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  On 19/04/2019 at 03:04, 58er said:

It's time for every supporter  to now get behind Oscar and help build his confidence.

We will  need either he or Frost as 3rd tall at some stage and the better the form the stronger the backline and team.

Lets move on positively please.

How on earth do our views on Oscar (positive or otherwise) have any bearing on his confidence?

I am confused.

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    ..and for that matter bloody Hogan copped more flak than Omac........................................and i'll say it before someone else does................looked what happened to him. 

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      On 19/04/2019 at 02:38, Engorged Onion said:

    Ahhh, the demotion of Oscar - it was always going to confirm a truth for some folk... perhaps the truth is somewhere in between... at least it is in my mind.

    If May and Lever were playing, Oscar would be on a third tall, who are typically average players themselves, and he would be doing fine...and probably under the radar.

    Oscar has been playing the number one role due to injury and well, he's having a less than stella time of it.

    For mine, when it he gets some runs on the board in the VFL, I assume (rightly or wrongly) the FD will pick him again and he will form a great defensive unit with May, Lever, Salem, Jetta, Mary Hore and Hibbo (though he's hanging on by a thread on form alone).

    I’ve been calling for it but I never take satisfaction in a young kid being dropped. I still think at present we will be better off without him in as he’s having a poor season.

    I’m intrigued around your comment on if May/Lever were playing that he’d play on the third tall. He very well could but I still think he will always get the main man as a pure stopper with May/Lever floating across for help and a chop out.

    Those two are better defenders but by far more valuable to intercept and rebound as well. If Oscar plays, I think it will be in a role similar to Astbury/Talia/Frawley who would still take the key forward and focus on nothing more than defence defence defence.

     

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      On 01/09/2018 at 06:21, rpfc said:

    And Hibberd and Salem and Lewis and Fritsch and maybe Frost...

    But this argument is irrelevant. Oscar won’t lose his spot Fritsch or Lewis. He will lose it if we think that Lever, Frost, and Hibberd with Gawn behind the footy is more value than having Oscar back there amongst that group.

    Who'd he lose it to ?  ?

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    Oscar was very good in last years finals at The MCG, but he has totally lost his rhythm and confidence in reading the play

    I hope he can get it back, but i do not want to see him anywhere near the Senior Side until he does. 

    He has some serious work ahead of him...

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    He has struggled for 2 years.  Finally held to account and dropped.  Let’s face it. He would make me very very nervous on GF day. Sam Collins was the one we missed out on twice. 

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      On 19/04/2019 at 02:24, chook fowler said:

    He needs to get some agro and urgency into his game. One of the most lethargic looking players I can remember. 

    Too passive far too passive.

      On 19/04/2019 at 03:04, 58er said:

    It's time for every supporter  to now get behind Oscar and help build his confidence.

    We will  need either he or Frost as 3rd tall at some stage and the better the form the stronger the backline and team.

    Lets move on positively please.

    No, it's not.

    Its up to Oscar to go back to VFL,  and then to try to discover his weaknesses... get to know them and understand them,  and to learn to overcome his deficiencies.

     

    Only then,  can he become truly stronger, and his confidence will then grow into a real self-belief.

    Blowing warm air up his shorts, is not going to help him.

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      On 19/04/2019 at 03:11, Deemania since 56 said:

    Now we all love to play golf. I do, at least, and so do every morning at dawn (except Saturdays). A quick 1.5 hours of invigorating Aussie bush and berry, hill and dale, over 9 holes of intrepid change and frustrating form slumps. I even wrestle the corellas and the magpies if they do not leave my ball alone on the fairway as I trundle that dark abyss of hope with buggy and bourbon down the path of no return. It is so addictive. Nonetheless, my game is static; it is the same, always; it is at its peak and peril.

    However, OMac is apparently a superb golfer. With his handicap, it is evident that golf is a game he has mastered. Few can do this ... you get better at golf until you reach one of point sheer surprise and joy, and never return. But the challenge remains.

    See? I can compliment OMac on a very great achievement - it just does not happen to be football. It is golf, a far more difficult game with thousands of multiplying characteristics and never-to-be resolved innuendos.

    Well done, OMac. 

    Golf requires a calm quiet mind.

     

    Footy does not want that  It wants urgency, almost manic urgency.   While still being composed to a great extent.

    Serenity does not belong on an AFL ground.

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      On 19/04/2019 at 04:34, spirit of norm smith said:

    He has struggled for 2 years.  Finally held to account and dropped.  Let’s face it. He would make me very very nervous on GF day. Sam Collins was the one we missed out on twice. 

    Roughly, the time-frame when we went from Roosy's gamestyle...  to Goody's gamestyle...  Where we were trying too Win,  via attacking.

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      On 19/04/2019 at 04:46, DV8 said:

    Too passive far too passive.

    No, it's not.

    Its up to Oscar to go back to VFL,  and then to try to discover his weaknesses... get to know them and understand them,  and to learn to overcome his deficiencies.

     

    Only then,  can he become truly stronger, and his confidence will then grow into a real self-belief.

    Blowing warm air up his shorts, is not going to help him.

    This

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      On 02/05/2018 at 03:59, ManDee said:

    I think Oscar is on the way to becoming an AA defender.

    This was comedy gold.

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      On 19/04/2019 at 04:46, DV8 said:

    Too passive far too passive.

    No, it's not.

    Its up to Oscar to go back to VFL,  and then to try to discover his weaknesses... get to know them and understand them,  and to learn to overcome his deficiencies.

     

    Only then,  can he become truly stronger, and his confidence will then grow into a real self-belief.

    Blowing warm air up his shorts, is not going to help him.

    Agreed, thanks Yoda

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      On 19/04/2019 at 01:53, stevethemanjordan said:

     

    I mean, one can only laugh.

     

    Alcoholics Anonymous need a defender, what is your problem?

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