Simon Goodwin:-

 

"We were really encouraged by what Brodie did at VFL yesterday. The patterns he was running, his impact in the game, I think he had four shots at goal. Just the exposure at VFL level, you could see he's starting to get some grasp on that forward half of the ground.

 

"We've started to hit the scoreboard a little bit better the last few weeks but we're not the finished product ... we're still very open minded about what it looks like."

 

On Grundy, Goodwin added: "As I've said all along, we're not trying to turn him into a forward. We want him to have impact when he's forward, but also share those ruck duties.

 

On the Casey game I thought it was D.Smith's best game. The rest just went including Grundy.

7 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

On the Casey game I thought it was D.Smith's best game. The rest just went including Grundy.

D Smith did play a good game. He never seems to get mentioned as possible promotion to AFL.  Any chance ?

 

18 minutes ago, Bystander said:

D Smith did play a good game. He never seems to get mentioned as possible promotion to AFL.  Any chance ?

 

Unfortunately he is a half back primarily and has a few very good players ahead of him at AFL level 

He does have ability - he and AMW are close enough to retain their list spot - hopefully they can produce a McVee like improvement next season 

 

25 minutes ago, Bystander said:

D Smith did play a good game. He never seems to get mentioned as possible promotion to AFL.  Any chance ?

 

He again played very well and is a victim of a good list.

I don’t think he and AMW would embarrass themselves in the senior side,  but there just isn’t the spot atm.

Howes should get his chance next year.