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One touch to almost halftime indicates yes.

... 1 handball, how sad.

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    Don't worry, he's a gun

    not worrying and he is far from a gun, he is as dangerous as a paper cut.

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    Play him in the forward pocket

    he can not move at all, my 10 week old boy move more gracefully & quicker than Brock.

    Brock = Fail against Dons.

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    lay off him....why should we...he gave us the 1 finger salute so we can give it back to him.....

    as for playing great footy at another club.....u mean like tonight???

    we jumped at Pick 11 for a reason.....

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    When he was running around for us the last few years, it was so noticable how slow he was compared to other players.

    He's an old style in and under footballer, but if you can't run in the game these days, you won't last.

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    He was slow when he was fit.

    Apparently did his back tonight.

    Is still a few short of 100 games and not the type likely to play 200 IMO

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    I gotta admit I couldn't really be bothered having hard feelings.

    But it was really annoying the way the commentators noted 'Mclean has been having a great game' every time he touched the ball for the first two weeks. That's not Brock's fault, just a product of cheap commentating where they run with a them no matter what.

    Thing is, those first two weeks, nobody was on him.

    This week against the Bombers he was matched up on a few opponents, and did nothing against the lot of them.

    My honest hope is that from here on he plugs along accumulating games and making a reasonable, unexceptional contribution for a while. Just long enough for the commentators to have nothing to talk about.

    Once the dust has settled, and Gysberts is showing enough for everyone to accept it was a win-win, Mclean is welcome to help Carlton along on the path to another elimination final loss, if they can even manage that this year.

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    I also don't really understand some of the vitriol directed at McLean after he left; I thought all parties handled the situation pretty well.

    When the McLean trade was just a rumour, I was against it. My opinion was that even though he's never going to be the superstar we'd initially hoped him to be, he would still be a solid 200 gamer, and make a great supporting act to the likes of Scully, Trengove and Grimes. It is still early days; we've seen nothing of Gysberts yet and McLean has only played 3 games. But given that his pace doesn't seem to have improved, nor his propensity to break down, I'm starting to second-guess myself. This could still turn out to be a big win for Carlton and loss for the MFC, but I'm starting to doubt it.

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