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Kane Cornes Concerns About Dees in 2021

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On 2/6/2021 at 12:51 AM, nosoupforme said:

Kane Corns shouldn't be too much concerned about Melbourne we have enough  goal kicking power to win games. The season proper has not started yet and BBB has time to overcome his injury and be fit enough to play  a role in the forward line sooner rather than later.  

Corns haven't you anything better to talk about ? 

 

We definitely don't have enough goal kicking power. Hence why we recruited Ben Brown. Ben Brown is the Key to us going up another level. So we need him fit and firing as soon as possible.

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    4 hours ago, Doug Reemer said:

    We definitely don't have enough goal kicking power. Hence why we recruited Ben Brown. Ben Brown is the Key to us going up another level. So we need him fit and firing as soon as possible.

    Yup.

    Our leading goal kickers the last two seasons have managed a grand total of 22 goals for the season.    Thats getting back to the dark days of 2012-14 when our leading goal kickers were managing totals in the 20's.

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    I find the most frustrating thing about Kane's nonsense comments is the fact they get a new thread here every time he opens his mouth. 

    A nothing comment, with nothing to discuss further. 

    Round 1 can't come soon enough. 

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    14 minutes ago, Smokey said:

    I find the most frustrating thing about Kane's nonsense comments is the fact they get a new thread here every time he opens his mouth. 

    A nothing comment, with nothing to discuss further. 

    Round 1 can't come soon enough. 

    Nearly choked on my muesli when I saw him described as an "AFL great" somewhere.?

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    51 minutes ago, Dame Gaga said:

    Nearly choked on my muesli when I saw him described as an "AFL great" somewhere.?

     

    Well he did play 300 games, won a flag, won 4 Best and Fairests and was a 2 time All Australian.

    You'd struggle to find a Demon player in the last 50 years with a better resume'.

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    I suppose just like 'beauty', 'greatness' is in the eye of the beholder. ?

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    On 2/6/2021 at 2:13 PM, Sir Why You Little said:

    I cannot disagree with Cornes. But this year is a little different 

    Excuses won’t save Goodwin’s job in 2021

    This is the moment that The Weid and TMac must stand up

    We pay them a lot of money ? 

    Gee, I almost forgot about Weideman. He has disappointed so far and  there is no cohesian with our mids.

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    Cornes can be painful and should be removed.

    Edited by Biffen

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    Should he also be worried about:

    Richmond = a Hard Wick in a young marketer?

    hawtorn = a Paton of dik Piks and a Scully issue?

    Pies- its black and white, but Eddie forgot this in his memo

    Adelaide = that camp

    Dogs = Dunkley will bomb on them

    weagles - closed borders impact coke supplies

    st Kilda- geary busted leg

    freo = no hogan

    gws - hogan

    swans- Buddy trouble

    Not too many teams without trouble, hey Cornes-holer?

     

    headline should be Dees troubled by caned corns: toughest preseason yet!

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    On 2/8/2021 at 7:14 PM, Pickett2Jackson said:

     

    Well he did play 300 games, won a flag, won 4 Best and Fairests and was a 2 time All Australian.

    You'd struggle to find a Demon player in the last 50 years with a better resume'.

     

    I blame Choco.

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    Excuses are great for factors in just missing out on results, we tend to use them a lot though when we fall abysmally short of our targets. 

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    On 2/5/2021 at 10:51 PM, whatwhat say what said:

    he's a bit of a nong

    https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/02/05/why-kane-cornes-is-worried-about-melbourne-in-2021

    Kane Cornes is concerned Melbourne will let themselves off the hook this season, after key recruit Ben Brown was sidelined by injury.

    I have to admit, most of the experts are guess work.  They have little inside knowledge. He should have considered our injury problems in the past and how another year of development was going to see us rise up the ladder. 

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    On 2/7/2021 at 11:43 AM, Dr.D said:

    Don't get me wrong,  I obviously hope for improvement but a lot of those players have regressed in their careers. they aren't 2nd or 3rd year players. I'm really excited about Trent Rivers and I'm really excited about Luke Jackson, although he is going to be wasted as a forward as he is a natural ruck. 

    Petty, I'm really excited about but he is better as a forward than a defender. I acknowledge that it's only a small sample size but as a defender he looked nervous and made poor decisions. Up forward he looked great. So I see it as a shame that he isn't training as a forward. I put this down to Goodwin not being a great coach and the recruitment of Ben Brown.  But Petty is still a forward.

    Salem has been at the same level for years. He is a really good player that doesn't quite get enough of the ball for my liking. He was a midfielder at the Sandringham dragons and we recruited him to play midfield but he is still just a back flanker. So I don't see how he will improve unless he adds a string to his bow and plays midfield. 

    Hunt is an enigma. I actually like Hunt. But I don't (and never have liked him forward). And as a rule of thumb, if you're not a good kick for goal you shouldn't be played forward. Momentum is too big in todays game. 

    Fritsch is a great player but he has consistently shown to let us down in front of goals. I like his kicking action and I believe its mostly mental at this stage so I do give him a chance to improve. 

    Gus Brayshaw has had a limited pre-season and he is simply too slow to play any position other than inside mid. Goodwin seems to not understand this simple concept. If he plays as a full time inside mid then he has every chance to return back to his best otherwise, he is going to have another so-so season where he can't defend on the transition. 

    Tom McDonald I think can have a big year. But it's typical of Goodwin to entertain the idea of playing him anywhere other than forward. He has built a reputation for many years as being a poor decision maker and poor user of the ball in defence. A clanger happy defender like Oscar.  Up forward, his decision making is simplified. Get ball, kick for goal. This is where he is at his best. 

    And I thought he was only limited to [censored] predictions on Goody and how the team will perform moving forward.

    There are at least four absolute howlers in there (and to be fair one accurate prediction on Tomald).

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