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14 hours ago, dee-tox said:

Could be what they call a 100 metre player. Gets it and goes. With long, accurate kicks.

The speed is tantalising.

Most exciting first year player, according to training vision, since Clayton. 

 

Blake Howes is another who looks good. Throw in JVR, Judd and potentially Kolt and we have a gun baby Demon group coming through. Anything can happen.

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    On 06/02/2024 at 18:28, Neil Crompton said:

    Sorry but Alves was a favourite of mine - and a Club great. Why would you feel the need to make such a comment? 

    I just shake my head at comments such as the one you responded to, really poor against one of our own 

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    On 06/02/2024 at 20:01, Jumping Jack Clennett said:

    Stan wasn’t the bravest player to pull on a Dees jumper.

    That's unlike you to talk like that, Jack

    It takes a good level of courage just to cross the white line

    Stan features quite a bit in the clip below playing as first rover

    And if Caleb ends up as good as Stan, we've got quite the player.  Stan won 2 B&F's and ran 2nd in the Brownlow on one occasion

    And captained the club for 4 years.  He was quite a decorated footballer

    Coll vs Melb 1968 Victoria Park

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    Windsor's speed, balance and coordination makes you think we have something special here. He moves like Josh Kelly, Whitfield and Rozee. Hopefully he can get strong enough to play inside the centre square one day.

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    33 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

    Windsor's speed, balance and coordination makes you think we have something special here. He moves like Josh Kelly, Whitfield and Rozee. Hopefully he can get strong enough to play inside the centre square one day.

    He's got a good frame.
    He'll be in there.
     

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    Moves like Jayden Hunt (one of my favourites) but hopefully delivers into the forward 50 a bit better than JH.  

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    Windsor will debut round 0 BOOKMARK IT

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    I hope that you are right picket, it appears that we have picked up a couple of A graders in The Duke and The Kolt. Caleb  has really stepped up big time and deserves an early call up. He really looks something special.

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    On 07/02/2024 at 16:00, Wizard of Koz said:

    Most exciting first year player, according to training vision, since Clayton. 

     

    Blake Howes is another who looks good. Throw in JVR, Judd and potentially Kolt and we have a gun baby Demon group coming through. Anything can happen.

    Excellent signs are these not? I have some relaxing confidence in the team design across this year and further into the future with developing young players like these. Powerhouse stuff - now for the coaching team to maximise their ascension. That would be the only hesitancy one could hold, sadly. 

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    On 08/02/2024 at 00:32, Macca said:

    That's unlike you to talk like that, Jack

    It takes a good level of courage just to cross the white line

    Stan features quite a bit in the clip below playing as first rover

    And if Caleb ends up as good as Stan, we've got quite the player.  Stan won 2 B&F's and ran 2nd in the Brownlow on one occasion

    And captained the club for 4 years.  He was quite a decorated footballer

    Coll vs Melb 1968 Victoria Park

    Great bit of footage, Macca. Thanks so much for putting it up on DL. Wonderful memories, Demon players, heritage thoughts invoked. Was there, that day - a game that I had forgotten, over the years. l think I got a smack over the head from a Filth fan during the last quarter, as fading memories recall. 

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    If he's ready to go early, then that would be great, but I am happy waiting until the coaches decide that the time's right.
    One thing that we have done particularly well over the last few years is blood the kids properly rather than have to rush them in as saviours before they're ready.
    Having said that, from the limited vision I've seen, the kid reminds me of a young Lenny Hayes.

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    On 06/02/2024 at 08:42, bush demon said:

    League teams on Thursday nights, "Alves, Wells, Flower".

    Yessss. One has to wonder though, with the likes of Parke and Hardeman up forward why we had such a long drought. 

    On 06/02/2024 at 23:26, The Swimming Dee said:

    Back to Caleb Windsor, I know that it’s only hilights of an intra club hit out but, he looks very exciting. He appears to be exactly what we have been lacking for a long time. An outside, quick, pure skilled link player who can also hit the scoreboard.

    I am as excited as I have been about a draftee for a long time!

    Agree though Oliver and Pickett are hard to beat. 

    On 07/02/2024 at 14:03, 58er said:

    Duke is far better and goes so well with “Kolt”!

    Kolt and Knot could be a bit too confusing …. and for many especially in the last decade or so when wearing a tie has become less common some may wonder what is the significance of Windsor and knot.

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    Agree Mono anyone under 50 wouldn’t identify Windsor knot for a tie, hell half of them wouldn’t know how to knot a tie. Lol.!!

