Last year, Neville Jetta was considered unlucky to miss out on All-Australian selection so one simply cannot underestimate the effect of his loss through injury to the Demon defence in 2019.   

 

Date of Birth: 12 February, 1990 

Height: 180cm     

Weight: 83kg      

 

Games MFC 2019: 7 

Career Total: 148  

 

Goals MFC 2019: 0 

Career Total: 24  

 

CDFC Games 2019: 1 

CDFC Goals 2019: 0 

Votes 2019 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Memorial Trophy: 2 votes 

The club's mismanagement of Neville Jetta during the 2019 season was as bad as I have seen in all my years of watching sport.

He had an interrupted pre season and was thrown into the round 1 side on the back of limited training and match play. He then hobbled through the first three rounds before he was given round 4 off. Upon returning to the side in round 5 he hobbled around with little influence before suffering a supposedly unrelated knee injury which cost him the next three months. Inexplicably back in the side in round 17 of a dead season, again off limited VFL time, he hobbled through three more games before the pin was finally pulled on his season.

Neville is a very good player and an important part of the team, so why we are taking unnecessary risks with such players is totally beyond me. I'm sure, as with the Viney debacle of previous seasons, at least part of the blame is with the player, but we have medical staff who are paid big money to make the right decisions. They need to put their big boy pants on and make the best call for the club long term.

Nev is one of those players that just got Better and better the longer he played. Let’s hope that he has a couple more years in him as he is now one of our best. Well done Neville Jetta....!!!???

The form of both Hibberd and Jetta is important going forward.

Having best 22 players at and past 30 is something that MFC does not often enjoy. It is essential to good list management.

Edited October 29, 20196 yr by Diamond_Jim