Watching him on the Robbo show I was actually quite impressed in how well he speaks for a young man. No hint of nerves but I thought the way he spoke he looked to have a bit of leadership with him.

Anyways for people that have been watching Casey how is this young mans progress going? Does he look to have a future with us?

Cheers

Haven't been watching but from the reports he's been bouncing between the ones and twos.

In the twos he gets lots of ball.

In the seniors he's finding some ball (probably averaging 15 or so touches) but needs to work on contested ball and defensive work.

What's impressed me is even when he's not had a great game he's bobbed up with a goal. So that's a nice sign

I noticed he was dropped to the "development side" a few weeks ago, after that he's been playing at Casey.

Obviously a long term project.

I love this kid. Has a lot of work to do on his positioning, skills, and tank, but he is not as skinny as people would have you believe and does not take a backward step. He really is a Michael Long type, the long arms and the way he attacks a contest. He won't play AFL this year IMO, but would guess he'll play 5-6 games next year and then start to really find his feet.

Dom Barry has footy smarts. But too light, needs more pace and intensity. Still a way to go before his selection is seen as a positive.

Dom Barry has footy smarts. But too light, needs more pace and intensity. Still a way to go before his selection is seen as a positive.

IMO his pace is fine-he just needs to get up to speed mentally. And that will come. He has gone when it's been his turn as well. Will be very good if the coaches don't destroy him

I doubt if we'll see him play a game until next year some time, but he seems to have pace and a pretty good short game. I haven't seen him kicking many long balls, so hard to tell what he's like at 50m or so. I've loved some of his clever passing which shows that he has a pretty good eye for spotting a teammate in traffic. My one concern there is that AFL is much faster and his little chips could be intercepted if he isn't careful.

IMO his pace is fine-he just needs to get up to speed mentally. And that will come. He has gone when it's been his turn as well. Will be very good if the coaches don't destroy him

Young demons just have to make their own way at the moment. There is no onfield leadership at this club

You watch the Swans and you realise how it could be if we had a footy club unfortunately we dont and the players dont want to paly at all

Makes we sick to watch our players not playing for each other

Young demons just have to make their own way at the moment. There is no onfield leadership at this club

You watch the Swans and you realise how it could be if we had a footy club unfortunately we dont and the players dont want to paly at all

Makes we sick to watch our players not playing for each other

Mods, can we delete this post as it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic. There are enough threads attacking the club without trying to hijack one about a specific player.

great character! hope he makes it!

Anyone know why we went for Barry over Jed Anderson?

Anyone know why we went for Barry over Jed Anderson?

I don't think we had the choice.

but they were both pre-draft gws-allocated nt kids right?

Can we all just do one thing? If he plays and doesn't set the world on fire straight away, can we all not go calling for him to be de-listed? We have established he is a development player that is showing some nice signs but isn't quite there just yet.

but they were both pre-draft gws-allocated nt kids right?

Yeah but I think you will find GWS had some say in who was traded for what. They were probably holding onto Jed Anderson for something better.

Ah, that makes sense cunner

He holds the ball on a strange angle.

I think Anderson deal to hawks was done before Barry. Anderson was highly regarded by many, and the obvious get from NT.

Young demons just have to make their own way at the moment. There is no onfield leadership at this club

You watch the Swans and you realise how it could be if we had a footy club unfortunately we dont and the players dont want to paly at all

Makes we sick to watch our players not playing for each other

Some may not like to admit it, but this has and will stifle player development unless and until we unearth some real on field leaders.

Can we all just do one thing? If he plays and doesn't set the world on fire straight away, can we all not go calling for him to be de-listed? We have established he is a development player that is showing some nice signs but isn't quite there just yet.

I am sure some already have their fingers poised on the keyboard, waiting for his first game, or indeed the end of his first season without a game........"dud"..."spud".....<insert any other offensive term> etc etc

Some may not like to admit it, but this has and will stifle player development unless and until we unearth some real on field leaders.

I am sure some already have their fingers poised on the keyboard, waiting for his first game, or indeed the end of his first season without a game........"dud"..."spud".....<insert any other offensive term> etc etc

That is what I am worried about.

He holds the ball on a strange angle.

So did Phil Krakouer and boy could he play!

Can we all just do one thing? If he plays and doesn't set the world on fire straight away, can we all not go calling for him to be de-listed? We have established he is a development player that is showing some nice signs but isn't quite there just yet.

I'm with you, but I'm not holding high hopes.

Some may not like to admit it, but this has and will stifle player development unless and until we unearth some real on field leaders.

Really? Who doesn't like to admit it?

I'm fairly confident most, if not all, MFC supporters are aware of this fact, and accept it.

Anyone know why we went for Barry over Jed Anderson?

Think we need to stop recruiting names starting with J

and Barry is just a great name don't you think

Another dud spud wasted pick.

Another dud spud wasted pick.

Not that I would expect a boy like you to understand the finer points of... well, anything, but technically speaking we didn't spend a pick on him individually, he was part of the Dawes Hogan package.