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Meanwhile Toumpas is bringing the house down with consistent 20th/21st best performances, albeit a level up and in a very ordinary team.

Sounds like more needless crap to me. It's not as if the FD has a decent handle on our performances or indeed knows what's going on at all.

In his VFL debut Kent was reported to have played very well despite playing 'ill'.

Was this the match where he had 4 bounces and followed up with a goal from outside fifty?

Let him work on his defensive shortcomings in the Big Stuff. FCS he'll be playing in a side that's had an average of 165 points kicked against them; what sort of serious harm is a bit more very poor defensive work gonna do. He might even make up for it a bit going the other way.

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Toumpas should have to earn his place through good form in the VFL it's obvious he needs time and work but kent seems ready to make an impact now so i can't understand why he doesn't get a chance

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Meanwhile Toumpas is bringing the house down with consistent 20th/21st best performances, albeit a level up and in a very ordinary team.

Sounds like more needless crap to me. It's not as if the FD has a decent handle on our performances or indeed knows what's going on at all.

In his VFL debut Kent was reported to have played very well despite playing 'ill'.

Was this the match where he had 4 bounces and followed up with a goal from outside fifty?

Yes, that's the way, promoted someone because they took 4 bounces and kicked a goal. 1 piece of brilliance and average for the remainder, just what the senior team needs.

I rely on the player review on the MFC website and I look at the VFL website for stats and best players/goal scorers, both of which seem to give a pretty accurate assessment of a player. That said, Kent isn't quite pushing for senior selection at this stagte.

Compare it to Tappy when he got dropped.

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Yes, that's the way, promoted someone because they took 4 bounces and kicked a goal. 1 piece of brilliance and average for the remainder, just what the senior team needs.

I rely on the player review on the MFC website and I look at the VFL website for stats and best players/goal scorers, both of which seem to give a pretty accurate assessment of a player. That said, Kent isn't quite pushing for senior selection at this stagte.

Compare it to Tappy when he got dropped.

He was also very good throughout the NAB Series, significantly better than Toumpas.

This in a standard of competition, not even arguably, better than VFL levels.

I cannot believe anything the MFC publishes anymore.

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His time will come, relax everyone. Id suggest they are exposing Jetta, Evans etc to see what they show given they have been at the club a few years. It makes sense than throwing in a kid in his first year.

Lets see what they and Tynan, Strauss, Nicholson, Tapscott, Davis, Taggert etc can produce before we start exposing the newbies in Kent.

If he keeps playing well and the names i suggested cant get in the team, well he will be selected before long.

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he will probably develop better playing at casey than in Melbourne's senior side

:lol:

You might be on to something here. How about we put our decent AFL ready and AFL "potential" footballers in at Casey permanently and every 2nd rate player we can get our hands on into the seniors until the worm turns. Then we bring the other guys back. At least we'd be protecting them from further mental carnage!

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We probably will have to wait until the match committee lose patience with Byrnes. There is always a downside when ne players get promoted into the 'leadership team' before playing a game for us in the 'home and away': there are harder to dislodge and unfortunately Kent becpomes collateral damge.


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He has to earn his place.......He is 18 years old.......posters just remember a NAB game where he went alright...The footy dept are just bringing him on slowly It's called development of which a lot on here complain that we don't do.....

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He has to earn his place.......He is 18 years old.......posters just remember a NAB game where he went alright...The footy dept are just bringing him on slowly It's called development of which a lot on here complain that we don't do.....

With all due respect, it seems increasingly clear that the FD couldn't find its arse with both hands and a torch.

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Dean Kent and to a lesser extent Evans were why I was excited preseason - both and Kent in particular showed heaps - ball magnet, good disposal and run. All the things we miss - yet we persist with players that clearly are very out of form... Every week I read the team list and shudder - more semi-useless talls in a side with no functioning midfield, 1 inside mid and no spread. its a joke.

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Kent in particular showed heaps - ball magnet, good disposal and run.

Not been reading the Casey reports? He's doing OK, nothing more, and today was even less than OK.

Hopefully, will turn out to be a keeper, but still a fair way off it it seems.

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