Praising Bruce

[Dalrot 85]

Anyone watching the GC presser?

Bock and Krakouer.

Yawn.

[Guest Yeats_08]

Bock and Krakouer.

Yawn.

zzzzzzzzz.

[Redleg 38,192]

'landers,

I know its only big footy, but some guy is reportig the Cam Bruce has signed with the GC and there will be a presser today to announce the deal. It was posted last night and he predicts, as stated already, that the GC will hold a press conference today. I GC supporter has replied confirming their will be a presser today and a new signing will be announced. He thought it would be other players, but admits he has not be made aware of players names.

If this is true then I couldn't imagine it being announced until after our B & F on thursday. It would be just too uncomfortable.

[Red Sox 2]

If this is true then I couldn't imagine it being announced until after our B & F on thursday. It would be just too uncomfortable.

Brock McLean was gone before the B&F last year.

[H_T 2,941]

Interesting to hear Hird's negative comments about Bruce during Sunday's game , in the light of Chook's comments .

I thought the comments had a particularly ,and untypically ( for Hird ) personal agenda attached to their criticism.

Maybe it's because Hird has never really liked Melbourne...

Maybe Hird was giving constructive criticism and doing his job as a special commentator. I'm quite certain other commentators such as Watson, Walls or Blight would have done the same.

[Demonland 66,672]

hahahahaha

Nah, the posts are fine but our rules are the rules.

You have no idea how much stress some of the unconfirmed reports place players and their families under at times, and therefore we have to use our discretion in these circumstances. In any event, it's a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't but we want to keep the site going so we'll often err on the side of caution.

[Redleg 38,192]

Brock McLean was gone before the B&F last year.

Yes but he was traded.

[jabberwocky 2,301]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/101646/default.aspx

Interesting to see that the AFL website has listed Cam as of interest to Gold Coast.

I must say I would be very surprised if it eventuated.

[BLWNBA 378]

For those that are interested the MFC is very confident of retaining Bruce. From what I've been led to believe Bruce believes he will gain much more personally by playing his remaining years at the MFC in terms of possible finals appearences etc, then he would get at the Suns. Take it with a grain of salt but it's almost guranteed that Bruce will be at the Dees next season.

[Keyser Söze 0]

Yes but he was traded.

And the B&F was unusually late last year.

[Keyser Söze 0]

Wouldn't mind him going to the GC, or any other club for that matter.

I believe he has nothing left to give on field. His poor games are becoming

even more poor and his good games are becoming more of a rarity.

I love how people use pathetic stats to justify his supposed 'good games'

and I equally love how people in the media do the same and put him in the best

so many weeks.

* Can't take a tackle

* Can rarely execute a handball that spins properly and goes directly to

a team mate. Same can be said for his kicking. (In pressure situations)

* Doesn't do much off the ball.

* There is no urgency or intensity to his game.

What are Cameron Bruce's strengths in a game of football?

Would love an answer to that question.

I do agree with you.

...and I have spent the past season trying to figure this out.

He does gain a lot of metres with the football and is often a couple of links in the chain.

He covers a LOT of ground and gets to a lot of contests.

He carries the ball and can break the lines.

Offers leadership, whether it is obvious to supporters or not.

Can tag a bloke like Hodge or Johnson or Hird.

Kicks, while not as good as they should be, still often result in at least a 50/50 (he makes it appear that it wasn't necessarily his fault that it didn't come off).

I imagine he follows the instructions of the coach to the letter and does a lot of thankless things that we don't notice.

Handballs to teammates' feet have become less prominent.

[daisycutter 28,709]

Latest rumour (from son of bootstudder) is Bruce to switch codes and become a poster boy for Rugby League

[Bobby McKenzie 2,209]

For those that are interested the MFC is very confident of retaining Bruce. From what I've been led to believe Bruce believes he will gain much more personally by playing his remaining years at the MFC in terms of possible finals appearences etc, then he would get at the Suns. Take it with a grain of salt but it's almost guranteed that Bruce will be at the Dees next season.

After the final game against North, Bruce said, " ....I've just got to hang in there and help try and improve these guys( OUR young players). I've got to try and get them up to a level and just hang in there." Hardly words of a man who was going to defect to another club. Well, that's how I read it anyway, take it or leave it.

[BLWNBA 378]

After the final game against North, Bruce said, " ....I've just got to hang in there and help try and improve these guys( OUR young players). I've got to try and get them up to a level and just hang in there." Hardly words of a man who was going to defect to another club. Well, that's how I read it anyway, take it or leave it.

That's true and I don't see him going see him going any where either. However there has been a lot of conjecture on this board about whether he shall be heading to the suns, or staying in Melb.