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Charlie Spargo

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http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2018-04-09/spargo-faces-one-game-ban

 

MELBOURNE youngster Charlie Spargo's bid to make his AFL debut this season has been delayed by at least one week after he was offered a one-game ban for striking in the VFL on Sunday.

Is he good to go?

 

Also, mod's please merge this with the Welcome Charle Spargo thread - tried search button numerous times, even filtering by Topic to bring up purely Spargo topics... no avail and kept timing out, wouldnt let me check any other pages etc  ...quite annoying actually.

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    Yeah harsh and as us demonlanders know Melb is judges on another level so 

    Suck it up son and move on Many on this site Rate You!

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    I don't condone violence in any shape or form. Except where it concerns a five-foot football recruit in their first outing for our club and then it makes me smile.

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    They said in last years draft that he was the most competitive of the bunch. As long as he can control it I don't mind it.

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    Reading a bit too much in to it. Any first picked draftee hit with a ban will get 'bid to debut delayed at least one week', doesn't mean he was or is in line for selection. I expect he'll play well at VFL level but will need to do so for a good period of time before being picked.

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    59 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

    Reading a bit too much in to it. Any first picked draftee hit with a ban will get 'bid to debut delayed at least one week', doesn't mean he was or is in line for selection. I expect he'll play well at VFL level but will need to do so for a good period of time before being picked.

    LoL. 

    Devils advocate.  I think he may well have been in the line of sight of selectors after his efforts. but not now.

    So, IMO, if I was selector, I would be looking to add a nippy player who can be defensive minded, to account for some nimble Hawks.

     

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    It will be a positive sign for our depth and form  if he plays well in the VFL and struggles to get a game in the ones.

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    @Elegt the Reactionary. 

    Spargo fits into our system nicely when everyone is playing their role. He's a link player who gets involved in a lot of our scores when we're up and about. 

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    2 minutes ago, A F said:

    @Elegt the Reactionary. 

    Spargo fits into our system nicely when everyone is playing their role. He's a link player who gets involved in a lot of our scores when we're up and about. 

    And, let's be honest, he wasn't alone in having little influence on the weekend.  Pickett had five tackles but didn't have real impact, while Melksham and Hannan didn't really set the world alight either.

    Deserves at least a few more weeks in the senior side.

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    Sometimes You'll watch him applying pressure and doing nice things but then others you'll check the stats and notice he hardly had a touch. I'd persist with him for now but he has to offer more over a whole game.

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    2 hours ago, A F said:

    @Elegt the Reactionary. 

    Spargo fits into our system nicely when everyone is playing their role. He's a link player who gets involved in a lot of our scores when we're up and about. 

    the problem I worry about is we have too many players who rely on other team mates to play well (Hannan, Spargo, Lever, Melksham). I want a team of game winners who will apply maniacal pressure regardless of the game situation. We lacked significant forward pressure on the weekend which meant the dogs waltzed it out of our backline. I thought Spargo, Pickett and Hannan were all quite lazy and in totally wrong spots

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    43 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Sometimes You'll watch him applying pressure and doing nice things but then others you'll check the stats and notice he hardly had a touch. I'd persist with him for now but he has to offer more over a whole game.

    This is not a Charlie Spargo issue necessarily. This is a forwardline-wide issue. @Axis of Bob pointed this out brilliantly in the tactics thread.

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    I think he is depth at best.

    I don't see Charlie getting a regular game if we are to be a Premiership contender.

    For now, I guess he gets a game.

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    42 minutes ago, A F said:

    This is not a Charlie Spargo issue necessarily. This is a forwardline-wide issue. @Axis of Bob pointed this out brilliantly in the tactics thread.

    Yeah excellent posts from Bob. Maybe with our forward setup there is too much burden on guys like Spargo and Pickett to do the pressure stuff? I don't know, seems a tough one but I'd definitely keep him in there for now.

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    10 minutes ago, layzie said:

    Yeah excellent posts from Bob. Maybe with our forward setup there is too much burden on guys like Spargo and Pickett to do the pressure stuff? I don't know, seems a tough one but I'd definitely keep him in there for now.

    Yep, I think that may well be the problem. Where's the balance? I think it lies with the forwardline we could play this weekend, if we wanted to know that Jones has been passed as fit - Jones, Harmes and Viney in the forwardline.

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    2 minutes ago, A F said:

    Yep, I think that may well be the problem. Where's the balance? I think it lies with the forwardline we could play this weekend, if we wanted to know that Jones has been passed as fit - Jones, Harmes and Viney in the forwardline.

    I'm all for the idea of trying Viney or Harmes up forward right now, if nothing else just to give the forward line some jumpstart. Our forward line needs to be hard to play against and I feel these moves could help there.

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