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    On 08/02/2024 at 08:37, picket fence said:

    Windsor will debut round 0 BOOKMARK IT

    Big call Picket, but at least you have seen him.

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    Yep, backin Robby mrk 2

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    On 09/02/2024 at 09:12, Deemania since 56 said:

    Great bit of footage, Macca. Thanks so much for putting it up on DL. Wonderful memories, Demon players, heritage thoughts invoked. Was there, that day - a game that I had forgotten, over the years. l think I got a smack over the head from a Filth fan during the last quarter, as fading memories recall. 

    Memory is fading but I know I was at Vic Park in '76 but probably a couple of times in the early 70's

    It was great seeing Big Max Walker but he was up against a good player in Thommo

    A number of Demon premiership players though and you could still see the Smith influence with the attack on the ball and the ability to get to the front position (Beckwith had taken over in '68)

    As for the Duke (Windsor), he's got big wraps on him and we know how good Jason Taylor is in identifying talent.  Both he & the Kolt will debut early you'd imagine as there is often a flow-on effect when so many players are injured in one part of the ground (in our case, the forward line)

    With Caleb, I like his first 2 or 3 steps and with the Kolt, it's his awareness and head over the ball

    Both could be rippers!

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    11 minutes ago, Macca said:

    We know how good Jason Taylor is in identifying talent.

    He is also blessed with the gift of identifying said talent very quickly indeed.

    I believe his nickname among the recruiting fraternity is Taylor Swift.

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    chedwindsor_800x.jpg?v=1631237138

    I reckon Jason Taylor has moved on from his Presidents of the United States (Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren) meme and has moved on to cheese. Because not only is there a frightening looking Windsor Red, but guess what the Danish Tholstrup company is most famous for?

    800px-CastelloBlueCheese.jpg

     

    Pretty sure it was Colby we were trying to trade up the draft for, too.

    EDIT: Can confirm the is such a thing as Brown cheese.

    Edited by Little Goffy

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    3 hours ago, Macca said:

    Memory is fading but I know I was at Vic Park in '76 but probably a couple of times in the early 70's

    It was great seeing Big Max Walker but he was up against a good player in Thommo

    A number of Demon premiership players though and you could still see the Smith influence with the attack on the ball and the ability to get to the front position (Beckwith had taken over in '68)

    As for the Duke (Windsor), he's got big wraps on him and we know how good Jason Taylor is in identifying talent.  Both he & the Kolt will debut early you'd imagine as there is often a flow-on effect when so many players are injured in one part of the ground (in our case, the forward line)

    With Caleb, I like his first 2 or 3 steps and with the Kolt, it's his awareness and head over the ball

    Both could be rippers! 
     

    Good  post Macca high hopes for our draft boys also. They are both good’uns. 

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    7 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

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    I reckon Jason Taylor has moved on from his Presidents of the United States (Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren) meme and has moved on to cheese. Because not only is there a frightening looking Windsor Red, but guess what the Danish Tholstrup company is most famous for?

    800px-CastelloBlueCheese.jpg

     

    Pretty sure it was Colby we were trying to trade up the draft for, too.

    EDIT: Can confirm the is such a thing as Brown cheese.

    I can actually smell this post. 

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    14 hours ago, monoccular said:

    Yessss. One has to wonder though, with the likes of Parke and Hardeman up forward why we had such a long drought. 

    Agree though Oliver and Pickett are hard to beat. 

    Kolt and Knot could be a bit too confusing …. and for many especially in the last decade or so when wearing a tie has become less common some may wonder what is the significance of Windsor and knot.

    Would recommend reading Between the Flags, Mono. It makes for insiteful reading regarding our woes over that period. 

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    14 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    chedwindsor_800x.jpg?v=1631237138

    I reckon Jason Taylor has moved on from his Presidents of the United States (Adams, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren) meme and has moved on to cheese. Because not only is there a frightening looking Windsor Red, but guess what the Danish Tholstrup company is most famous for?

    800px-CastelloBlueCheese.jpg

     

    Pretty sure it was Colby we were trying to trade up the draft for, too.

    EDIT: Can confirm the is such a thing as Brown cheese.

    Thank heavens he didn't draft a Richard....

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    On 06/02/2024 at 20:01, Jumping Jack Clennett said:

    Stan wasn’t the bravest player to pull on a Dees jumper.

    What the &*$^ does that mean? An all time great of the club in an era when bashing blokes behind the play was de rigueur. I saw half the games Stan played and do not recall him jibbing it once. Stan was tough - don't worry about that. Single-handedly ensured Norf won the premiership in '77. And for 90 minutes, looked like becoming a premiership coach until his bestie bested him.

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