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Travis Johnstone

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Maybe he is not our most important player. Maybe he is not our most consistent player. But TJ is our BEST player.

and i am scared, scared a new coach will offer him up for trade.

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    I wouldnt be scared

    We could get a fair bit for him

    Kind of exciting actually

    Buit I reckon a new coach would deal Bruce or Green before Travis

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    He is our most skillful player without a doubt, and on his day is the best our club has, for now.

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    really, what do you think a club would give up for him? I can't see us getting a top 10 pick for him. I think he is a lot more valuable for us then his market price

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    really, what do you think a club would give up for him? I can't see us getting a top 10 pick for him. I think he is a lot for valuable then is market price

    If you couldn't get a top 10 pick for him (or the equivalent), there wouldn't be a point. Same goes for Bruce and Green.

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    last night showed that when he is fully fit he can be soo damaging and lethal with his skills. needs to be kept as we dont have many players in ourside of his pedigree

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    If Travis was consistent the calls to trade him would have never existed.

    I love watching him when on song, but on the whole he still plays below what he could really do.

    Under a new coach, and with McLean, Jones, Sylvia, Moloney, Bruce and Green all fit and taking the oppositions attention away from solely tagging him, we may see the best of him, and if we do he could easily win the Brownlow.

    You just watch how evasive he is, he isn't super strong or quick, he just has incredible vision and the best footskills in the team and I'd say the best field kick in the AFL for accuracy.

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    Travis Johnstone is easily my favourite Melbourne player to watch

    Watching him is like being on a rollercoaster

    When Travis gets the ball on the Member’s wing with space between himself and the city end goals of the G, there is no better sight in football.

    We cannot trade a player like travis as we need a strong outside midfielder to complement the young insiders currently developing. i only hope the new coach sees things my way

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    It's an interesting proposition.

    Do you dare trade the problem child, with the unique talent?

    He is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most skillful player we have. He's probably on par with some of the best in the league.

    That alone, makes me nervous to trade him, especially given our obvious lack of skills across the board.

    He is also a match-winner, and we haven't got a lot of those either.

    However, his currency would be quite high, and rightfully so. If we put him on the trade table, we might get something really great for him. If we don't, he'll stay. It's a win-win.

    Having said that, there are other, less damaging senior players I'd like to see gone before TJ.

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    Travis Johnstone is a delight to watch.

    He has one of the smartest football brains.

    Keep him.

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    It's an interesting proposition.

    Do you dare trade the problem child, with the unique talent?

    He is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most skillful player we have. He's probably on par with some of the best in the league.

    That alone, makes me nervous to trade him, especially given our obvious lack of skills across the board.

    He is also a match-winner, and we haven't got a lot of those either.

    However, his currency would be quite high, and rightfully so. If we put him on the trade table, we might get something really great for him. If we don't, he'll stay. It's a win-win.

    Having said that, there are other, less damaging senior players I'd like to see gone before TJ.

    You may well get a top 10 draft pick for him. For all we know that top 10 pick may well turn out to be Luke Molan Mk 2. Or Luke Ball who despite his class looks completely stuffed. They are not all guns & precious few of them are ready made players.

    I can't recall too many sides being successful by trading their best players to improve their lot. Even Hawthorn, the model that the media would have us all adopt, only gave away dead wood. Rawlings, whose knee was buggered, Hay, whose head was buggered & Thompson who was not without his issues. What a seller's market that was. Didn't see them offering Crawford up though.

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    Trav is the type of player you try and get to your club in trade period, so I cant see it happening.

    He showed us last night how much hes been missed this year.

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    we need players with good footskills. if you want to build a team to win premiership, good kicking skills is vital.

    Thats why in all this talk about trading a high profile player like Green, Johnstone or Bruce, id much rather keep green and johnstone bc they have good skills.

    Bruce is a great player, but is an ordinary kick. it makes him more dispensible than a johnstone imo

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    Was brilliant on the weekend. He usually gets kudos for his skills, as he rightfully should, but another pleasing aspect of his game was the fact he had 7 tackles, the most of any player on the team! Lead disposals, inside 50s, and tackling. Great game. We are a much better side with him out there, whether he is performing miracles or not.

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