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A bit of love for him on twitter especially from bulldog supporters.

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    How many years does he have left on his contract and are we taking it over, or doing a new one?

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    7 minutes ago, Redleg said:

    How many years does he have left on his contract and are we taking it over, or doing a new one?

    He signed a 4 year deal with the Dogs at the end of 2019 after crossing from St Kilda.

     

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    He's an upgrade on the Weid. We might get a year or 2 decent service while JVR is establishing himself. cover for BB and TMac both of home are injury prone as they get older. Granted, we don't know if he'll get back to his 2021 form given his knee injury but this is low cost, best available option play. There's not much downside in my view.

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    4 minutes ago, BDA said:

    He's an upgrade on the Weid. We might get a year or 2 decent service while JVR is establishing himself. cover for BB and TMac both of home are injury prone as they get older. Granted, we don't know if he'll get back to his 2021 form given his knee injury but this is low cost, best available option play. There's not much downside in my view.

    There’s plenty of downside, he’s coming off a serious knee reco, looked like an unfit park footballer when he came back, at his 4th club, 30 years old, has a man bun & the worst Tatts in the AFL

    Imagine BBB & Bruce plonking along in straight lines in our already dysfunctional forward line

     

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    3 minutes ago, Billy said:

    There’s plenty of downside, he’s coming off a serious knee reco, looked like an unfit park footballer when he came back, at his 4th club, 30 years old, has a man bun & the worst Tatts in the AFL

    Imagine BBB & Bruce plonking along in straight lines in our already dysfunctional forward line

     

    Beg to differ re Tatts. Libber from the Dogs wins hands down.

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    4 minutes ago, Billy said:

    There’s plenty of downside, he’s coming off a serious knee reco, looked like an unfit park footballer when he came back, at his 4th club, 30 years old, has a man bun & the worst Tatts in the AFL

     

    I raise you Liberatore. And De Goey on general principles...

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    44 minutes ago, Billy said:

    There’s plenty of downside, he’s coming off a serious knee reco, looked like an unfit park footballer when he came back, at his 4th club, 30 years old, has a man bun & the worst Tatts in the AFL

    Imagine BBB & Bruce plonking along in straight lines in our already dysfunctional forward line

     

    So he doesn’t work out. As long as not pay him too much or sign him to a long contract we haven’t risked too much. That’s what I mean by downside. 
     

    libbas and castagne from Tiges have worse tatts 

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    I hate myself for saying this a bit.

    We lack depth in tall forwards and outside midfielders. Let grab Bruce and Hunter if they are cheap and try and squeeze the most amount of talent we can.

    We are in the window. Let's go for it. I don't give a [censored] about his tattoos or hair (yeah, I rewatched Moneyball last night. Great film).

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    16 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

    A 30yo and 3rd club with knee issues to play with BB knee issues along with TMac foot issues .. great fit 

    If we combine them though they’ll make one complete footballer. 

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    17 minutes ago, BAMF said:

    I hate myself for saying this a bit.

    We lack depth in tall forwards and outside midfielders. Let grab Bruce and Hunter if they are cheap and try and squeeze the most amount of talent we can.

    We are in the window. Let's go for it. I don't give a [censored] about his tattoos or hair (yeah, I rewatched Moneyball last night. Great film).

    Don’t you dare start a Moneyball conversation

    robert de niro goodfellas GIF

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    11 minutes ago, BAMF said:

    I hate myself for saying this a bit.

    We lack depth in tall forwards and outside midfielders. Let grab Bruce and Hunter if they are cheap and try and squeeze the most amount of talent we can.

    We are in the window. Let's go for it. I don't give a [censored] about his tattoos or hair (yeah, I rewatched Moneyball last night. Great film).

    We climbed into the window with young players like Jackson, Kozzie, Rivers, Bowey, Sparrow and JJ all being given opportunities. We slipped this year because our older players were supposedly banged up. I want the next generation of young talent that we have at Casey to be given opportunities.

    Unless the players we bring in are best 22 and still in their prime, it's a regressive move. I want our success to extend past a short window.

    What message is it sending to the young players if we keep topping up with older players with question marks? Young players are impatient. They'll seek opportunities elsewhere if they aren't given a chance.

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    True mo64 but we are seriously lacking a tall forward and none of our kids apart from JVR fill the bill. I want JVR playing round 1 with Bruce a short term option to provide coverage for TMac and BB we got monstered when we lost both of them this year.

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    37 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

    A 30yo and 3rd club with knee issues to play with BB knee issues along with TMac foot issues .. great fit 

    He is not the 1st bloke in the world to have a knee reco 

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    8 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    Maybe T-Macs foot is cooked?

    Well it is if all you have to do to put him out for most of the season is stand on it

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    Melb supporters - We need a key forward, player get a key forward. 
     

    Melb list managers - We are looking at Josh Bruce 

    Melb supporters -  Josh Bruce is rubbish, he had a knee injury and is going to to his 4th.  Why are we looking at this bloke

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    We lost Mitch Brown, and Bruce is an upgrade on him. It’s that’s simple. He might come good and play in a premiership, or he might play a few cameos along the way that help us protect JVR and the like.

    Think of him as a coverage player and it makes a lot of sense.

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    16 hours ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

    Looked far off it when he returned for the dogs this season

    Of course he did . Knee reco in round 21 is going to do that.

    I don't hate this.

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    1 hour ago, BDA said:

    He's an upgrade on the Weid. We might get a year or 2 decent service while JVR is establishing himself. cover for BB and TMac both of home are injury prone as they get older. Granted, we don't know if he'll get back to his 2021 form given his knee injury but this is low cost, best available option play. There's not much downside in my view.

    It's not low cost though, he's apparently on 500k.

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    20 minutes ago, rpfc said:

    Don’t you dare start a Moneyball conversation

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    Bring back the Scattergun!

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