10 hours ago, layzie said:

Kade is tracking beautifully. No faulting his endeavour and he's taking his chances.

The area I want to see him continue to improve in is positioning at contests. Knowing when to get front and square and when to hit the back, I'd love to see him become a small forward that can create half chances for himself and full chances out of half chances. As mentioned above it can be an unrewarding position but if he can be a forward that might only get 6 possessions but a goal or 2 guaranteed, I'd take it.

You're welcome.

Saw this on FB on Chandlers work rate and smarts.
Nice little insight I thought.
Blossoming into a reliable leader before our very eyes.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1249491770561023

Edited Tuesday at 14:135 days by Fork 'em

Where's the bloke who said his chakras were out of alignment?

On 05/04/2024 at 00:04, hemingway said:

Exactly thank you mate. Some players get the most out of themselves some don’t. As in life. Full stop. 

Welcome back

Any insiders hearing whispers on contract talks?

I know he loves the club and is a team leader but I’m mildly terrified about him leaving at year end.

4 minutes ago, The Cult of Disco Turner said:

Any insiders hearing whispers on contract talks?

I know he loves the club and is a team leader but I’m mildly terrified about him leaving at year end.

Spot on. Clubs will be sniffing around. Hope he's not SA home sick with the addition of a new bub.

We have a really busy year ahead with integral best 23 players in Chandler, Sparrow and Fritta all out of contract and free agents.

We really must not sleep on how much he has improved, his DE is up, his decision making is on point, his goal kicking accuracy is fritta like, he’d get a game in any team. Any off the back of sheer bloody hard work, I love him. Pay him $$$.

On 04/04/2024 at 02:39, DEE fence said:

I’m going early with this but have been watching Chandler very closely this year and I see a different player to last year. I think he’s upped his endurance by about 15%. His pressure acts, and tackling have improved, and he remains brave as. I would very much like to see a proper I/V with him to get more of a sense of him, I’d like to believe he is a very decent young man. (Gus and Gawn he was hamming it up) 

To my point, he is ANB 2.0, lots of hard defensive running, role player, and I think we are quickly starting to rely on his defensive pressure, it is something about his effort that makes me think he has moved past a few on the list. I was genuinely nervous when he’s had some leg knocks as I don’t think he’s obvious replacements match him for defensive efforts.

For mine most improved player so far this season.

Oh and if he’d kicked that snap that hit the post in the opening qtr last week, I reckon he’d almost be in the votes, was a great bit of work that just missed.

I opened this thread - but obviously not for a year as it opened on the post above (my first unread post).

I read it initially thinking it was a recent post - and agreed with it.

You were you right then DF and your right now.

Like nibbla, chin has become a critical player - culturally, leadership wise and with his incredible running power and work rate to the game plan.

Edited 16 hours ago16 hr by binman

I'm surprised this isn't a longer thread given Chandler's rise in form that started to trend upwards last year.

I remember Goody flagging that Chin won every position he played in our woeful early season loss to North at Docklands.

While since that time he has been reliable and showed leadership traits, his Anzac Eve game just felt so impactful - a week after being critical to our win against the Lions.

I see him as more naturally talented than Nibbler - there is a higher degree of creativity and X-factor. The similarity for me is the work ethic and leadership.

I didn't realise he was uncontracted at end of year, but he is a must keep. The game relies on mulitple of his type now - versatile, hard running, good skills with ability to hit the scoreboard.

Well done to Chin for his hard work to get to this place, but hats off to Dees development program - it's certainly worked well for Kade.

On 24/04/2026 at 09:33, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Spot on. Clubs will be sniffing around. Hope he's not SA home sick with the addition of a new bub.

We have a really busy year ahead with integral best 23 players in Chandler, Sparrow and Fritta all out of contract and free agents.

We will have budgeted well for Fritsch and probably also for Chandler. Sparrow worries me in the sense that his "price" may move up one band from what we had budgeted. The Gus situation will kick in after three years and of course we have Oliver's payment. Together that's nearly $1M of cap on players we don't have.

Back to Chandler. His form and growth as a key player has been a highlight.