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Of for heavens’ sake!!!! Even though he no longer plays for Dees he still can’t do anything impressive in your eyes

Dazzle, they recruited Lever who is terrific if he doesn’t have an opponent. In his great year at Adelaide they played a seven man backline .Just listen to Mick Malthouse on that topic

Again , watch the two finals !!!! anyway, he is gone, forget about him , let’s get across the line on Saturday

If his second goal was not under pressure , I’ve never seen one

Dazzle, watch the two finals we played at the MCG in 2018 and tell me that Oscar is the useless crud you described . Tall, can kick , intelligent. You don’t let such blokes go

Dazzle, Pickett etc I have to salute you It’s great that you have watched thousands of games but haven’t a clue as to what constitutes a useful footballer . Not a clue! You and your ilk have rubbished this bloke unmercifully. I suggest you watch Curling !

Well sign him up now!!!! He’s a better prospect than anyone else, both as a key forward or back but especially if anything happens to Max

Well short answer is that Oscar was delisted two months ago. The need for another tall has just now arisen

“ not capable of playing AFl footy” the clips show he is well and truly capable . The turmoil at NM in recent years has not helped him

Fantastic, and it’s only a couple of years ago. Didn’t suit the NM list at this point but could be v handy for the Dees

Last week on the ABC Mick Malthouse said that he was stunned that MFC got Brown so easily, and that he thought Brown would make a big difference to to the Dees

U are correct. His wife was . But he adopted Tassie and dominated football there.i think he captained the only Tassie team which beat the Vics in 1960. There must be footage of him and his dropkicking

It shows that I am seriously old. None of you have mentioned Stuart Spencer. Melbourne champion rover from 1950-56. Drop kicked it 65 metres every time on the left foot. I saw his first game v Carlton R1 of 1950 and he was my hero thereafter, till he left to operate a service station in his native Tassie . Best rover in the VFL, twice winner of the Bluey, yet he left for the money. In his biggest games v Collingwood was Thorold Merrett, who kicked the most lethal stab kicks . The year after Norm Smith was sacked, must have been 1966, Max Walker took a mark 50 metres out and slotted a goal with a drop kick. I recall it well because Smithy was sitting a few seats away and he forecast that Max would kick it . So despite Barassi, Dixon etc and the suggestion that coaches frowned upon the drop kick It was still being used as an accurate kick for goal at that time. And now for a curve ball.!!! Have any on this site watched Reece Hodge kicking goals with place kicks for the Wallabies?Sure he missed a couple of critical ones v Argentina , but he slotted one from 55m and his overall accuracy was 80 percent plus. I’m certain the place kick is the most accurate of all. It makes sense. The ball is stationery when one kicks it As the Coodabeens would say “ just think about it”?

And a beautiful, precise kick, either for goal or to a leading forward

Settle down mate. The team which Roos handed over played a prelim final two years later. We handled Watts perfectly well, and got, effectively , a good deal for Hogan. And then recruited BRILLIANTLY this year

Do it now!

I think this is fair, and I agree. For whatever reason, he drops a lot of marks he should take

Mate, by R 3 Tom McD will be playing CHF and Weideman will be playing FF at Casey !

He kicked 50 goals plus, having missed the first 5 games due to injury

Bloody hell! Petty at CHB?The club want to play him forward

Crap defender? Bloody nonsense. He was third and 5th in our B and F as a key defender. A weakness in short passing out of defence but an excellent defender otherwise . Did much more for us in defence than Lever has done thus far

Well let me put a different perspective. We must assume that BB plays full forward . Where does Weideman play? CHF? Perhaps, but he’s not played there thus far. In prior years Tom McD was not a one trick pony. Sure, he was a strong mark, but he got many disposals on the ground. I’m very happy that Tom MCD might have to fight for his position , but so should Weideman . And so far as our defence is concerned, IMV he is the ideal tall defender. And we need a third tall if Lever is to do better. I regard Lever as a major disappointment so far

They Were great days. I saw Stuart Spencer’s first game in 1950 ,thereafter he was my absolute hero. I recall the Adams/ Healy clash very clearly. We were marginally in front in the last quarter of the 1955 GF when Adams came on as 19th man and headed straight for Healy. Healy had the ball and was bouncing it down the outer side of the centre. Because he was carrying it, every eye was on him. Adams simply crashed into him without any evasive action or attempt to grab him so their heads clashed . All of the 100,000 at the ground saw the incident which was sickening as both players lay motionless on the ground until both were carried off. Bluey was a marginal player that year, but he became much better than marginal . Spencer left after the winning GF in 1956, because someone offered him a Service Station in N Tasmania!!!! He later said it was a terrible mistake. . Spencer was undoubtedly the best rover in the VFL , taller than most, with a raking left foot kick . But when he left , Bluey became the second rover, alongside Ian Ridley. we were thrashed by Footscray in 1954 GF but thereafter won them all, until and including 1960 , apart from the infamous 1958 blood bath. Then we won again, with a far less superior team in 1964. That was Norm Smith’s greatest coaching triumph . Baker is bigger than was Adams and his hair is not as red. I hope he makes it, he tries v hard .

Yep that’s right. In one year we recruit Jackson, Kosi, Rivers, Langdon and Tomlinson but you say Mahoney is a dud?

He wasn’t at CHB. Lever was .Tomlinson playing as the third tall