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22 hours ago, Rob Mac...... said:

The Casey/Collingwood game is up for watching on the MFC website.  Visual quality is very poor, so I've been trying to find a list of the Casey players numbers to help.  Can't find one yet.  The casey site only names & numbers their players, not the MFC players.  I'd like recognize our guys.  Does anyone know where that list can be found please?

In a separate but related question, why can't the MFC and the Scorps arrange it so that the Melbourne players use their MFC jumper numbers as their Casey jumper numbers? There might be a transitional problem in the short term but it would be easy to administer if Casey's own players were all given numbers from 50 upwards. Both clubs need to recognise that the alignment requires marketing and part of that is making it easier for Casey followers to recognise who the players are. That becomes easier if all the Melbourne listed players use numbers that the public are more likely to recognise. 

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43 minutes ago, Rob Mac...... said:

The Casey/Collingwood game is up for watching on the MFC website.  Visual quality is very poor, so I've been trying to find a list of the Casey players numbers to help.  Can't find one yet.  The casey site only names & numbers their players, not the MFC players.  I'd like recognize our guys.  Does anyone know where that list can be found please?

They are listed earlier in this thread

Posted
4 hours ago, angrydee said:

They are listed earlier in this thread

Maybe I'm going blind, but I looked at every post in the thread & the numbers the MFC players wear on their backs at Casey weren't anywhere.

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4 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

In a separate but related question, why can't the MFC and the Scorps arrange it so that the Melbourne players use their MFC jumper numbers as their Casey jumper same numbers? There might be a transitional problem in the short term but it would be easy to administer if Casey's own players were all given numbers from 50 upwards. Both clubs need to recognise that the alignment requires marketing and part of that is making it easier for Casey followers to recognise who the players are. That becomes easier if all the Melbourne listed players use numbers that the public are more likely to recognise. 

That's exactly what I was thinking La Dee!   ..or at least have the MFC players Casey #'s up there with the Casey players.   Why have people have to go to major hassle to recognize the MFC players in a poor quality video.

Anyway, I cheched the goalkicking video & it was:

Weid  79

trac  78

Trenners  54

Mich White  58

ANB  72

Hulett  55

Grimes  80

Ben Newton  70

Terlich   ?

 

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Try these (MFC listed players who took part):-

49 Sam Weideman 

50 Colin Garland

53 Max King

54 Jack Trengove 

55 Liam Hulett

58  Mitch White

62 Dean Terlich

63 Viv Michie

70 Ben Newton

72  Alex Neal-Bullen

74 Oscar McDonald

78 Christian Petracca 

79 Joel Smith

80 Jack Grimes

 

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Just to get you even more excited for Petracca.

I texted my mate who plays for the Collingwood VFL side and obviously played against him on the weekend, asking how is he to play against and this was his reply:

"honestly, he is a beast of a human. He could play inside mid and a mid forward as he was taking pack marks and also getting clearances. Honestly he is something you should be very excited about, he is very hard to play against."

For the record, that last Melbourne player he played against that he sent me a text message like that about was none other than Jesse Hogan.

Not long now boys and gals. 

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1 hour ago, John Dee said:

Terlich is 62

And doesn't look a day over 27. 

Boom tish. 

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8 hours ago, The Song Formerly Known As said:

Just to get you even more excited for Petracca.

I texted my mate who plays for the Collingwood VFL side and obviously played against him on the weekend, asking how is he to play against and this was his reply:

"honestly, he is a beast of a human. He could play inside mid and a mid forward as he was taking pack marks and also getting clearances. Honestly he is something you should be very excited about, he is very hard to play against."

For the record, that last Melbourne player he played against that he sent me a text message like that about was none other than Jesse Hogan.

Not long now boys and gals. 

It's like Xmas, but your parents put the tree up in October. You can see the big shiny present next to the tree, you know it  is the sparkling bike you wanted, you can see it but just can't touch it yet! 

