5 hours ago, Demons1858 said:

This can go either way if he plays.

Pros: Gets a sniff at a finals campaign (if we make it) unlikely to progress to far even if we do

Cons: One more head knock this year and it puts his career in real jeopardy. chance to get certainty that the concussion issue is settled by coming back next season. If he gets another knock next year his career isn't over given time elapsed since last one

Logic says he should wait. Passion to play is hard to ignore however.

So does your logic say he shouldn't play at any level at all this year? 

He is at least as likely to get a head knock in VFL as AFL, and is probably more likely to get a "cheap snipe" knock at VFL.

Once he gets through his first AFL game I'm sure that will give him an enormous amount of confidence and he will go from strength to strength. 

Gosh I get annoyed at people making statements about people confidence levels. Basically you're projecting your own concerns. Anyone on Demonland know where his confidence is at outta 10? Nope, only the man himself knows.  

 

As an aside, competence is always a better indicator of performance capacity as confidence comes after the actions of competence.

He's competent at a VFL level - thus he is competent at the AFL level - the only thing that changes is context , not his ability.

You don't need confidence to perform, it's just a feeling... (you may want it however) and when you do have it , it does make things easier, but you certainly don't need it.

Gus may or may not be confident...thats not the right question - the right question is , is he willing.

 

He's in the extended squad. Ie hes in baby. Yee Haa 

So much potential in the young man, very excited about his return.

I don't care if he is in this week or not. I saw what he did to Collingwood 2 years ago when we were hopeless.

He can play and the fact he is on the extended bench this week means watch out every other club, we are heading to the finals and getting better every week.

8 minutes ago, Wrecker45 said:

I don't care if he is in this week or not. I saw what he did to Collingwood 2 years ago when we were hopeless.

He can play and the fact he is on the extended bench this week means watch out every other club, we are heading to the finals and getting better every week.

Amen to that, Wrecker.  It's very easy to forget what a fantastic player he is.

Clearly he feels he is ready for a call up, as you would assume they left that decision to him.  I'm not certain he will play this week, but he is at least gaining confidence by the week and not far away from once again becoming a key cog in our side.

4 hours ago, monoccular said:

So does your logic say he shouldn't play at any level at all this year? 

He is at least as likely to get a head knock in VFL as AFL, and is probably more likely to get a "cheap snipe" knock at VFL.

Hey mono, l clarified that in a follow up post but thats ok The point was that l would have preferred he give the year up after his last head knock. Too much to lose

45 minutes ago, Wrecker45 said:

I don't care if he is in this week or not. I saw what he did to Collingwood 2 years ago when we were hopeless.

He can play and the fact he is on the extended bench this week means watch out every other club, we are heading to the finals and getting better every week.

He has never been a huge possession getter, but i love this kid for his attack on the ball, and the fact he has 2 sides. Have not seen him play for ages so i can only hope he still has both of those skills.

Play or not, im happy that he is at the very least close to a return.

 

32 minutes ago, ding said:

He has never been a huge possession getter, but i love this kid for his attack on the ball, and the fact he has 2 sides. Have not seen him play for ages so i can only hope he still has both of those skills.

Play or not, im happy that he is at the very least close to a return.

 

He can be a huge possession getter in VFL. 

I'm sure the first game he played for Casey I read on the Box Hill Hawks website he ruined the game by just getting the footy every time.

His natural position is in the guts but it's hard to play him there with jones, Oliver and Viney taking up the majority of time.

Brayshaw will take Jones' position and we will move Jones to a back flank like we did with Bernie Vince.

He plays inside and out with a kick on him like a guided missile weapon.

He plays finals.

5 hours ago, Danelska said:

Gosh I get annoyed at people making statements about people confidence levels. Basically you're projecting your own concerns. Anyone on Demonland know where his confidence is at outta 10?

 

7.6

@Ethan Tremblay...new name... The "Guswhisperer".

11 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

7.6

 

Wow. Huge suprise

Good Luck Gus, we need you firing...

Would be nice to see him back. Not sure if it's the perfect game to do it but there probably isn't with this kind of thing. 

He's best 22 on talent, so if he is fit and performing in the VFL then back into our best 22 he comes. Best of luck to him and hopefully the concussions are behind him and he can start to develop into the gun we all saw emerging in his first season!

Edited August 10, 20177 yr by Lord Travis

Was always gonna play this week.  Not sure why people are surprised, whats the point of playing him at Casey again. He has dominated in his 3 games back and clearly has confidence again.

Excited to see Gus back out there.

One thing I like about our team now is that I feel confident that he'll be looked after by his teammates (not that he necessarily needs it). In years gone by we were really lacking in this department, but these days you can mostly be sure our players will fly the flag for each other. It's reassuring on some level. Fingers crossed for smooth sailing.

He is clearly too good for VFL. The VFL time was about using the techniques he's been taught on leading with the head and gaining confidence. He's obviously ticked those boxes and if not selected this week, he must be close and the club is trying to motivate him to keep pushing. 

Cannot wait to see him back out there. 

I hope he gets in and has a huge game for us. I would love that against the saints,  then they cab kick themselves twice as hard for taking mcartin before trac and gus!

We are lucky to have him back and doubly so to have Reiwoldt out.

Concussion giveth and taketh away .

 

8 hours ago, Dees_In_October said:

Excited to see Gus back out there.

One thing I like about our team now is that I feel confident that he'll be looked after by his teammates (not that he necessarily needs it). In years gone by we were really lacking in this department, but these days you can mostly be sure our players will fly the flag for each other. It's reassuring on some level. Fingers crossed for smooth sailing.

We didn't fly the flag for Max last week!

Hope Gus can get back in. If not this week then against Lions.  He is a gun. 

1 hour ago, Zoiikgarden said:

We didn't fly the flag for Max last week!

No..we didnt. Theres been a few occasions of late where  someones been left out to dry.

Must all this great leadership we have out there....boorah ! 

Justin Plapp:

Angus Brayshaw: Angus had 34 disposals, including 16 contested possessions, seven clearances, six inside 50s and five tackles. It was really pleasing to see Angus get back to his best, as it’s been well-documented that he’s had his challenges with concussion. To see him come and play, and invest himself in the game the way he did, was really exciting to see. He was the most dominant player on the ground for mine – he used his speed and was able to win two or three critical contests. He sent a big message on the weekend.