10 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

How's the penetration on his kicking looking; seems to have struggled from on 50m so far in his career.

It's funny.  In his first season he didn't have any problem kicking 50m goals, including one nasty low-flying Helicopter that he just brute-forced about 65m.  This year his kicking was way off and he really struggled to make the distance, especially towards the end of the season. 

1 hour ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

It's funny.  In his first season he didn't have any problem kicking 50m goals, including one nasty low-flying Helicopter that he just brute-forced about 65m.  This year his kicking was way off and he really struggled to make the distance, especially towards the end of the season. 

Hey RM. Do you have some links to the 65m goal and those others from his first season?

In case it  hasn't been mentioned anywhere, the two youth academy lads at training are both from the Dandenong Stingrays. They are 17 year olds -

• Luke Davies-Uniacke 187cm 86kg Rye

• Oscar Clavarino 194cm 80kg Berwick
 

3 hours ago, The Great Pretender said:

In case it  hasn't been mentioned anywhere, the two youth academy lads at training are both from the Dandenong Stingrays. They are 17 year olds -

• Luke Davies-Uniacke 187cm 86kg Rye

• Oscar Clavarino 194cm 80kg Berwick
 

Did we choose them or were they allocated to us? The difference being that if we chose them I assume we have some specific interest in them. 

5 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Did we choose them or were they allocated to us? The difference being that if we chose them I assume we have some specific interest in them. 

We have a Stingas coach at training as well, so assume interested, those stats on Oscar I reckon are last year, big unit

On 07/12/2016 at 3:07 PM, monoccular said:

 

S - I understand that he is still (1) a contracted player, (2) medically cleared to play and (3) says he is keen to extend his contract so I would say YES. 

Obviously at least one of those points must be incorrect - I suspect (3)

Maybe he is meditating?

Too true. The man is trying to have his cake and eat it as well. If he really considered himself worthy of a fourth season he would be reporting for work (i.e turning up to training) and working his butt off. If he's still crook with concussion then the club was always doing the right thing by him - either way, his current position is untenable. 

21 hours ago, Skuit said:

Hey RM. Do you have some links to the 65m goal and those others from his first season?

I must concede that the mung I was thinking of (8.20) didn't go as far as my memory had it.  I had thought it was into the crowd, but it hit the fence on the half-volley.  Still, he nails several goals from at or just inside 50 in this clip and doesn't seem to have any great issue with the distance. 

 

 

tip; you probably don't need to tag every player in every photo Saty, good work though.

4 minutes ago, 3Dee said:

tip; you probably don't need to tag every player in every photo Saty, good work though.

Somebody asked me to, so I thought would give it a try, impressed my daughter,  so a win on two counts

On 12/7/2016 at 2:29 PM, PaulRB said:

I like to hear Stafford is teaching Maxy about handling the additional attention he's bound to get next year.

We're going to be a hard team to beat when Max is on fire.

Really good to hear, because big Maxy is going to cop it from all sides next season as the enemy tries to soften him up and hurt him. Started to see it late in the season. Happy that Spencer is getting some work because we will need his physicality in 2017.

4 minutes ago, hemingway said:

Really good to hear, because big Maxy is going to cop it from all sides next season as the enemy tries to soften him up and hurt him. Started to see it late in the season. Happy that Spencer is getting some work because we will need his physicality in 2017.

H , Stafford has Gawn and Spencer belting into each other, he also hands it out, the mantra under Goodwin, physicality

4 hours ago, Satyriconhome said:

H , Stafford has Gawn and Spencer belting into each other, he also hands it out, the mantra under Goodwin, physicality

Don't know that I like the sound of that Saty. Can you tell the others not to go to hard at Gawny. Prefer to see the long legs and knees in cotton wool. Bad enough to cop an injury in a real game but a tragedy if it happens in preseason. And given where Spencer is at the moment I can imagine that he is going hammer and tongs. 

Wouldn't surprise me if Spencer gets a lot more games with Max next year. To protect Max, free up Watts and because with the teams increased fitness and maturity we should have more minutes available on the bench (ie Clarry and Petracka will have to play more game time...).

2 minutes ago, PaulRB said:

Wouldn't surprise me if Spencer gets a lot more games with Max next year. To protect Max, free up Watts and because with the teams increased fitness and maturity we should have more minutes available on the bench (ie Clarry and Petracka will have to play more game time...).

This makes sense to me. It's now or never for spencil. It seems as though he's fit and up for the contest. If he can take some ruck duty load & this frees up big Max who can drop back deep forward and clunk some.

Max is now our super weapon and therefore a target so he needs some protection from the snipers. I hope these two can work in tandem, without spensil being a liability.

2 hours ago, hemingway said:

Don't know that I like the sound of that Saty. Can you tell the others not to go to hard at Gawny. Prefer to see the long legs and knees in cotton wool. Bad enough to cop an injury in a real game but a tragedy if it happens in preseason. And given where Spencer is at the moment I can imagine that he is going hammer and tongs. 

Sorry H,  it is the one thing that has stood out this season and I checked with Goody, you train as you play, the physicality, BenKen put a beautiful hit on Sam Frost the other day and it was praised all round, thankfully Frost bounced up