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2018 Player Reviews: # 37 Dion Johnstone

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STILL CUTTING HIS TEETH

Last year, Johnstone spent his time cutting his teeth at Casey as a small forward but this year he was tried in defence and showed some good signs at times. Missed the VFL Grand Final due to suspension.

Date of Birth: 1 June, 1998

Height: 178cm

Weight: 77kg

Games MFC 2018: 0

Career Total: 0

Goals MFC 2018: 0

 Career Total: 0

CDFC Games 2018: 17

CDFC Goals 2018: 1

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    I am amazed that Johnstone hasn't been officially delisted yet. I have seen nothing that suggests he can become a decent VFL footballer, let alone an AFL footballer.

    I've said it previously, if he was not on our list, there is zero chance that we would recruit him now based on what we have seen over the past two years. So why bother keeping him around, even if his replacement is pick 245 in the rookie draft?

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    Johnstone's improvement has been agonisingly slow. Couldn't make it as a forward so they tried him down back with limited success.

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    After all the other movements, thought he might get another year, but not to be.

    Best of luck to him. Good effort to make it this far, but must sting a little to never play at least 1 game.

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    Wow. We'll be looking at 10 or 11 gone when this is finished. That's a huge hole to fill. But, it indicates a club that won't take any backward steps in improving the list. From my POV, great to see.

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    Was bound to get delisted, did nothing in the 2 years he was with us.

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    56 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    As brilliant as Jason Taylor has been for us, he was bound to swing and miss on a draft pick eventually.

    Pick 64s are always a bit hit and miss

    (Cam Bruce was an exception for us, and Rohan Bail to a far lesser degree)

    Nev was working with him trying to convert him into a defender, and I thought, given all the other delistings, he may have got one more year.  But who am I to say?  Got a lot further than the vast majority of us here  

    Presumably we have sufficient picks to fill the list. 

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    2 hours ago, ProperDee said:

    Wow. We'll be looking at 10 or 11 gone when this is finished. That's a huge hole to fill. But, it indicates a club that won't take any backward steps in improving the list. From my POV, great to see.

    Agree.  It’s 6 delisted and 1 retired I think, so we have 4 picks in the main draft and 5 I think in the rookie/preseason draft if we need them.  Bradke will come onto our rookie list as well.  The rest of the losses have requested trades or may request trades so I assume we will be expecting deals to involve players that have nominated us and are of the type we need.  I’m optimistic our list will be better in 2019.

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    Must be a big trade week ahead. Got a fair few list spots available now. Can't imagine we will bring in just kids to fill those spots. Preuss, Koladashnij and May must be a lock.

    Good luck to Dion, hope I he finds his way back to the AFL system.

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    Nice kick on both sides, great tackler, likes the contest, but not enough natural football ability to get the ball - either back or forward. Maybe another preseason getting much fitter might've helped but some guys don't have big tanks either. 

    In general I'm a fan of being patient with draft picks - assuming there's no off field concerns or career ending injuries - because you don't want to miss out on what you bought a guy in to do, but I get that there's a baseline level of performance and improvement required. 

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    13 minutes ago, johndemonic said:

    I'd probably rate him #2 in my all time list of Johnstones at the club. A decent effort.

    He's in front of Travis or Alan?

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