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Watts, Trade or Keep

beelzebub
in Melbourne Demons

Keep or Trade Jack Watts 264 members have voted

  1. 1. Would you prefer to retain Watts or find a suitable trade come the end of the season

    • Keep
      99
    • Trade, for a suitable and worthy return ( not give away )
      120
    • Unsure, am on the fence
      21

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Still too much potential there that hasn't been realised due to a very dysfunctional club on so many levels. All this is finally being addressed and people want to trade him.

FMD, the whole team is playing like sht. Watts is down on confidence.

Another 6 kilos muscle on him and he'll be a monster.

I'm refusing to say he's not going to come good at the MFC.

you're excusing him on the basis of the club's shortcomings and his lack of confidence

that should not explain not having a crack

it's still the fundamental question

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    you're excusing him on the basis of the club's shortcomings and his lack of confidence

    that should not explain not having a crack

    it's still the fundamental question

    How so? It's easy to debate you on both points. Club has under-developed him, Neeld rode him into the ground via the media, decimated his confidence. Still plays in patches and teases to the point of frustrating the absolute hell out of us. I mentioned earlier in this thread (or one of the other Watts threads) that his game against the Dogs was great. He basically saved the game, everyone was praising Craig for finally playing him forward and thereby regaining some confidence.

    He will be an absolute steal if traded.

    BTW, I love what you've done to Jack Viney.

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    How so? It's easy to debate you on both points. Club has under-developed him, Neeld rode him into the ground via the media, decimated his confidence. Still plays in patches and teases to the point of frustrating the absolute hell out of us. I mentioned earlier in this thread (or one of the other Watts threads) that his game against the Dogs was great. He basically saved the game, everyone was praising Craig for finally playing him forward and thereby regaining some confidence.

    He will be an absolute steal if traded.

    BTW, I love what you've done to Jack Viney.

    you haven't substantiated the alleged link between playing lazy/soft football and whatever the MFC has apparently done to him. FCS Neeld did not say anything unfair about him, he was trying to bring of hardness into this soft club by torching him a bit and even if he did speak out of turn, explain to me how that accounts for being lazy and soft? It is the same with these fools who talk about his debut on QB without even attempting to actually make some sort of tangible link between that day and the current day five years later. Are you people seriously suggesting that being tackled and getting a free kick in his first moments on field was such a tramatic experience he was forver scarred and petrified of going near the ball again? I mean it makes absolutely no sense. All he has to do is come out and play with some balls and some spirit, get hurt, hit a few bodies and we would all worship him for it. FCS if I was in his boat I would be 'getting my Viney on' and headbutting every available object in a desperate bid to show all my myriad of detractors that I am not in fact a complete coward.WTF is his problem, five years in? :mad:

    PS thanks

    Edited by Curry & Beer

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    you haven't substantiated the alleged link between playing lazy/soft football and whatever the MFC has apparently done to him. FCS Neeld did not say anything unfair about him, he was trying to bring of hardness into this soft club by torching him a bit and even if he did speak out of turn, explain to me how that accounts for being lazy and soft? It is the same with these fools who talk about his debut on QB without even attempting to actually make some sort of tangible link between that day and the current day five years later. Are you people seriously suggesting that being tackled and getting a free kick in his first moments on field was such a tramatic experience he was forver scarred and petrified of going near the ball again? I mean it makes absolutely no sense. All he has to do is come out and play with some balls and some spirit, get hurt, hit a few bodies and we would all worship him for it. FCS if I was in his boat I would be 'getting my Viney on' and headbutting every available object in a desperate bid to show all my myriad of detractors that I am not in fact a complete coward.WTF is his problem, five years in? :mad:

    PS thanks

    It's why I maintain a line in the sand game would be damn good for some of these blokes. We've got Jones, Sylvia, Viney, Tapscott and McKenzie who can throw their weight around. Serial pest in Dunn. Some big blokes in Dawes, Spencer and Frawley.

    I'd love to throw Toumpas, Watts even Blease and maybe a few others in to a modern day blood bath and for them to come out the other side and know they can survive and that their team mates have their back.

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    It's why I maintain a line in the sand game would be damn good for some of these blokes. We've got Jones, Sylvia, Viney, Tapscott and McKenzie who can throw their weight around. Serial pest in Dunn. Some big blokes in Dawes, Spencer and Frawley.

    I'd love to throw Toumpas, Watts even Blease and maybe a few others in to a modern day blood bath and for them to come out the other side and know they can survive and that their team mates have their back.

    This is football, not boxing.

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    This is football, not boxing.

    Well football isn't going so well for Watts. And his lack of intensity and effort must be contributed to by a fear of getting hurt. The 2 go together commonly. If we aren't going to drop Watts we may as well change the dynamic that he plays in.

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    It's why I maintain a line in the sand game would be damn good for some of these blokes. We've got Jones, Sylvia, Viney, Tapscott and McKenzie who can throw their weight around. Serial pest in Dunn. Some big blokes in Dawes, Spencer and Frawley.

    I'd love to throw Toumpas, Watts even Blease and maybe a few others in to a modern day blood bath and for them to come out the other side and know they can survive and that their team mates have their back.

    yes, maybe... but that, in an ideal world, would have been a month ago...

    Not now,,, to wreck the start of next season.

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