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Cale Morton now joins Jordan Gysberts as ex Dees delisted after only 12 months at there 2nd clubs. What a waste of pick 4 in 2007 :-( This kid never recovered from the humiliation of running away from Brendan Lade. Never had the build or work ethic to succeed in AFL.

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outside player, average speed, poor skills

Not an AFL player

Another inspired choice gone missing! Lets look to the future!

 

Cale Morton now joins Jordan Gysberts as ex Dees delisted after only 12 months at there 2nd clubs. What a waste of pick 4 in 2007 :-( This kid never recovered from the humiliation of running away from Brendan Lade. Never had the build or work ethic to succeed in AFL.

Look, I'm as big a Morton critic as anybody, probably more, but this is a terrible post.

-He was expected to go at pick 4, it wasn't a shock selection.

-He didn't "run away" from him despite what you may have seen on YouTube, he was actually following the play when he ran off.

-How would you know what his work ethic was like? Was always one of our best runners and I never saw him slack off at training once.

I hated watching him play for MFC, but at least don't make stuff up about a guy whose career has just finished.


His skills went from being elite at U/18 level to sub-par in the pressure cauldron of the AFL. He was soft and skinny and only had average pace.

Who would have thought after his first couple of years that he'd be on the football scrapheap by age 23. A sad story. All the best Cale.

I'll be honest, I feel for the guy. But I also feel for the MFC at large, and I sincerely hope we've learnt from some of those unbelievably bad decisions that have no doubt contributed to where we are now.

All the best with your future Cale.

Just the wrong choice....fooled by his dominance at U18 level, but never had the body or hardness for AFL.

Given his abject failure at the Eagles too, I guess he was just one of those skinny guys who will never bulk up enough for top level contact sport...or at least not until middle age.

As pointed out though, many "experts" had him down as a great pick at 4.

 
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Look, I'm as big a Morton critic as anybody, probably more, but this is a terrible post.

-He was expected to go at pick 4, it wasn't a shock selection.

-He didn't "run away" from him despite what you may have seen on YouTube, he was actually following the play when he ran off.

-How would you know what his work ethic was like? Was always one of our best runners and I never saw him slack off at training once.

I hated watching him play for MFC, but at least don't make stuff up about a guy whose career has just finished.

Diagree with all your points Stuie. 1. We chose this kid before Dangerfield and Rioli based on his Larke Medal effort. 2. He ran away from Lade, pure and simple, you can put any spin you want on it. 3. I watched the guy live for 5 years, he had the odd game where he ran & created space but fair dinkum , he never got involved enough or layed a tackle of any substance ever. None of that is made up champ, it is simply my opinion on what I observed. Anyway agree with most lets Move On. Brad Dalzeil anyone?

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Diagree with all your points Stuie. 1. We chose this kid before Dangerfield and Rioli based on his Larke Medal effort. 2. He ran away from Lade, pure and simple, you can put any spin you want on it. 3. I watched the guy live for 5 years, he had the odd game where he ran & created space but fair dinkum , he never got involved enough or layed a tackle of any substance ever. None of that is made up champ, it is simply my opinion on what I observed. Anyway agree with most lets Move On. Brad Dalzeil anyone?

Oh, you're one of those amazing hindsight draft experts.... great... That's as good an attribute as your obvious habit of watching YouTube footy highlights rather than being at the actual game.

Terrible weak player, but at least get your facts right.

Look, I'm as big a Morton critic as anybody, probably more, but this is a terrible post.

-He was expected to go at pick 4, it wasn't a shock selection.

-He didn't "run away" from him despite what you may have seen on YouTube, he was actually following the play when he ran off.

-How would you know what his work ethic was like? Was always one of our best runners and I never saw him slack off at training once.

I hated watching him play for MFC, but at least don't make stuff up about a guy whose career has just finished.

Correct. It is dead set unfair that this kid is branded as a squib over a bit of selective editing. He ran to position for the continuation of play. I clearly remember the commentator jokes at the time but they were followed by the appropriate qualifiers. This continued "run away" story is pure nonsense.

Edit. Nasher is a faster typist than me.

He didn't run away from Lade. Watch the subsequent 20 seconds that have been removed and you'll realise that it was selective editing to deliberately paint the wrong picture.

pretty sure he also went on to kick or set up a goal in that passage of play!

Diagree with all your points Stuie. 1. We chose this kid before Dangerfield and Rioli based on his Larke Medal effort. 2. He ran away from Lade, pure and simple, you can put any spin you want on it. 3. I watched the guy live for 5 years, he had the odd game where he ran & created space but fair dinkum , he never got involved enough or layed a tackle of any substance ever. None of that is made up champ, it is simply my opinion on what I observed. Anyway agree with most lets Move On. Brad Dalzeil anyone?

You can bag out his on-field performances as much as you want, but you're flat out wrong about point 2. He did not run away from Lade, you clearly haven't seen the whole footage and you are like the scores of other bitter MFC people who just like paying out on Cale.

As for his being drafted at 4, that was not a shock selection by any means, so you need to learn to get over it. Unlike the Cook or (arguably) Gysberts picks, there was clear form for picking Morton at 4. West Coast was tossing up between him and Masten at 3. Picking Morton at 4 was absolutely fair and was not a bad decision by our recruiting panel. We can chalk this one down to Morton simply not being able to get weight on his body; whether that's his fault or ours, we may never know.


Oh, you're one of those amazing hindsight draft experts.... great... That's as good an attribute as your obvious habit of watching YouTube footy highlights rather than being at the actual game.

Terrible weak player, but at least get your facts right.

It's insanely frustrating, isn't it?

I mean, it's not like there isn't enough material with which to have a go at him. But people just keep making stuff up to suit their pettiness.

I think he'll definitely find his way onto another list, probably as a rookie.

Correct. It is dead set unfair that this kid is branded as a squib over a bit of selective editing. He ran to position for the continuation of play. I clearly remember the commentator jokes at the time but they were followed by the appropriate qualifiers. This continued "run away" story is pure nonsense.

Edit. Nasher is a faster typist than me.

Must you fuel nightmares with your horrible profile pics?

Morton was always regarded as a likely top 2-5 selection, no doubt.

That said, we got it wrong and he was a crap pick. There's no other way around it. Just because the football world's consensus is a player will fall in a certain range doesn't mean that all recruiters follow suit, or follow the footy world's group think. A great recruiter may have said, nup, pass.

Just another crap pick. Hopefully we start getting some right.

I think he'll definitely find his way onto another list, probably as a rookie.

What odds do you want?


Correct. It is dead set unfair that this kid is branded as a squib over a bit of selective editing. He ran to position for the continuation of play. I clearly remember the commentator jokes at the time but they were followed by the appropriate qualifiers. This continued "run away" story is pure nonsense.Edit. Nasher is a faster typist than me.

He was a physically and mentally soft footballer, but this incident is not evidence of same.

And I'm with cbf on the pics.

do we not learn ?

 

Andrew! How could you.

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Correct. It is dead set unfair that this kid is branded as a squib over a bit of selective editing. He ran to position for the continuation of play. I clearly remember the commentator jokes at the time but they were followed by the appropriate qualifiers. This continued "run away" story is pure nonsense.

Edit. Nasher is a faster typist than me.

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