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Can't question hardness of Grimes however Bennell was pss poor but he has some upside and pace that will be key for us.....

I think our hardness will be ok with Frawley, Trenners, Rivers, Mckenzie, Maca, Sylvia, Moloney, Jones etc

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    Not sure about the incident with GRimes, didn't see it. But the Bennell one has been spoken about. He is just keeping his spot as it is. Batram showed him how to on the back flank yesterday. He doesn't play tight enough to be in the back line.

    The main issue though is every week he gets off the train and it's horrible to watch. I've seen it at Casey and for Melbourne, opposition sides will have seen it and know if they go hard at him he will be looking around all game.

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    Sure it looked as though the kid withdrew from a crucial marking contest in the third quarter when a goal was begging, and dropped another crucial mark in the last quarter, but he also took a very courageous mark running into the goal post in that same third quarter.

    Jamie Bennell is one of our potential teenage stars, and they do take time to learn and develop. He needs to be given space and time. Before today I wondered why we played him, but after today I understand better.

    He be wont anything if he's spooked.

    The Age reported that he shirked it.

    Every side will be out to put him to the test. No excuses when its your turn to go ....you go.

    For the poster who said that Voss shirked it... Voss's defintion of shirking it would be another players fearless attack on the ball.

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    I think Bennell showed he has the courage required when he took that mark running backwards and only narrowly avoided the goalpost.

    Yes, that dropped mark just before 3 quarter time was a bad effort, but I think he showed enough up forward to get another go.

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