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  On 30/05/2012 at 03:59, LJW said:

Pass. Wish he'd never left, but no value in having him back now. Got to move on.

His best game in 3 years but it was only against us!
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    Bottom line, if he wanted to come back and the FD thought he'd be valuable I'd be happy for us to try to get him. When does he come out of contract? Surely he'd be frustrated at being constantly played in the VFL and he'd want top level exposure.

    If we can get him cheap/PSD, I say why not. If we have to chase him/lure him/sweeten the pot for Carlton, no. He would have to come back on our terms.

    Who here thinks on current form he wouldn't push the likes of Sylvia and Moloney out of the team?

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      On 30/05/2012 at 22:43, Pates said:

    Bottom line, if he wanted to come back and the FD thought he'd be valuable I'd be happy for us to try to get him. When does he come out of contract? Surely he'd be frustrated at being constantly played in the VFL and he'd want top level exposure.

    If we can get him cheap/PSD, I say why not. If we have to chase him/lure him/sweeten the pot for Carlton, no. He would have to come back on our terms.

    Who here thinks on current form he wouldn't push the likes of Sylvia and Moloney out of the team?

    While we're at it, let's bring back Ben Holland, Nathan Carroll, and perhaps we can dig up the corpse of Norm Smith?

    The only way is forward.

    Forget Brock McLean and that entire way of thinking.

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    1) Brock Mclean....lol

    2) VFL only.

    3) Overrated

    4) Absolutely no speed for the modern game.

    5) Lost the plot at Melbourne & cant get a game at Carlton unless someone is injured. Not favoured by two AFL teams says it all.

    6) I used to like Chooka... but he is a dud much like Morton has become. Talented to useless in the space of two years.

    7) Stick him with the John Howat/Brent Grgic pile. Finished due to being useless.

    8) Invest in the future only for me not the past.

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      On 31/05/2012 at 01:39, Ted Fidge said:

    While we're at it, perhaps we can dig up the corpse of Norm Smith?

    I'll get the shovel!!

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    He's hardly played any footy in his three seasons at Carlton, yes I liked him for a while with us but he's past his time, he'splayed his best footy of his career with us. Even though he had 33 possessions he still looked slower than ever

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    IF and when a guy some may remember, Jordan Gysberts, gets back on the field and hits anything like the firm of his first few games, people will stop this sort of talk.

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      On 01/06/2012 at 07:52, monoccular said:

    IF and when a guy some may remember, Jordan Gysberts, gets back on the field and hits anything like the firm of his first few games, people will stop this sort of talk.

    stuff his first few games, he got the ball heaps but didnt use it, i think it was in the middle of last year where for 3 or 4 games in a row he had probably 20-25 possessions but he used the ball so well, had much more time to targets and was alot more valuable, injury has set him back again so probably take a few games to get the speed back again, probably struggle with structures at first too considering he hasn't had any before.

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