What's wrong with Ricky Petterd?

[Dee_Flower 53]

Seriously, I'd like to know. Obviously Neeld doesn't like him, but Bailey also dropped him if I recall correctly. Does he not have the skill, the right attitude, the fitness - what is it? His career looks over before it even started properly.

[Jordie_tackles 354]

Seriously, I'd like to know. Obviously Neeld doesn't like him, but Bailey also dropped him if I recall correctly. Does he not have the skill, the right attitude, the fitness - what is it? His career looks over before it even started properly.

I have been asking myself the same question, was HUGE in 2009 think back to the Queens birthday drawn game ect, he lloks gone now though

he also had that 1 game with 13 tackles now he can barley get 3 a game wtf?

[BIG JIM 508]

He trains with the MFC.

We really have a bad record of turning players with skills into good honest AFL players.

I hate to sound like a cry baby but we really are the biggest joke in the AFL at this stage.

Mark Neeld has a big job to train this list and get it right.

We have had so many 1st rnd picks surely we did not get them all wrong?

God we need some star players soon.

[DEELIRIOUS 156]

@ Jordie Tackles: HAHAHA, Queens Bday 2009 we got smashed by like 10 goals. 2010 we drew and Ricky Petterd was 7 weeks into a 4 month shoulder reconstruction. HAHAHA! But yes, he is gone which is a shame, another wasted talent........

Edited July 26, 2012 by DEELIRIOUS

[Glenn Molloy 494]

His kicking was never great but it seems to have got worse....long helicopter bombs to the forward line don't work. Apart from that, he's just not getting the pill enough. Tough in our forward line I know, but he just doesn't have much of an impact when he comes in to the side.

[Diablo Deemon 220]

Add to the scrap heap that is

Morton

Bate

Bennell

or simply everyone including me seriously over rated him. His application and hunger for the contest has been seriously lacking.

thats been an endemic problem this year

[Akum 2,660]

Reckon he's one of quite a few that Neeld's already put a line through.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

He looks angry all the time, in the VFL and AFL.

[BIG JIM 508]

Reckon he's one of quite a few that Neeld's already put a line through.

I think your right mate.

Also Cook and Gysberts cant get a run with the worst Melbourne team i have seen.WTF

[Jordie_tackles 354]

@ Jordie Tackles: HAHAHA, Queens Bday 2009 we got smashed by like 10 goals. 2010 we drew and Ricky Petterd was 7 weeks into a 4 month shoulder reconstruction. HAHAHA! But yes, he is gone which is a shame, another wasted talent........

When we drew obviously 2010 he dropped the mark in the dying seconds?

[Jordie_tackles 354]

When we drew obviously 2010 he dropped the mark in the dying seconds?

Or was QB the second game that year? maybe so i meant the drawn game?

[Jordie_tackles 354]

I think your right mate.

Also Cook and Gysberts cant get a run with the worst Melbourne team i have seen.WTF

Both have been injured, Cook during preseason and being a second year KPF, and Gysberts getting his Jaw broken and being injured prior i beileve

[Brayshaw Self 847]

His kicking has gotten worse and he is a one way player. The 13 tackle game was the exception, not the rule, for Petterd's defensive efforts. His main strength is marking inside 50 and he seems to be caught up the ground a lot these days which makes him pretty much useless.

[beelzebub 23,383]

put him on the trade table

[Forest Demon 4,681]

Jordie Tackles - You are referring to Round 2 2010, where we lost by a point to Collingwood and he kicked 4 I think it was and shut Heath Shaw out of the game in the process.

His VFL form wasn't crash hot, so I reckon the last couple of weeks have been Neeld having one last look at him and he would be suitably unimpressed. Expect him to be gone at the end of the season, and I also think he will get picked up by Gold Coast or someone else.

Edited July 26, 2012 by Forest Demon

[BIG JIM 508]

put him on the trade table

He will put himself up for trade.

Cant get a game at a club with no forwards playing, sitting on the bottom of the ladder.

Another wasted talent at the club i love.

Shi4 i need a scotch and coke.

[jumbo returns 6,741]

put him on the trade table

3rd or 4th rounder?

[Diablo Deemon 220]

put him on the trade table

Who would want him he's worth a PSD pick at the max.

[Forest Demon 4,681]

As for the question of what has gone wrong with him. He has always struck me as someone who just does it on his terms. His game is strongly based around defensive pressure in the forward line, but it must be non-negotiable each week. But Ricky seems to have a blinder one week and lay a truck load of tackles and then go missing for the next few.

[Nasher 33,617]

He looks angry all the time, in the VFL and AFL.

That must be it.

[Range Rover 1,935]

Take away the odd speccy and Petterd is just an average player with a poor kicking action.

If you're going to make it as a mid-sized forward you've got to be very good. He's not.

[beelzebub 23,383]

3rd or 4th rounder?

whatever we can get really...Maybe as part of a package or three way etc. Hey Im just suggesting htats probablyhis only worth going forward is to give us another roll of a die

[Biffen 12,947]

He looks angry all the time, in the VFL and AFL.

I like that in a player.

I like Ricky.

But I think he will be gone because he is running at 50% of what he could be .

[PeterJames 46]

Take away the odd speccy and Petterd is just an average player with a poor kicking action.

If you're going to make it as a mid-sized forward you've got to be very good. He's not.

Howe is just ahead of him at the moment. Howe takes a hangar which probably keeps him in.

[old dee 23,872]

I like that in a player.

I like Ricky.

But I think he will be gone because he is running at 50% of what he could be .

The high jump looms Biffen.

First off the list for mine