PREGAME: Rd 16 vs Brisbane

[Ollie fan 3,013]

I too think Pup is unlucky to have been dropped. He was given 10 minutes and could not have done more in that time. (His kick after the free is overlooked a lot: it was a perfect kick that set it up so only Petty could mark it).  I can only suspect that they thought: pick him as sub, let him have a taste to see the pace and toughness of senior football, and then he can go back to Casey and work with that knowledge.

[Nascent 8,592]

Woewodin in off a very average vfl game, tomlinson still in with Lever. Strange selections.

First time seeing Jefferson as an emergency which is nice.

Are we playing funny buggers and springing a late change?

[Heart Beats True 1,056]

Kynan is royally stiff to be dropped. Comes on for ten minutes, shows intensity and lays a game winning tackle. Team selection is beyond a joke these days.

[FearTheBeard 1,195]

Knowing Simon, we will make Wowey sub for the millionth time and then drop him after 5 minutes of footy.

Who the hell is going to play on Cameron, Ah Chee, Lohmann, Morris. They have two talls and a bunch of smalls and we have 4 key backs and 2 key backs playing forward.

[whatwhat say what 22,031]

woey 2.0's lack of game time in the second half of the vfl may be explained that the plan was always to bring him in as a bigger body than pup brown vs the bears

i don't particularly like the lack of reward for result, but i can understand it

amw for salem makes sense given the latter's injury and the desire to leave rivers as a midfielder

[Bitter but optimistic 22,053]

Dropping the kid after a 10 minute cameo does seem quite extraordinary.

I’d love to know the “reasoning “ behind it !

[roy11 3,641]

Feel for K Brown, bit stiff being omitted after 10 minutes, can only imagine they wanted him getting more playing time in the 2s as opposed to being sub again. Hopefully we see him back in for the eagles game. 

[titan_uranus 24,548]

1 minute ago, whatwhat say what said:

woey 2.0's lack of game time in the second half of the vfl may be explained that the plan was always to bring him in as a bigger body than pup brown vs the bears

i don't particularly like the lack of reward for result, but i can understand it

amw for salem makes sense given the latter's injury and the desire to leave rivers as a midfielder

It honestly can only make sense if it was predetermined that Brown was only ever playing vs North and not vs Brisbane.

How could anyone have looked him in the eye and said “you didn’t quite do enough” after his debut?

[Tough Kent 2,103]

A lot of angst among MFC supporters about Kynan Brown getting left out this week.

I'm just surmising here, but Pup has not really played for 3 weeks. (He was carry over emergency against Collingwood. Then we had a bye. Then he was the sub against North.) Maybe Goody thought it was better for him to have a full game at Casey instead of playing as sub again tomorrow night.

Pup will be back.

[layzie 32,686]

This place when AMW is named as sub tomorrow..

[Die Hard Demon 1,213]

Messages received loud and clear! Lay a game saving tackle and risk getting dropped! .. Hope the boys learn from that 😒 

Edited June 27 by Die Hard Demon

[SPC 3,475]

1 minute ago, Die Hard Demon said:

Messages received well and clear! Lay a game saving tackle and risk getting dropped! .. Hope the boys learn from that 😒 

Fits the trend. We have been bruise free for weeks 

[Bates Mate 4,421]

Amw for Salem

Lever for Howes 

Net upgrade for our team from last week

[WalkingCivilWar 39,256]

2 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Was Salo at the Capitano run today?

Sans Salo ☹️

[Jaded No More 67,532]

5 minutes ago, Tough Kent said:

A lot of angst among MFC supporters about Kynan Brown getting left out this week.

I'm just surmising here, but Pup has not really played for 3 weeks. (He was carry over emergency against Collingwood. Then we had a bye. Then he was the sub against North.) Maybe Goody thought it was better for him to have a full game at Casey instead of playing as sub again tomorrow night.

Pup will be back.

