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PRESEASON TRAINING: Wednesday 22nd January 2025

Ghostwriter
in Melbourne Demons

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I admired what Clayton achieved in 2024. He managed to be one of our best contributors in an ordinary season. The perceptive and sensible supporter recognizes how that was a gutsy achievement given the hurdles! The rest can talk to the butt!

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    13 hours ago, waynewussell said:

    I admired what Clayton achieved in 2024. He managed to be one of our best contributors in an ordinary season. The perceptive and sensible supporter recognizes how that was a gutsy achievement given the hurdles! The rest can talk to the butt!

    What a ridiculous post. 

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    Clarry had a woeful 2024 by HIS standards (not anyone else’s), but the guys’s a freak to get 35 touches and 3 Brownlow votes in round 1 off the back of a 10% pre season. That performance (and some of the club’s early season wins) sort of slipped through the cracks when assessing 2024.

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    Only one player on our list averaged higher disposals than Clayton last year! That was Petracca, who beat him by .19%... Bring-Back-Powell put it succinctly, above.

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    I luv Clarry, but he had a shocking year last year by his standards, there can be no denying that. With his hand injury and his lack of pre-season, he was often a liability, rather than what we are all used to. So much so, that I couldn't understand why he wasn't rested to heal his hand. Long bow, but maybe if we had rested him, he may not have suffered the knee issue or the broken ribs and therefore been able to come back once the hand was right and see out the season playing more to his usual standard. Who knows, with Clarry firing again, we have even made the finals.

    Some have said that we didn't rest him because we didn't have a suitable replacement (as if anyone could adequately replace Clarry!). However, players like Laurie would have welcomed the chance to prove himself by playing a string of games in his absence. The only other reason i can imagine for not resting him was that management were perhaps concerned Clarry might lapse back into bad habits if not fully involved in the team.

    We may never know, but so glad he appears to be fit and firing this pre-season.

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    2 hours ago, waynewussell said:

    Thanks!

    Well you’re blowing smoke up a guys [censored] who literally blew up his own preseason and effectively ruined his own year. I mean your posts are generally happy clappy but that’s ridiculous.

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    7 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

    Well you’re blowing smoke up a guys [censored] who literally blew up his own preseason and effectively ruined his own year. I mean your posts are generally happy clappy but that’s ridiculous.

    Take a deep breath, then re-read that post of mine that you take umbrage to. I challenge you to highlight the part that you think is worthy of your subsequent outrage!

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    Just now, waynewussell said:

    Take a deep breath, then re-read that post of mine that you take umbrage to. I challenge you to highlight the part that you think is worthy of your subsequent outrage!

    The bit about talking to the butt because not all agree that not applying oneself to preseason is ok for a guy getting paid as much as he is. 

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    3 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

    The bit about talking to the butt because not all agree that not applying oneself to preseason is ok for a guy getting paid as much as he is. 

    Quite clearly, I was talking about 'in-season' achievement in spite of the hurdles he faced. Some of those hurdles were his own doing, no doubt! You seem determined to drag your own bugbears about player payments, application etc and insert them alongside my personal admiration for his ability to push on and still be a significant contributor overall. 

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    17 hours ago, waynewussell said:

    I admired what Clayton achieved in 2024. He managed to be one of our best contributors in an ordinary season. The perceptive and sensible supporter recognizes how that was a gutsy achievement given the hurdles! The rest can talk to the butt!

    Well clearly not according to the coaches.

    Didn't even finish top 10 in the best and fairest.

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    21 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Well clearly not according to the coaches.

    Didn't even finish top 10 in the best and fairest.

    Good point!

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    3 hours ago, waynewussell said:

    Good point!

    Don’t you hate it when facts blow up your argument. I mean Trump, his billionaires and the MAGA crew don’t care when this happens but we on DL are held to a far higher standard. On the plus side your training reports are much appreciated.

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    3 hours ago, Roost it far said:

    Don’t you hate it when facts blow up your argument. I mean Trump, his billionaires and the MAGA crew don’t care when this happens but we on DL are held to a far higher standard. On the plus side your training reports are much appreciated.

    Thank you for being a patron. I see you have also fine tuned your ability to patronize!

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    Something I realised - Clarrie doesn't have his shoulder strapped any more.  How long was it strapped for? When did the strapping disappear?  Also, in the runs back and forth at the end of training, he was not the fastest in the first two or three but by the last one (after a bunch had dropped out), he led the pack.

    Also I sorta wonder that if some of the guys were pretty knocked around by the heat on Monday - it was freaking hot.  I see Tmac was back in full training on Friday.

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    On 22/01/2025 at 17:04, BC_1718_DC said:

    Persist with this kid. Definitely something there I reckon. 

    Should play him as a forward 

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