4 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

When your getting dropped to the  development league in your 3rd year of AFL footy you know your in serious  trouble.

There are no comparisons to Gawn or Spencer. They were both playing senior  AFL level at 19 years old. King is nearly 21 and has struggled this year.

You can just about put a line through him.

You do know that he has had a broken/chipped bone in the wrist and is tryng desperately to get back into the Seniors to play finals despite being on limited time in the Dev. team. None of this may have any bearing if he is rerookied next year but he wasn't dropped as you stated. 

 

22 minutes ago, longsuffering said:

You do know that he has had a broken/chipped bone in the wrist and is tryng desperately to get back into the Seniors to play finals despite being on limited time in the Dev. team. None of this may have any bearing if he is rerookied next year but he wasn't dropped as you stated. 

 

He was dropped.

He had 3 disposals against Richmond in the VFL senior then had the bye and played development league after that.

 

Unavailable:

Melksham (trusted others at bomberland, out for season) 

Mitch King (knee, out for season),

Lumumba (concussion, indefinite),

Weideman (rested),

Hulett (rested),

Newton (mystery injury of the week on rotation)

9 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Newton (mystery injury of the week on rotation)

Pretty sure I read somewhere that he had a knee injury.

7 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

Pretty sure I read somewhere that he had a knee injury.

Correct. Ben Newton was one of last week's mystery injuries of the week with a knee complaint. According to the medical report, he's out for a week.

Sam Weideman and Liam Hulett are this week's joint mystery injuries of the week.

Does anyone know what the qualifying requirements are for AFL listed players to take part in the finals?

16 hours ago, Redleg said:

Well then I would re rookie him.

Agree.

He has definite talent and I hope we persist.

1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Correct. Ben Newton was one of last week's mystery injuries of the week with a knee complaint. According to the medical report, he's out for a week.

Sam Weideman and Liam Hulett are this week's joint mystery injuries of the week.

How can the Weed be a mystery injury, when it has been widely reported he has a corky?

On 11 August 2016 at 7:33 PM, dazzledavey36 said:

Max King is finished. 

 

19 hours ago, Redleg said:

I  haven't given up on him yet, wonder if the club have.

 

33 minutes ago, ProDee said:

Agree.

He has definite talent and I hope we persist.

Biggest problem I can see is that he hasn't been able to develop his endurance. Whenever I've seen him at training he seems to be trailing behind and in games he hasn't been able to hold his intensity levels up. He's been in the system a few years now, no doubt about the raw talent but can he develop athletically?

54 minutes ago, Big Kev said:

How can the Weed be a mystery injury, when it has been widely reported he has a corky?

It's a mystery corky. 

57 minutes ago, Big Kev said:

How can the Weed be a mystery injury, when it has been widely reported he has a corky?

When the club's own website has an article on the team's injured players and produces an injury list without mention of the "widely reported" corky, then it's a mystery.

Melbourne injury list: round 21

Jesse Hogan (knee) - available
Mitch King (knee) - season
Heritier Lumumba (concussion) - indefinite
Ben Newton (knee) - 1 week
Jake Spencer (knee) - test

Hogan declared fit for round 21

32 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

When the club's own website has an article on the team's injured players and produces an injury list without mention of the "widely reported" corky, then it's a mystery.

Melbourne injury list: round 21

Jesse Hogan (knee) - available
Mitch King (knee) - season
Heritier Lumumba (concussion) - indefinite
Ben Newton (knee) - 1 week
Jake Spencer (knee) - test

Hogan declared fit for round 21

#corkymyths

Weed hobbled off at one stage against the Hawks. No smoke and mirrors here.

4 minutes ago, Django said:

Weed hobbled off at one stage against the Hawks. No smoke and mirrors here.

All the more reason for him to be included in the injury list but he wasn't.

19 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

When your getting dropped to the  development league in your 3rd year of AFL footy you know your in serious  trouble.

There are no comparisons to Gawn or Spencer. They were both playing senior  AFL level at 19 years old. King is nearly 21 and has struggled this year.

You can just about put a line through him.

If you wanted to re rookie him and throw other clubs off the track, what better way than to drop him to the Dev League and show you didn't have a lot of faith in his ability to succeed.  Just a thought.

15 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

He was dropped.

He had 3 disposals against Richmond in the VFL senior then had the bye and played development league after that.

 

Dazzle, I think we are arguing over semantics. He injured his wrist against Richmond and was given very limited time in the Dev. league because of his injury. None of this matters as like you unfortunately I too believe that Max maybe looking elsewhere in 2017. If however the Club do decide to keep him on, they obviously see something in him and I would trust them as they are far more experienced than you and I.

3 minutes ago, longsuffering said:

Dazzle, I think we are arguing over semantics. He injured his wrist against Richmond and was given very limited time in the Dev. league because of his injury. None of this matters as like you unfortunately I too believe that Max maybe looking elsewhere in 2017. If however the Club do decide to keep him on, they obviously see something in him and I would trust them as they are far more experienced than you and I.

Notwithstanding all that, I believe that Max was on notice before he was dropped to the DL. For two or three weeks before that happened, he was also named in both the Casey Senior and DL teams so that he was very much on the border line. Apart from last week when he kicked three goals, he has done very little down there and was overlooked in favour of Oscar McInerney for the seniors in the absence of Jake Spencer.

He's not Gawn but he's got very little time to prove he's not gorn.

King kicks the first 10 minutes in #kingkongtract

King hits the post 1.1 so far. Also Casey dominating - 41-1

Casey Scorpions ‏@CaseyScorpions  4m4 minutes ago

Beautiful lead up from Max King, he marks and kicks his second. He's had a fantastic day so far big Maxy, 18 disposals, 5 marks, 2.2 so far.

Casey Scorpions ‏@CaseyScorpions now

Kingy! He's had a day out. His fourth goal and he pushes the lead past 100 points.

 

Well right on cue, maybe only DL but quite a performance.

 

13 minutes ago, xarronn said:

Casey Scorpions ‏@CaseyScorpions now

Kingy! He's had a day out. His fourth goal and he pushes the lead past 100 points.

 

Well right on cue, maybe only DL but quite a performance.

 

 He will be on the list next year. Theres a lot to work with, still very young.

Kicked 5 and had 26 disposals 

On 8/12/2016 at 1:19 PM, Redleg said:

I  haven't given up on him yet, wonder if the club have.

Today's performance won't hurt. 

Massive win to the Development League team against weak opposition.

AFL Victoria Development League

Casey Scorpions   5.4.34 7.7.49 12.11.83 19.15.129

Werribee Tigers 0.1.1 1.1.7 2.3.15 2.4.16

Goals

Casey Scorpions Freeman Max King 5 Fritsch Wilson 2 Anderson Beacom Cox Hannon Stockdale

Werribee Tigers VanDenBerg 2

Best 

Casey Scorpions Anderson Wilson Max King McDonald Fritsch Jaffer-Williams 

Werribee Tigers VanDenBerg Eagle Anderson Conway Kennedy Barrack

Disposals J McDonald 40 Fritsch 36 Wilson 35 Daniel Johnston Muir 28 King 26 Cotte Wyatt 25