This is probably correct, but honestly the optics are terrible. There was no rush to debut Brown. They could have debuted AMW last week who has had great form at Casey all year and is far more developed than Brown. 
To debut him as sub was poor, to then drop him when he showed plenty in the 8 minutes he was on the ground, is worse. 
 

Poor foresight and management. It’s not as if we didn’t know the schedule of games for both teams. 

[Demon17 5,021]

6 minutes ago, Tough Kent said:

A lot of angst among MFC supporters about Kynan Brown getting left out this week.

I'm just surmising here, but Pup has not really played for 3 weeks. (He was carry over emergency against Collingwood. Then we had a bye. Then he was the sub against North.) Maybe Goody thought it was better for him to have a full game at Casey instead of playing as sub again tomorrow night.

Pup will be back.

Realistic summary. How could they play him this week after those last few weeks. He'll find a spot in time but not yet.

Lots of low level thinking on here at times

[Fat Tony 5,068]

8 minutes ago, Tough Kent said:

A lot of angst among MFC supporters about Kynan Brown getting left out this week.

I'm just surmising here, but Pup has not really played for 3 weeks. (He was carry over emergency against Collingwood. Then we had a bye. Then he was the sub against North.) Maybe Goody thought it was better for him to have a full game at Casey instead of playing as sub again tomorrow night.

Pup will be back.

This sounds right, but he could have played on last Sunday as well if that’s what they were thinking. 

[seventyfour 990]

8 minutes ago, layzie said:

This place when AMW is named as sub tomorrow..

or Woewodin...

[PaulRB 6,297]

Man, there is some pent up aggression on this site.

its kinda wild.

Go Demons!

[At the break of Gawn 4,400]

With Salo’s form it’s actually not a huge loss. He’s also looked really slow of late.

Payne out for them is a big bonus. He played like Glen Jakovich last time

[Left Foot Snap 2,318]

26 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Not sure about May, Lever, TMac and Tomlinson all in the side. 

Are we planning on TMac or Tomlinson playing forward? Or May or Lever playing small? 

Not a fan of Brown being dropped after 10 minutes of game time and I’d prefer we don’t make AMW sub, so presumably Woey cops it again.

Maybe May will take Cameron again. He has done that in the past.

[Little Richard 6,211]

The kids are getting treated so poorly at selection. How can any of these young guys begin to build confidence without any kind of faith from the coaching staff and a decent run at it. Pathetic.

[buck_nekkid 5,818]

Debut Kynan in Melb near family

Debut AMW in Bris, closer to Darwin and his family.

Any kid would take 10 minutes in their first match, and to deliver a game saving tackle to boot!  Neither AMW or Pup are of a Harley Reid level demanding a full run, so we should trust the club is using these moments to build lads on the edge of a career into having the best chance of having one. Long term development

 

[WalkingCivilWar 39,256]

9 minutes ago, Tough Kent said:

A lot of angst among MFC supporters about Kynan Brown getting left out this week.

I'm just surmising here, but Pup has not really played for 3 weeks. (He was carry over emergency against Collingwood. Then we had a bye. Then he was the sub against North.) Maybe Goody thought it was better for him to have a full game at Casey instead of playing as sub again tomorrow night.

Pup will be back.

Everyone on here dusting off the gallows without considering for even a nanosecond that there might be reasons for Pup’s omission, reasons about which we know nothing.

Does anyone really believe that the Club told him he’s not good enough etc.? Seriously??????! People can hate Goody all they like but please pick valid reasons for today's bash-fest coz I don’t think this is one of them. 

[Left Foot Snap 2,318]

15 minutes ago, Tough Kent said:

A lot of angst among MFC supporters about Kynan Brown getting left out this week.

I'm just surmising here, but Pup has not really played for 3 weeks. (He was carry over emergency against Collingwood. Then we had a bye. Then he was the sub against North.) Maybe Goody thought it was better for him to have a full game at Casey instead of playing as sub again tomorrow night.

Pup will be back.

He is in Brisbane with the squad.