45 minutes ago, Razor said:

So after the flurry of excitement at the end of the season with Jack playing finals for Hawthorn, he gets delisted.

Will another club pick him up?

Not AFL....you wouldn't think so

Questionable pick, made by a questionable recruiting team, employed by a questionable administration at the time.

Good luck to him in his future endeavours. But he never had the 'footballing' ability to make it. Only the 'physical' ability.

 

Hit the road Jack

My physio is a trainer at Box Hill. I saw him recently, about a month ago, I said, Poor Fitzy is a spud.

He said, Fitzy is a spud.

11 hours ago, dieter said:

My physio is a trainer at Box Hill. I saw him recently, about a month ago, I said, Poor Fitzy is a spud.

He said, Fitzy is a spud.

The trainer is no doubt a spud himself, if not half a potato chip.

Just now, bush demon said:

The trainer is no doubt a spud himself, if not half a potato chip.

PS You can pick the demon-lite supporters on here by the way they constantly sneer at ex-players.

Fitzy is at least the 2nd 2016 finals player to be delisted. 

Might be rookied by Hawks or someone else. 

50 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Fitzy is at least the 2nd 2016 finals player to be delisted. 

Might be rookied by Hawks or someone else. 

Sillier things have happened particularly in the current climate where most teams are trying to bolster their ruck/KPF stocks. As insurance Fitzy is not out of the question (and it paid dividends for the Hawks last year having a contingency plan)!

2 hours ago, bush demon said:

PS You can pick the demon-lite supporters on here by the way they constantly sneer at ex-players.

Demon-lite my fat foot.It is possible to express an opinion. I watched him dither and dally at Melbourne, I watched him get lost and confused at Box Hill. A spud, ladies and gentlemen, is a spud.

5 minutes ago, dieter said:

Demon-lite my fat foot.It is possible to express an opinion. I watched him dither and dally at Melbourne, I watched him get lost and confused at Box Hill. A spud, ladies and gentlemen, is a spud.

I am told he is a really nice guy that was good enough to get on 2 AFL lists. Like the majority of players drafted on to AFL lists he was not quite good enough but close. I am sure not helped by his diabetic condition.  I am sympathize with him.

1 hour ago, hemingway said:

I am told he is a really nice guy that was good enough to get on 2 AFL lists. Like the majority of players drafted on to AFL lists he was not quite good enough but close. I am sure not helped by his diabetic condition.  I am sympathize with him.

I sympathize with him as well. In the same way that I sympathize with Dawes, McKenzie, Mat Jones, Garland, Tapscott, Strauss, Couch, Magnar, Blease, Michie, Bate, Bennell and all the others who weren't quite good enough. But, there comes a time when Melbourne needs players to be more than second rate stop gaps. Or, list fillers, or, just simply spuds... 

3 hours ago, dieter said:

I sympathize with him as well. In the same way that I sympathize with Dawes, McKenzie, Mat Jones, Garland, Tapscott, Strauss, Couch, Magnar, Blease, Michie, Bate, Bennell and all the others who weren't quite good enough. But, there comes a time when Melbourne needs players to be more than second rate stop gaps. Or, list fillers, or, just simply spuds... 

Just like Demonland we have Spud posters

18 hours ago, dieter said:

My physio is a trainer at Box Hill. I saw him recently, about a month ago, I said, Poor Fitzy is a spud.

He said, Fitzy is a spud.

Hell of a conversation.

36 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

Hell of a conversation.

And he charged me $80. Think I got dudded?

42 minutes ago, Old Bear said:

Just like Demonland we have Spud posters

Plenty. Especially the ones that whinge about how bad we're going and then get sentimental when we're finally able to say goodbye to the spuds that kept making the same mistakes, time and time again. 

1 hour ago, dieter said:

And he charged me $80. Think I got dudded?

It's hard to say. Perhaps go back again and see where the conversation takes you. I.e. You :'I like bread'. Him: 'I very much like bread'

2 hours ago, Return to Glory said:

It's hard to say. Perhaps go back again and see where the conversation takes you. I.e. You :'I like bread'. Him: 'I very much like bread'

The trouble is he's not my Psychiatrist. His function is to fix my arthritic knee...

11 hours ago, bush demon said:

The trainer is no doubt a spud himself, if not half a potato chip.

No, he's Russian, probably a Sputnik.

Two things I hate being brought up when a player is being discussed :

1 - He's a great bloke. (This has zero relevance to his abilty as footballer yet is used as some kind of defence)

2 - The poster that has posted what is perceived to be a negative comment than being asked if he has played at the highest level. (No they probably haven't but they may be a specialist in their chosen field, they are still entitled to their opinion)

14 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Two things I hate being brought up when a player is being discussed :

1 - He's a great bloke. (This has zero relevance to his abilty as footballer yet is used as some kind of defence)

2 - The poster that has posted what is perceived to be a negative comment than being asked if he has played at the highest level. (No they probably haven't but they may be a specialist in their chosen field, they are still entitled to their opinion)

I agree with you. In the end this is a Demon Supporter forum. I've been a supporter since 1959 - 10 years in the Western suburbs of Melbourne, Jungle land - and have watched them play like spuds from 1966 to 1975, 1977 till 1986, from 2006 till 2014. Many 'great blokes' have been shredded though the spud machine in that time. I last played in a final at Under 16 level where I rucked against Laurie Sandilands and kicked two goals. After that footy just became too rough for me. I am, after all, a gentle soul.

Edited November 2, 20169 yr by dieter

9 hours ago, dieter said:

I sympathize with him as well. In the same way that I sympathize with Dawes, McKenzie, Mat Jones, Garland, Tapscott, Strauss, Couch, Magnar, Blease, Michie, Bate, Bennell and all the others who weren't quite good enough. But, there comes a time when Melbourne needs players to be more than second rate stop gaps. Or, list fillers, or, just simply spuds... 

Phew Thank Christmas you didn't mention One "Juice Newton" in this group! Clearly, Juice was a player who had very bad luck, cruelly cut down by injury in his almost prime!! A tragedy! 

13 hours ago, picket fence said:

Phew Thank Christmas you didn't mention One "Juice Newton" in this group! Clearly, Juice was a player who had very bad luck, cruelly cut down by injury in his almost prime!! A tragedy! 

Melbourne has a history of Juice Newtons. need I mention Hugh Bromell and John Tillbrook?

I really wanted to see Fitzpatrick and Vickery in the same forward line.

4 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

I really wanted to see Fitzpatrick and Vickery in the same forward line.

Specifically hawthorn's

14 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

I really wanted to see Fitzpatrick and Vickery in the same forward line.

I have exclusive footage here: