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Why Luke Dunstan came to Melbourne

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2 hours ago, Deebauched said:

Grundy and Hunter say HI !

I guess you missed the sarcasm 

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    On 1/28/2023 at 9:41 AM, dazzledavey36 said:

    I reckon Dunstan was pretty stiff at times in getting more AFL games.

    There were opportunities there where I felt we needed another big bodied experienced midfielder to come in towards the back end of the year and shoulder the burden off Oliver and Petracca who were getting physically targeted aand heavily tagged. 

    The two finals games were perfect opportunities to bring Dunstan for Sparrow imo. Sydney's experienced and bigger bodies were simply too strong for ours. 

    Then against Brisbane Jarrod Berry put the hard clamps on Oliver and took him out of the game while Petracca was running around on a broken leg, Viney was disappointing and Sparrow was completely overwhelmed and MIA. Someone with bigger body and over 100 games of experience would have been handy to chop out in the midfield.

    I've harped on this before but Sparrow (yes I know coaches rate him highly) was pretty disappointing for me last year. I know he does the defensive stuff well but when we needed someone to stand up to help the likes of Oliver and Petracca, he was no where to be seen. By all reports he's having a strong season so hopefully that'll translate into stronger influences on games.

    On Dunstan, I have no idea where he's at now. Clearly Goody doesn't see fit for him at all and it's now looking like another Brayden Pruess perplexing decision in bringing him in even if it's depth.

    Goody's reluctance to reward VFL form or bring in the required depth when actually needed means the likes of Dunstan will be lucky to play 5 games this year.

    Should have played A LOT more in 2022,I expect to see this rectified in 2023, to keep midfield fresh!

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    40 minutes ago, Orion said:

    I guess you missed the sarcasm 

    I got the sarcasm. Actually it was durango comments i intended to quote but effed up. Not yours.7

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    Just now, Deebauched said:

    I got the sarcasm. Actually it was durango comments i intended to quote but effed up. Not yours.

    No bigee.

     

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    The number of games gifted to Sparrow and Jordon last year was mind boggling, and Goodwin's reluctance to change up personnel last year was his number one failing.

    Dunstan is in no way a superstar, but he would have given far more than either of those two (particularly Sparrow) on a number of occasions. He also should have been given an opportunity when Oliver missed against Port. 

    Presumably Dunstan won't see much game time again this year, and will be delisted at year end. That would leave us without any experienced midfield depth, which would be a horrific fail of list management.

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    Should have played more games last year and could have helped change the dynamic of games when he went into the midfield. As to why he came over, my guess is apart from a good environment and chance to play finals, I suspect we paid him well compared to others. Preuss I suspect was the same. 

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    The good thing about Dunstan is you know exactly what you're going to get from him week in week out. We're lucky we have him.

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