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I expect Kent to get another chance this year, it's not a particularly tough team to break into at the moment.

That said, I hope the selectors don't reward Dean for another one-off effort at Casey. He needs to put in three or more consecutive weeks of 100% effort and intensity before they should even think of bringing him back.

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    11 hours ago, A F said:

    I'd like to see Hunt started at half back. Let him work himself into the game and if he can't, then try a wing or half forward. Without Salem, I reckon we'll need more half back run, so he'll play mostly off half back.

    Valid point. But with Frost showing more run out of defence. Imagine him being able to kick over the top or kick to Hunt on a fast break?

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    4 minutes ago, Mud Dogs Gonna Win said:

    Valid point. But with Frost showing more run out of defence. Imagine him being able to kick over the top or kick to Hunt on a fast break?

    I think Hunt down back earlier is a must. One of my beefs with many games to date is we seemed to want to jump out of the blocks... We continually tripped up esp as we never seem switched to "100% attention" til the 2nd qtr :rolleyes:.

    Letting all settle into their game/roles and tempering to the tempo seems the best approach at present. We're undermanned. Caution is required.

    As game develops you can 'up' things.

    Tbh Hunt seems naturally aware and adjusts, but start him back. His thrust off the hb is important.

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    2 hours ago, america de cali said:

    Dean Kent mirrors the MFC. Tough looking downhill skier In a tough looking downhill skiing team.

    Yeah we were great downhill skiiers against St. Kilda and the Crows.  Some of the best I've seen...

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    Actually some of our efforts are more akin to uphill skiing 

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    He's looked off all year. Pure speculation but it seems something is not right with him mentally. He's never been consistent but he just looks a mile off his best atm. Hopefully his heart is still in it.

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    1 hour ago, Wiseblood said:

    Yeah we were great downhill skiiers against St. Kilda and the Crows.  Some of the best I've seen...

    That was climbing the mountain before skiing down hill. I wonder what juicy incentives the players have to get them to turn up this week? 

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    6 hours ago, poita said:

    I expect Kent to get another chance this year, it's not a particularly tough team to break into at the moment.

    That said, I hope the selectors don't reward Dean for another one-off effort at Casey. He needs to put in three or more consecutive weeks of 100% effort and intensity before they should even think of bringing him back.

    Injuries aside he would be under no illusion what he needs to work on and he would need to repeat that over several weeks. 

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    Kent has become a revolving door player,he offers currency thou small and can be traded.

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    On 23/05/2017 at 9:21 AM, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    Looks overweight to me. Which is odd, because for most of the last decade our payers have looked undersized, rather than the reverse. I wonder whether he needs to change his body shape to be less Colin Sylvia and more, say, Christian Salem?

    Dean Kent needs to change his brain and application shape to be less Sylvia, more Salem 

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    4 hours ago, beelzebub said:

    Actually some of our efforts are more akin to uphill skiing 

    or Nordic skiing in a snowstorm - lost and bereft of ideas.

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    7 hours ago, poita said:

    I expect Kent to get another chance this year, it's not a particularly tough team to break into at the moment.

    Actually it is. The players being dropped generally fall into the Kent-ANN-Bugg-Harmes-Stretch group. Our midfield is settled. We have 5-6 guys fighting for those 2 additional flank/wing positions. It seems like we're "shuffling deck chairs" as they say but it's clear that Goodwin is trying to get consistentcy with this group. Kent needs a solid 10 weeks at Casey. Not as punishment. He needs to work his way in now. I assume the reason Stretch is having a, ahem, Stretched out time in the VFL is for this reason. We won't see Kent for a while. Whoever is in the side when Gawn and Hogan come back I assume will be there for a while.

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