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14 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

In a separate but related question, why can't the MFC and the Scorps arrange it so that the Melbourne players use their MFC jumper numbers as their Casey jumper same numbers? There might be a transitional problem in the short term but it would be easy to administer if Casey's own players were all given numbers from 50 upwards. Both clubs need to recognise that the alignment requires marketing and part of that is making it easier for Casey followers to recognise who the players are. That becomes easier if all the Melbourne listed players use numbers that the public are more likely to recognise. 

I like letting the Casey players retain the low numbers. Give the MFC players their MFC number+50 (so Petracca 55, Trengove 59 and so on). It means doing a quick subtraction in your head, but it's better than total randomness.

Besides, who *wouldn't* want to see Terlich running around in number 96?

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On 4/19/2016 at 11:44 AM, stevethemanjordan said:

Yeh he had a couple of games where he got some opportunistic small forward crumbing type goals.

But Brayshaw and Oliver are both really strong overhead, are taller and are renown as goal-kicking mids.

They're more dangerous and difficult to defend and matchup on as they'll beat a small in the air and are dangerous on the ground against a tall.

I would rate ANB as a more dangerous goalkicker than Brayshaw.  He's got 6 in 11 games vs Angus 7 in 23.

Neal Bullen's workrate in the Geelong game last year, as witnessed with one goal where he was involved in the start of a chain in the half back line and worked his way up the ground to be on the end of it for a goal shows his ability to cover territory well, and be in the right place for opportunistic goals. 

I think Brayshaw is best served being a provider rather than a beneficiary, such as the two long raking kicks he did over the top to Garlett in fast breaks for goals in the one game last year. He's had quite a slow start to the season while playing predominantly forward, necessitated due to his fitness levels, and hasn't had much of the footy. 

If you're picking them purely as a midfielder, then of course Brayshaw is picked over ANB, but I'd rather see Brayshaw play half back than half forward if he's not on the ball.

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17 hours ago, John Dee said:

Terlich is 62

 

16 hours ago, bjDee said:

And doesn't look a day over 27. 

Boom tish. 

I would have gone with - he is 27 and looks a day or two over 62...

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2 hours ago, DemonDave said:

I would rate ANB as a more dangerous goalkicker than Brayshaw.  He's got 6 in 11 games vs Angus 7 in 23.

Neal Bullen's workrate in the Geelong game last year, as witnessed with one goal where he was involved in the start of a chain in the half back line and worked his way up the ground to be on the end of it for a goal shows his ability to cover territory well, and be in the right place for opportunistic goals. 

I think Brayshaw is best served being a provider rather than a beneficiary, such as the two long raking kicks he did over the top to Garlett in fast breaks for goals in the one game last year. He's had quite a slow start to the season while playing predominantly forward, necessitated due to his fitness levels, and hasn't had much of the footy. 

If you're picking them purely as a midfielder, then of course Brayshaw is picked over ANB, but I'd rather see Brayshaw play half back than half forward if he's not on the ball.

Brayshaw looks rusty to me yet he kicked one and gave away two - ( slipped a pearler of a handball to give Pedersen his first, and a lovely kick to Tyson's advantage to mark and goal)

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12 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Justin Plapp's VFL player review: round two.

 

It's great that some of our bigger names performed well against C'wood, but it's also fantastic that a few of the lesser lights did well.  Joel Smith was obviously impressive and seems to be coming along at a much faster rate than I expected.  My initial thought was that he would spend the first half of the season in the Development League.

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From Plapp's report:

"Jack Trengove: Jack had 20 possessions, eight tackles, three clearances and kicked a goal. Trenners played a little bit on the wing, inside fifth and sixth."

It might be obvious to others, but can anyone enlighten me about what "inside fifth and sixth" means?

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22 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

From Plapp's report:

"Jack Trengove: Jack had 20 possessions, eight tackles, three clearances and kicked a goal. Trenners played a little bit on the wing, inside fifth and sixth."

It might be obvious to others, but can anyone enlighten me about what "inside fifth and sixth" means?

High flanker pushing up and playing as an extra midfielder?? Only a guess.


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