved to average for a key forward

Strength - poor but should be improving

Field kicking - average

Goal kicking - poor

Marking - sometimes reasonable, often poor

Speed and Athleticism - okay

Hunger, desperation, appropriately used physicality - non-existent

Reading of the play - not too bad

X-factor - might be hiding in their somewhere.

Given your explanation of MFC's shortfalls up forward at the end of 2008, how wrong (bsdies hindsight) could the offer of 2 yr contract at low fee rates to a fringe player who offered a speculative chance of being a capable forward have been?

As you rightly pointed out the overall cost has been a sixth pick in the rookie draft. Before the rule change it possible would have cost us the resigning if we couldnt rookie somehow Cheney, TMac or Bartram. There has been some misplaced gnashing of teeth over the resigning of Newton as a monumental error. Its wasnt anywhere near that and based on the situation of the Club's forwards at the time hardly an earth shattering blunder.

As for the attributes, I think Newton is as speculative as any rookie pick. However, the difference is that MFC have determined Newton is unlikely to push for AFL selection in 2010 and beyond. Most other rookies are selected on the basis that they offer the prospect of sometime in the future being an AFL player. i dont thnk that is the case with our boy Newts.

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pick 6 in a rookie draft is paying way to much for him. i want his manager to organise my chrissy bonus for me. how he got what he got is unreal.

He was to be re-rookied at his old salary. How much do you think he was contracted for in 2008 as a fringe player in the side?

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He was to be re-rookied at his old salary. How much do you think he was contracted for in 2008 as a fringe player in the side?

Couldn't possibly be anymore than $100,000 - $120,000

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Couldn't possibly be anymore than $100,000 - $120,000

Agree Golly. I dont know how much it was. But it should not have been significant given he was a fringe player at the time

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