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Well built Dockers

The Panglossian
in Melbourne Demons

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Did any other Demonlanders notice the musculature on their young first gamer, Langdon?

It was in sharp contrast to our pencil thin Oscar McDonald. Also compared to ANB and Stretch with young, thin bodies.

Funny, that.

I'll never forget when Troy Simmonds went to Freo.

At Melbourne, he was so skinny you could see all the lumps in his bones sticking out. He wasn't a teenager, and I thought he just can't make it with a body like that.. After a pre season at Freo he became a muscle -bound powerful ruck man

West Coast have similar skills in body building. I guess it's the warm climate.

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    Did any other Demonlanders notice the musculature on their young first gamer, Langdon?

    It was in sharp contrast to our pencil thin Oscar McDonald. Also compared to ANB and Stretch with young, thin bodies.

    Funny, that.

    I'll never forget when Troy Simmonds went to Freo.

    At Melbourne, he was so skinny you could see all the lumps in his bones sticking out. He wasn't a teenager, and I thought he just can't make it with a body like that.. After a pre season at Freo he became a muscle -bound powerful ruck man

    West Coast have similar skills in body building. I guess it's the warm climate.

    Matthew Pavlich and Nat Fyfe were once skinny.. funny how that turned out?

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    Did any other Demonlanders notice the musculature on their young first gamer, Langdon?

    It was in sharp contrast to our pencil thin Oscar McDonald. Also compared to ANB and Stretch with young, thin bodies.

    Funny, that.

    I'll never forget when Troy Simmonds went to Freo.

    At Melbourne, he was so skinny you could see all the lumps in his bones sticking out. He wasn't a teenager, and I thought he just can't make it with a body like that.. After a pre season at Freo he became a muscle -bound powerful ruck man

    West Coast have similar skills in body building. I guess it's the warm climate.

    WC were renowned for their body building skills when Mick was in charge...just sayin

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    Melbourne has been a team of weeds since Northey. How come we never draft men?

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    Melbourne has been a team of weeds since Northey. How come we never draft men?

    AVB, Viney, Brayshaw, Pettracca, wouldn't call these blokes weeds, all very recent though.

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    Did any other Demonlanders notice the musculature on their young first gamer, Langdon?

    It was in sharp contrast to our pencil thin Oscar McDonald. Also compared to ANB and Stretch with young, thin bodies.

    Funny, that.

    I'll never forget when Troy Simmonds went to Freo.

    At Melbourne, he was so skinny you could see all the lumps in his bones sticking out. He wasn't a teenager, and I thought he just can't make it with a body like that.. After a pre season at Freo he became a muscle -bound powerful ruck man

    West Coast have similar skills in body building. I guess it's the warm climate.

    The burgers in Perth are really fattening.

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    AVB, Viney, Brayshaw, Pettracca, wouldn't call these blokes weeds, all very recent though.

    Brayshaw has spaghetti arms. I was alarmed when I first saw him, but it doesn't seem to have been much of a limitation so far. He's deceptively strong.

    Agree on the others, though it's worth noting that vandenBerg was drafted mature (was 23 in round 1). Viney had also already had several years in our system before the draft.

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    Brayshaw has spaghetti arms. I was alarmed when I first saw him, but it doesn't seem to have been much of a limitation so far. He's deceptively strong.

    Brayshaw is pretty sold for a 19 year old.... I imagine first day of pre-season next year people will be surprised when he is built like a brick sh*thouse

    I think age plays a big factor in this. I remember reading that muscles and bone aren't at their peak until late twenties, may need someone to confirm that though.

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    Brayshaw has spaghetti arms. I was alarmed when I first saw him, but it doesn't seem to have been much of a limitation so far. He's deceptively strong.

    Agree on the others, though it's worth noting that vandenBerg was drafted mature (was 23 in round 1). Viney had also already had several years in our system before the draft.

    You don't need big arms, you need power through the core. He has that in spades.

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    Has been a pet peeve of mine since forever.
    That we draft weeds and none of them know where the gym is.
    Ever since the 80' during our patches of improvement.
    We'd go ok with abit of speed and skill till we ran into the strong clubs and then get monstered by power.
    Time after time after time.
    Pizzes me off no end.

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    Melbourne has been a team of weeds since Northey. How come we never draft men?

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    Let's stick to drafting footballers!

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    Lol .... Shining lights.

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    Hold the phone...

    The team on top of the ladder has bigger, stronger and more experienced players?

    ROYAL COMMISSION NOW!

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    Hold the phone...

    The team on top of the ladder has bigger, stronger and more experienced players?

    ROYAL COMMISSION NOW!

    The OP was referring to about a player making his debut.

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    Not the best photo but here is ANB and Langdon in the same image.

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    Doesn't look much between them to me.

    Hardly a shock that Stretch or O Mc are skinny. That's how most 19 year olds are, especially outside runners or talls. Those 2 in particular are just getting a taste of AFL footy. Let's worry more about senior players with years in the system having the wrong body shapes than first year kids.

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    Melbourne has been a team of weeds since Northey. How come we never draft men?

    AVB, Viney, Brayshaw, Pettracca, wouldn't call these blokes weeds, all very recent though.

    McLean, Syliva, Moloney, and Read all came into the club about the same time and... ah gee, it really is sarcasm week for me. Something about hardening us up and getting the big results, dominating stoppages and all that. Yep. Super.

    As for the Dockers and West Coast mobs,... who knows. More sunlight means more muscle growth? More time at the beach means more motivation to get ripped and show off? We'll see what happens to the Gold Coast kids in the next couple of years.

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    Matthew Pavlich and Nat Fyfe were once skinny.. funny how that turned out?

    I don't think Pavlich ever was. He said he was overweight as a junior

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    A tan makes you look bigger, must be the perth weather... Simple

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    The Dees pick up some good midfield players in Brayshaw,Petracca,Vander,Hunt,and Harmes (185-188 cm) and other positional players in White,O.Mac and Stretch.In the past we would pick up smaller mids who would get constantly get [censored] f..ked by the oppostion.There are very good smalls out but not many.We need talls for forward and defence will the ability to ruck.Another 2 strong body mids would be good.Personally I would go for Weidemann he is a bit like Darcy Moore and the diamond in the rough for a small mid would be Mason Redman reminds me of an uncut version of Ablett jnr. Havn't decided on the defender and big body mid. The so called fringe players that avoid the cull years end I would try to turn them into "killing machines" thus avoiding rebuild mark 6

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