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Farewell James Jordon

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1 minute ago, Binmans PA said:

Thanks for the service, JJ. This is best for both parties.

It's probably best for JJ, but not so sure it's the best for the Dees. I thought we wanted to keep him.

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    5 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

    Happily give him a go ahead of Hunter. I'm so over watching Gunter butcher our momentum 

    That is what a lot on here posted about JJ last year.

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    Liked the kid but not up to it. 

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    all the best James

    i recommend adding a no-sub clause to your new contract 

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    Will be a good player elsewhere. Only 22 and seems to lack a bit of confidence. We do need players that make more of an impact though.

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    6 minutes ago, Neil Crompton said:

    It's probably best for JJ, but not so sure it's the best for the Dees. I thought we wanted to keep him.

    We'd probably be fine with keeping him, but he was never going to break into our midfield permanently. 

    An AFL level footballer no doubt, but not in a top 4 team. I've never seen an elite trait that would enable him to make a position in our starting 22 his own.

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    He's going to be a valuable cog wherever he lands.  He's more than capable of playing wing or inside mid and his kicking is underrated.  Weak on pace and overhead, but he won't have any trouble finding a home.  I wish him all the best.  

    Could be interesting to see Grundy, Harmes and Jordon all wind up at the Swans.  😆

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    I wish JJ well, he is a very solid player. I know he has his critics and he rarely seems to run and gun preferring to stop and prop. But he may be playing to instructions, we don't know! I am sure he will have lots of interest. Note Harmes still has a year to go so he may explore options but I suspect he wants to stay local and with MFC

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    9 minutes ago, Petracca said:

    Do we get free agency compensation if he leaves? If yes what should we expect 

    Will depend on what sort of contract he gets. But I suspect we'll get band 5. So after our 3rd Round Pick.

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    This makes me shake my head, he was the first dropped even when others played worse than he did. 
    Good luck JJ, Goodwin didn’t rate you as much as you deserved.

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    7 minutes ago, jumbo returns said:

    Not AFL standard

    Slow and no awareness

    He'll be someone else's top 30

    You shouldn't have returned Jumbo!

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    Best for both parties I believe.

    Think it was round 3 this year v Swans - came in and played well, nailed a set shot from 50 and I thought we need to keep him in. But he really struggled to show much in the 2nd half of the year with the opportunities he had, albeit limited he needed to show more. 

    Sure he was the sub in the GF but he played a big part in 2021 and will be rightfully be remembered as a premiership player.

    All the best JJ. Please don't go to Essendon. 

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    22 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

    You shouldn't have returned Jumbo!

    Oh well

    I’m sure that we’ll both be fine 

    He’s not good enough, but he’ll make a decent living out of footy 

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    Toby Bedford 2022 

    James Jordon 2023 

    If you drop them in a flash or play them as a sub over and over and over again, eventually they say enough and leave. 
     

    Dees cannot say they wanted to retain him after treating him poorly.  Another player Goodwin just didn’t favour at all.  

    Good luck to him. 

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    I think he’ll be a C grade midfielder wherever he ends up, just like he was with us, but replacing him should still be a priority. 
    No hard feelings, played his role well in 21/22. 

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    1 hour ago, whatwhat say what said:

    i believe he only got delisted as the afl rule at the time was you had to take three 'live' picks into a national draft?

    in a choice between him and sparrow for the 'next man up' midfield role in our afl side, i'm choosing sparrow

    good luck to him; be interesting to see if he can be more than a role player elsewhere

    Jordon wasn't delisted, the Afl brought in a rule for that year only that allowed clubs to move players from senior to rookie list

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    6 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    Toby Bedford 2022 

    James Jordon 2023 

    If you drop them in a flash or play them as a sub over and over and over again, eventually they say enough and leave. 
     

    Dees cannot say they wanted to retain him after treating him poorly.  Another player Goodwin just didn’t favour at all.  

    Good luck to him. 

    How did Goodwin treat him poorly??

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    4 minutes ago, Wilson7 said:

    Jordon wasn't delisted, the Afl brought in a rule for that year only that allowed clubs to move players from senior to rookie list

    I thought he is an UFA because he was delisted?

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    1 hour ago, Older demon said:

    Note Harmes still has a year to go so he may explore options but I suspect he wants to stay local and with MFC

    He might want to stay local, but I'm not sure he'll be bending over backwards to stay at the MFC.

    He shopped himself to Essendon last year and was keen to leave. We were open to this, but had a change of mind when Brad Scott didn't make himself available to meet with Harmes early enough leading into the draft period, so the club ended up holding Harmes to his contract.

    Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but we would certainly be ahead if this went ahead - may have got a second round draft pick for him.

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    I’ll never understand why our coach didn’t bring him onto the ground in the final 10 minutes or so of the Grand Final. Yeah he got a medallion but it wouldn’t have hurt anyone to give the lad the memory of being out on the green stuff during an AFL premiership win. The game was well and truly iced. There was no reason not to. Pretty thoughtless from Goodwin I reckon.

    All the best to you James. You played 20+ solid games in 2021 and deserved to be in that photo as much as any bloke out there. You are an MFC premiership player. 

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    15 minutes ago, 3183 Dee said:

    I thought he is an UFA because he was delisted?

    Nuh mate, he wasn't de-listed. One of the conditions of moving a player from senior to rookie list that year was when they came out of contract they would be a FA, just like a de-listed player that was re-drafted

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    15 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    Toby Bedford 2022 

    James Jordon 2023 

    If you drop them in a flash or play them as a sub over and over and over again, eventually they say enough and leave. 
     

    Dees cannot say they wanted to retain him after treating him poorly.  Another player Goodwin just didn’t favour at all.  

    Good luck to him. 

    I can totally understand why he is leaving and don’t think we as a club have handled him the best. I mean it’s a bit rich of us to say we want to keep you but we just brought in Hunter to play your role. And Hunter statistically didn’t really add any more than what Jordon was providing in 22. 
     

    Anyway I wish him all the best but I also think we as a club need to be looking at Rivers, Howes, Gus and Taj on the wings to improve next year on Langdon, Hunter and Jordon. 

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